Justice Funders is a partner and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world. We envision a world that honors the sacredness of our natural resources and recognizes the inalienable rights of all. We assert that philanthropy must take an active role in building this world by redistributing all aspects of well-being, democratizing power and shifting economic control to communities. Redistribution requires us to reject the accumulation of wealth and power. It means letting go of two narratives that currently dominate philanthropy: 1) charity, which perpetuates power dynamics between givers and receivers without tackling root causes of injustice; and 2) investment, which expects a financial return to the ultimate benefit of the investor. By embracing redistribution, we are following the lead of the most courageous movement leaders of our time, who are standing in their power and unapologetically asserting their rights to live with dignity and to thrive. We are deeply inspired by this movement moment and recognize that now - more than ever - philanthropy must be just as bold and relentless. What this means for philanthropy is that, rather than accumulating wealth and power, we must use it to resource movements that fight the systems that oppress us and also support the creation of new, local, resilient economies that build wealth in low-income communities and communities of color. We are guided by the Just Transition principles for building political and economic power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. As such, a Just Transition for philanthropy requires philanthropic institutions to shift their practices away from extraction towards regeneration, which requires fundamentally shifting our underlying assumptions about capital and our underlying approach to philanthropy. At Justice Funders, we are re-imagining a world that works for all of us, and philanthropy's role in creating it.
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What is a just transition and what role does finance have in bringing a just transition about? Register for NPQ’s next Remaking the Economy webinar on November 20: https://hubs.ly/Q02WvRHg0
We're excited to share that our Director of Capital Strategies Kuru Masomere will speak next week at Common Future's Redefining Risk: Centering Community to Derisk our Economy webinar! Link below to register!
How might an orientation towards a community benefit return reduce our exposure to these persistent and looming risks we see in our economy? For the third installment of our Redefining Risk series, we'll explore this and more. Join us on Monday, November 4th, at 10 am PT/1 pm ET! This discussion will be moderated by Common Future Chief of Staff Victoria Monteiro and will feature: • Agnetha Jaime Gloshay, Managing Director of Impact Investments at Common Future • Kuru Masomere, Director of Capital Strategies for Justice Funders • Krystle Okafor, JD, MSW, Director of Just Communities and Office of the Secretary at the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) Register here: https://lnkd.in/gbWY24XB
#SOCAP24 is right around the corner! If you’re attending SOCAP24 next week, do not miss this panel featuring our Senior Director of Just Transition Investing, Maria Nakae! The panel will take place on Tuesday, October 29, at 3:15 PM at the Goldman Hall in the Contemporary Jewish Museum! This panel will explore how investors consider transformative, culture-centered investment and move capital to the people - especially women, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, artists and activists - who are most locally proximate to challenges and solutions.
In the latest post of Justice Funders’ Mapping the Mycelia Medium series, we hear from Tara Brown, a trustee of the Hidden Leaf Foundation and a member of the Just Transition Investment Community. Tara candidly shares her family foundation’s (and her personal) journey toward more values-aligned investing – from listening to movement allies, to inviting non-family members to advise the board on investment strategy, to revising their Investment Policy Statement – including the challenges, the messiness, the leaps taken and the rewards, as well as the relationships that have made the journey possible. We invite you to read and share Tara’s post, and follow the series to hear what philanthropic leaders across the country are learning as they experiment with aligning their foundation’s investment practices with the values and principles of Just Transition. https://lnkd.in/g5QUmtGh
We're excited to announce we have a few remaining seats open for our fourth & final Fundamentals Training session on the "Just Transition & Untethered Imagination" on October 23rd! Registration closes on October 16th, but seats are filling up quickly! 🔗 Visit our page for more information: https://lnkd.in/gKR759Tm We hope to see you soon!
Last month we launched our Mapping the Mycelia blog series, which documents lessons learned from the members of our Just Transition Investment Community in activating a Just Transition investment strategy within their respective institutions. In this month’s post, Gerald Mitchell - a Finance committee member at Christopher Reynolds Foundation and a member of Justice Funders’ Just Transition Investment Community - shares what he has been learning about how somatic practices that support the “inner work” of healing and expanding consciousness are often necessary to ignite the the “outer work of” shifting resources and power to communities for collective liberation. Please read the full blog post here: https://lnkd.in/ea22sPTv
🌟 ONE WEEK LEFT UNTIL APPLICATIONS FOR OUR OPEN DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS ROLE CLOSE 🌟 ⚡ Please visit our website to read the job description & application instructions: https://lnkd.in/eE8HSzA9
⚡️ Justice Funders is seeking a Director of Communications to join our dedicated and passionate team! 👤 We seek a compelling writer and verbal communicator highly skilled at content development, editing, and project management. We welcome candidates excited to utilize these skills to mobilize the philanthropic sector to redistribute wealth and power to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and movements building local, regenerative solidarity economies. The nature of this position will demand a high level of initiative, organization, and attention to detail. 🗓️ Please apply by September 27 to be considered for the position. 🔗 Please visit the job description on our website for more information: https://lnkd.in/ghYTD8hn
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#Philanthropy's role in a #JustTransition is to turn extracted resources into resources for the regenerative economy. Thank you John Biewen for including Justice Funders and our work with Kataly Foundation, Libra Foundation, Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project, and Sogorea Te Land Trust in this powerful episode of Scene on Radio. Followers, we invite you to take a listen and let us know what you think!
Journalist, audio documentarian, educator; producer and host of the twice-Peabody-nominated podcast Scene on Radio
Nobody called a press conference to announce the official launch of capitalism 500 years ago. Powerful people just started doing it. The next paradigm shift, to a post-capitalist economy, will happen the same way -- or IS happening...? In Scene on Radio's CAPITALISM season finale (for now), we visit with folks on two continents who are demonstrating practices that turn capitalism's core assumptions on their heads -- or, at least, sideways. With co-host Ellen McGirt, John Fullerton, Ander Etxeberria of the extraordinary MONDRAGON Corporation, Corrina Gould, Deseree Fontenot, Dana Kawaoka-Chen, Regan Pritzker, Marjorie Kelly. (Shoutout of gratitude to Lora Smith) Justice Funders Kataly Foundation Sogorea Te Land Trust Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project PRX
We're excited to share that we have a few final open seats for our third training session in our Fall Fundamentals Training Series! This session, Intro to Just Transition Investing, will foreground the Just Transition Investment Framework to help participants learn more about aligning a Foundation's investment portfolios with their mission and the larger movement-led Just Transition vision. The deadline to register is next week on September 26, but seats are filling up quickly! To register, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gKR759Tm
Justice Funders reposted this
Journalist, audio documentarian, educator; producer and host of the twice-Peabody-nominated podcast Scene on Radio
Nobody called a press conference to announce the official launch of capitalism 500 years ago. Powerful people just started doing it. The next paradigm shift, to a post-capitalist economy, will happen the same way -- or IS happening...? In Scene on Radio's CAPITALISM season finale (for now), we visit with folks on two continents who are demonstrating practices that turn capitalism's core assumptions on their heads -- or, at least, sideways. With co-host Ellen McGirt, John Fullerton, Ander Etxeberria of the extraordinary MONDRAGON Corporation, Corrina Gould, Deseree Fontenot, Dana Kawaoka-Chen, Regan Pritzker, Marjorie Kelly. (Shoutout of gratitude to Lora Smith) Justice Funders Kataly Foundation Sogorea Te Land Trust Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project PRX