Looking forward to moderating this all-star panel on #climate and #environmental advocacy, featuring Katie Robinson, Jacqueline Patterson, Susan Hendershot, and Ariana Gonzalez and exploring this important topic together! The #BuildingTogether leadership experience from the Council on Foundations is timely, to say the least. In my own environmental advocacy before joining the foundation world, a regret is not fully appreciating the power of authentic, principled coalitions. Sure, I worked in coalition. But primarily with other organizations that closely shared the same policy goals. Our differences sometimes seemed large, but they were, in context, minute. On so many issues today, generating the influence to overcome powerful opponents requires more than working effectively with those with whom you already share affinity. It also demands figuring out how to expand the circle of affinity. Exploring common goals that exist. Forging, sometimes painfully, the actual relationships that can drive more influential and powerful responses to climate change, water pollution--and much more. This isn't just a "good" thing to do, its a strategic way to win.
Mosaic will proudly team up with The Chisholm Legacy Project: A Resource Hub for Black Frontline Climate Justice Leadership, Interfaith Power & Light, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and the Pisces Foundation during the Council on Foundations Building Together conference to present the panel Working Across Difference to Build a Climate-Proof Future. Together, we’ll explore innovative work across communities that is addressing inequality and activating unlikely allies to increase influence as we grow a climate movement that can deliver the big, sustainable wins we need.