Learnings
Land & Real Estate Ownership for Us All
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
Land Justice: From Private Ownership to Community Stewardship
by Mariela Cedeño & Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour
"The ecosystem needs partners who can contribute gifts and catalytic investments to close critical gaps in acquisition and stabilization efforts. We need to collectively invest in a new model of land and community-controlled development, one where the people that steward the land and live and wo
by Mariela Cedeño & Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour
"The ecosystem needs partners who can contribute gifts and catalytic investments to close critical gaps in acquisition and stabilization efforts. We need to collectively invest in a new model of land and community-controlled development, one where the people that steward the land and live and work in a neighborhood have a permanent stake in its future."
Land Justice: From Private Ownership to Community Stewardship
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
Land Justice: From Private Ownership to Community Stewardship
by A-dae Romero Briones in Non-Profit Quarterly
"Our epic context for land justice is this—to restore our communal movement over and around these ancestral homelands and everything that has limited that access since."
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
"Progressive funders have not and are not funding as though the world as we know it depends on it. Now is the time to rethink this failing approach."
Resourcing Equity & Justice
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
Op-Ed by Mariela Cedeño
"Our collective work is to direct meaningful investments into efforts developed by and for impacted and marginalized communities. This will require radical change from those who can afford it; it means that wealth holders — be that philanthropy, investors, lenders, or individuals — need to relinquish power over our
Op-Ed by Mariela Cedeño
"Our collective work is to direct meaningful investments into efforts developed by and for impacted and marginalized communities. This will require radical change from those who can afford it; it means that wealth holders — be that philanthropy, investors, lenders, or individuals — need to relinquish power over our wealth, value our contributions and models, and acknowledge that our communities know what they need. We need to move beyond charity, look beyond access, and work towards self-determination, collective resource stewardship, and reparations."
Mariela Cedeño
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
A Just Transition Investment Framework for Philanthropic Institutions
"A Just Transition requires the divestment of philanthropic assets from the dominant financial system and redirecting that capital into community-controlled institutions and activities that build economic power and self determination in BIPOC communities, thereby reducin
A Just Transition Investment Framework for Philanthropic Institutions
"A Just Transition requires the divestment of philanthropic assets from the dominant financial system and redirecting that capital into community-controlled institutions and activities that build economic power and self determination in BIPOC communities, thereby reducing their reliance on philanthropy over the long term."
Framework developed by Justice Funders, with content creation contribution by Anthony Chang.
Reimagining Alternative Futures
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
Shifting Capital & Power to Build the Generative Economy
Webinar: Webinar: Reimagining Alternative Futures – A Look at Community-Controlled Funding
In this 90-minute webinar, EFOD leaders, Camryn Smith, Nicole Anand and Mariela Cedeño discuss how Black, Indigenous, and other practitioners of color are working to fill critical funding gaps for under-invested food systems innovators and projects t
Webinar: Webinar: Reimagining Alternative Futures – A Look at Community-Controlled Funding
In this 90-minute webinar, EFOD leaders, Camryn Smith, Nicole Anand and Mariela Cedeño discuss how Black, Indigenous, and other practitioners of color are working to fill critical funding gaps for under-invested food systems innovators and projects through alternatives to conventional community development finance.
Cycles
Cycles
Cycles
Article in Nonprofit Quarterly by A-dae Romero Briones
"We can reteach ourselves to see and understand how to change long-standing detrimental behaviors, habits, and institutions that have altered our human ability to respond to injustice, damaged our sense of responsibility to one another and our environments, and blinded us to the paths of coexistence with our planet and each other."