Our Partners
Resources
How Funders Can and Must Be Strategically Bold In The Face of Federal Failures
A Just Transition Investment Framework for Philanthropic Institutions
"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
Op-Ed by A-dae Romero Briones
"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 and 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 reducing their reliance on philanthropy over the long term."
Framework developed by Justice Funders, with content creation contribution by Anthony Chang.
Reimagining Alternative Futures
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
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."