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How do marginalized communities build systemic power that is enduring rather than merely episodic? For many grassroots organizers, the answer is deeply rooted in culture.
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A resource for funders, community organizers, and all those interested in creating new philanthropic models that support true community self-determination.
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Where we've been, where we are, and where we're going
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How do marginalized communities build systemic power that is enduring rather than merely episodic? For many grassroots organizers, the answer is deeply rooted in culture.
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This report explores four plausible futures for equity-centered philanthropy over the next decade, offering philanthropic leaders a way to navigate profound uncertainty without losing sight of long-term equity goals.
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This teaching case features The Ford Foundation and its Natural Resources and Climate Change International Strategy.
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When philanthropy abandons learning, it loses more than insight—it loses orientation. Learn why protecting and strengthening learning infrastructure is essential to philanthropy’s ability to act with both urgency and wisdom in moments of crisis.
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Lessons from RWJF's efforts in advancing health equity by centering BIPOC-led birth justice organizations
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Lessons from RWJF’s Investment in Multi-Issue Organizing for Racial and Health Equity
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Emergent Learning principles, when applied to the systems mapping process, can support more equitable and robust systems mapping, strategizing, and learning, and thus a more accurate representation of the system you’re working in.
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This five-step framework, developed and tested by a foundation, embeds learning in emergent systems change strategies. It prioritizes the testing of hypotheses and assumptions, uses learning questions, and calls for examining both confirming and disconfirming evidence.
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CEI is thrilled to announce our incoming Executive Director: Dr. Hanh Cao Yu! Effective October 1, 2024, Hanh will lead all aspects of CEI’s efforts in partnering with philanthropy to provide changemakers the space and resources needed to advance racial justice and create an equitable future.
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When we don’t make our mental models visible, we risk undermining our efforts. We see two mental models for systems change being used in philanthropic sector—the systems dynamics mental model and the systems emergence mental model.