June 30, FNTG Funder Call: Building Movements – And Power - For Social Change
FNTG Funder Call: Building Movements – and Power - for Social Change
Tuesday, June 30
10:30 am Pacific / 1:30 pm Eastern
Emerging out of experiences with the World Social Forum process, funders and movement leaders have been exploring ways to support and deepen best practices in relationships between grantmakers and social justice movements. This involves acknowledging inherent power imbalances in society and in philanthropy, exploring mechanisms of mutual accountability, and committing to increasing resources for social justice movement-building with a priority on support to people and communities directly affected by the economic and ecological crises that face us.
This hour-long call will review progress being made through FNTG’s Funder/Movement (F/M) Process, and describe activities and opportunities of four workgroups, each consisting of funder and movement representatives:
Increasing Capital To Movement-Building
(Alta Starr, Ford Foundation)
As part if the F/M focus on shifting philanthropic dollars towards grassroots movement-building, this workgroup is developing an analysis of the social justice movement terrain and of existing grantmaking in light of that analysis. The goal is to help grantmakers review their funding in light of that analysis and towork together to mobilize additional resources.
Supporting A Grassroots Response To The Economic Crisis
(Charles Fields, Marguerite Casey Foundation, Laine Romero-Alston, Solidago Foundation)
This workgroup supports collaborative efforts between the Inter Alliance Dialogue (IAD) of grassroots networks and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), to highlight and sharpen community-based strategies to influence policy debates around responses to the economic crisis.
Mobilizing for Climate Justice
(Sarah Christiansen, Solidago Foundation)
As part of a broader FNTG conversation framing the current climate crisis as a manifestation of a larger systemic economic crisis driven by corporate globalization, this initiative aims to help raise the lens of equity and justice within debates around policy solutions to the climate crisis, focusing on crucial UN negotiations in Copenhagen in December, and beyond.
"Accompanying" the US Social Forum Process
(Millie Buchanan, Noyes Foundation)
The second US Social Forum, to be held in Detroit in June 2010, is expected to draw more than 25,000 participants interested in linking their struggles and sharing their solutions with grassroots organizations from across the country and around the world. Working closely with the USSF National Planning Committee this workgroup aims to help funders understand the movement-building potential of the social forum and its importance to funders and grantees, and to ensure that the USSF process is provided with the support needed to reach its ambitious goals.
Please join our conversation to learn more, ask questions and find out how to become part of this funder/movement initiative.
To register for this call and receive dial info, please contact allison [at] fntg [dot] org
