Looking in the mirror: Personal reflections on decolonizing aid
As we undertook this work, we came to appreciate the depth of our personal conditioning as well as that of ...
From Unicorn to Zebra: The transformation of ZGF
Unicorn organizations are extractive, ruthlessly competitive, and hierarchical in their relationships with others, especially local organisations, while zebras tend to ...
Philanthropy: What’s trust got to do with it?
One of the things I struggled with early on when I started to understand the #ShiftThePower movement was the concept ...
I am neither powerless or powerful, so where is my place in #ShiftThePower?
When I first got the request to write this piece after a webinar on the challenges to #ShiftThePower I was ...
#ShiftThePower and Me: A projector, a flip chart and how I am finding my way.
I spent more time on logical frameworks, understanding donor and back donor compliance requirements, preparing and amending contracts, reviewing budgets, ...
#ShiftThePower and Me: Direction, flexibility and collective action – my time leading a community foundation in Brazil
In my humble opinion, ICOM’s story is worth telling because of what we managed to achieve in terms of building ...
#ShiftThePower and Us: Reconstruction Women’s Fund
It is never just about a single issue. This simple truth shaped our politics into understanding that, for a community ...
#ShiftThePower and Me: Rasha Sansur
I came to see that in our dependency we had forgotten our collective dreams and our treasure trove of skills ...