Shifting power in Bogotá: Notes from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit
Recognizing that no single person has capacity to take on the whole system, incremental change in multiple different places can be powerful.
International philanthropy needs a strategy for human rights, well-being, justice and peace
Hope is a strategy, and we need to practice what we preach.
“Imagine if the Haitian revolutionaries had to write a proposal?”: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit
This quote represents what the #ShiftThePower Global Summit was to me: a space to hear uncomfortable truths and to collectively reimagine solutions. When Marie-Rose Romain Murphy of …
The energy of local changemakers is our most powerful resource
Funding into communities is important, but what if unlocking local energy is our most powerful resource of all?
Power shifting through building a community towards collective change – the #ShiftThePower Global Summit
When someone asks you to introduce yourself, what’s the first thing you think of? For me it’s “Hi, I’m Yande the Power Shifting Director at Restless Development…” and the rest follows. Who are we without the values that shape us and follow us in our vocational day jobs?
Power to breathe: Reflections on my participation at the #ShiftThePower Global Summit 2023
When I landed in Bogotá, my instinct was to stop for a while and fill my lungs with air, realizing that my body, accustomed to living at sea level, felt the need to move more slowly and breathe more deeply.
#ShiftThePower – a call to transformation rooted in the personal
If we view this as a journey and not as an individual, separate outcome, it makes for a thought worth reflecting on.
Llamamiento a los participantes en la COP28
Mientras los líderes mundiales se reunían en la COP de Dubai, más de 700 agentes de cambio que trabajan en comunidades de más de 80 países se reunieron en Bogotá con el objetivo de aprovechar y movilizar recursos para que todos puedan prosperar, incluso en medio de la crisis climática.
A call to COP28 participants:
As global leaders met at the COP in Dubai, over 700 change-makers who work in communities in over 80 countries met in Bogotá with a focus on harnessing and mobilizing resources so that all may thrive, even in the midst of the climate crisis.
Do you believe that another way is possible? Come join us for the #ShiftThePower Global Summit, 5–7 December 2023 in Bogotá, Colombia
Do you want to be part of a global conversation that puts communities in charge of their own development and that produces flourishing lives for all?
Do you believe that the current international funding system can and must be re-shaped to be more locally-owned and locally-led?
Do you want to be inspired by new ways of deciding and doing that are emerging around the world, that centre dignity, equity and trust – and that recognize the resources and inherent power of communities?
If so, join us in Bogotá from 5–7 December 2023!