What a Balinese massage taught me about measuring what matters
In July 2024, the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF) extended their global reach to include Australia in the #ShiftThePower movement. I was fortunate enough …
Aid
A call for proposals, but only if you are from the “right part” of the world
Studying the ways in which aid remains restricted has been the progressive discovery of how little we still understand the racist schemes of the international aid system.
Too Southern To Be Funded: Open Letter to the OECD DAC and an Urgent Call for End Discriminatory Funding Against Global South CSOs.
For a long time, details governing the flow of resources from OECD DAC members to Global South CSOs have been “buried” in layers of paperwork and technical language in a manner that has been opaque and difficult to grasp. However, our analysis of DAC member aid flows reveals systemic imbalances in the distribution of Official development assistance
Community as leader – community as process
A poem by Sugarbird:
When all the acronyms fade away and the jargon moves to the periphery
All that remains true are the strands we call community.
Decades of debate and research of the factors that enable communities to act.
Evolving together: What caterpillars can teach us about transforming philanthropy
Have you heard of imaginal cells? This is what Amaha Selassie asked us as we sat in the jungle-themed hotel lobby. It was the night after the #ShiftThePower Summit in Bogotá, and 5 of us had come together seemingly by accident, talking for hours about the worlds of possibility and complexity that the Summit had unlocked. None of us knew about these cells, so Amaha explained
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.
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?
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.