There is safety in asking the “big”, high-minded questions. It serves those with privilege to appear as if they are aligned to change, but requires nothing of them.
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Moving from rhetoric to catalytic action means living the questions, listening to guts/intuition, taking risks that reduce my comfort + convenience + power. It means embracing the both/and of life, expecting both beauty & accomplishment amidst grave disappointment & setbacks. /2

We may not be able to think our way out of anything. So if we must “do something,” let it be supporting the strategies of people coping with despair, sorrow, uncertainty, and yet summoning the courage – every day – to keep fighting for everyone’s liberation along the way. /3

So much of the work we must do now is acknowledge what has been lost – how racism, patriarchy and capitalism break our connection to ourselves and each other and the land. Let us encounter our collective grief, and the space it creates for courage. /4

As we step away from dominant ideas of what “should be“, we can expect to feel unmoored. Let's be learning together how to trust each other, and not rely on the false promises offered by systems or structures rooted in control, domination, extraction, and oppression. /5

It’s time to get serious about moving more unrestricted money in more disbursed ways than ever before. Recommitting to fighting for the dignity of all means sharing the resources we and our orgs have – fast & without strings – and asking and supporting others to do the same. /6

This work is no longer about me or anyone else “making a difference.” This work is about reckoning with myself and others while building something together that does not yet exist.

#philanthropy #nonprofit #NGOs #aid #socent #globaldev #globalhealth #socialimpact #socialgood /7