Aaron Tanaka (Justice Funders), Solidarity Philanthropy: Reparations, Democracy & Power
This article describes the vision of philanthropy redistributing wealth, democratizing power and shifting economic control to communities.
American Friends Service Committee, Investigate Divestment Tool
Investigate offer informations and divestment recommendations on three such institutions: mass incarceration, military occupations, and the border and surveillance industries. Divestment is one of the main tools of Racial Justice Investing, in support of the struggle for Black lives, for Palestinian rights, and for immigrant justice.
Center for Economic Democracy, Economics for Emancipation Curriculum
Economics for Emancipation (E4E) is a seven-module introductory curriculum with interactive and participatory workshops. It offers a deep critical dive into the current political economic system, exploration of alternative economic systems, and tools to dream and build the economy that centers care, solidarity, and liberation.
Center for Economic Democracy, Social Movement Investing: A Guide To Capital Strategies For Community Power
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CED released the SMI Paper in 2022, which provides the foundation for the launch of the Movement Finance Forum. SMI offers capital holders with pathways to accelerate the democratic control of land, labor and capital.
Chordata Capital, Invest in the Solidarity Economy Zine
A guide to divesting from Wall Street and investing in the solidarity economy ecosystem.
Democratizing family philanthropy: Shifting practice to share power
Practices to support family foundations to shift power and resources to grassroots movements.
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, Just Transition Roundtable Report
ICCR hosted a Just Transition Roundtable to provide a forum for utility companies and a broad range of stakeholders to share their perspectives on a just and equitable energy transition. This report aims to document lessons learned through hosting the Roundtable as well as needs and recommendations shared by participants.
Jennifer Near (Justice Funders), Can philanthropy relinquish enough power and control to support BIPOC communities in governing resources for themselves?
Philanthropic organizations relinquishing control requires a radical expansion of the imagination and an investment in community self-determination.
Justice Funders, Just Transition Investing Framework
A JT investment strategy requires philanthropic assets to be divested from the dominant financial system and instead redirected into movement-led, community-controlled institutions that build economic power and self-determination.
Tags: Just Transition, Philanthropy, Investors, Solidarity Economy, Redistribution
Justice Funders, Resonance Framework: A Just Transition Framework for Philanthropic Transformation
The 2nd edition of the Resonance Framework translates the Just Transition Framework for philanthropic audiences, offers an updated framework that centers on strategic questions, and includes stories of funders taking bold acts of solidarity.
Tags: Report, Just Transition, Philanthropy, Redistribution
Kataly Resources for Funders
Kataly identified longer-term learning opportunities and pathways to deepen the philanthropic praxis of partners in the field, including learning and giving circles, because in our experience, sustained participation is key to political development and relationship building.
Mohit Mookim, A Just Transition for Finance
To reimagine finance, we should look to the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative, which raises funds from values-aligned sources to decommodify land and housing in the Bay Area, as a model.
Neighborhood Funders Group, Four Takeaways from Movement-Led Community Ownership Models
This report offers an orientation to both the tactical and transformative strategies needed to enable community ownership.
New Economy Coalition, Funding Library
NEC’s Funding Library is a resource for organizations to find funding, investing, and fiscal sponsorship opportunities, as well as detail relationships between movement organizations and funders.
New Economy Coalition, Pathway to People’s Economy
Amplify the new economy policy wins happening on the ground and provide real examples of how to shift our economic conditions from the bottom up.
Nonprofit Quarterly and New Economy Coalition, Solidarity Economies: Building Community Power
A series of articles featuring case studies of solidarity economy ecosystems that are returning wealth and building grassroots power regionally.
Nonprofit Quarterly, How Understanding Endowment Law is Key to Liberating Philanthropic Assets
Foundations usually follow a conventional finance approach to managing their assets. However, a growing number of voices from within philanthropy are calling for philanthropic assets to be liberated from extractive Wall Street funds and channeled to grassroots movements fighting for transformation.
Nwamaka Agbo,Restorative Economics
Restorative Economics centers on healing and restoration of vulnerable communities who have been marginalized and oppressed by a polluting and extractive economy, by investing in strategies that create shared prosperity and self-determination for a just transition to the next economy.
Resource Generation, A Guide to Divesting from Militarism
Calls to divest from militarism and war have grown louder. The goal is not just for institutions like universities to divest from militarism and war; rather, we must all withdraw any resources we can from extractive systems in alignment with movements for justice and liberation.
Resource Generation, Transformative Investment Principles
RG’s TIPs provide a set of values for young people with wealth (and all people with access to wealth) to practice redistribution and regenerative, solidarity economy investing.
Solidaire Action, Funding Freedom: Philanthropy and the Palestinian Freedom Movement
Funding Freedom outlines the increasingly severe attacks on organizations that support Palestinian rights and offers human rights funders a roadmap for creating the conditions to give sustainably, consistently, and without doing harm.
Stanford Social Innovation Review and Chorus Foundation, Philanthropy and Power
A series of articles describing the roles the philanthropic sector can play in creating a more just and equitable economy by shifting power and resources to movements for justice and liberation.
Sustainable Economies Law Center Resources
SELC provides legal guides, reports, toolkits, and templates to advance redistribution, land return, and solidarity economy projects.
Take Action for Palestinian Rights: Workshops for Philanthropic Funders and Investors
In May 2024, amidst the genocide in Gaza, CED, ACRE, AFSC and GRI hosted a series of workshops for funders and investors to divest, engage and invest in support of Palestinian rights.