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ANY time folks from the Justice Funders team make for play, joy, and ice cream is a good time ?? We love that Kristine Michie, host with the most of the Playfull Podcast, recently hosted Dino Foxx, Lora Smith, and JF friend Fernando Abarca from Right To The City Alliance. They slowed down from their everyday work to share stories about how fun shows up in their professional lives – giving us a much-welcomed, sparkly dose of inspo ? Kick off your weekend by listening to and sharing 'Ushering Philanthropy into the Just Transition: Play, Power, and a 100-Year Vision with Justice Funders Network' ?? https://lnkd.in/guHyVVux

Last week, we shared our latest e-newsletter with our subscribers. Like most issues, it included an opening letter sharing our reflections on the current political moment — and a few things, none of which are new, philanthropy can do to absolutely meet this moment with action and heart. We're sharing this newsletter highlight here on LinkedIn, and hope you'll take a few minutes to read it and share it. Maybe you'll even consider subscribing to our mailing list to get full issues moving forward: https://lnkd.in/gU5P7jqC

Last week, we shared our latest e-newsletter with our subscribers. Like most issues, it included an opening letter sharing our reflections on the current political moment — and a few things, none of which are new, philanthropy can do to absolutely meet this moment with action and heart. We're sharing this newsletter highlight here on LinkedIn, and hope you'll take a few minutes to read it and share it. Maybe you'll even consider subscribing to our mailing list to get full issues moving forward: https://lnkd.in/gU5P7jqC

Grantmakers, we are here to support your changemaking work! Our Harmony Initiative is a nine-month leadership development program that equips you with the community, skills, and resources to transform philanthropy into a force for equity and social justice. Through a combination of retreats, workshops and peer groups, you will solidify a vision for your leadership, strengthen your practice, and build deep relationships with a network of peers. Since 2015, we have worked with 190+ grantmakers from 100+ institutions through the Harmony Initiative. Today, we're recruiting for our 11th cohort and are hosting a virtual info session next Wednesday, March 12. Please sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gJwirQyB Learn more about the Harmony Initiative and share with your teams: https://lnkd.in/dDpXGc5x

Join us from 10am - Noon PT on Tuesday, March 18! We're co-hosting 'Navigating the Goo: a spend-out for regeneration' webinar with Solidaire: In nature, a caterpillar completely dissolves into a gooey, magical state before emerging as a butterfly. We believe the same kind of transformation happens when private foundations spend-out. In other words, we believe a shift from wealth accumulation to wealth redistribution gets us closer to a just and regenerative economy. During our time together on the 18th, we'll have a powerful, transformational conversation about what it means to spend-out, reimagine philanthropy, and move money and resources in service of justice.?Hear from Philanthropic Transformation Strategist Farhad Ebrahimi, Shantell Bingham of Liberating Investment in the Food and Farm Ecosystem, Kathryn Gilje of Ceres Trust, Sonja Swift of the Swift Foundation, and Justice Funders Co-Executive Director Dana Kawaoka-Chen. Whether you’re part of a foundation, a movement, or just curious about the future of philanthropy, we invite you to be part of the conversation. Please register using the link below by March 14. We will be sharing a recording with attendees via link following the event. bit.ly/navigatingthegoo

Our friends at NDN Collective have a history of moving money to communities during turbulent times. We're sharing their new For The People Campaign that calls on philanthropists to give more—especially since federal funding is freezing and putting so much at risk. Hoping you will share with your networks, too.

?? BREAKING NEWS: WE ARE EXTENDING OUR APPLICATION DEADLINE TO FEBRUARY 3, 2025! We're excited to share that we've received many great applications for our newest offering, the Just Transition Investing Academy. We are looking to round out the final seats for this year's program, so act swiftly! This program is designed for philanthropy professionals ready to take the next step in their journey and learn the foundations of investing, reimagine philanthropy's investment practices, and adopt new tools to organize the field to align its investment ethos with the movement-led vision of a Just Transition. It is clear that to meet the political moment of today and to meet the long-term needs of our frontline communities, we must fundamentally reimagine our investment strategies to mirror our grantmaking and overall mission of building the self-determination of these communities. For six weeks, participants will engage in lectures, dynamic group and solo reflection activities, and fireside chats with field practitioners to learn how to operationalize elements of our Just Transition Investment Framework in their respective institutions. Participants will then meet with the program's facilitators for an hour-long coaching session to map their goals and next steps as they imagine their role in organizing their peers in the field. Learn more and register now for this exciting program here: https://lnkd.in/gRa4ktFh For any questions, please email us at [email protected]!

Justice Funders is excited to launch the Just Transition Investing Academy (JTIA)! Over the course of seven weeks, the JTIA will support philanthropy professionals who want to deepen their practical and conceptual investment knowledge and explore the transformative potential of applying a Just Transition lens to investment portfolios through a variety of lectures, dynamic group activities, and guest speakers! We are currently seeking applications for the 2025 program. Our application deadline is only 5 days away! Please visit https://lnkd.in/gRa4ktFh for all the application information!

As we navigate these challenging moments of rage, grief, devastation, and despair, our steadfast and visionary movements are continuing to organize, build power, and take collective action to advance long-term systemic change toward the liberated futures we all deserve. We as a?philanthropic sector must also continue to do the hard work of truly living into the values we espouse, not just with our grantmaking but with all of the resources we have at our disposal. Social justice movement leaders have sounded the alarm about the harmful ways in which foundations typically manage their endowments. The?Just Transition Investing Academy (JTIA)?is a new program offering from Justice Funders to support philanthropy professionals – especially those in programmatic and grantmaking departments of institutions that manage an endowment – who want to deepen their practical and conceptual investment knowledge and explore the transformative potential of applying a Just Transition lens to investment portfolios. We are now seeking applications from philanthropy professionals to join the Just Transition Investing Academy. We are accepting applications through January 20, 2025. Visit the JTIA page to learn more about the program, the program fees, and the application process: https://lnkd.in/gRa4ktFh

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