Along with our colleagues at Innpactia, we are thrilled to welcome Jorge Antonio de la Hoz Ramirez to the Radical Flexibility Team! Based in Bogotá, Jorge will lead the development and structuring of the Migration Flexibility Fund, turning our vision of the first refugee-led impact investing fund in the world into a reality. We are excited to add Jorge's impressive skills to our team (more below!). At RFF we have now been working on innovative and equitable approaches to resourcing civil society for a number of years. The imperative to include new financing approaches as part of the solution to the current development and humanitarian crisis is clearer than ever. Part of this task is developing new mechanisms and models. An equal part is supporting "translators" who cross these often siloed professional spaces. We feel lucky to work with Jorge and to have the opportunity to continue to develop a new generation of leaders who understand social issues, equitable partnerships, and innovative resourcing strategies. Jorge brings almost 10 years of experience in impact investment, venture capital, and entrepreneurship across Latin America to leading the work of the Migration Flexibility Fund. Jorge’s expertise is in the creation of investment vehicles, acceleration strategies, and fundraising for startups and companies with social and environmental impact. He has led strategic alliances with funds, corporations, and universities, managing investment portfolios and facilitating a significant amount of capital investment for startups. He has worked with World Wildlife Fund Colombia on capital mobilization for sustainable businesses and is currently supporting organizations like UNDP to develop loan and investment pipelines and financing strategies for groups with limited access to capital. Jorge is a social entrepreneur himself having started several social ventures including co-founding Laudrive, a ride-sharing app for women in Mexico, where he led growth and retention strategies eventually building a community of over 8,000 female drivers. ?Jorge is an expert in agile methodologies and innovation ecosystem development as well as maintaining the positive attitude, energy and resilience required to drive forward new ideas. Originally from Mexico City, Jorge earned a BA from the Iberoamericana University. Congratulations and bienvenidos Jorge! ?? ?? ?? Humanity United * Vitol Foundation * Juan Carlos Lozano H. * Latimpacto * Juan Sobrini García * Juan David Ferreira * Federico Motka * Jesse Eaves * Craig Zelizer * Claire Leone * Conrad N. Hilton Foundation * Hannah T?pler * Gabriela Boyer * Eliza Fairbrother
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Radical Flexibility Fund contributes to a new era of locally-led social change by investing in people and communities - supporting their rights and agency and amplifying their voices - in new ways by combining three elements: ● supporting communities to identify their own priorities and define their own impact; ● resourcing these priorities through a broad range of funding tools (community philanthropy, outcome funds, etc.) that are more flexible, more inclusive and more sustainable than grants; and, ● allocating resources in participatory ways with a focus on innovative technologies. The Fund works with stakeholders and clients to gather information about new financing approaches; uses that information to design and facilitate processes led by grassroots organizations to effectively resource work in their communities; and, generates locally-led knowledge, monitors and disseminates the learning and impact of these new approaches. By gathering together these transformative elements and changemakers from different parts of the funding system we will – eventually – create a new paradigm. Communities will have the authority to make their own choices and determine their own futures through increased ability to generate renewable resources. This will make them safer, more peaceful, more prosperous and healthier. The combination of these elements - and the interconnectivity they catalyze - makes this Fund radical.
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https://www.radicalflexibility.org
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It has been a balm to join Daniella Undreiner and the amazing network of Mexican community foundations that form Comunalia in Mexico City to talk about what role national and local community philanthropy can play in supporting refugees and those who find themselves in situations of displacement. In sharp contrast to the current US discourse, conversations filled with professionalism, deep humanity, and empathy for survivors of human rights abuses, and a commitment to uphold the related legal and moral frameworks, are happening. In capital cities and communities around the world people are thinking about how to act collectively, marshal national and local resources, and further their role as leaders amidst the current global chaos. One of the migrants with whom we spoke, a now long time resident of Mexico and the sole survivor in her family of the Guatemalan genocide, observed: “?Desde cuándo buscar refugio se convertío en un delito?” Since when did seeking refuge become a crime? Now more than ever we should turn our thinking to how create new pathways and mechanisms to resource and accompany the communities and organizations that continue to do the work of upholding rights and dignity. Michael D. Layton Hugo Felipe Bogotá Mariana Granados Corzo
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“New power operates like a current, made by many, open, participatory and peer driven…like water and electricity, it is most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.” ~Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms The consequences of the incredibly damaging freeze on US foreign aid will be seismic and underscore the desperate need for new models of collective action. At RFF, we are heartened to be working in Oaxaca, Mexico this week with Collin Assistencía Migrante and the amazing Kristen Corning Bedford to explore how grassroots networks are generating community-to-community models of giving and accompaniment that enable us as individuals to ameliorate global challenges. The humanitarian situation in the world is already dire and it’s impossible to predict the implications of US policy on refugee flows. Organizations like Collin A.C, which started as a grassroots volunteer movement of Mexican and American community members in Oaxaca, illuminate what is possible when communities come together in shared humanity to solve problems ???? If you are in Oaxaca this week please join us for this program of events.
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?? Happy New Year ?? and a big thank you to everyone who has taken the time to amplify or apply for this position! We are excited about the level of interest this opportunity has generated - and there is still time if you haven't yet applied! We will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis shortly. If you have expertise in impact investing and/or innovative finance approaches to social change issues please consider sending your CV and cover letter to: [email protected] https://lnkd.in/dn2uzj5q
?? WE ARE HIRING! Help us find our new Fund Manager ?? ?? ?? We are thrilled that with support from the Vitol Foundation and Humanity United, RFF and Innpactia are embarking on a new investment-ready phase of building the Migration Flexibility Fund, the first impact investing fund of its kind led by and focused on supporting Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and the region through impact investments. The Fund Manager will be pivotal in overseeing the strategic direction, investment decisions, and overall social impact of the Fund. This is a wildly innovative role that crosses traditional finance and humanitarian/development spaces and we are looking for an individual who relishes being at the vanguard of social change. ?? ? Help us and please share the attached job description with all the innovative and passionate changemakers interested in new resourcing paradigms you know! ?? Location: Bogotá Salary Range: Happily shared on request Duration: One year _____________________________________________ ?? ?ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO! Ayúdanos a encontrar a nuestro nuevo Gerente de Fondo ?? ?? ?? Estamos encantados de anunciar que, con el apoyo de la Fundación Vitol y Humanity United, RFF e Innpactia están iniciando una nueva fase de preparación para la inversión con la creación del Fondo de Flexibilidad Migratoria. Este es el primer fondo de inversión de impacto de su tipo, liderado por y enfocado en apoyar a migrantes venezolanos en Colombia y la región a través de inversiones de impacto. El Gerente de Fondo será clave para supervisar la dirección estratégica, las decisiones de inversión y el impacto social general del Fondo. Este es un rol increíblemente innovador que cruza los espacios tradicionales de finanzas y humanitario/desarrollo, y estamos buscando a una persona que disfrute estar a la vanguardia del cambio social. ?? ? ?Ayúdanos y comparte la descripción del puesto adjunta con todos los innovadores y apasionados agentes de cambio interesado en nuevos paradigmas de financiación que conozcas! ?? Ubicación: Bogotá Rango Salarial: Con gusto compartido a solicitud Duración: Un a?o Juan Carlos Lozano H. * Nicole Montenegro * Eliza Fairbrother * Catherine Howell * Benjamin Claeson * Craig Zelizer * Joanna Levitt Cea *Joanna de Berry * Juan Sobrini García * Laura Jaimes * Juan David Ferreira * Santiago Quinones * Suleiman A * Hibak Kalfan * Daniel Gómez Amaya * Bernadette Shaw * Katy Anis * Hannah T?pler * Gabriela Boyer * Aaron Stanley * Can Atacik * Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Ph.D. * Jonathan Glennie * Sawa Nakagawa * Hugo Felipe Bogotá * Tatiana Fraga Diez * Alice Bosley * Mauricio Burgos Blanquicet * Laura Cortés Varón * Stephen Gray * Lauren Bradford * Sigrid Gruener * Mariska van Beijnum * Marie-Laure Poiré * Aanchal Bhatia * Rob Tashima * Beatriz Guillen
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?? WE ARE HIRING! Help us find our new Fund Manager ?? ?? ?? We are thrilled that with support from the Vitol Foundation and Humanity United, RFF and Innpactia are embarking on a new investment-ready phase of building the Migration Flexibility Fund, the first impact investing fund of its kind led by and focused on supporting Venezuelan migrants in Colombia and the region through impact investments. The Fund Manager will be pivotal in overseeing the strategic direction, investment decisions, and overall social impact of the Fund. This is a wildly innovative role that crosses traditional finance and humanitarian/development spaces and we are looking for an individual who relishes being at the vanguard of social change. ?? ? Help us and please share the attached job description with all the innovative and passionate changemakers interested in new resourcing paradigms you know! ?? Location: Bogotá Salary Range: Happily shared on request Duration: One year _____________________________________________ ?? ?ESTAMOS CONTRATANDO! Ayúdanos a encontrar a nuestro nuevo Gerente de Fondo ?? ?? ?? Estamos encantados de anunciar que, con el apoyo de la Fundación Vitol y Humanity United, RFF e Innpactia están iniciando una nueva fase de preparación para la inversión con la creación del Fondo de Flexibilidad Migratoria. Este es el primer fondo de inversión de impacto de su tipo, liderado por y enfocado en apoyar a migrantes venezolanos en Colombia y la región a través de inversiones de impacto. El Gerente de Fondo será clave para supervisar la dirección estratégica, las decisiones de inversión y el impacto social general del Fondo. Este es un rol increíblemente innovador que cruza los espacios tradicionales de finanzas y humanitario/desarrollo, y estamos buscando a una persona que disfrute estar a la vanguardia del cambio social. ?? ? ?Ayúdanos y comparte la descripción del puesto adjunta con todos los innovadores y apasionados agentes de cambio interesado en nuevos paradigmas de financiación que conozcas! ?? Ubicación: Bogotá Rango Salarial: Con gusto compartido a solicitud Duración: Un a?o Juan Carlos Lozano H. * Nicole Montenegro * Eliza Fairbrother * Catherine Howell * Benjamin Claeson * Craig Zelizer * Joanna Levitt Cea *Joanna de Berry * Juan Sobrini García * Laura Jaimes * Juan David Ferreira * Santiago Quinones * Suleiman A * Hibak Kalfan * Daniel Gómez Amaya * Bernadette Shaw * Katy Anis * Hannah T?pler * Gabriela Boyer * Aaron Stanley * Can Atacik * Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou, Ph.D. * Jonathan Glennie * Sawa Nakagawa * Hugo Felipe Bogotá * Tatiana Fraga Diez * Alice Bosley * Mauricio Burgos Blanquicet * Laura Cortés Varón * Stephen Gray * Lauren Bradford * Sigrid Gruener * Mariska van Beijnum * Marie-Laure Poiré * Aanchal Bhatia * Rob Tashima * Beatriz Guillen
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Radical Flexibility Fund is thrilled to be part of Impact Minds: Beyond Frontiers! Riva Kantowitz will be joining Gabriela Boyer, Hannah T?pler, and Sebastian Osorio next week in Oaxaca, Mexico for an exciting discussion about innovations in the humanitarian world. Are you ready to talk about new and sustainable ways of resourcing grassroots and migrant communities? Using AI to eliminate bias in hiring refugees? How governments can create and implement effective migration policies and support mechanisms? Yep, we are too! We are excited to think together about: **What innovations do we know can work to support the 117 million people in the world who are currently forcibly displaced? (UNHCR) **How do we leverage tools beyond grants and the continuum of capital - when to give a grant, give a loan, etc. - to support national efforts as well as those working at the grassroots/community level? **How do we move work in new approaches beyond the margins into the mainstream of the humanitarian and development sectors? If you are in Oaxaca next week and want to learn more about innovative ways to resource civil society please reach out, and if you can't join us next week in Mexico we'd still love to chat! ______ Radical Flexibility Fund está encantado de ser parte de Impact Minds: Beyond Frontiers. Riva Kantowitz se unirá a Gabriela Boyer, Hannah T?pler y Sebastian Osorio la próxima semana en Oaxaca, México, para una apasionante discusión sobre las innovaciones en el mundo humanitario. únase a nosotros para hablar sobre nuevas formas de apoyar los ecosistemas de migrantes comunitarios y de base, así como sobre el uso de la IA para eliminar los prejuicios en la contratación de refugiados y las formas en que los gobiernos pueden crear e implementar políticas migratorias y mecanismos de apoyo eficaces. **?Qué innovaciones sabemos que pueden funcionar para apoyar a los 117 millones de personas en el mundo que actualmente se encuentran desplazadas por la fuerza? (ACNUR) **?Cómo aprovechamos herramientas más allá de las subvenciones y la continuidad del capital (cuándo otorgar una subvención, un préstamo, etc.) para apoyar los esfuerzos nacionales, así como aquellos que trabajan a nivel de base/comunitario? **?Cómo podemos llevar el trabajo con nuevos enfoques más allá de los márgenes hacia la corriente principal de los sectores humanitarios y de desarrollo? Estamos emocionados de unirnos a otros líderes del ecosistema de impacto para hablar sobre estas preguntas, aprender y compartir ideas que están transformando el mundo. Si estará en Oaxaca la próxima semana y desea obtener más información sobre formas innovadoras de proporcionar recursos a la sociedad civil, comuníquese con nosotros, y si no puede unirse a nosotros la próxima semana en México, ?aún nos encantaría conversar! María Carolina Suarez Visbal Juan David Ferreira Tatiana Fraga Diez Juan Sobrini Federico Motka Lexi Ferry-Smith Daniel Gómez Amaya Tara Gingerich Sawa Nakagawa
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A few reflections…
“There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream, and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the most profound place to be. Always, in this search, a person might find that she is there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world but it is glorious nonetheless.” - Linda Hogan It was an extraordinary honor to join these world changers in Nairobi last week. This is one of the most diverse groups I have ever been part of - artists, human rights champions, peacebuilders and policy experts - brought together as part of a visioning process to imagine our future if we continue on the current trajectory of war and backsliding on justice and rights or manage to pivot, creating the conditions for a just, safe and peaceful planet. Being with this group re-centered me on the reality that amazing humans continue to work towards transformation, to uphold rights and basic freedoms and a vision of harmony, in each of their countries every day. And they do it with a sense of urgency and commitment appropriate to the state of the globe. While I would say that this group felt a lot of solidarity with each other, I also would venture a guess that not a single one of them feels they have the resources to work at their full potential. Why? Why do we continue to mistrust what communities say they want, having months-long, belabored conversations with donors? These conversations are often about money in relatively small amounts that don’t actually represent big risks, especially when compared to those who take the real risks - sometimes to their lives - of doing work that is disruptive and challenges power? It feels that we are particularly lost in this era, far from a set of cherished norms valuing each life and the universal right to safely, dignity, and opportunity - to flourish. I came home with a renewed sense that our main job in the minority north is to get these individuals the partnerships and resources they need in ways that honor their work, sustain their spirit, and are straightforward, sustainable, and urgent. That is the work we will continue to try to do at Radical Flexibility Fund. Thank you to Conducive Space for Peace, NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response) and Reos Partners for the herculean and flawlessly executed task of bringing us together from all corners of the globe - and to each person pictured below for your perseverance and hope. #shiftthepower #locallyled #respace
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Please join us next week in Washington DC or online for a wonderful conversation reflecting on a 4-year journey to walk the talk of equitable international partnerships and explore how participatory methodologies can support communities to develop their own definitions of impact. Hosted by New York University DC and our partners at Peace Research and Education Program at NYU SPS Center for Global Affairs, we will be joined by several civil society partners from around the world who will share their different work from media freedom to human rights to peacebuilding and community development and their definitions of what international partnership means. The morning discussion will also be available via Zoom. The workshop in the afternoon is in-person - please drop us a note if you would like to attend. Registration below. #shiftingthepower #locallyled #humanrights #peacebuilding
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?Where are you seeing energy for shifting power and implementing more efficient and effective resourcing approaches to fund local leaders and ecosystems? ?What are you working on that is innovative? ?How do we continue to develop new models leveraging broader capitol? How do we move the innovations out there currently on the margins to change the mainstream intl development system? ??♀? We’d love to hear from you! Excited to join these ?? colleagues to talk about all of the above! Humentum * Jenna Thoretz * Sawa Nakagawa * Mariska van Beijnum * Federico Motka * Patrick Steiner * Aaron Stanley * Lesley Connolly * Ruth Rhoads Allen * Jesse Eaves * Hibak Kalfan * Lexi Ferry-Smith * Dilafruz Khonikboyeva * Lorraine Smith van Lin * Suleiman Abdullahi * Rob Tashima * Denise Raquel Dunning, PhD * Daniel Gómez Amaya * Can Atacik * Catherine Howell * Benjamin Claeson * Benton Wisehart *Jenny Hodgson * Sweta Velpillay * Ralph Ellermann * Peace Direct
Come along to #CatalysingChangeWeek2024 and join RINGO colleagues, Lab members and allies to explore: ?? New resourcing models to shift power and amplify community impact ?? Wednesday 8th May, 3:00 PM CET Speakers:? ?? Riva Kantowitz (Founder and Director, Radical Flexibility Fund) ?? Charlotte Timson (Executive Director, Transform Trade) ?? Juan Carlos Lozano H. (CEO, Innpactia) ? Moderator: Deborah Doane (Partner, Rights CoLab & Convenor, Re-imagining the INGO (RINGO)) Register here: https://lnkd.in/dwtjhE2A Catalyst2030 Togo Chapter #CCW2024
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We know the traditional funding framework for social change is no longer fit for purpose.?We've been a little quiet over here in Q1, thinking about how to move beyond frustrations and amplify new ideas. ? Despite resounding rhetoric and a range of pledges to more effectively resource community-led development international donors continue to fail to shift resources and power.?? ? What are ways to engage new sources of capital and catalyze new types of investments in localization??- How do we leverage innovative finance to support community-led social change and development work??- What is the future of resourcing civil society?? ? Radical Flexibility Fund in partnership with Humentum is exploring the development of a new course that addresses these questions.?Would you be interested in this course? If so, what information would you like to learn about (and what is repetitive and not as helpful?).? We'd love to hear from you! ?? ? #flexiblefunding #locallyled #innovativefinance Innpactia * Latimpacto * Juan Carlos Lozano H. * María Carolina Suarez Visbal * Alice Bosley * Sylvia Kim * Elina Sarkisova * Rob Tashima * Robert Ricigliano * Anna Muoio * Deborah Doane * Santiago Quinones * Federico Motka * Craig Zelizer * Xoan Fernandez Garcia * Lauren Bradford * Hugo Felipe Bogotá * Daniel Gómez Amaya * NEAR (Network for Empowered Aid Response) * Sawa Nakagawa * Aaron Stanley * Daniel Hyslop * Jenna Thoretz * Joanne Sonenshine * Roderick Jones
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