While the barriers to building a thriving, disabled-led organization can feel insurmountable, funders have the opportunity to break cycles and fund pathbreaking work if they can imagine a future where everyone can not just survive but thrive.
The Content Hub
The Content Hub is a free, educational resource featuring essays, podcasts, art, poetry, and practical fundraising guidance, completely resourced from the members—those who are new and those who are true to the CCF movement!
Leaving trace: Archives as community memory
…a reflection on how we leave trace in a world that often prefers us unrecorded; how we craft memory in the face of disappearance; how we insist on our survival not only as individuals but as a collective story.
Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People, Topic: Do something for trans kids with as much conviction as you came for Ed Sheeran for doing nothing.
If you live in a state with anti-trans ballot measures, it’s your time to decide if you are Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran, and Pink or Macklemore, Boega, Aaron Rowe, and Lukas Graham. Are you aligning yourself with Focus on the Family, Scott Yenor, and Project 2025? Or are you going to recognize that trans liberation is inextricably tied to all other fights for liberation you support?
Finding joy on the frontlines to fuel the resistance
It is from this passion that we must also dig deep and find joy in what we do because—as history would remind us—resistance doesn’t survive on outrage alone.
Patchwork: A digital illustration depicting what it’s like to work in a nonprofit
Being in a nonprofit, there is always a feeling of pride in your work; you walk around with your head held high because of what you do. But at the same time, you are embattled by what it takes to do your work. You rarely get your flowers.
Creating abundance in the wake, Part 2: From the urban sanctuaries to the reimagined placemaking of Black philanthropy futures in British Columbia
We are living through an extraordinary resurgence. Across British Columbia, a new generation of Black youth, activists, and professionals is building upon an unbroken lineage of resistance, fusing modern digital tools with ancestral mutual aid, and offering modern iterations of our historical spectrum of giving, in the face of persistent institutional underfunding.
Creating abundance in the wake, Part 1: Black philanthropy, memory, and spatial justice in British Columbia
Black philanthropy has never been defined by excess monetary wealth, accumulated capital at the cost of relentless extraction and destruction. It is a spectrum of giving that encompasses the profoundly radical redistribution of anything and everything we have.
What’s happening with… The Laid-Off Corps?
The Laid-Off Corps (L.O.C.) is an effort to highlight our talented group of BIPOC and trans workers who are open to work.What’s happening with… CCF Book Club?
What’s happening with… CCF Chapters?
What’s happening with… The CCF Mighty network?
Reflections on the CCF Family Reunion AI Panel
For me, there is no justifying the means with the end because the damage GenAI is doing is collectively worse than the little short-term good it brings.