Donor-centric fundraising is the Declaration of Independence’s most faithful heir. The document proclaims that “all men are created equal”—but in practice, the founders reserved that promise for white, property-owning men who they believed were endowed with the wisdom and right to determine whose lives, freedoms and futures would deserve dignified support systems.
Essay Archives
Celebrating the first Spanish sessions at the CCF Family Reunion
CCF en Español embraced unity, creativity, and so much love for our bilingual communities. We’re looking forward to continuing to engage bilingual and Spanish-speaking communities through CCF principles.Celebrando las primeras sesiones en Español en la Reunión familiar de CCF
CCF needs to stop ideating and start mobilizing. We can turn to the De-ICE Citizens Bank Movement to learn how.
Let’s mobilize that power to collectively demand that our funders, organizations, and the institutions we are connected to are not participating in old economies that are built upon human suffering and exploitation but rather on investments in thriving people and a thriving planet!
Funders must re-think norms to expand disability access and inclusion in philanthropy
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.
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.
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.
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.