In 1969, a law required private foundations to distribute 5% of their hoard. This means that a foundation hoarding $1 million only has to pay out a max of $50k. Most foundations do this – the absolute minimum – regardless of the condition of the world and how much funding is actually needed.
Multimedia Archive
Becoming the desert’s memory
Becoming the Desert’s Memory reflects the endurance, wisdom, and adaptive beauty of disabled, Black, Native, and of color bodies – how we grow, re-member, and make meaning within conditions not meant for our thriving.
A Conversation About Giving in Different Contexts and Countries
By Carol Ng’ang’a and Martha Lidia Oxi Chuy
In this conversation about giving in different contexts and cultures, Carol Ng’ang’a (Kenya) and Martha Lidia Oxi Chuy (Guatemala) discuss what giving looks like in their different cultures.
CCF + the Social Change Ecosystem with Deepa Iyer
Community-Centric Fundraising’s Rachel D’Souza talked with Building Movement Project’s Deepa Iyer, creator of the Social Change Ecosystem about how to determine your role in the Social Change Ecosystem and what we can all do to meet the challenges our sector currently faces.
Once upon a whisper in the wind: A CCF origin story
By Dāna James and Naseem Kapdi
Once upon a time—not in a castle, but in a fogged-up café tucked away in Seattle—nine fundraisers gathered around a wobbly table, laughter too loud for the space, mugs clinking instead of glasses.
A love letter to the changemakers
I am the living, breathing embodiment of the highest dreams of all my ancestors and you are too, because I am a changemaker. And so are you.
Beyond Philanthropy: Community-driven solutions
By Monique Curry-Mims and Valerie Johnson
In this episode, Valerie sits down with Andrea Arenas and Michelle Shireen Muri, current consults and members of the Founding Council of Community-Centric Fundraising, to talk about reimagining philanthropy through community-driven solutions.
Chrissplains Nonbinary Advocacy to Cisgender People, Topic: We’re here. We’re natural. We’re nonbinary. And we’re not going anywhere.
Trying to remove us from the public eye isn’t going to change the fact that we exist. And it’ll be nearly impossible to scrub us from history this time around… But it will make it so that not all of us survive until this onslaught of attacks end.
Why must the white cis nonprofit workers angry react to all my posts? Ep: Decipher between acting, allying, and accomplicing
White women, we need to talk. Specifically about Chappell Roan. Before y’all get big mad, I have to say that I am a fan. (I have to be. I’m a queer. It’s required.) I’m also a fan of how outspoken she’s been for Palestinian liberation.
Navigating Policy and Advocacy: Essential Skills for CCF Practitioners
Philanthropy is the love of humankind, the love of people. And we made it about money. We made it about power. But before the colonization, before the capitalism, before the patriarchy, we lived in community. We shared resources. We took care of the people.
Community Centric Fundraising (CCF) and Nonprofit Leadership
With Global Council members: Sommer Dawson and Rickesh Lakhani
“I took on a role as executive director… came on board and realized that there’s no way that I can kind of shift from being a community-centric fundraiser to not being a community-centric leader, as an executive director. And I just have kind of embraced the role by sort of filtering all my decision making through the lens of community-centric fundraising.”
The Absurd Hierarchy of Culture
The Absurd Hierarchy of Culture is meant to consider ideas of value within the context of the human experience and the profound contradictions and arbitrary value systems embedded in the arts.