Author: Senowa Mize-Fox
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The Rainy Day is Now a Hurricane—Holding ClimateWorks Foundation and its Funders Accountable to Resource the Frontlines. (Part 2 of 2)
Climate Justice Organizations’ Rally Cry is Echoing Movement groups have spent years sending out the same rallying cry: “Fund the frontlines. Fund a Just Transition away from the fossil fuel-based economy. Listen to us. Support us.” Funders have seen countless funder briefings, closed door meetings, toxic tours, reports, zines, and conferences. This message from the ground,…
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Unbought, Unbossed, and Unbowed: Sex Worker-Led Organizing in the Age of Respectability Politics
Carlton V. Bell II Respectability politics has long cast a heavy shadow over the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. For those of us organizing at the intersections of sex work, Black liberation, trans justice, and bodily autonomy, this shadow is more than metaphorical. It’s a material barrier and systemic obstacle, a locked door to funding, to inclusion,…
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Organizing for the Long Haul: How to Build a Network for Land and Liberation
This article was originally published by NPQ Online on April 30, 2025, https://nonprofitquarterly.org/organizing-for-the-long-haul-how-to-build-a-network-for-land-and-liberation/. Used with permission. We are often forced to fight defensive battles in our movements. When your house is on fire, the immediate and urgent priority is to extinguish the blaze. Such is the case with many struggles against the present administration of President…
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The Rainy Day is Now a Hurricane—Holding Climate Philanthropy Accountable in an Age of Climate Change Denialism to Resource the Most Vulnerable. (Part 1 of 2)
NCRP launches the second phase of our Climate Justice and Just Transition campaign: holding climate funders accountable for their continued underfunding of these necessary frontline organizations with this special 2-part blog. Look out for part 2, where NCRP will dig further into CWF’s grantmaking data, including the increase in overlapped funding for non-frontline organizations between…
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Not Your Model Grantee: When Asian American Advocacy Challenges Philanthropy
I never thought the Asian model minority myth would catch up to me while working at a progressive social justice nonprofit. Until one day, it did. My supervisor Irma Shauf-Bajar and I – both of us Filipino Americans – crossed a line in philanthropy that we didn’t know existed. We broke the unspoken rules on how to…
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May 2025 Updates
Every month we send an email newsletter to our supporters sharing recent updates from our work. We publish selected portions of the newsletter on our blog to make this news more accessible to people who visit our website. For key updates from the latest installment, please see below! If you’d like to receive the complete…
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Introducing Shareable’s new toolkit: “Mutual Aid 101: Solidarity, Survival, and Resistance”
Our communities are facing many crises, from worsening climate disasters to fascism. It’s clearer than ever that we need each other to survive and thrive. Building robust and sustainable mutual aid networks is necessary to care for each other and build power. Of course, mutual aid is not new, and neither are the effects of…
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Taking a Breath: A Message from Storme Gray
Dear EPIP Community, This year, EPIP celebrates 25 years of cultivating leadership, building community, and advancing equity in philanthropy. As we look ahead to the unveiling of our new strategic framework later this year, I find myself reflecting not only on what we’ve accomplished together, but how we’ve chosen to lead. For nearly a decade,…
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Philanthropic Foundations and the Exercise of Power: An Integrative Literature Review of the Many Faces of Power
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Ahead of Print. Since their legal establishment, philanthropic foundations have raised concerns due to the power they exert through their distribution of resources, oftentimes in vast amounts. Many academic fields have researched these power relationships, but as of yet, … Goto full post >>
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“No Tariffs on Sharing”: Tool Libraries Offer Resilience Amid Federal Chaos
This story was originally published by Truthout. As a handy person, Devon Curtin spends a lot of time helping people enrich their living spaces. Recently, while working with a friend to remodel their floor, Curtin noticed that the cost of do-it-yourself projects is already rising because of Donald Trump’s tariffs. “The cost of mahogany was the…