The story of the Red Umbrella Fund, published five years after its creation, highlights perspectives and experiences from sex workers and funders involved in the process up to 2012 when the Fund was officially launched.
The story of the Funding Exchange, a pioneering national network in USA of social justice foundations. The story offers lessons that have practical relevance for today’s social justice funders and activists, philanthropy scholars, and foundation professionals.
Published in celebration of TrustAfrica’s 10th anniversary, Claiming Agency: Reflecting on TrustAfrica’s First Decade takes an in-depth look its work as an African-led foundation that set out to do things differently. Edited by Halima Mahomed and Elizabeth Coleman, the book has been published in partnership with Weaver Press. Founded in 2006, when solutions to Africa’s challenges were often developed outside its borders, TrustAfrica sought to…
Click here to read Albert Ruesga’s article from the December issue of Alliance Magazine, the social justice philanthropy issue.
The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace takes an unapologetically normative approach to the question, “What is good social justice philanthropy?” Here we describe the values and practices we believe are imperative for social justice grantmaking. Our aim is not to cut off debate but to encourage it, to create a space…
Albert Ruesga and Deborah Pultenney 2010 Summary Considers social justice philanthropy as constituting a family of approaches. In describing what they do and why they do it, social justice grantmakers tend to appeal to one or more of these approaches or ‘traditions’ and the authors go on to list eight of them. They warn that…
Philanthropy Philanthropy has been defined as the act of giving and for the most part, it assumes that such act is the privilege of the rich or of few individuals and/or institutions. Other less common definitions of philanthropy mention that anybody, independently of their giving capacity (wealth), can participate in this act. As a growing…