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The Challenge
The Challenge
Currently, white supremacy and extreme capitalism are harming our communities and our movements. Divide-and-conquer systems and strategies are destroying people and the planet.
Foundations are replicating these same harmful strategies in their organizations and funding priorities.
Shared Future Foundation is working to re-design philanthropy with others.
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Traditional Philanthropy
✔ Conserves power with the giver.
✔ Doesn’t get proximate to the problem.
✔ Creates dependence.
✔ Relinquishes power and decision-making
✔ Relinquishes power and decision-making
✔ Creates partnership.
Shared Philanthropy
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Our embedded philanthropy approach focuses on being in deep relationship with the communities, agencies, and groups that we fund as we work collaboratively toward co-designed solutions. By leaning into investing in the “messy middle,” we achieve transformative change.