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Agenda for the day...
1. Hang out, eat & mindfulness exercise [~20 minutes]
2. Session Intro & Agenda Review[5 minutes]
3. Golden Line Discussion from Readings[45 minutes]
4. Break [10 minutes]
5. Discussion on Applications to our Work [40 minutes]
6. Next Steps [5 minutes]

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For session 3, there is one required reading: Reimagining Capacity Building: Navigating Culture, Systems and Power from GEO. If you are short on time, feel free to read just Sections 1, 2, and 3 and page 39. After reading, post your Golden Line to this Padlet by Wednesday, 2/22.

Please remember to add your initials to your Golden Line post and any other comments (if you do not make an account and log in before commenting).

If you're not sure about your Golden Line, think about:
-Where does the text raise questions for you?
-Where does the text confirm what you already believe?
-Where does the text make you say aha?
-Where does the text conflict with your beliefs?
-Where does the text cause you to reconsider prior assumptions?

There are several optional readings for the session as well. Feel free to post any Golden Lines from those readings under each column in this Padlet. :)

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Reimagining Capacity Building_ Navigating Culture, Systems & Power

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NPQ - Should We Cancel Capacity Building?

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NPQ - Should We Cancel Capacity Building?

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Should We Cancel Capacity Building - Non Profit News Nonprofit Quarterly

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Forging Funder-Intermediary-Evaluator Partnerships Five Tensions to Consider - The Center for Effective Philanthropy

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An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice

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An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice

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An Accidentally Virtual Community of Practice — Cities & People Advisors

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dismantling racism and moving toward more equitable capacity building is about recognizing and valuing the diverse and complex perspectives we bring to our work and regularly checking our assumptions about the 'right' way to do things - EG

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Capacity-building efforts generally focus on strengthening individual leaders or organizations, yet no one person or organization can solve today’s most pressing challenges. Increasingly, capacity builders who center racial equity are thinking more deeply about network and field
capacity. By taking a systems approach, one that recognizes the value of collective power, capacity builders can help develop a complementary set of capacities within a network that goes beyond that of any one organization and is, thus, more closely aligned with a fieldwide mission...."Our work today is no longer just about organizational development, but also about the relationships that are needed in order to create change. What kinds of relationships, organizations, networks and leaders are the most important to invest in for the whole ecosystem to move forward together to make that change more durable over time? What does it look like
to invest in leadership development programs and fieldwide network-building programs that can support much larger numbers of leaders and organizations in not only investing in their own capacities, but also in investing in the relationships that they need to get their work done? - EG

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Foundationally, equity means that you have to respect
the knowledge other people bring and understand what
their experiences are. Your job is to facilitate and lift up
the knowledge that is already there. - EG

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Whatever dynamics, challenges, external tensions, needs to pivot and stresses
that grantee organizations are experiencing, it’s not like any of those dynamics aren’t playing out within
foundations. ...Indeed, to the extent that funders can be transparent about the messiness of their racial equity journey, it can create opportunities to build more trusting, authentic and transformational relationships with grantee partners.
In this section, we look at how grantmakers can build the muscle for racially equitable capacity building, as well
as how to engage and support consultants to do the same

Centering racial equity in capacity building extends beyond diversity and inclusion efforts. Notably, centering racial equity challenges all of us to reflect on our power, privilege and vulnerability and to understand how that shows up in our work at all levels — from the internalized to the systemic. Consultants at Change Elemental call this “deep equity.” Such
an examination involves a healthy dose of self-awareness, as well as intellectual and emotional
curiosity about and commitment to racial equity. EG