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Supporting Black-led placed-based projects in the US and South Africa becomes a call to action for the Fellows

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Supporting Black-led placed-based projects in the US and South Africa becomes a call to action for the Fellows

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Questions of how to combine our funds and collaborate to address this issue emerge?

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Questions of how to combine our funds and collaborate to address this issue emerge?

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Racial Equity Incubator Concept is Born!

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Racial Equity Incubator Concept is Born!

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During the duration of this two year effort, we developed the concept for an incubator “structure” or “coordinating mechanism” that could exist parallel to, but independent of, AFRE.  We pooled our Fellow money together and then invested and provided technical assistance to two fellow-based projects: (1) Keeping our Communities Organized by Jitu Brown, and (2) Dorah Marema and Constance Mogale’s Building Resilient Rural Enterprises for Sustainable Livelihoods

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Accomplishments and Lessons Learned from the Incubator Pilot

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Accomplishments and Lessons Learned from the Incubator Pilot

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1. Created a $75k USD fund that was used to make small grants to the two AFRE Fellow projects incubated.
2. Leverage our networks to provide technical assistance to the projects which resulted in 1) increased capital connections for Jitu and thought partnership that helped lead to a $1M infrastructure investment; and 2) increased leverage for Connie and Dorah which helped catalyze follow-on funding and institutional validation of existing efforts to organize rural farmers.

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Racial Equity receives an AFRE Growth Grant for $10k (?)

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Racial Equity receives an AFRE Growth Grant for $10k (?)

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But its not sufficient to continue the very resource-intensive concept of an incubator.

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Wilneida becomes a 2022 Leader in Residence for the Institute, exploring collective leadership

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Wilneida becomes a 2022 Leader in Residence for the Institute, exploring collective leadership

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Wilneida interviews Tekano Fellow Amanda Fononda

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Wilneida interviews Tekano Fellow Amanda Fononda

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Wilneida was mermerized by the unique way that Amanda blends deep grassroots perspective from the work she does in health equity and with young girls, with a systems view and an interest in integrating futurism.

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Wilneida interviews Social Equity Fellow Indu Balachandran

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Wilneida interviews Social Equity Fellow Indu Balachandran

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Wilneida was taken back by Indu's quiet and thoughtful intellectual and creative prowess and her dedication to give back to the AI community.

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Wilneida interviews Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, Barbara van Paassen

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Wilneida interviews Fellow for Social and Economic Equity, Barbara van Paassen

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Wilneida connected with Barbara over discussions of how to center the voices of the global majority into elite philanthropic or policy spaces, as well as her commitment to feature emerging leaders through her podcast.

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Wilneida uses her AFRE Growth money to begin exploring with Amanda, Indu, and Barbara the problem with knowledge production systems and hegemony of global management consulting firms

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Wilneida uses her AFRE Growth money to begin exploring with Amanda, Indu, and Barbara the problem with knowledge production systems and hegemony of global management consulting firms

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Drawing from the lessons from organizing AFRE fellows through the incubator concept, we loosely organize around exploring what a Global Fellow-Led Institute to challenge these systems would look like.

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We begin meeting across 4 time zones an average of  every 4-5 weeks.

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We begin meeting across 4 time zones an average of  every 4-5 weeks.

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We won a £10k Ideate grant from the Atlantic Institute to meet and further develop our analysis 

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We won a £10k Ideate grant from the Atlantic Institute to meet and further develop our analysis 

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Next? Amsterdam in Oct/Nov 2023......to be continued :)

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Next? Amsterdam in Oct/Nov 2023......to be continued :)