5/20 AEE TRT Session: Understanding Our Origin Story and Its Lasting Impact on Our Work by Fiona Kanagasingam https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z As you reflect in breakout circles, please add your reflections to this shared padlet. Your reflections will help shape future TRT sessions. en-us 2025-05-15 18:44:44 UTC 2025-05-21 12:03:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4ac.png https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459807248 Given Dr Morey’s remarks and retelling of RWJF’s history that had strong comments and reflections on how the Foundation’s investments are implicated in harms, I am curious about the choice to not include investment team staff on the panel discussion.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459807248 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459817716 Learning from our history to inform our current and future work

]]> 2025-05-20 19:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459817716 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818275 Give everyone a fair opportunity

]]> 2025-05-20 19:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818275 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818672 Leaning into discomfort but also finding space for joy

]]> 2025-05-20 19:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818672 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818866 Mentoringing

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459818866 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819009 Healing

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819009 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819137 Looking back to see clearly forward

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:25 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819137 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819230 Truth would mean a full and detailed narrative with an understanding of what the truth is. Putting daylight on what has occurred and owning our fuller truth.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819230 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819411 Will the committee examine RWJF’s history of pursuing bipartisanship at the cost of real change?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:37 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819411 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819697 Truth is examining the past and being open to wondering. Repair is recognizing the harm and determining what to do intentionally.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819697 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819711 Did RWJF's J&J share portfolio change after the corporation's Texas 2-step split? Ie, does it now hold both J&J and Kenvue shares?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819711 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819734 “Truth” and “Repair” to me means accepting the harsh realities that may change our perspectives on important matters and understanding how we can use our resources to grow and develop

]]> 2025-05-20 19:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459819734 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820103 Repair is the acknowledgement of truth and working in relationship to find ways to move forward with a sense of remedy.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820103 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820148 Grantees clearly warned that opiods are addictive and need to managed. Our end of life care did not cause the epidemic

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820148 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820193 Truth - review without ascribing malicious intent.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820193 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820321 Learning from our history and applying it to how we work in the future to ensure that people have equitable futures

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820321 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820341 Transparency + Actions

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820341 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820402 Personally, TRT means disclosing harms willingly and not having it be asked for. Proactive disclosure

]]> 2025-05-20 19:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820402 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820686 Real investment in Middle East and North African (MENA) communities.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820686 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820966 Truth is a tricky thing - recognizing that it has multiple sides. How do we examine the truth in a way that is respectful of multiple perspectives

]]> 2025-05-20 19:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459820966 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821032 Learn by others mistakes and better yourself ….

]]> 2025-05-20 19:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821032 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821405 Listening for context when digging into historical notes and stories.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821405 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821527 Making sure that real facts are accompanied by individual accounts of the effects. This is a challenge of understanding the truth of a situation

]]> 2025-05-20 19:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821527 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821543 What was the outside perspectives of RWJF from our grantees and those in the New Jersey community ?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821543 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821766 Will you examine the impact and harms caused by our bipartisanship, which has often come at the cost of real change?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459821766 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459822447 Truth is also about interrogating who held the narrative of the story of RWJF.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459822447 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459822869 Acceptance

]]> 2025-05-20 19:39:29 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459822869 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823432 Repair must involve actions to address prior harm. ID the choice points in our grantmaking forward so we can question opening on who benefits. Being open to changing and evolving with new information becoming available.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823432 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823631 Acknowledging where we went wrong even if it makes us look bad and owning up to it. Using our financial power to help correct harm our actions may have caused by directly investing in the communities affected.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:40:13 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823631 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823673 Should be like Gail’s perspective Healing and bridging and reconciliation. Less dichotomy's and more nuanced. More focused on belonging forgiveness and grace.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459823673 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824039 It is hard to apply what i know about authentic community engagement to changing the way philanthropy works ...I feel that tension

]]> 2025-05-20 19:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824039 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824043 Opportunity to set example of how we want to be seen differently ..model equality ..cannot be relying on relationships to get ahead or advance professionally

]]> 2025-05-20 19:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824043 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824302 What does it look like to infuse TRT themes into our programmatic TOCs and funding priorities?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824302 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824721 Curious about what repair really looks like


]]> 2025-05-20 19:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824721 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824835 There are multiple truths and sometimes those truths are in conflict and how does that harmonize with a singular “truth telling” process through TRT

]]> 2025-05-20 19:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459824835 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459825994 Give space to take in digest and heal

]]> 2025-05-20 19:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459825994 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826017 Repair to me looks like being a strategic philanthropy that deeply listens and takes into account what communities need/prioritize

]]> 2025-05-20 19:42:53 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826017 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826028 Would like to talk about the patterns that are still occurring not just the past

]]> 2025-05-20 19:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826028 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826522 See something say something —use your voice

]]> 2025-05-20 19:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826522 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826584 Practice - we need to develop the muscle for difficult conversations

]]> 2025-05-20 19:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459826584 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827048 Figuring out how we can have regular conversations to hold our truth.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:44:05 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827048 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827519 Tension with speaking truth and continuing to protect the foundation

]]> 2025-05-20 19:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827519 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827783 Active listening whe. Someone wants to share or lift a practice or concern that where they felt harm

]]> 2025-05-20 19:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827783 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827798 We have to create/implement more practices that are created to offset our lack of engagement on race, disability, inclusion, etc. and practice this action

]]> 2025-05-20 19:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459827798 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828062 Repair means working collectively and collaborating

]]> 2025-05-20 19:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828062 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828078 Choice points: exclude jnj staff or retirees as board members.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828078 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828391 We have to also take the burden of leading the fight from inclusion from marginalized communities.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:45:45 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828391 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828553 Within the org, pursue opportunities to desilo programming - a remnant of original corporate structure? - to decentralize false heirachy.


Outside the building, continue to build deep relationships with NJ communities.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:00 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828553 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828750 Repair is about identifying specific harms and to whom and engaging with the who in developing specific interventions for repair

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828750 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828950 Alignment of our practice with truth & repair.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828950 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828991 We need TRT or "corporate therapy" even at a personal level.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:33 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459828991 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829109 So what now? What is the information. Going to do about jnj shares? What Rwjf is going to do about the wealth we earned ..are we investing in health care or other harmful companies ?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:44 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829109 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829173 The power of trt is to learn and improve and be open to the hard questions and embracing critique

]]> 2025-05-20 19:46:47 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829173 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829950 Making sure community and people are centered in our impact.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:47:37 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459829950 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830010 Choice point: the voices most critical to deploy. Howncan we use our muscle to turn the volume up on the voices that haven't been heard.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830010 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830494 How does she ascribe INTENT.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830494 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830884 Want to be able.to talk honestly about us and the repair work we are going to do

]]> 2025-05-20 19:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459830884 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831059 Will we use the background of place and space to future or space ..what impact would we have on community ….procuremet ? Parking ?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831059 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831253 Share our honest origin story in a way that allows ourselves, and in a way that inspires others, to advance racial equity

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:07 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831253 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831361 Reflect on the potential harm of our current grant making practices Eg What’s the harm of not intentionally funding across prioritized systems?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831361 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831403 What was the outside perception of our work at the time?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831403 pcokley https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831584 An opportunity for new staff members to become aware of the complicated history of RWJF upon joining the organization

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:30 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831584 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831717 Listen without a bias frame of mind. Be open and non judgmental.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:40 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831717 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831739 Why was Robert Wood zeroed in on New Brunswick??? Curious if proximity to elite princeton weighed with public rutgers?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459831739 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832190 Reflect on the potential harm of our current grant making practices Eg What’s the harm of not intentionally funding across prioritized systems?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832190 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832259 We often talk about objective truth as a problem but here we seem to embrace the idea that we are revealing the real objective truth.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832259 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832300 Are there reasons to not Villify a person who lived in another time and context while telling truths

]]> 2025-05-20 19:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832300 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832413 Remove assumptions in conversations / work interactions.

Bring wonder to conversations.

]]> 2025-05-20 19:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459832413 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459833478 How important is it to offer a powerful "now what" when truth telling. What happens when the recipients of truth telling feel like the act hasn't gone far enough? Who are we missing from this work?

]]> 2025-05-20 19:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459833478 https://padlet.com/FionaKanagasingam/16f0561ye21ndi9z/wish/3459841834 Recognizing that transformation means building toward something positive as dr Christopher said, not just doing opposite of what we did.

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