Weaving Connections by Ishita Chaudhry

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IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-13 11:39:43 UTC

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converstions

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to bring more people to work with us

convos

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how willing are we to expand the pooled of those funds we are working with toward GJ? are we willing to work with more mainstream orgs or double down on more trad feminist orgs and funds? key det3ermine for expanding field and money coming

What we want t

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:45:57 UTC

How we can support grantees who have been impacted by the new admin in the US? Global impact of result of the US election

How can we be advocates within our institutions. Ie in the current US context - lots preparing for what Trump Administration will mean and - fear that in protecting ourselves will limit the radical work we can do.

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How can we use conversations on collective impact to leverage our spaces and leadership? What are the collective narratives we are using and what are we doing with them to leverage/ increase resourcing?

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The sector is challenged on what it means to demonstrate our impact. There is an abundance of evidence, we are playing into a narrative about how we are not doing enough.
Can we build a collective understanding of our impact - AWID Day for Donors has a theme about this.

conversations

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hewlett siloed, gender work concentrated - new president and new opportunities. she is looking at why they are so siloed. would like to learn from others how they have been able to get gender across other areas. for exam climate funding internally does not integrate gender

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:47:06 UTC

Trump's victory, authoritarianims - the funder community is moving to the Right and one of the things we want to understand in our org is how we are making sense of this moment?

conversation

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outreach to sector to bring feminist values to children's actors

convos

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what kind of collab can we strengthen further (Regionally and globally) to further strengthen

CoLab has helped understand how we can bring ourselves to our work. We hold a lot of power and also no power at the same time - e.g. as a program associate

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conversations

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understand what we are all doing, where are there white spaces where we can do something together

Influencing and building/bringing new donors to increase resourcing for feminist movements.

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What values are we leading with? What are we not going to trade on?
Instead, what are we going to negotiate so that we are leading the agenda.

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:48:07 UTC

Collective care and what we can do to show up for each other and our partners

How to respond to this backlash moment with staff beyond program teams. inc general counsel. How to be more values aligned. Need non program staff in these conversations too.

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building power as program associates in hierarchy. what program associates do hold, ie technical knowledge around due diligence and compliance.

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used to be focus of space was sharing what we are doing, we don't have that day to day info anymore across the ecosystem and don't know how things have shifted, so disjointed info context - some moment to have prompting questions we engage with each other

build together

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understanding the principle of less is more - agreeing on one or two things we can do in a year and mapping the different roles that each actor can play (a campaign like the EF). we get lost when we try to do too much at the same time as a community - harder when we have broad aspirations and no action!

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resouring question of how to strategize around it and the moment of leaving from certain actors in our ecosystem

Strategy for how we bring new funders into the space in ways that are accessible and actionable?

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There is no clear action plan for who is doing this philanthropic advocacy and what is the power analysis and mapping for the same.
There has been emphasis on institutional and government funders, but we need to be looking at DAFs, HNI's, smaller family foundations.
We need creative strategies to get access to these folks. There needs to actions that each organization in the co-lab can do.

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:50:15 UTC

How do we move money? - Feminist tech and mobilization, that's where the attacks are at the moment? And how can it affect funders?

How is the multi crisis is showing up for everyone. and how we can survive and navigage these. inc all teams. how can we move momney that is safer for partners and funders. safe for everyone. more convos about what this looks like

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build together

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all hat no cattle! all about sequencing - what can we focus on first, achieve those and then move on to the next thing. if we can narrow what we are trying to do - 2 most important things for 2025. if we are trying to do everything collectively - message gets drowned out

Convos

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How can we ensure that philanthropy is responsive in supporting movement actors to strengthen cross-regional solidarity and learning specifically in preparing for mounting threats to shrinking and closing civic space in authoritarian states. issues around resourcing, registration, physical and digital safety and security.

how is our resourcing responsive and how can we contribute to multilingual physical or virtual convening spaces for learning and strategizing

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what can we build on from members at glance and share in person more confidentially about conversations happening inside institutions

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getting to know each other as people is important but so is getting to know each other as institutions

Strategy for responding to this political moment

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:52:38 UTC

How has the right been successfully ahead and how can we now strategize properly to protect ourselves and our partners?

Language Justice as a trojan horse for radical work? esp in rising authoritarianism

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Strategy for current context

IshitaChaudhry — 2024-11-14 16:53:27 UTC

During AWID there will be convos about this moment so what do we do in the upcoming year? What are some of the strategies?

build together

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clarity around what is secreatariat vs what members do - for next year, not operate from a place of scarcity but a place that recognizes we need to continue onboard new members to this community and think about 1-2 things to galvanize resources. we still don't know about new Trump admin repercussions and how it will impact our work and ways in which we do our work

Networks for support

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Lawyers, for instance

Convos

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collectively resource and support movement infrastructures around issues of collective care, safe and security, and connection.

what are the existing mechanisms that we can strengthen

Increasing our accessibility and messaging to reach different audiences to enable better quality resourcing.

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Our language is very inaccessible to audiences that are not private philanthropy.
We need to get out of our comfort zones and be willing to speak to others.
We need those organizations in the US to have a coordinated strategy for how we are supporting our movements

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Interest of centering more political discussions/ philanthropic organizing conversations.

Need to reflect about US elections result and how not to act based on fear and chilling effect

strenghten work and alignment between Operations and programmatic work within foundations

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A lot of new obstacles from the US gov to advance progressive work will come in the form of compliance, due diligence, legal questions arising from the Operation teams. There is need to strengthen work together

Looking forward

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We also talked about having an honest conversation about where Gender Funder CoLabs is at politically. Will we take more risks moving forward or are we a bit anxious that our Boards don't want us to push too hard on certain issues and that the current political context in the US will also make it harder for us to fund racial justice, gender justice, etc.