JF STRENGTHS by Justice Funders

JF operates with honesty and courage within the complicated terrain of the philanthropic sector.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:19:48 UTC

JF explicitly articulates and commits to an integrated organizing strategy driven by an anti-capitalist vision and set of values. Interviews are unanimous in citing Justice Funders’ clarity and commitment to its values and strategy as a strength. Within this, it is important that a core value is flexible, reflective practice.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:20:42 UTC

Sharing learning and information, transferring resources, cultivating true partnerships, intercepting and reversing power dynamics across the two connected and separate spheres of movement builders and funders – this is the work of organizing and training funders to be responsive and accountable to movements for social justice. JF brings deep expertise to the unique bridge role it has created.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:21:54 UTC

JF has created and centered concrete tools and examples in its Resonance Framework, webinars, and convenings. These help individual and institutional funders learn, beyond theory or rhetoric, generating widening circles of conversation that ultimately result in shifts in practice.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:22:43 UTC

JF has built its partnerships with grassroots movement organizations over many years, and has helped to launch with organizing partners a series of place-based power building initiatives. Their work is rooted in these partnerships, generating a circular flow from practice to learning and sharing and back to practice.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:24:38 UTC

Over and over again, interviews point to JF's staff as a key strength, lifting up their commitment, integrity, expert knowledge, their ability to be flexible, hear feedback, their skilled facilitation and sensitivity to context, and their human qualities. Stories shared often highlight relationship with individual staff members, especially Dana, but also different configurations of staff teams in consulting practice and initiatives, and the team as a whole.

admin2735 — 2024-07-18 21:24:48 UTC

Circle Refinement

2024-07-19 16:13:10 UTC

CR has helped JF ground itself in an intentional process to reflect, refine, and strengthen shared governance, adding clarity to staff roles, and vision for the org as especially as we continue to broaden our team and programmatic scope.

2024-07-19 16:13:15 UTC

Launching Fundamentals Trainings - expanding the scope of ways folks can enter into JF’s orbit, and better understand how to align themselves and their work with Just Transition principles.

Liberatory Governance Cohort

2024-07-19 16:14:58 UTC

Supporting a group of leaders in applying specific practices and approaches to their day-to-day leadership =>piloting new ways of leading that will influence what organizations look and feel like in the future

JTIC Fund x JTIC

2024-07-19 16:15:21 UTC

Work with the Governing Body of the JTIC Fund has allowed JF to build reciprocal and strong bridges to our movement partners while providing concrete tools to the field. The relationships we're building with funders into the Fund help all AND the co-meetings we have held with JTIC Fund governing body members and the JTIC community of practice are helping build strong individual relationships between funder and movement partner organizations.

2024-07-19 16:15:33 UTC

new npq series uplifting the leadership of our movement partners and positioning them as leaders in the field to help us inspire measurable shifts toward a just transition!

JusticeFunders — 2024-07-19 16:16:32 UTC

Open and honest conversation about transforming philanthropy while queering the movement. These QTBIPOC leaders shared honestly, sincerely and not in a performative way to talk about the good, the hard and the fabulous aspects to leadership.

Liberatory Governance work and the community of practice that is a part of it.

2024-07-19 16:16:34 UTC

Incubating that within philanthropy. Design, creation and sharing of a framework (SSIR article) followed by launch of community of practice as an offering for philanthropy, containing not only a curriculum and "solutions" but learnings (in real time, offered with humility) for the field.

Liberatory Governance Community of Practice

JusticeFunders — 2024-07-19 16:16:41 UTC

Launching the liberatory governance community of practice for staff and board in philanthropic institutions to explore a new model for governance, leadership, and power by cultivating the practices and conditions to actualize the world we envision aligned with the Just Transition.

Expansion in making contributions to multiple Indigenous Honor & Land Taxes

2024-07-19 16:20:37 UTC

The expansion of JF building relationships with, and making contributions to multiple Indigenous Honor & Land Taxes serves as a reparative act which also further models to Philanthropic orgs leveraging returning resources to Indigenous movement orgs supporting Land Rematriation, Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.

I hella heart my JF League!

2024-07-19 16:48:45 UTC