LFG May Convening Brainstorm: Maintaining Momentum in the Midsts of Uncertainty by Héctor Malvido https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii en-us 2025-01-13 04:50:44 UTC 2025-02-01 17:28:07 UTC hello@padlet.com Threats to the existence and impactfulness of the nonprofit sector https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289266057 2025-01-13 18:14:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289266057 Grappling with the realities of having to fund and work differently https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289267065 2025-01-13 18:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289267065 May 2025 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270669 safety and security issues are in abundance for the nonprofits, leaders, movements and networks we support.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:18:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270669 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270872 Rise of authoritarianism in US and globally

]]> 2025-01-13 18:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270872 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270976 Concern for people...that they've been supporting. Fear of the support to families and communities being challenged.


]]> 2025-01-13 18:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289270976 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289271555 Increasing anti-DEI sentiment and actions

]]> 2025-01-13 18:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289271555 Increased climate disasters https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289271668 2025-01-13 18:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289271668 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289272626 dealing with Trump 4 months into his presidency

supporting leaders with organizational issues, mental health of their staff, transitions

rebuilding Los Angeles fire areas

]]> 2025-01-13 18:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289272626 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289272719 Greater need to support equity and power building/ power shifting amongst backlash

]]> 2025-01-13 18:19:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289272719 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273158 Concern for how not to get caught up in the othering and staying focused on bridging


]]> 2025-01-13 18:20:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273158 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273346 Nonprofit staff burnout and turnover exacerbated by security threats, attacks on movements and democracy, etc

]]> 2025-01-13 18:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273346 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273581 Continued impacts of climate change are shaking the capacity and resources that the sector has available as well as the resilience of leaders and organizations.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289273581 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289275075 Need for increasing focus on wellbeing to sustain the nonprofit workforce

]]> 2025-01-13 18:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289275075 Need for Creativity and Responsiveness in supporting grantees https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289275142 different application of the ways we responded to COVID and more

]]> 2025-01-13 18:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289275142 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289279214 Grief and stress of navigating natural disasters, especially the impact of Westcoast fires

]]> 2025-01-13 18:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289279214 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289281935 Impacts of HR 9495

]]> 2025-01-13 18:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289281935 Policy Shifts/changes https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289282329 2025-01-13 18:27:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289282329 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283136 Mostly external uncertainties in the causes we care about, but some internal uncertainty too with our new president

]]> 2025-01-13 18:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283136 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283175 How much trump/his admin will focus on the philanthropic and nonprofit sector/damage it.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:27:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283175 Threat of legal action https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283789 Ability to explicity /implicitly center racial and other equity

]]> 2025-01-13 18:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289283789 uncertainties https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284444 deportation (to what degree?)

movement leaders security

funding

new priorities for foundation grants

]]> 2025-01-13 18:28:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284444 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284580 Violence/tragedy/authoritarian acts/acts of discrimination/climate change disasters that may be enacted/occur in the year(s) to come.


]]> 2025-01-13 18:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284580 Funding Uncertainty https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284591 2025-01-13 18:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289284591 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289286416 Post affirmative action case and with more orgs abandoning DEI, what does this mean for funding of BIPOC leadership development programs, and for orgs focused on BIPOC communities?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289286416 If our sector is criminalized how will we have to pivot to keep doing our work? https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289286758 2025-01-13 18:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289286758 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289287164 Threats to those by the adm. on those who voice any concerns on their work stated as racial equity


]]> 2025-01-13 18:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289287164 Increased Anxiety/Health Issues https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289287665 Physical and longer term impacts of stress due to sense of being under attack

]]> 2025-01-13 18:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289287665 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289288342 Increased risk aversion internally due to fear of what Trump will do to nonprofit sector and even to foundations funding causes he doesn’t like

]]> 2025-01-13 18:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289288342 Will people with access to wealth keep being class traitors in the midst of an even bigger rise in billionaires and millionaires? https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289288726 2025-01-13 18:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289288726 What risks are funders willing to take to protect the left as its being attacked and criminalized? https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289290578 2025-01-13 18:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289290578 maintain momentum https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289295195 continue funding movement leaders and their security

continue making funding applications "easy" to submit with quick turn-around

emergency funding as needed


]]> 2025-01-13 18:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289295195 Owning Our Agency https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289295404 It is easy to feel helpless. How do we help each other / grantees to own our agency, intentionally use voice / power, make decisions proactively based on what we want to see, not just react to attacks

]]> 2025-01-13 18:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289295404 We will need deep community to whom we are accountable in concrete ways https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289296261 2025-01-13 18:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289296261 Access to Resources https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297095 It is easier to consider context and how to adapt when basic needs are met. How do we support and provide flexibility, if needed?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297095 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297234 Don’t withdraw from funding the areas under attack by the administration (immigration, racial equity, LGBTQ, democracy etc). Expand support to these communities

]]> 2025-01-13 18:38:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297234 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297360 Trusted relationships between funders and grantee partners. Flexible funding. ideally GOS and organizational strengthening support combined. Funders coming together without ego or narrowness of own specific strategies and politics but leading with love of and commitment to the sector and democracy.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:38:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297360 We need spaces of coordination https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297408 2025-01-13 18:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297408 Safe Spaces to Heal and Recharge https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297972 2025-01-13 18:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289297972 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289298506 Key intermediary partners closest to the communities and the work feeling fully supported and resourced and in partnership with both funding entities and orgs/leaders/movements.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:39:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289298506 A bulwark https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289299632 We need funders to create a bulwark against the threats to orgs and leaders.

]]> 2025-01-13 18:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289299632 https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289299655 Work creatively with legal department to ensure we can fund our program areas in legal ways

]]> 2025-01-13 18:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289299655 Backlash is part of American History https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289300321 This is not the first or the last backlash. What have we/ can we learn?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289300321 Courageous leadership at our foundations https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289303766 2025-01-13 18:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289303766 Clarity on our focus for the convening https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289307842 What is our role as funders to address the threat of democracy?


]]> 2025-01-13 18:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289307842 Sense of urgency https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289309569 While LFG is not a funder collaborative, given the circumstances, should we think about what role the collective should take?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289309569 Leadership Pipeline https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289311723 Leaders, especially BIPOC leaders, are moving away from positions of leadership - what can we do about this?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289311723 Risk Aversion on the rise https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289312216 Philanthropic cooling effect, impacts on the communities we serve

]]> 2025-01-13 18:49:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289312216 Building Voice & Power https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289312847 How do we keep doing this?

]]> 2025-01-13 18:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289312847 Lawsuits https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289314323 How to leverage them for narrative change and power building

]]> 2025-01-13 18:50:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289314323 Belonging > Othering https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289316131 The importance of healing as a tool for power building and creating allies in the work

]]> 2025-01-13 18:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289316131 Brightspots and Finding things to Celebrate https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289317177 2025-01-13 18:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hmalvido/rpgju61t27xtfii/wish/3289317177