Every week I create a round-up of my favorite reads and listens over the last 7 days.
I recently joined the Community-Centric Fundraising slack, and have absolutely loved pouring over resources and threads. While I consistently am reading and thinking about the power at play in the world of philanthropy and wealth, this week I dove specifically into some readings about the origins of Philanthropy.
All Week: Anti-Racism & Equity
- Article: White Focused Philanthropy is on the way out. A philanthropy that unites us is taking over→ ; Written in response to this piece. “There are individuals being harmed by the nonprofit industrial complex. But let’s be clear; the people being harmed are certainly not the institutions and wealthy individuals for whom this system was created.”
- Essay: Toward A New Gospel of Wealth by Darren Walker→
- Essay: Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie→
- Essay: From a Place of Love by Chris Crass, Catalyst Project→ How do we organize large numbers of white people to work for the liberation of all people that directly challenges the divide and rule strategy of white supremecy?
- Podcast: Eat the Rich by Invisibilia→
Sent to me by a friend; “The summer of 2020 a lot of folks were asking this question: what should we do? The layered crises of a pandemic, unemployment, and police-sanctioned violence against Black folks left many anxiously searching for some sort of action to take. For a couple of young Black people in Vermont, their action was to try to collect a debt. What resulted was a social experiment with money, focused around a contentious topic: reparations. What happens when you demand white people give up their wealth“
I also recommend the book Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Villanueva, as an excellent primer and “provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance.”
Still in the Works…
- Book: The Nonprofit Communications Engine; A leaders guide to managing mission-driven marketing and communications by Sarah Durham (In progress)
- Book: Strategic Fund Development: Building profitable relationships that last by Simone P Joyaux (In progress)
- Book: The Trauma-sensitive classroom by Patricia Jennings (In progress)