Geoengineering: Promising Panacea or False Solution to Climate Change?

Geoengineering is one of the most urgent and under-discussed topics impacting our planet today. It is not a distant, speculative issue but one that is actively shaping the future of our environment—and not in a way that benefits communities or the planet.

Mission-Related Investments: Is there a place for them in progressive philanthropy?

Global Engagement Lab  participants organized this webinar about the value, if any, of mission-related investments and where they can fit in a progressive approach to philanthropy.

Philanthropy’s role (past and future) on racial equity

Why DEI measures and pledges continue to fall short on achieving racial justice and equity in global development.

EDGE Funders Alliance and the Racial Equity Index organised a webinar on the state of racial equity in global development, and how this issue is reflected within philanthropic organisations. While exploring how philanthropy itself is rooted in issues of racial inequity, this conversation presented some key alternatives and visions that are key to lasting systemic change in the sector at large.

Global Engagement Lab Webinar Series 2021

We are pleased to announce that the Global Engagement Lab Webinar Series has finally returned! This July, join us for three webinars curated by current GEL participants as part of a nine month virtual training. This year, we are focusing our GEL learning and organizing on structural and systemic racism by examining how these issues show up in our organizations and grantmaking practices by exploring various histories and considering regional and cultural contexts.

EDGE Funders Webinar — The Climate-Agrifood Nexus

Building on the EDGE conversations on climate justice at the 2021 annual conference, this 90 minute webinar featured concrete examples of how organizations and campaigns are pushing back on corporate climate washing, working to redirect public investment and financial flows away from industrial agriculture, and supporting more climate-friendly agro-ecological solutions.

A Necessary Shift: Build a Better World with the Right to Housing

This webinar introduced The Shift, an international initiative working at the intersection of human rights, housing, cities and finance. Participants are challenged to explore one of the least talked about drivers of inequality: the financialization of housing. Rather than matters that can be left to charity or political beneficence, housing inadequacy, unaffordability, evictions, and homelessness are revealed for what they are: an urgent assault on fundamental human rights.

Weaving Systemic Alternatives from the Global South — A conversation with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives

As the world struggles to find ways out of multiple global crises (ecological, climate, inequality, health), we need to heed myriad voices emerging in the Global South from Indigenous Peoples and other local rural and urban communities that are working on thousands of alternatives covering the full range of human concerns (food, water, health, education, livelihoods, governance, culture, justice) while attempting to sustain all life on earth. These alternatives, grounded in specific ecological and socio-economic contexts, are based on diverse worldviews and ethics that are profoundly different from the currently dominant system, but unfortunately are often isolated and fragmented.

Together with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, we organized a webinar to expore systemic alternatives, through examples and experiences from various GTA core team members from different parts of the world, and understand how they have been weaving together myriad networks of alternatives across the world to enable cross-cultural and cross-sectoral collaborations, mutual learning and critical engagement to collectively envision possible futures, and organize a critical mass for macro-change.

False Solutions and Climate Injustice: Applying the People’s Solutions Lens to Carbon Pricing

This carbon pricing funder briefing webinar is the result of collaborative funder organizing work between movement builders and movement funders to expose the serious social, economic, and environmental consequences of carbon pricing policies and projects. We urge all public leaders and members of the philanthropic community to analyze, interrogate, and resist market-based carbon pricing initiatives and policies as both ineffective and unjust.

Why we need a Global Green New Deal — and how to win it

EDGE Funders Alliance, The Leap and War on Want co-organised the webinar “Why we need a Global Green New Deal — and how to win it” in which we introduced the concept of a Global Green New Deal, the key players advancing different facets of the work, the stakes for COP26 and global movements, and how progressive funders can support this project and embed the framing across their climate efforts.

This webinar is only the beginning of what we hope will be an ongoing opportunity for collaboration and shared learning between progressive systemic change funders and social movements around global initiatives such as the Global Green New Deal.

If you are asking yourself what the GGND work looks like in detail and want to learn more about how you can directly support it please read this important document. Fore more information please contact Natalia Guidorzi at War on Want.

EDGE Webinar: Organizing around the emergence of new systems

The COVID pandemic is a clear manifestation of a systemic breakdown that evidences the many flaws and inequalities that are the root causes of the world’s growing problems (patriarchy, capitalism, anthropocentrism, etc). In this webinar, we will share our analysis on the current state of the world in order to better understand the situation we are facing from a systemic approach. More importantly, we feel it is crucial to recognize that this moment offers humanity a unique opportunity to organize, resource and uplift the work that social movements are doing all over the globe in developing an array of systemic alternatives that can be the starting point for the emergence of new systems.

Money Matters – a webinar series on Ethical Investment

This EDGE webinar series was a space for dialogue on the rationale and practices of ethical investment for foundations. It provided foundations with meaningful, up-to-date and independent information on ethical investment, created a space for peer exchange and learning, and informed the future work of the EDGE Ethical Investment working group.

Just Transition Collaborative

Global Engagement Lab Webinars Series 2019

The EDGE Webinar 2019 is a series of three conversations collectively organised and planned by participants of the second Global Engagement Lab. The webinar series was inaugurated with an exploration of how systemic change philanthropy should look like, good practices and common challenges. It then continued with an analysis of how whiteness, white supremacy, and colonialism manifest in a global context. Finally, we looked at the future, delving into how alternative worldviews can help funders achieve their ultimate goal of a better world for all – of transformative change.

Global Engagement Lab Series 2020

The EDGE Webinar 2020 is another series of three conversations collectively organised and planned by participants of the second Global Engagement Lab, in strict collaboration with funders allies and movement representatives. This webinar series kicked off analysing how funders can and should be accountable to movements; we then moved to an in depth conversation on feminist practices, specifically regarding technology. Finally, while in the middle of this current pandemic, our team looked into systemic alternatives for philanthropic practice