Mapping Funding in the CEECCNA Region Under Anti-Rights Laws: Insights from Dalan Fund’s Groundbreaking Report

The diverse regions of Central Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central and North Asia (CEECCNA) have long been affected by rising authoritarianism, forcing movements to find new ways to resist and organize against repressive regimes.

This session will present the main results of the Dalan Fund‘s first-ever comprehensive analysis funding for intersectional organizing across the CEECNA region. It will be highlighted how regional social justice movements continue to resist, adapt and shape the trajectory of global politics despite increasingly restrictive environments.

Inequalities in Brazilian Philanthropy: A Perspective from Black Organizations

Brazil is one of the most unequal countries in the world and has the largest Black population outside the African continent, yet the country’s philanthropy continues to marginalize this group that is most punished in this context of inequality.

This session aims to present the main results of the research Diagnosis on Philanthropy and Race in Brazil: from the center of the struggle to the margins of resources, launched by Fundo Agbara in 2024, and to propose a critical reflection on the role of philanthropy, especially international philanthropy, in tackling racial inequalities.

From transactional to transformational: accountability through mutual aid

Intentional trust-building can facilitate correlative accountability and nourish a creative disruption of contrived scarcity. In this session, FRIDA|The Young Feminist Fund and Ecuadorian journalist collective La Periodica showcase this through their ways of working that resist narratives of competition and movement fragmentation despite constricting contexts.

Challenging corporate control of water and making Big Polluters pay in Africa: An intimate session with NGO CAPPA

Corporate Accountability and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa will hold an intimate, unscripted conversation with two inspiring movement leaders from Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), a Lagos, Nigeria-based organization on the forefront of challenging corporate power on the continent.

Lessons from the new participatory Global Statelessness Fund

This session, led by Dunn Family Charitable Foundation and Open Collective Europe, will explore learnings and challenges from the creation and launch of the innovative new Global Statelessness Fund.

Shifting the Power in Research – Key Insights from the IOUH x Wellcome Partnership

This session, led by Impact on Urban Health and the Wellcome Trust, will highlight key insights from their four-year partnership, Shifting the Power in Research.

Chained funding and movement sustainability: transitioning from funding to different type of collaborations

The session  aims to make a case for chained funding support and intergenerational bridging to uphold movement sustainability. To do this,  we spark some candid conversations around our first comings into contact with social movements and, second, anchor such conversations in the importance of bridging the movement incubator work.

Increasing availability of resources for Environmental Defenders: lessons learned from a collaborative Rapid Response práxis

A session exploring lessons learned from supporting Human Rights and Environmental Defenders in Brazil, including data on impacts, results, and articles written by guest experts in the field,

Que Paguen: How communities are organizing against corporate power in Latin America

This session explores strategies for building a powerful movement in Latin America, maximizing community resistance tools, the importance of in-person organizing, and connecting local and global efforts against corporate power, featuring a video on extractivism resistance and insights on corporate impacts in Argentina from the Indigenous Mapuche Confederation.

Collective Transformation: Funding Narrative Ecosystems to Build Power

This session explores how funders can better support groups using narrative strategies, analyze and challenge common narratives in philanthropy, and focus on practices and mindsets needed to redistribute power and strengthen narrative ecosystems and infrastructure.

EDGEy Wednesday: So you think you’ve ‘done’ participation

In this EDGEy Wednesday, we discuss the Advancing Participation in Philanthropy Tool (APPT), which helps foundations enhance participation, inclusion, and power shifting across governance, grantmaking, and evaluation.

 Reimagining philanthropy’s role in supporting social justice movements

This EDGEy Wednesday focuses on reimagining philanthropy’s role in supporting social justice movements, identifying ways to create programs and practices that provide essential care, mitigate risk, and empower leaders to achieve lasting change.

Creating More Effective Feminist Movements: Albinism, a case-study in intersectionality

Taking as a jumping-off point the Bosch publication, The Transformative Power of Intersectionality, shared ahead of last September’s EDGEy Wednesday conversation, “Is there a recipe for applying intersectionality?” we will delve deeper into these questions and more!

“Putting money at the service of movements – The Climate Justice focused Abundance Fund”

What happens when you give a group of climate justice organisers a bunch of money and tell them to dream big? That is exactly what the experiment that led to Collective Abundance was all about. And now?  This EDGEy Wednesdays explores what it means to fund more freely, despite common barriers, and in line with visions for well-resourced and climate-just communities.

Community Organising in Philanthropy – Building Political Power with and for Movements

An energizing, political and engaging conversation, which was co-led by EDGE members Sarah and Jeff from Multitudes Foundation and Martha from the Civic Power Fund, with the important insights of organizing practices from Love and Power and Démocratiser la Politique!. The conversation showed that philanthropy can play a vital role in resourcing groups to raise their own money — backing them for the long-term to build a membership base that can transform initial philanthropic investment into sustainable, self-generated income.

Giving with Both Hands: Aligning Investments and Philanthropy Under the Same Vision

Over a decade ago, Seth Tabatznik, Founder of Be The Earth, sat in a board meeting that changed his life. He discovered that some of his family’s for-profit investments were doing the exact opposite of what their philanthropic funding was aiming to achieve: giving with one hand yet taking with the other. Ever since, Seth has been on a journey to align 100% of his capital with his values. With his partner, he started Be The Earth in 2019 in order to combine all the forms of capital of which he was custodian under a single vision.

Is there a Recipe for Applying Intersectionality?

In this session, we shared insights from the Support Program for Reducing Inequalities through Intersectional Practice, a grants program initiated by the Robert Bosch Stiftung (RBS) in 2020. We heard about the experiences of two of the program partners, Calala Women’s Fund and Global Greengrants Fund, along with RBS, reflected on the process of embedding intersectionality in their work, and shared core principles and lessons learned that can be useful for other funders embarking on a similar journey.

Trans masculine communities in Latin America and their role in the reproductive justice and feminist movements

In this EDGEy Wednesday, we learned about trans masculine advocacy in Latin America and dug into the role of trans masculine communities in feminist movements for reproductive justice and bodily autonomy.

Donors addressed why they fund trans masculine groups based in Latin America. The Network of American Trans Men and People Assigned Female at Birth Collectives (REDCATH+) was used as as a case study.

Inner-Led Transformation

Organised by Romy Kraemer (Guerrilla Foundation) and Janosch Sbeih (Full Circle Foundation), this meeting explored the role and importance of inner work for social change and how foundations might support activists and grassroots organizers by funding personal transformation and work at the level of organisational culture.

In this blog post, we are offering a snapshot of the presentation given by our organizers and speakers. We have also uploaded the recording of the webinar online, but decided to keep it password protected to maintain the privacy of our participants. If you are interested in watching it, you can reach out to the EDGE team.