Resources to Go Deeper
FREEDOM
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Books and Essays
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
Pedagogy of Hope, Paolo Freire
Love As A Practice of Freedom, bell hooks
Freedom School Poetry, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Reports and Guides
Federal Reserve Bank, Income and Wealth Inequality in America
Racial Equity and Philanthropy: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table, Bridgespan Report
Guiding a Giving Response to Anti-Black Injustice
Mismatched: Philanthropy’s Response to the Call for Racial Justice
Articles
Poor Americans are the country’s most charitable demographic
How Long Should It Take to Give Away Millions?
A Call to Modernize American Philanthropy
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Lectures
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies (TED)
Films and Documentaries
I Am Not Your Negro (a documentary based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House)
Inspiring Clips
VALUES
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Books/Essays
Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, Jacqueline Novogratz
Decolonizing Wealth, Edgar Villanueva
Imagining Abundance, Kerry Robinson
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, NCITE! Women of Color Against Violence INCITE!
How We Give Now: A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us, Lucy Bernholz
Reports
A Power Reckoning on Trust-Based Philanthropy, The Johnson Center
Our Racial Equity Audit, The Skillman Foundation
Articles
A Framework for a Philanthropic Revolution, Justice Funders
Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens, Initiative for Philanthropic Racial Equity
10 things progressive funders can learn from conservative ones, Nonprofit AF
Trust-Based Philanthropy in Practice, Trust-Based Philanthropy
What does it mean to decolonize your donations?, Chase DiBenedetto
We’re here to clear the air on what trust-based philanthropy is and what it isn’t, Alliance Magazine
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Podcasts
Untying Knots, Philanthropy in Social Movements, Philanthropy and Social Movements (via Apple Podcasts)
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POWER
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Books/Essays
Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas
The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics, Cyndi Suarez
Reports
Inside Power Moves, National Committee For Responsive Philanthropy
Effective Interactions: Supremacist Power and Liberatory Power, Cyndi Suarez
Articles
Balancing Power Dynamics In Philanthropy, Skoll
Truly Shifting Philanthropy's Power Dynamics Requires New Structures for Giving, Inside Philanthropy
Trust-based philanthropy offers us a path to power-sharing, beyond the pandemic, Generocity.com
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BEYOND EMPATHY
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Books/Essays
The Line Becomes a River, Francisco Cantú
Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehasi Coats
Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong
The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein
The Sentences That Create Us, Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison, PEN America
Reports and Guides
#MakingJusticePop, Pop Culture Collaborative
The Movement Breakthrough, Ayni School
Articles
Six Habits of Highly Empathic People, Roman Krznaric
How Protests Become Successful Social Movements, Greg Satell and Srdja Popovic
Jackie Acho on The Currency of Empathy, The Art of Association
Chinua Achebe on How Storytelling Helps Us Survive History’s Rough Patches, Maria Popova
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Films and Documentaries
COURAGE
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Books/Essays
Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela
Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
Reports and Guides
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ACCOUNTABILITY
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Books/Essays
Dreaming Accountability, Mia Mingus
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
Reports and Guides
The Four Parts of Accountability: How To Give A Genuine Apology Part 1, Mia Mingus
The Future Is Us, Center For Story-Based Strategy
Equitable Grantmaking Continuum, NonprofitAF.com and RVCSeattle.org
Articles
10 Strategies For Cultivating Community Accountability by Ann Russo
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TRANSFORMATION
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Books/Essays
Pleasure Activism, adrienne maree brown
Reports and Guides
Cultures of Giving report by the Kellogg Foundation
7 Steps to Healing Guide, Decolonizing Wealth Project
Articles
Social Movement Ecology, Stanford Social Innovation Review
How to Create an “Ecology of Change” by Combining Movement Uprisings With Long-Term Organizing
Building Resilient Organizations
Foundation Embarks on New ‘Equitable’ Approach to Grant Making
Anonymous Donors Put Wealth Redistribution Into Activists’ Hands, Bloomberg
Making Federal Infrastructure Funding Equitable—What Philanthropy Can Do
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