Community = Living the questions togetherKey ideas by Chelsea Robinson, Erin Dixon, Sita Magnuson, Michel Bachmann. Written by Fabian Pfortmüller. Originally published at Together InstituteMany years ago, Chelsea Robinson, Michel Bachmann and I were…
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This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island InstituteCare is a theme that has come up over and over again…
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It’s time to swap ego and hierarchy for collaborative leadership Introducing the Collaborative Leadership Canvas, a new tool to help leaders and groups distribute power and responsibility.We know, you know, everybody…
Continue ReadingInterrogating Erasure in Systems Change by Centering the Stories of Black Women as Collective Power in Weaving Equitable Experiences
This article is part of Illuminate’s Equitable Horizon Blog Series. Find more from this series HERE.IntroductionThe paper is written from the perspectives and experiences of three Black women in the…
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Continuing the conversation about ‘capitalism after the crisis’In February 2023 The Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers penned this piece in The Monthly — Capitalism after the crisis. We were buoyed. The current…
Continue ReadingWhat philanthropy can learn from Afrofuturism to end violence
What other ways of knowing can philanthropy embrace to imagine our future?This article, by Alexis Flanagan, first appeared in Alliance Magazine. Alexis is the Co-Executive Director of the Resonance Network. You can…
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The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create…
Continue ReadingGovernance Dilemmas — Boundary Conditions for Navigating Networked Peacebuilding
As actors engaged in peacebuilding and social change, we often find ourselves grappling with complex dynamics while facilitating the establishment of effective governance systems. Three recurring themes, or dilemmas, have…
Continue ReadingChanging the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice
“Reproductive justice” was first coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice and defined in 1997 by Sister Song (a formal outgrowth of that group) as “the human…
Continue ReadingBending the Arc Toward Racial Justice
PART 1: Juicy Questions about Building Capacity for Racial JusticeIf you’re a regular reader or part of Interaction Institute for Social Change’s network, you’ll know that we build collaborative capacity…
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