Mar. 24th, 2021 | 9:30 - 11:00 am PST
4:30pm - 6:00pm UTC
Join us on Zoom: Location:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81104085278?pwd=dkpwYmlkcys5SEJxQzBUWC8ySjBxZz09
There is an East African, Luo proverb that says “if you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together”. As the multiple crises of the world converge, we need at the same time to go faster and further. As these crises unfold - pandemic, climate change, war, inequality - effective collaboration becomes ever more important.
Some of our guiding principles at Regenerosity to help us go further and faster include peer to peer learning, collective reflection, building trust and autonomy. These are key elements for accelerating transformation and making collaboration effective, whether it is for transforming our food systems towards regenerative agriculture or transforming philanthropy towards more trust-based approaches.
In our third webinar edition devoted to the topic of trust-based philanthropy, we partner once again with Be the Earth Foundation as we share a journey of inquiry with Guerrilla Foundation and FundAction. We ask, what practices of alternative funding and decision making can accelerate our collective learning? Once again we convene other funders, peers, and grantees, sharing stories which help inform and inspire our collective practices. These spaces offer important reflections from our community - you.
We also welcome to our webinar Dener and Taynara, as part of the current Be The Earth’s Blooming program with communities in Brazil. They have full autonomy on how they want to spend their budget for the first time, and will share about this experience.
This time around we want to explore not only the light of trust-based philanthropic practices but also the challenges, the blind spots, the risks. Granted, when it comes to trust-based philanthropy the benefits, the beauty, the inspiration far outweigh the risks, but as more and more funders adopt and explore these practices, it shines a light into the spaces of shadow. What can go wrong? Where might challenges emerge? What are the hurdles we might face?
Our core enquiries that will be shared through our stories:
What can go wrong?
Where might challenges emerge?
What are the hurdles we might face?
What are the different levels of trust that need to arise as we step into trust-based philanthropy?
What are some of the benefits of trust and what are the blind spots?
What are some of the common challenges, risks or issues funders and grantees encounter and how are they overcoming those?
When can it go wrong? How do we address it and avoid being turned off by potential issues?
What new capacities in both funders and grantees do we need to cultivate to keep evolving these practices?
Join us and our guests as we celebrate our tenth webinar, and continue to thread this path towards regenerative philanthropy together with transparency and openness. We will have a combination of panel discussion and then open up to a fishbowl exercise where anyone can join in the discussions.
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Learn More About the Panelists
Renata Strengerowski | Be the Earth Foundation
Renata is passionate about nature and collaboration. Previously as a social entrepreneur in Brazil, she accumulated a lot of experience in engaging and empowering diverse communities while transforming collective spaces with participatory methods. After 11 years working on the ground and training other changemakers to use these participatory tools to lead the change in their own environments, Renata left the country in 2018 and is currently leading the Philanthropy arm of Be The Earth Foundation. Based in Somerset - England, she recently gave birth and is rediscovering her new self as a mother, funder and activist for a world that nurtures all beings.
Romy Krämer | Guerrilla Foundation
Romy (she/her) is the Managing Director of the Guerrilla Foundation. She holds a PhD in Business-Society Management from the Rotterdam School of Management for which she studied power dynamics and organising processes in transnational anti-corporate campaigns in the mining industry. In the past, Romy has developed online and offline educational programs and coached global cohorts of young people in setting up for- and non-profit social impact projects. She is interested in shifting the power in philanthropy from 'those who have' to 'those who do' which is why she's also among the co-founders of Leap Collective. In Berlin, where she lives with her family, she is a founding member of a Municipalist working group that explores intersectional movement building opportunities at the municipal level.
Dener Marcos Xavier | Community Flowfunders, Brazil
Dener Marcos Xavier, 29 years, is a community leader born and raised in Vila Margarida. He is the Co-Founder and a Cultural Producer at Instituto Chegados. He is a social entrepreneur, English teacher and also the Co-founder of Globalhood, a language school with presence in Brazil, Italy, Serbia and the United States.
Instituto Família Chegados is a power accelerator that generates and drives dreams, through innovation, by working with human and territorial development. Our main goal is to offer kids and youth from our hood, Vila Margarida & México 70, in the coastal area of São Paulo state, the opportunity of self-development and therefore territorial development by working with Education, Art, Culture and Economy/Generating Income.
We dream and work to turn this territory into a touristic destination and prepare our partner students to become global citizens that are committed to solve local issues. We value and appreciate the wealth that exists inside the favela and their abundance of talent, that is why our mission is to encourage the blend of knowledge and social technologies of the hood with external technologies that connect us to the outside world, creating positive and meaningful changes in our lives and exploring the different possibilities of existence.
Please, learn more about our values and projects in Taynara’s description.
Taynara Dias | Community Flowfunders, Brazil
Taynara Dias, 27 years, is an independent model, project coordinator and social articulator at Instituto Chegados. The projects she works with are focused on developing and empowering marginalized kids, youth and women.
The values of Instituto Chegados, amongst other elements, are Diversity, Affection, Courage, Truth, "Doing Together", Celebration and Dream Big. To summarize, our vision is to contribute for us to become a Touristic, Cultural and Innovative center, always respecting our local roots.
One of our main projects is the Favela Fashion Dique, a social and pedagogic project that through workshops and runway shows mobilizes the community by the transformative power of fashion. The project stimulates peripheral kids and youth to practice self-knowledge, driving the sense of protagonism and empowerment. Another project is "Dream Language" that the main goal is to teach English and introduce youth into the international market through jobs in cruises and 4 months exchange programs in the US. Last, Bibiobank works as a sort of business library and our dream is to turn it into a community bank or credit cooperative, and there are yet many other projects we are working with, here we named just a few.
Stefanos Galountzis | FundAction
Stefanos Galountzis - an activist that works with emerging communities and social cooperatives in Europe and India. My background combines psychology, public health and 15 years of professional experience in humanitarian emergencies and community development programs.
Through my work for international organizations (i.e. ICRC, IFRC, Oxfam, SCI, IRC), I have experienced some of the world’s worst expressions of armed conflict, migration and extreme poverty; witnessed some of the most devastating effects of division, discrimination and inequality; and shaped my commitment for supporting community-driven initiatives, grassroots solidarity actions and the development of Ethos.
My passion for social change, for our transition towards a just and equitable world brought me into FundAction PGM community in 2018, where I am contributing to fundraising, community building and since June 2021, as elected member in FundAction’s facilitation group.
Meet the Host
Ruth Andrade|Regenerosity & LUSH Cosmetics
Ruth, a member of the Lush team, has more than 10 years of experience in environmental project management and development in the business sector and two decades experience in education. Ruth also has experience in collaborative governance and collaborative methodologies. Her focus is in building and energizing networks to create a bridge between industrial growth and a new culture that can sustain complex life on the planet. Currently, Ruth weaves this experience into developing giving and regenerative impact strategies at Lush, while catalyzing partnerships and widening the impact of Lush’s pioneering initiatives.