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Lessons from Feminist Philanthropy on Resourcing Collective Care During Crisis
Why collective care while the world is on fire? Earlier this year, we sat with our colleagues at Dalan Fund and FRIDA: Young Feminist Fund to discuss our learnings from resourcing collective care and how they can illuminate the path for philanthropy in a moment of heightened crisis and precarity around the world. Here are some of the key lessons from that conversation.
What Is Philanthropy Prepared to Do to Sustain Collective Resistance?
Drawing on research across the South Caucasus and Western Balkans in our report, Putting Out Fires Till We Burn Out, we spoke with 87 feminist and LGBTQI+ organizers working under relentless repression, war, and economic precarity. Across these diverse contexts, we heard the same reality: movements are sustained by collective care, a political strategy that emerges as communities step in when institutions fail, and outside support is fragmented or too late.