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Collective Care

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.

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Insights and Impact

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.

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Chinyere Ezie

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Chinyere Ezie is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she advocates for racial justice, gender justice, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) rights, and challenges governmental abuses of power. Chinyere previously worked at the Southern Poverty Law Center where she brought cases defending the rights of LGBTQI+ Southerners. She also served as a Trial Attorney at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she litigated employment discrimination cases and secured a $5.1 million jury verdict on behalf of workers subjected to unlawful treatment. Chinyere is a William J. Fulbright Scholar, a White House Fellows Program Regional Panelist, and a cum laude graduate of Yale University. She also received a Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, where she was an Alexander Hamilton Scholar and served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Gender and Law. Chinyere serves on the Board of Directors of the Transgender Law Center and the feminist grant-making organization the Urgent Action Fund. She was also a Founding Board Member of the National Trans Bar Association.In 2018, she was named one of the nation’s Best LGBTQI+ Lawyers Under 40.