Spring 2023 | Resource Organizing Workshop
Spring 2023 | Resource Organizing Workshop
How can we raise resources for our movement in alignment with our values? What feels less ideal about the way in which money and assets move within our spaces? What feels toxic and harmful?
In partnership with our friends at Más Allá, we invite the Alliance network to a unique virtual workshop, unpacking harmful fundraising practices and funder/ fundee dynamics to reimagine better ways of resourcing this work together. The goal of the workshop is to bring our fundraising practices in alignment with our shared values. We are choosing to center relationships, healing, and love.
This workshop includes two virtual sessions (maximum of 50 attendees):
Part 1: Naming and Reclaiming
Thursday 3/30 @ 9-11am
In Part 1 of the workshop, we’ll focus on unpacking the toxic dynamics in fundraising and resource distribution, and reclaiming our values.
Part 2: Imagining the New
Tuesday 4/4 @ 1-3pm
In Part 2, we will collectively envision fundraising practices that center relationships, healing, and love.
We hope you'll attend both sessions; however, you may still register if you can only make it to one. Please register as soon as you can, as we ask participants a few reflection questions and would love to incorporate your responses into the workshop design.
ABOUT OUR FRIENDS, MÁS ALLÁ
Más Allá [mahs ah-yah], spanish for "beyond," is a woman-owned, community-centered, fundraising consulting firm focused on closing funding gaps by raising revenue for and with women and Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) people across the U.S. and practicing how to resource our communities through regenerative strategies.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
These optional questions are included as part of the registration form. Please feel free to reflect as briefly or as deeply as you’d like.
What brings you to the food justice movement?
Are there fundraising or grantmaking practices that have produced harm to you and your community? Please write whatever you feel comfortable sharing.
How can fundraising and resource distribution efforts better center care and communities??
How can we shift the cultural norms of fundraising from competition, to cooperation and resource sharing? Have you witnessed promising examples?
OPTIONAL READINGS
In case you're interested in optional readings ahead of the workshop series, we recommend the following: Edgar Villanueva’s Decolonizing Wealth, and Movement Generation’s Just Transition Zine (the 16-page PDF is available to download in English and Spanish toward the lower half of the website).