EDGE in Transition - Join the EDGE Team!
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The EDGE community is excited to announce that applications for EDGE' new Executive Director are now open! The needs of our world are changing at a rapid pace and therefore so must the world of philanthropy. EDGE Funders is well-positioned to meet this challenge with a community formed by more than 320 members in more than 34 countries passionately engaged in local, national, and international grantmaking. Our new Executive Director will help lead a bold collective vision and strategic planning process. Are you passionate about the future of progressive philanthropy? Learn more and apply here.
Applications close on Sunday, April 23,2023.
Special gratitude in this process goes to Global & Collective, the international social impact collective that has led and coordinated this process in close collaboration and consultation with EDGE’s Board of Directors, Staff and Regional Advisory Steering Groups. |
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EDGE Funders Annual Conference 2023 - SAVE THE DATE |
Today’s global challenges, including climate change, systemic racism, the rising attacks on democracy and violence, require radical systemic solutions. These solutions already exist, and they have been designed and adopted by the communities who are mostly affected by these systemic crises, centering care, justice, and equity.
However, philanthropy often falls short in providing steady support to those systemic alternatives. The EDGE will be the space where voices and experiences at the edge are finally centered and uplifted in a funders-movements space. Bridging these divides means finding ways to recenter care, systemic justice and bold experimentation, in a way that does not shy away from embracing challenging political conversations that are necessary to shift power and resources towards grassroots organizers at the forefront.
The EDGE conference will be a safe and brave space for building community and changing philanthropy for systemic alternatives, with a wide array of opportunities to participate, share, learn, and grow in solidarity.
We look forward to continuing our work together to hold philanthropy accountable, center systemic change, and build a future that is more equitable and just.
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Gender Justice Initiative
The Gender Justice Initiative includes more than 200 funders and movements based globally, who attended and hosted co-creation circles to present ideas, projects and to promote spontaneous initiatives and collaborations. This offering is getting a revamp to ensure that it continues to be of service to the feminist movements and gender justice funders. If you have been part of this initiative and would like to contribute to its revamp, please fill out this survey. |
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Economic Justice Dialogues
The Economic Justice Dialogues are a series of conversations with approximately seventeen feminist leaders from academia and civil society to explore the landscape of economic justice and feminism with an interdisciplinary lens. The cohort met in person at the beginning of March to share ideas and create a joint vision of feminist economies. EDGE members will be invited to join the conversation and learn about funding priorities in the second phase of this program.
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Climate Justice Working Group & COP Working Group
This Working Group offers a space for funders & social movements whose work is rooted in climate justice and just transition approaches to come together regularly. On January 31st, this working group met to delve into definitions of Justice Transition and how different definitions affect grantmaking and movement work. We had guests from the CS Fund as well as The Post Extractive Futures Network. Watch the recording.
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Funding For Real Change Project
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Strengthening the EDGE Membership Community |
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Become a member!
The following engagement initiatives are dedicated to EDGE members. We invite anybody in the field of philanthropy who is seeking community with others motivated to transform the philanthropic sector to join us by contacting Martina Fin.
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EDGEy Wednesdays
The EDGEy Wednesdays are self-organized spaces for EDGE members to discuss initiatives, share learnings, organize collaborations and workshop solutions with fellow EDGE members. On February, we held our first session of the year titled "Nuclear Power? Bridging the Gap Between Perception and Reality." organised by Grassroots Foundation. The upcoming session on "Funding journalism: on its value and why there’s something in it for more funders than you think” and organised by Democracy and Media Foundation is set to take place on March 22rd, 2023.
EDGE Regional Breakfasts and Transatlantic Snack
With the EDGE Regional Breakfast, we provide an informal monthly online space for members to build personal relationships, share initiatives with each other and build partnership. This year, we have included two interregional meetings to promote relationship building among all EDGE’s regions.
2023 Members Dialogues
Inspired by our membership and the Regional Strategic Meetings we held at the beginning of 2023, we are launching new spaces for EDGE members to discuss progressive funding practices rooted in systemic change analysis. We are co-creating with our members four thematic spaces on agroecology, democracy, investments & endowments, and racial justice in the Americas. The first session of the democracy space titled “ The Constitutional Process in Chile & How Philanthropic Actors Can Actively Be Part of Democratic Transformations” will be on March 23rd, 2023 at 10:00 – 12:00 ET, 16:00 – 18:00 CET
Racial Justice Dialogues (Europe)
These dialogues aspire to provide participants a deeper understanding of the racial justice context in Europe, providing them the tools to work with a racial justice lens and move more resources towards racial equity. The Racial Justice Dialogue will continue until April 2023 and will continue to be closed to participants based in Europe from Ariadne, EDGE and Gender Funder Co-labs.
Racial Justice Dialogues (Americas)
The EDGE Staff and Americas Steering group are designing and implementing a members dialogue spaces (see more above) dedicated to understanding how systemic racism shows up in different regions in the Americas and what are the lessons that folks can learn from activists movements from different parts of this specific region.
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Those who followed EDGE's webinar on the "Climate-Agrifood Nexus'' learned about a documentary film centered on a book by Leah Penniman, co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in upstate NY, Farming While Black. The film examines the plight of Black farmers in the US while uplifting Afro Indigenous farming practices as solutions to social injustice and the climate crisis. More information and ways to support can be found at Farming While Black.
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Sage Fund has published a report on women-led strategies to combat extractivism titled “Building Power in Crisis: Women’s Responses to Extractivism” with examples of how women are confronting and overcoming threats posed by mining, agribusiness, and renewable energy projects. Based on nearly 100 interviews with women leaders and their allies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Our board member Conniel Malek from True Costs Initiative (TCI) has written a powerful poem called “We Need New Words.” This poem inspires readers to think through the power of the words we use and don’t use in our daily vernacular, and also in our human and environmental rights spaces.
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23-25 May, 2023
Šibenik, Croatia
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28-30 March, 2023
Berlin, Germany
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EDGE Funders Alliance| contactus@edgefunders.org |edgefunders.org |
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