Fortalecimento institucional

CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAM

English for Human Rights: A Contextualized Learning Experience

With the aim of improving the capacity of the Brazil Fund team for dialogue and advocacy at an international level, the course was held with the support of the Capacity Building Program of the Comuá Network

Professionals from the Brazil Human Rights Fund Project team took part in a course to improve their understanding and communication skills in English in a specific way: updating debates on human rights.

September 1, 2023 No Comments

Strategic Support Program

What happens when we see people within the organization?

Last year Baixada participated in the Comuá Network Capacity Building program. We could use many words to say what this program represents for our organization, but the one that makes the most sense is to see. It is a word that cannot walk alone, see and understand, see and invest, see and strengthen. Guimarães Rosa says that the flow of life wraps everything up and suddenly no more than suddenly in our field we are unwrapping processes and wrapping up people, organizations start to be bigger than the people who build them in their daily toil. Just as we prioritize the organization's electricity bill, we must prioritize people's energy. In this case it's not about keeping the power running with a payment to someone who provides the electricity, it's about building solidarity, recognition, acceptance and opportunity.

August 31, 2023 No Comments

institutional strengthening

Reflections on the institution of collective care in systemic change

By Ese Emerhi, GFCF Global Network Weaver

I ended 2022 with a health problem and spent most of 2023 thinking about the concept of collective care and solidarity in movement building. As part of my reflection, I am reading Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto, in which she argues that rest should be seen as a form of radical political resistance and that “elevating rest from an ethic of community care It involves interrupting the dominant culture and, at the same time, giving power back to the people, which is their rightful place.” Although Hersey's message is directed specifically at black communities in the United States and rejects the culture of relentless work prevalent in society, it resonates with me regarding the need for a cultural mindset shift in the fields of philanthropy and international development, and to the question of why rest is important in the fight for liberation and broader systemic change.

July 31, 2023 No Comments

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Reflections on rooting collective care in systems change

I ended 2022 with a health scare and I have spent the majority of 2023 so far preoccupied with the notion of collective care and solidarity in movement building. As part of my exploration, I have been reading Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey where she argues that rest should be a form of radical political resistance and that “To uplift rest from a community care ethic is to interrupt the dominant culture while giving power back to the people where it belongs.” While Hersey's message is specifically targeted to black communities in the United States and rejects society's hustle-grind culture, it resonates with me on the need for a cultural mindset shift in the philanthropic and international development fields, and why rest is important in the fight for liberation and larger systems-change.

July 31, 2023 No Comments

Common Network

Rede Comuá is officially founded

Constitution Assembly brought together representatives of the sixteen member organizations

By Camila Guedes

The first day of June 2023 was a historic moment for Rede Comuá. Bringing together representatives of the 16 member organizations, the Constitution Assembly was held. A great achievement, from now on the Network is officially founded.

There was approval, during the meeting, of the Bylaws – previously validated at a Members' Assembly held in May 2022 - by the Governance Council – composed of Valéria Araújo, Superintendent of the Brazil Human Rights Fund, Giovanni Harvey, Executive Director of the Fund Baobá for Racial Equity, Roberto Vilela, Executive Director of Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário and Larissa Amorim, Executive Director of Casa Fluminense -, and the Fiscal Council – composed of Gislene Aniceto, general manager of the Brazilian Human Rights Fund, and Hebe da Silva, coordinator administration of the Baobá Fund.

June 15, 2023 No Comments

institutional strengthening

Institutional support for grassroots groups strengthens autonomy and trusting relationships

At the GIFE 2023 Congress, Allyne Andrade, deputy superintendent of the Brazil Fund, participated in a debate on regulatory challenges facing civil society

By Rafael Ciscati

The covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the way the Brazil Human Rights Fund works. Traditionally, the foundation supports projects developed by grassroots organizations. Proposals, coming from all over the country, are selected via notice. The health emergency forced a change in the work logic. “We started thinking about how to act to keep civil society alive and active in that context”, says Allyne Andrade e Silva, deputy superintendent of the institution. “The solution we found was to offer flexible support”. In this modality, the resource received by the group does not need to be fully used to finance a project: it can also have the objective of institutional strengthening, intended to pay salaries or other expenses of the organization.

Allyne shared this experience during the panel “Regulatory challenges and civil society participation”, held on April 14th during the 12th Congress of the Group of Institutions, Foundations and Companies – Gife. In this year's edition, the event discussed the role of private social investment in combating inequalities that affect Brazilian society.

May 16, 2023 No Comments

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Institutional strengthening in boosting community philanthropy in Brazil

By Bianca Limonge Avancin

In Brazil, from the 1940s onwards, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) were known for movements formed by Churches (Catholic and Protestant) that prioritized the structuring of solidarity and humanitarian actions throughout the territory. Over the years, this conception of what an NGO would be gained different perspectives, including popular education movements, combating the military dictatorship and countercultural movements.

March 8, 2023 No Comments

Socio-environmental justice philanthropy

ABCR: engaging the community in the organization's sustainability

By João Paulo Vergueiro

At the founding of the Brazilian Association of Fundraisers (ABCR), in 1999, a group of professionals met and decided that it was time for the country to have an institution that promoted the work they were carrying out with so much dedication: mobilizing resources for causes.

Going in a different direction from organizations that relied on international support and funding to leverage themselves, ABCR sought its own path: it refused to be a chapter of the North American Association of Fundraising Professionals and sought to connect with who was on the front line of an activity that has not yet been fully understood and valued in the country: promoting the economic sustainability of civil society organizations.

November 9, 2021 No Comments