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Uncovering factors involved in the development and promotion of community philanthropy, in line with my research, allowed me to discover important evidence that is worth sharing.
On the 4th, 5th and 6th of September, representatives from Casa Fluminense (RJ), the Brazilian Environmental Education Fund – FunBEA (SP), the Grande Florianópolis Community Institute (SC), the Baixada Maranhense Community Institute (MA), the Instituto Procomum (SP), Redes da Maré (RJ), and Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário (BA) met in Santos, São Paulo, to hold the first meeting of the Territorial Alliance to plan the future with a focus on community and territorial philanthropy. The meeting had the support of Rede Comuá, integrating the actions of the Month of Philanthropy that Transforms calendar, and served to create the action plan for 2024 and define expected results until 2026, with the facilitation of Luciana Martinelli and Bruna Mattos, from the consultancy Dialógica – Human and Institutional Development.
Initiative aims to strengthen communities and territories
De 12 a 14 de abril, a Rede Comuá participou do 12º Congresso GIFE (Grupos, Institutos, Fundações e Empresas), com a mesa “Filantropia Comunitária: mobilização de atores diversos para a mobilização”. Na ocasião, Larissa Amorim, coordenadora executiva da Casa Fluminense, que participou como uma das palestrantes, anunciou a constituição da Aliança Territorial.
Created in the context of Rede Comuá from the articulation of seven member organizations: Tabôa – community strengthening, FunBEA (Brazilian Environmental Education Fund), ICOM (Great Florianópolis Community Institute), Baixada Maranhense Community Institute, Redes da Maré, Instituto Procomum and Casa Fluminens, the initiative aims to promote articulation and exchange of experiences between territorial-based organizations (community funds and community foundations), seeking to develop joint strategies and reflect on the challenges of mobilizing resources for the institutions involved.
By Bianca L Avancini, Larissa Boing, Roberto Vilela, Semíramis Biasoli, Simone Amorim, Willian Narzetti
Among the various philanthropy practices existing in the Brazilian scenario, collaborative architectures have been strengthened as a path for the development of territories, from a perspective that assumes the construction of socio-environmental justice as its horizon. Forged from the praxis of various social actors, especially organizations and collectives that make up organized civil society, this is a field under construction. For this reason, it is important to deepen reflections on this way of practicing and thinking about philanthropy, having the dimension of the territory as its structuring axis.
On March 18, our government ordered the closure of public schools, non-profit organizations and other public services that provide essential services to the most vulnerable families in the Greater Florianópolis region, Brazil. Socially vulnerable children, in particular, depended on food offered to them at school or from local non-profit organizations. At the same time, informal workers began to lose their income due to social isolation. It was a wave of losses that highlighted even more clearly how unequal our region is. People in socially vulnerable situations quickly began to feel afraid: not only of the Covid-19 virus, but also the fear of hunger, the fear of not having access to drinking water, the fear of not having an income, etc. On the same day, March 18, community-based organizations, partners of ICOM – Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis, began mobilizing their communities and launching fundraising campaigns to ensure that food reached those most in need.
On 18th March, our government mandated the closure of public schools, non-profit organizations and other public services that provide essential services to the most vulnerable families in the region of Greater Florianópolis, Brazil. Vulnerable children in particular relied on the food that was given to them at school, or by local non-profits. At the same time, informal workers started to lose their income as they were forced into a period of isolation. It was a wave of losses that clearly showed how unequal our region is. Vulnerable people quickly started to feel fear: not only fear of the virus Covid-19, but also fear of hunger, fear of not having access to clean water, fears around not having income, etc. On the very same day, 18th March, community-based partners of ICOM – Instituto Comunitário Grande Florianópolis started mobilizing their communities and launching fundraising campaigns to ensure that food would reach the most in need.
By Amanda Antunes Bueno
In March 2020, the new coronavirus pandemic was declared and the first cases were registered in Santa Catarina. That same month, the team from the Grande Florianópolis Community Institute (ICOM) met to decide what they would do to respond to the economic and social crises resulting from the pandemic. The first strategy was the Coronavirus Emergency Support Line, created to guarantee decent and sufficient food and hygiene and cleaning items for socially vulnerable people affected by the pandemic, through the mobilization and transfer of direct resources to organized civil society initiatives. In April, within the Support Line, the first Community Bank of Santa Catarina also appears. With it, families receive resources in the form of social currencies and have the autonomy to buy what they need most in stores in their peripheral communities.
