Instituto Baixada

Alliance of Territorial Funds

The Territorial Alliance is born during the Month of Philanthropy that Transforms

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.

September 26, 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

Alliance of Territorial Funds

Network members launch Territorial Funds Alliance

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.

April 13, 2023 No Comments

Baixada Institute

Building horizontal spaces to share knowledge

By Diane Pereira Sousa

The title of this text is the first definition of Rede Comuá under my eyes. There are many ways to choose to define yourself as a network, but I will stick with the one that connects and expands. This text, which follows in a horizontal line, intends to talk to you about how knowledge is constructed based on decolonial community philanthropy. We are not designing recipes, in fact what we aim to do is build spaces with possibilities.

There are many ways to do philanthropy, few people recognize this. Here is our first frontier. When I refer to people, I am recognizing the existence of a system, mode, objective qualification about what philanthropy means for those who recognize it and not exactly for those who do it.

November 10, 2022 No Comments

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Building horizontal spaces to share knowledge

The title of this text is the first definition of the Comuá Network in my view. There are many ways to choose whether to define yourself as a network, but I will stick with the one that connects and extends. This text, that follows a horizontal line, intends to talk to you about how knowledge is constructed from a decolonial community philanthropy. We are not designing recipes, in fact what we aim is to build spaces with possibilities.

There are many ways to do philanthropy, and few people recognize this. Here is our first frontier. When I refer to people, I am aware of the existence of a system, an approach, an objective qualification about what philanthropy means for those who recognize it and not exactly for those who do it.

November 10, 2022 No Comments

COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY

Meeting in Baixada Maranhense discusses Community Philanthropy directly in the territory

The three-day event brought together supporters, financiers, volunteers and professionals from Fundação Baixada to experience and debate community philanthropy with Baixadeiros.

By Camila Guedes

Baixadeiro is the title of those who were born in Baixada Maranhense, have the knowledge of the territory and work together for its development. Nothing could be more powerful than knowing and understanding the community from the perspective of the people who live there and share their experiences.

October 14, 2022 No Comments

COMMUNITY PHILANTHROPY

How philanthropy happens on the community floor from a women's perspective

By Diane Pereira Sousa

The hands of local development are female. I begin this text with this statement, I use the Production Center of the Itamatatiua community as a basis.

I invite you to reflect on how community development is built. We will remove our gaze from the way we interact in large cities, from fast cars, from the lights that open and close, from brainstorms, from the search for improving the future, and we will place it in a different place, where our bodies, hours, structures do not they tend to be there frequently. And by being I mean the concrete action of experiencing. We go directly to Itamatatiua.

October 11, 2022 No Comments

Baixada Institute

Investing in people who change realities

Author Diane Pereira Sousa

“Baixada Maranhense” is a region to the north of the State of Maranhão. It is an important territory for the State's development structures.

Anyone who is born or who lives in this region is called a “Baixadeiro”. This form of identification started in 2003, with the movement known as “CIP Young Citizen”, an integrated series of development projects promoted by “Formacao – Centro de Apoio à Educação Básica” in 10 cities (Arari, Cajari, Penalva, Matinha, Olinda Nova, São João Batista, São Vicente Ferrer, São Bento, Palmeirândia, Peri Mirim).

May 30, 2022 No Comments

Baixada Institute

Investing in people who transform realities

By Diane Pereira Sousa

Baixada Maranhense is a region north of Maranhão. An important territory for the state's development structures. Anyone born or living in this region is called Baixadeiro. This identity recognition began in 2003, with a movement called CIP Jovem Cidadão, an integrated set of projects developed by Formacao – Basic Education Support Center in 10 cities (Arari, Cajari, Penalva, Matinha, Olinda Nova, São João Batista, São Vicente Ferrer, São Bento, Palmeirândia, Peri Mirim).

May 30, 2022 No Comments

Baixada Institute

Porteiras: empathy and community philanthropy in Baixada Maranhense

By Diane Pereira Sousa*

The clock is the sky. At five in the morning Betinha begins her journey. A coffee in the pot releases the first scent of the day. Bodies still sleep in that little tijupá. In the backyard, the roosters start to crow: it's a new clock appearing, time on this piece of land is not imperative, it speaks softly, it's calm and succinct, like the walk of a lowlander. Betinha is time itself. She is never alone on the way to the farm, fellow travelers join the walk. There are varied songs and stories, exchanges of knowledge, there is an invisible network cooperating; There is already a name for what they do, but on that piece of land, any classification cannot be sustained, there will always be a word missing. Of science little, of sapience everything.

November 9, 2021 No Comments