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15 years of Grantmaking and Community Philanthropy

By Cristina Orpheo – Executive Director of the Casa Socioambiental Fund

We live on a connected planet. What happens in our communities, whether in the city, in the countryside or in the forest, can reflect on all territories and affect the lives of the beings that live here.

It is everyone's right to actively participate in decision-making involving their territories. It is also everyone's right to seek ways to live well, in a way that respects the traditional way of life, as well as the surrounding ecosystems, always defending their rights. Most of the time, this is not that simple, but it is the path to building a just and peaceful society. This is democracy! A strengthened, attentive and participatory civil society is a sign of a consolidated democracy. We live in Brazil in a young democracy and, therefore, vulnerable in several aspects.

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Philanthropy and Racial Equity in Brazil

By Selma Moreira & Fernanda Lopes

The relationship between the black population and philanthropy is ancient, with the greatest expression being the Black Brotherhoods. Created during the colonial period, these organizational structures enabled black people to occupy and define forms of social action, to cover expenses for a minimum standard of dignity, funerals, for example. They were spaces of resistance and solidarity in the face of the hostility imposed by slavery. Currently, of the 207.8 million who reside in Brazil, 46.5% declared themselves mixed race, 9.3% black and 43.1% white.

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Philanthropy, yes, but philanthropy for racial equity…?

Despite a large Black population, Brazil has struggled to mount an effective response to racial inequality

Fundo Baobá launched a collection of black dolls with Estrela to educate children about respect and diversity.

The relationship between philanthropy and the black population is long-standing, the best expression of it being the Black Sisterhoods. Dating back to the colonial era, these institutions allowed blacks to assume and define forms of social engagement, and to pay expenses with some dignity for things such as funerals. They represented resistance and solidarity against the hostility of the colonial mentality. Today, out of the 207.8 million people in Brazil, 55.8 per cent describe themselves as brown, 9.3 per cent as black, and 43.1 per cent as white. Black and brown people form the Afro-Brazilian group or black population. However, despite these figures and the efforts of institutions like the Black Sisterhoods, philanthropy in Brazil has been slow to take up the cause of promoting racial equity.

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Common Network

Report series: 4. The challenges of communicating community social justice philanthropy

By Ana Letícia Silva and Paulo Motoryn

Report series: The challenges of communicating social justice community philanthropy

This is a series of reports with 4 texts derived from a collective interview held with communicators from organizations in the Philanthropy Network for Social Justice, identifying the main challenges experienced in communicating community and social justice philanthropy from the practice of @cominicador@es.

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Socio-environmental justice philanthropy

Canto da Coruja Community: information for social justice

Audio program brings information related to the Covid-19 pandemic to traditional peoples and communities and family farmers across Brazil.

By Méle Dornelas – ISPN Communications Advisor

An experience that tells how family farmers in the interior of Minas Gerais managed to continue generating income and, at the same time, guarantee quality food for families in more vulnerable situations during the Covid-19 pandemic is one of the stories that can be heard in Canto of the Owl Community.

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Brazil Fund

Human Rights Day: how philanthropy can help overcome challenges in this field

By Allyne Andrade[1] and Ana Valéria Araújo[2]

In the first week of December, the Brazil Human Rights Fund held a virtual meeting between representatives of all projects currently supported by the foundation. More than 75 initiatives participated, from 21 Brazilian states, with more than 100 activists present. There were two full days of reflections and analyzes of the current situation in Brazil, made by defenders of rights who work on different agendas, and who discuss the country from different perspectives and places.

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Common Network

Social justice philanthropy: Is it possible to talk about collaborative philanthropy and participatory grantmaking without considering issues related to human rights and social justice?

By Graciela Hopstein – Executive Coordinator of the Philanthropy Network for Social Justice

In 2018, when the book “Philanthropy of social justice, civil society and social movements in Brazil” [1] was released, one of the fundamental questions that motivated the production of the publication was to put into perspective the concepts of philanthropy and grantmaking [2] of justice social situation at the heart of the debate. In fact, one of the main theses raised throughout the collection was that in Brazil the concept of philanthropy historically carries pejorative connotations and is normally associated with charitable actions. To overcome this trend, the concept of private social investment (ISP) was installed, often replacing the notion of philanthropy) as it is commonly “more accepted” by civil society and the citizen sector.

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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.

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Common Network

Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Who Supports Diversity?

By Mica Peres

The Philanthropy Network for Social Justice is made up of thirteen member organizations, thematic and community funds and community foundations that provide support in various areas for Brazilian civil society organizations and collectives. These organizations work by supporting initiatives in capitals, in the interior, with emergency actions, in humanitarian aid. They work in family farming, community development, environmental education, transportation, land use, food, housing and water resources. We could spend hours describing the fields where this support is present, the lines of work they develop, but, this month, we want to highlight a key aspect in this process: the audiences involved in the field of community philanthropy and social justice, that is, the people to whom the support is intended.

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Socio-environmental justice philanthropy

Green donations: international philanthropy for the environment in Brazil

By Ana Paula Borges Pinho

Philanthropy represented by large international foundations has been an important source of financing for Brazilian civil society for decades. However, much of what is known about how these foundations operate is based on anecdotal evidence and knowledge passed on by leaders and circulated among civil society actors. Despite the efforts of organizations such as GIFE, there is still a long way to go to form a robust and systematic body of knowledge on the topic, which monitors the activities of international foundations in Brazil over time.

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15 years of Grantmaking and Community Philanthropy

Philanthropy and Racial Equity in Brazil

Philanthropy, yes, but philanthropy for racial equity…?

Report series: 4. The challenges of communicating community social justice philanthropy

Canto da Coruja Community: information for social justice

Human Rights Day: how philanthropy can help overcome challenges in this field

Social justice philanthropy: Is it possible to talk about collaborative philanthropy and participatory grantmaking without considering issues related to human rights and social justice?

ABCR: engaging the community in the organization's sustainability

Celebrating LGBTQIA+ Pride Month: Who Supports Diversity?

Green donations: international philanthropy for the environment in Brazil

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