FunBEA (Brazilian Environmental Education Fund), in 2022, launched the donation campaign “How much is it worth?”, with the intention of supporting three socio-environmental collectives that work with community-based actions, environmental education, culture and art on the Coast North of São Paulo.
At the beginning of 2022, FunBEA – Brazilian Environmental Education Fund began planning and structuring the donation campaign “How much is it worth?”, which was launched to the public in July of the same year. The objective of the campaign was to support three socio-environmental movements that work with community-based actions, environmental education, culture and art on the North Coast of São Paulo, recognizing the work of these collectives for the conservation of the Atlantic Forest and popular culture.
The giving circle can be a strategy to strengthen community and social justice philanthropy, by bringing together donors and causes/organizations to be supported in a more horizontal and dialogical way.
Philanthropy has different strategies when it comes to mobilizing resources, and one of them is donation circles – in English called giving circles. The donation circle is a strategy that brings together donors and organizations that receive resources.
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.
Philanthropy is presented as a strategy that transforms the idea of donations into a notion of social investment capable of driving transformational actions for communities and groups in vulnerable situations. Despite its recent contributory role to democracy, philanthropy is permeated with colonial aspects in the distribution of resources around the world, which creates challenges for beneficiaries. This is what we understand in the article “Is the Decolonization of Philanthropy advancing?”, written by Allyne Andrade e Silva and Graciela Hopstein, for Rede Comuá.
With this context, experiences lived by clubs, associations, fraternities and black personalities seem to cause surprise when confronted with the universe of philanthropy.
Community philanthropy represents a fertile field for social innovation, bringing together a variety of actors and organizations that come together to promote positive change in communities. The way in which the transfer of resources, whether financial, technical or intellectual, reaches the grassroots is, without a doubt, a component of great social impact. In this scenario, the strategic work of individuals and organizations, such as Associação Nossa Cidade, ICOM, FunBEA, ISPN, among others, gain prominence and connections through the Saberes Program, an initiative of Rede Comuá. These organizations, and especially these individuals, have dedicated themselves to social transformation and positive impact on their respective communities and territories.
At the end of July, the Network launched the first season of its podcast Comuá – philanthropy that transforms.
The podcast seeks to demonstrate the practices of community philanthropy and socio-environmental justice, contributing to disseminating them and also their potential to support the transformation carried out by civil society organizations operating in the territories.
The first season addresses the Knowledge Program, which offers support for the systematization of knowledge produced by social leaders and experts who work in the fields of community philanthropy and social justice.
By Jonathas Azevedo and Yasmin Morais
In July, we concluded the first cycle of Rede Comuá's Saberes Program, which seeks to investigate and produce knowledge in the fields of socio-environmental justice and community development, based on the knowledge, experiences and practices of civil society leaders, professionals, researchers and professionals from philanthropic institutions, contributing to decolonizing the production of knowledge about philanthropy.
By Mônica Ribeiro
A Iniciativa PIPA lançou, em março deste ano, a pesquisa Periferias e Filantropia – as barreiras de acesso aos recursos no Brasil. Realizado com apoio do Instituto Nu, o trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a descentralização dos recursos privados para viabilizar ações e projetos daqueles que estão na ponta.
The material is also part of the project developed by Marcelle Decothé, co-founder and advisor of the PIPA Initiative, as a fellow of the Saberes Program, from Rede Comuá.
The data is representative of a universe of 607 responses from managers who work on the front lines in Brazilian outskirts to guarantee basic rights, quality of life and opportunities in communities.
The research reveals that almost half of the initiatives surveyed, 46%, did not obtain resources to carry out their activities in the last two years. And 31% of them worked for less than R$ 5 thousand a year.
