{"id":3395,"date":"2023-04-19T21:27:46","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T00:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redecomua.org.br\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2023-08-12T17:35:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:35:25","slug":"rede-comua-participa-de-mesas-no-12o-congresso-gife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-wyy8bhlsif5v8gukfr0yhxue.studio.tikovolpe.com.br\/en\/rede-comua-participa-de-mesas-no-12o-congresso-gife\/","title":{"rendered":"Rede Comu\u00e1 participates in tables at the 12th GIFE Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Monica C. Ribeiro<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

From April 12th to 14th, Rede Comu\u00e1 participated in the 12th GIFE Congress (Groups, Institutes, Foundations and Companies), which had as its theme Challenging structures of inequalities<\/em><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the first day, Comu\u00e1's executive director, Graciela Hopstein, mediated the panel Community philanthropy: mobilization of diverse actors for transformation. <\/em><\/strong>The panel included Larissa Amorim, from Casa Fluminense; Harley Henriques, from Fundo Positivo \u2013 both members of Rede Comu\u00e1 -; Jair Resende, from the FEAC Foundation; and Vinicius Ahmar, from Instituto Arapya\u00fa.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Table mediated by Rede Comu\u00e1 during the 12th GIFE Congress. Image: GIFE Disclosure<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At the opening of the activity, Graciela highlighted the partnership that the Network has been developing with GIFE since 2018, with the aim of influencing the philanthropic ecosystem through the adoption of community philanthropy and grantmaking<\/em>, and cited a publication, developed through this partnership and which should be launched this year, on how private social investment can strengthen community philanthropy<\/u><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCommunity philanthropy is linked to a set of practices. It is necessary to understand the role it plays in the transformation processes. She is not a protagonist, she believes in the power of communities and comes to contribute to processes that already exist in the territories\u201d, defines Graciela.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comu\u00e1's executive director presented the collective work of the Network's 16 member organizations, all grantmakers<\/em>, and the complexity of community philanthropy that has taken shape in Brazil, which includes thematic funds, foundations and community funds.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has to do with the transfer of power, as the movement highlights #SshiftThePower<\/a>. Change of the axis of power. Access to resources, decision making. For Rede Comu\u00e1 organizations, it is essential to understand the inequality linked to access and guarantee of rights. Rights are the key to combating any inequality\u201d, contextualized Graciela.<\/span><\/p>\n

Network launches Territorial Funds Alliance<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Larissa Amorim, executive coordinator of Casa Fluminense<\/u><\/a>, presented the work carried out by the organization, which completed ten years in February.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"\u201cWe debate politics and public action built from territories. And we start from the point that, in fact, there is not just one way to do community philanthropy. We have the Casa Fluminense Fund, which is organized based on a public notice of annual support, guided by the Rio 2030 Agenda. The philanthropy we do today is associated with public policies, with the strengthening of democracy. We also provide direct support to strengthen organizational structures.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Larissa announced, during the table, the constitution of the Territorial Alliance<\/strong>, created in the context of Rede Comu\u00e1 from the articulation of seven member organizations: Tab\u00f4a \u2013 community strengthening, FunBEA (Brazilian Environmental Education Fund), ICOM (Great Florian\u00f3polis Community Institute), Baixada Maranhense Community Institute, Redes da Mar\u00e9, Instituto Procomum and Casa Fluminense. The objective is to promote permanent coordination and exchange of experiences between territorial-based organizations, seeking to develop strategies and reflect on the fundraising challenges for these organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Comu\u00e1 organizations involved in this strategy, in 2021, operated in 174 municipalities, donated R$ 3.17 million and supported 936 projects. To confront structures of inequality, the resource needs to reach the tip, in the territories\u201d, he defines. <\/span><\/p>\n

The relationship between community philanthropy and different actors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Harley Henriques, founder and executive director of Positive Background<\/u><\/a>, highlighted the fund's trajectory with initial support from the federal government and the pioneering work to combat HIV\/AIDS and the importance of what it defines as dialogic advocacy <\/em>of civil society organizations \u2013 which gave rise to important public policies and legislation such as the generic medicines law and the antiviral treatment policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Positive Fund finances six LGBTQIA+ networks, which encouraged the creation of laws such as social names, same-sex marriage and the criminalization of homophobia. We have international cooperation, donations from foundations and especially from companies, but always with a health or HIV\/AIDS focus. Support from companies does not come to the LGBTQIA+ cause. A population that generates a lot of resources for tourism in the country and still cannot get donations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Harley highlighted that the challenges are many, and that only by working horizontally will it be possible to break the structures of inequality. \u201cThe philanthropy we do is not for anyone specific. It is community, collective. It is important to identify that the leading role lies with those in the field. At Fundo Positivo, the entire team is made up of LGBTQIA+ people. We give spaces of representation and power to these people. It is necessary to guarantee visibility.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The FEAC Foundation, a member of GIFE, operates in the city of Campinas, in S\u00e3o Paulo, having recently expanded its territory of operation to the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. Jair Resende, Socio-Educational Superintendent of FEAC, reported on the large number of social organizations operating in the city in the 1950s, and how the Foundation brought together this social movement in the territory using donated assets from a philanthropist.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur main resource is linked to real estate investment. We use this resource that the Foundation already has to raise more resources from other organizations and companies. Companies based in Campinas, instead of creating institutes and foundations, begin to work with these social organizations that already operate in the territory. We seek, as grantmakers<\/em>, strengthen these organizations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Jair recalled the agility of this arrangement in getting resources to populations in vulnerable situations during the pandemic. \u201cWe are the channel where the resources arrive, but we have a network of around 100 organizations in the territory making this resource reach where it needs to go.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Arapya\u00fa Institute, also a member of GIFE, has invested in funds and community organizations. Vinicius Ahmar, strategy manager for sustainable development at the Institute, highlighted the initiative involving cocoa in the territory of Bahia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Institute began to operate in a structured way, based on participatory diagnoses in the territory, understanding vocations and what needed to be promoted. In one of these diagnoses, we chose to work in the cocoa chain, understanding that it could develop the region a little more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cocoa cultivation in Bahia, pointed out Vinicius, is predominantly carried out by family farmers in the \u201ccabruca\u201d mode \u2013 cultivation in the middle of the Atlantic Forest. \u201cThe chain is economically viable, brings social inclusion and keeps the forest in place. Then, when we prioritized this chain, challenges and levers came to us to start the work. But we do not advance alone. We went towards the production of knowledge and promotion, in partnership with Funbio (Brazilian Fund for Biodiversity) and others, to promote and incubate the foundation of key organizations for the territory, such as Tab\u00f4a, for example, and the Innovation Center of Cocoa. We identify bottlenecks and encourage organizations and movements to address these bottlenecks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Vinicius also highlighted the importance of strategically using philanthropic resources to leverage other investments and the importance of listening to the territory and understanding how it is possible to work together on complex issues. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe action is to foster a territory that is capable of thinking about solutions for itself. We are there much more as leveragers than someone who is necessary for local development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Organizations from Rede Comu\u00e1 participated in several tables at the Congress<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the table on community philanthropy, other topics were attended by members of the network's member organizations throughout the Congress, such as Latin American philanthropy; grantmaking to overcome inequalities; democracy and intersectionalities of gender, race and climate; productive inclusion and decent work; regulatory challenges of financing and civil society participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Representatives from the Brazil Foundation, Elas+, Baob\u00e1, Fundo Brasil, Fundo Casa and Instituto Comunit\u00e1rio Baixada Maranhense were at the tables organized to debate these topics throughout the three days of the congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

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