Can I offer a piece of insight for #Philanthropy in this moment? Repro justice organizations that you've paid no attention to for the last decade don't need you to swoop in with a sense of crisis today. Organizers knew/know what's at stake—no need to manufacture urgency. (1/5)
As a rapid response fund, we see this in moments of heightened crisis. What often happens is that funders without relationships to organizers end up doing more harm by funding larger, well-known organizations, bombarding organizers with requests for briefings + meetings (2/5)
and overall acting in ways that derail movement strategy. Please listen to organizers right now and what they actually need, and get *consent* to resource the work and organizing that is meaningful to them. also, if you have an endowment, give folks SUSTAINED funding. (3/5)
Don't drop in with resources today and move on tomorrow. Of course, our lil rapid response fund will be here in moments like this to ensure that folks have some of what they need but this is an ecosystem. Work in collaboration—especially with intermediary funds (4/5)
who already fund this work, and have relationships, lived experience and wisdom about the landscape. Many of us are already working in a coordinated, communal way to support organizations on the front lines of these movement. We're an ecosystem, not saviors. (5/5)

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