IT’S TIME FOR PHILANTHROPY TO FUND BLACK FOLKS DREAMING + INNOVATING

At the summit of Pingora on Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho land.

Philanthropy isn’t a radical act. Redistributing wealth acquired through exploitation, greed, racism, and tax evasion isn’t radical. Often, instead of creating abundance and fostering innovation, philanthropists exacerbate competition and manufacture scarcity by forcing competition for limited funding, which is ultimately distributed inequitably. Abolishing the systems that allow for gross wealth inequalities and resource hoarding would be radical. Guaranteeing a basic income, providing living wages, and ensuring access to safe and affordable housing and healthcare for all would be radical.

Alas, here we are, in the interim. Using this inequitable apparatus to return money to systematically under-resourced communities where it should have been in the first place.

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