Check out our past events, starting at January 2021, below:
JANUARY
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Friday, January 29th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday—A Fireside Chat with Solidaire Elder In Residence Linda Burnham
Come be in discussion with Solidaire Elder In Residence Linda Burnham, George Goehl (Director of People’s Action), and Malkia Cyril (Founder of the Center for Media Justice) sharing reflections on Black liberation, organizing white communities into 21st-century democracy, and the role of building media infrastructure to accelerate mass consciousness-raising in these times. To learn more about our speakers:
Join the Zoom here. Passcode: 933230
FEBRUARY
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Thursday, February 4 at 12 pm PT / 3 pm ET: Info Session on Campaign to Organize Fidelity to Stop Funding Hate
Join ACRE, the Unmasking Fidelity Coalition, Hate Is Not Charitable, and additional allies for a call about the role of Fidelity and other financial entities funding white supremacist hate groups like those that attacked the Capitol on January 6. On this call, we will hear from members of our community about how they are collectively organizing to hold Fidelity and other entities who are complicit in funding hate accountable and to challenge them to be in right relationship with movements for social justice. This event is co-sponsored by Solidaire, Resource Generation, Way to Win, and more. Register here.
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Wednesday, February 17 at 11 am PT / 2 pm ET: Funder Briefing: #StopLine3
Join Indigenous water protectors and allies for a briefing co-sponsored by Solidaire and other aligned networks on the efforts to #StopLine3. On this call, we will hear updates from Indigenous organizers on the frontlines of this movement and their team of lawyers about collective efforts to stop construction on what would be the largest tar sands oil pipeline, and what is needed most from our community right now. Speakers include: Tara Houske (Giniw Collective), Andy Pearson (MN350), Winona Laduke (Honor the Earth), Mahyar Souror (Sierra Club), Mara Verheyden-Hilliard (Center for Protest Law and Litigation). Register here.
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Friday, February 19th from 9 – 10:30 am PT / 12 – 1:30 PT: Silencing & Criminalizing Racial Justice Protests—Emerging Legislative Threats.
On the evening of January 6, following the storming of the US Capitol, Florida Governor DeSantis introduced a bill that would heavily criminalize protesters. He was not alone: since the start of this year, legislators have already introduced oved 40 anti-protest bills in 20 states aimed at criminalizing and chilling protest, particularly protests by and for BIPOC communities. Join Solidaire, the Piper Fund, Colombe Foundation, CS Fund, Equation Campaign, Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and others get more information about the emerging legislative threats these new bills pose to social justice movements. Speakers include: Jamecia Gray (Manager of Political Partnerships, The Movement for Black Lives), Francesca Menes (Board Chair, The Black Collective – Florida), Elly Page (Senior Legal Advisor, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law). Register here.
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Friday, February 19th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday—Solidaire Member Organizing Team Reflections on 2020 & Priorities for 2021
The Solidaire Member organizing team will provide reflections on our work in 2020 and ask for feedback on priorities for 2021! We want to talk nuts and bolts and explore how to weave love into our work for the year. Come be our valentines and explore how we can be of better service to you, movements, and the mandates of justice—and how do we do our work with loving-kindness? Come ready to dream with us; we promise it’ll be worth your time. Join the Zoom here. Passcode: 93323
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Wednesday, February 24th from 10 – 11:30 am PT / 1 – 2:30 pm ET: Black Feminist Future Donor Briefing
2020 was impossible, unimaginable, and devastating. We also witnessed the largest social movement in defense of Black lives forefronted by Black feminist leaders; mutual aid networks supporting people and communities better than the government; and creativity, care work, pods, and more that have sustained us. Black feminist leaders, organizations, and movements were core to our collective survival in 2020, and will be central to our recovery and transformation moving forward. We invite you to join Black Feminist Future, PAWHR, and Solidaire for a Funder Briefing to share the impact of Black Feminist Future’s work, our infrastructure building, and our exciting vision and plan for 2021 and beyond. Register here.
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Wednesday, February 24th from 12 – 1:30 pm PT / 3 – 4:30 pm ET: Living Into the Work Series Launch: Family Organizing with Beth Jacobs, Sam Jacobs & Amy Mandel
Join the launch of our new Living Into The Work series where we will take up conversations about family organizing: What kinds of work are connected to how we organize our families? What are the hard and important lessons we’ve learned along the way? What are the giving vehicles used by our families, and how do we organize within and around family foundations? Lastly, how can we support each other in the places we feel a little stuck? We will be led by Solidaire members Beth Jacobs, Sam Jacobs, and Amy Mandel who will kick us off by sharing their stories about their learnings and lessons in family organizing and family foundation work. We’ll close by creating space for conversation in small groups to talk about how we can find support and community in the work we’re doing within our families. Join the Zoom here.
MARCH
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Wednesday, March 3rd from 1 – 11:30 am PT / 1 – 2:30 pm ET: Who is the Far Right, How Do They Operate, & What Can Funders Do to Help Destabilize Them
- We know the far right has been engaged in deep political organizing long before the siege of the US Capitol building in early January. We also know that this dangerous and steady organizing ensures that they will not simply dissipate with the end of the Trump administration. As this threat is substantial, Solidaire has worked to create a learning series that deepens our collective understanding of the growing threat of far-right organizing and exploring concrete ways we can disrupt this real and present danger. For our first session, we invite you to Join Solidaire and Political Research Associates (PRA) for a deep dive into the far right – how it’s configured, how it’s entangled within the state, and what are its common misconceptions. We will conclude with a discussion on strategies for countering the far right, and the role funders can play in supporting movements contesting the right over the long haul. This panel will be moderated by our beloved Rajasvini Bhansali and will feature: Tarso Luis Ramos of PRA, Loretta Ross, movement thinker at Smith College, and Scott Nakagawa from ChangeLab. Register here.
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Friday, March 5th at 10 am PT / 1 pm: Beloved Friday
Hold on tight as Beloved Friday is going to be AWESOME! Our very own Solidiare Movement Partnerships team will join us! Come meet Solidaire staff Ada Smith, Jakki Behan, Janis Rosheuvel, Jesenia Santana & Leigh Gaymon-Jones. These incredible folks hold down strong relationships with our movement partners and our grant-making vehicles. Come explore who they are, what excites them in the work, and build community together! How lucky we are to have such rooted, smart, and kind staff to support Solidaire, all of us, and movements for justice. Join the Zoom here. Passcode: 93323. For more information contact Malachi Garza at [email protected]org
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Tuesday, March 9th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Climate Justice Working Group Call
- Join us for the first in a series of calls reflecting on how members are building alignment with movements for climate justice in their own wealth work. In this series, we will talk about strategies like fossil fuel divestment as a way to accompany movement, what this concept means to those in our community, and the personal and transformative journeys of Solidaire members engaged in this work. Our first call will feature our very own Regan Pritzker, who will share lessons she has learned along the way on her path to building deeper alignment with frontline movements for social justice. Join the Zoom here.
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Wednesday, March 10th from 10 – 11:30 am PT / 1 – 2:30 pm ET: Rural Organizing—A Strategic Imperative for the Left
Join us to hear from rural organizers who are building community power for the long term, to advance an alternative vision for rural America rooted in social, economic, and racial justice. Rural America holds a unique place in our country’s identity. It’s often romanticized as hardworking and picturesque, yet simultaneously bears the brunt of extractive environmental harm and degradation, economic globalization that limits local power, with millions dependent on government assistance. Many that live in small towns and rural areas are only engaged by the Far Right’s strategy to sow division and create false enemies to blame for material hardships. The Left has a strategic imperative to identify and invest in progressive rural organizing, and not cede rural spaces to the trappings of the Far Right agenda rooted in white supremacist ideology. Rural communities have a clear stake in the just future left social movements are building, yet warrant deeper attention and funding. This call will be hosted by Ada Smith, Movement Partnerships & Grantmaker Practitioner at Solidaire and will feature speakers from West Virginia Can’t Wait, Firelands in WA, and Black Belt Citizen Coalition in AL. Please review the report All the People, All the Places as pre-reading before our call! Register for the Zoom here.
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Tuesday, March 16th from 10 – 11:30 am PT / 1- 2:30 pm ET: Indigenous Sovereignty Working Group Call—Solidaire Strategy for #StopLine3
Gather with the Indigenous Sovereignty Working Group for a strategy call on ways our network can show up to deepen our support for Indigenous water protectors fighting the huge Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline project in Northern Minnesota. We will hear from Solidiare members who have been funding as well as developing aligned organizing approaches to support frontline Indigenous organizers and discussing how we can continue to flank this powerful and significant movement. Join this Zoom call here.
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Friday, March 19th at 10 am PT /1 pm ET: Beloved Friday!
Beloved Friday is coming up this week! This Friday we will take time to get to know fellow Solidaire members and take time to reflect on lessons from the Understanding the Right Education Series. We will be discussing both the Who is the Far Right, How Do They Operate, & What Can Funders Do To Help Destabilize Them session as well as the Rural Organizing: A Strategic Imperative for the Left session. (Shout out to Solidaire staff Chris Wescott for bringing these ideas to life.) Scott Nakagawa from ChangeLab and Ada Smith, Movement Partnerships & Grantmaker Practitioner at Solidaire, will join us to share their perspectives and fellowship with us in the discussion. Join the Zoom here. Passcode: 93323
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Saturday, March 2oth and Sunday, March 21st: Film Festival—Building Movements in Defense of Life
Check out “Building Movements in Defense of Life,” a free bilingual film festival featuring true stories of resistance to industrial capitalism, followed by live discussions with the films’ protagonists. Three films will be screened followed by panel discussions: “L’Eau Est la Vie: From Standing Rock to the Swamp,” “Invasion,” and the world premiere of “La Luch Sigue.” See trailers for each film and the full schedule here. This festival is coordinated by Mutual Aid Media and Solidaire member Sam Vinal and will culminate in a final panel with Women Warriors on Sunday. Click here for more information about this free festival.
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Monday, March 22nd from 8 – 9 am PT / 11 – 12 pm ET: Solidaire Southern Hub Call
Shannon Gaggero and Heatherly Born will be co-facilitating the next call in which Southern Solidiare members will continue deepening relationships and strategizing how to more fully show up in support of Southern-led organizing work. Join the Zoom here.
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Wednesday, March 24th from 12 noon – 1:30 pm PT / 3 – 4:30 pm ET: Living Into the Work series: How Much is Enough?
We are excited to invite you to our next Living Into The Work gathering. On this call, we will take up the big question that all Solidaire members consider of “How Much [Giving] Is Enough?” Solidaire members Louise Davis, Becky Liebman, Ben Griesinger, and Margot Siegle will reflect on how they orient towards this significant question in their own giving work. Collectively we will consider: What does it mean to reflect on disparity as a person with relative means? What tools, frameworks, and life-considerations inform how we respond to this question? What can we learn from each other in discussing publicly a question that we may have been socialized to keep private about? And how can we support each other in the places we each feel a little stuck? Join the Zoom call here.
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Tuesday, March 30th at 8:30 am PT/11:30 am ET: Downtown Crenshaw Rising – Special Solidaire Briefing
Downtown Crenshaw Rising project and Solidaire are proud to bring the Solidaire community a special briefing on what is going on in this critical and fast-moving project! Many Solidaire members have been asking for an update on this unprecedented integrated capital rapid response request. The scale and impact of this request for a combination of both philanthropic and investment dollars is the first of this kind in integrated capital projects. Solidaire members’ nimbleness, deep commitment to racial justice, and readiness to invest with a reparative lens allowed for us to move quickly when called to action. The project has now raised $28m, the highest bid for Crenshaw Mall, but the seller, Deutsche Bank, has still turned down the bid. There is no rational reason given for the rejection. It is outrageous that even when the community’s effort to buy the mall back for community ownership raises the highest amount of funding, it is still being rejected. The media is starting to pick up on the racist redlining of this response. The project is asking for Solidaire’s help to amplify this message. Come hear directly from Downtown Crenshaw Rising organizers about next steps, including: Niki Okuk, Downtown Crenshaw Rising Board Chair; Damien Goodmon, Downtown Crenshaw Rising Board Member; Daniel Fireside, Downtown Crenshaw Rising Fundraising Coordinator. The window of time to turn this dream into a reality is small, so we invite all interested to attend. Solidaire members may invite additional direct contacts to the briefing. Click here to register for this event.
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Tuesday, March 30th at 1 pm PT / 4 pm ET: NYC 2021 Primaries—Key Opportunities for Immigrant, Black and Brown Communities to Build Power
Movement Voter Project (MVP) and Solidaire invite you to join this conversation about the strategic importance of NYC’s 2021 elections—and how grassroots organizations are advancing a broader progressive agenda through electoral organizing in the upcoming election. Together, we’ll zoom out to examine what’s at stake more broadly in 2021, and hear how leading NYC progressive organizations are building together towards the upcoming election. This event will be hosted and moderated by Solidaire members Jane Lerner and Daniel Altschuler. Speakers include: Afua Atta-Mensah, Community Voices Heard Power; Theo Oshiro, Make the Road Action; Sochie Nnaemeka, Working Families Party. Register for this call here.
APRIL
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Friday, April 2nd at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday
Will be co-facilitated by Solidaire member Deborah Sagner and Malachi Garza! We will deepen our connections by getting to know each other’s stories more deeply. We will spend time in small groups everyone having the opportunity to share or to mainly listen. We will chew on two main questions: 1- Who or what experiences affected you that pointed you in the direction of liberation? 2- What “gets in the way” in your journey to change the world or in your journey to be changed by it? What does Solidaire embody that helps you along your journey to do that work? Join the Zoom here. PW: 933230
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Thursday, April 15th from 10 – 12 noon PT / 1 – 3 pm ET: Taxation, Wealth Inequality & Philanthropic Collusion
The 664 richest Americans now hold assets worth a total of $4.2 trillion, up 44% since COVID shutdowns began in March 2020. At the same time, over 500,000 (and counting) people have died, 30 million ordinary people fell ill without adequate health care access, and over 80 million people lost employment and access to a decent livelihood. While public infrastructure remains deliberately undermined to serve the country’s most vulnerable, private philanthropy attempts to fill the gaps, often reluctantly. Philanthropy, as we know it today, is a consequence of market-based public policy in favor of the ultra rich. The subsidies for charitable contributions entrenched in our tax code costs Americans at least $50 bn in foregone federal tax revenue. This is tax revenue that could have been invested in public infrastructure – things like vaccines, public health, public schools, and more. Join this teach-in bringing together leaders who have spent a lifetime fighting wealth inequality and philanthropic collusion to consider what we can do as donors and philanthropists to counteract philanthropy’s complicity with wealth accumulation and tax evasion – and instead contribute to genuine wealth redistribution. This event will be moderated by Rajasvini Bhansali, Executive Director of Solidaire—with an excellent lineup of speakers including: Ai Jen Poo, National Domestic Workers Alliance; Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies; Lauren Jacobs, Partnership for Working Families; Leah Hunt-Hendrix, founder of Way to Win and Solidaire. Register for the event here.
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Friday, April 16th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday
We will be lead by Solidaire members Issac Lev, Mike Gast, Alethia Jones, Jennifer Hu Corriggio, and Chris Westcott. They will engage us in a report back and discussion arising from a recent training series for Solidaire members focused on racialized capitalism and hosted by the Grassroots Policy Project. Join the Zoom here. PW: 933230
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Wednesday, April 21st from 10 – 11:30 am PT / 1 – 2:30 pm ET: M4BL Virtual Donor Convening
You are invited to join the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) donor convening. Together, we’ll hear updates from M4BL’s leadership about how your collective support has helped to grow M4BL’s ecosystem, spark new campaigns and build M4BL’s infrastructure. We are excited to continue creating the space for you to organize each other and build the donor movements you’ve started. We are already becoming the community of donors that builds the legacy of support that M4BL has been dreaming of. A few of the updates we are excited to share with you on April 21st include M4BL’s infrastructure + operational growth, Red Black & Green New Deal, Electoral Justice League, the Breathe Act. What questions do you have for us/ M4BL? Tell us your questions to help us shape the agenda for the call, and continue to guide our work going forward. Register here to confirm your participation.
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Wednesday, April 21st from 10 – 11 am PT/ 1 – 2 pm ET: Solidaire Institutional Member Meeting
Since our first institutional member gathering on April 1, 2020, we are thrilled to have welcomed a dozen new institutional members to Solidaire. We’d like to invite you to a casual get-together to re-introduce yourselves to each other, and invite you into collegial conversation as a follow-up to last year’s conversation regarding philanthropic pivots in crisis times. The intent of the meeting is twofold: 1) to give everyone a chance to check in, meet new members, and learn what brings each of you to the network; and 2) an opportunity to share and serve as a sounding board regarding changes your institution has grappled with in the past year of crises. How have these pivots looked for you now that the crises are extended and overlapping? Please register for the meeting here.
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Tuesday, April 27th from 2 – 3 pm PT / 5-6 pm ET: Southern Hub Meeting
Join members of the Solidaire Southern Hub for a conversation centered on building our connections with each other. This next call will be co-facilitated by Heatherly Born and Amelie Ratliff. Join the Zoom meeting with this link.
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Wednesday, April 28th from 12 – 1:30 pm PT / 3 – 4:30 pm ET: Living into the Work—Locating Spiritualities in the Work of Racial Justice & Wealth Redistribution
Join Solidaire members Becky Silverstein, Michael Poffenberger, and Betsey St. Onge for a conversation on how various spiritual practices–religious, secular–help us find our grounding in our work with movements for racial justice and wealth redistribution. This will be a non-denominational conversation open to believers, non-believers, atheists, skeptics and everyone in between. Becky, Michael, and Betsey will talk us through some of the tools, resources, and sources of inspiration they have been drawing from differing spiritual traditions (both in and outside formal religion) to help anchor our work in resource redistribution, racial justice, and collective liberation. Come with your questions, your heart offerings, your grief, whatever else you are carrying in these times. Join the Zoom meeting here.
The Solidaire office will be closed! No Beloved Friday! (Big love and we will see you in May.
MAY
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Friday, May 14th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday
We will explore updates from Solidaire’s Working Groups. Ever wondered what our Climate Justice, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Decarceration Working Groups are up to? Thinking about joining? Wanna see your hard work shared with our membership? Either way, come join us and get up to speed on this incredible work! Join the Zoom here. PW: 933230
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Wednesday, May 19th, 1 – 2:30 pm ET: Palestine and the Progressive Left Study Group – Session 3
Topics covered include: bringing Palestinian rights into the broader progressive agenda, obstacles to doing so, PEP as a tool of the right, PEP’s impact on the left. Case study: the fight over the M4BL platform and aftermath.
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Friday, May 21st from 12 – 1 pm PT / 3 – 4 pm ET: Asian-American Organizing Briefing
Join us for a call featuring five powerful speakers from visionary Asian American front-line organizing groups. We will learn about challenges and opportunities in AAPI organizing in a time of heightened anti-Asian violence, how supporting AAPI organizing leads to collective liberation, and what these organizers’ visions of liberation look like. Hosted by Solidaire Network. Co-Sponsored by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy and Donors of Color Network. Register here.
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Friday, May 28th at 10 am PT / 1 pm ET: Beloved Friday
We will get to know Solidaire’s Ops & Finance Team. What a blessed community we are that we have incredible, smart, and diligent staff that hold down our operations & finance. As an organization, we value our behind-the-scenes work and staff just as much as anyone else in our powerful community. Come meet and get to know our staff and celebrate their significant work in holding steady our growing and dynamic organization. Join the Zoom here. PW: 933230
JUNE
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Tuesday, June 1st, 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Uplifting Birth Justice: Investing in Birth Centers & Positive Outcomes, Session 1
You are invited to join this free, three-part Birth Justice webinar series Solidaire is co-sponsoring with our colleagues at Women Donors Network (and many others!). This series will cover what the birth justice movement is, how it connects to the reproductive justice movement, and what it means to invest in it with an anti-racist, feminist lens. Session 1 will focus on – “Why is birth justice important for individuals and communities?” Our panel of speakers will discuss birth centers (with a focus on BIPOC-led birth centers), direct services, and how these services are funded through community-controlled capital. Speakers: Amanda Coslor, WDN member; Nashira Baril, co-founder of Birth Center Equity; Leseliey Welch, co-director of Birth Center Equity; Taj James, partner of Full Spectrum Capital Partners. Register for the event here.
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Friday, June 4th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Friday: Palestinian Solidarity with Grassroots International, Hosted by Sam Vinal
Please join us for our next Beloved Friday call, where we will gather to learn more about the ongoing struggle for Palestinian liberation as well as what’s been unfolding in Gaza, Sheikh Jarrah, and throughout occupied Palestine. We will discuss how our community has flanked Palestinian solidarity efforts alongside Grassroots International and will be joined by Executive Director Chung-Wha Hong and Solidarity Program Officer for the Middle East Ayman Nijim of GRI. Our call will be hosted by our very own Sam Vinal with reflections from Solidaire member Deborah Sagner on our network’s recently concluded Palestine reading group and its potential organizing directions. Join us on Zoom here.
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Wednesday, June 9th from 12:30 – 2 pm PT / 3:30 – 5 pm ET: Funders’ Briefing “No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: Guam and the Indigenous Struggle to End U.S. Empire”
The Indigenous Sovereignty and Climate Justice Working Groups invite you to join us for an important funders’ briefing, the first of its kind, on the Indigenous-led movement for the demilitarization and decolonization of Guam. This call is also the first in a series of Solidaire conversations on anti-imperial struggles in U.S. occupied territories and/or colonies. On June 9, we will be in conversation with Julian Aguon, Indigenous activist from the island of Guam and author of The Properties of Perpetual Light, and Monaeka Flores of the Indigenous direct action organization Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian, which is fighting the militarism of Guam through organizing against the expansion of a U.S. military base that threatens life on the island. Nick Estes, citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group Red Nation, will introduce our speakers, and Solidaire member Tom Kruse, director for the global challenges portion of the Democratic Practice program of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, will moderate the conversation. Register for the event here.
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Friday, June 11th, 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays – Conversation on Reparations
This Beloved Friday will feature special guests sharing about reparations work they are undertaking. More details TBA. Join us via this Zoom link. Passcode: 933230
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Wednesday, June 16th, 10 – 11:30 am/1 – 2:30 pm ET: Movement Aligned Investing Workshop
Solidaire members have long been experimenting with integrated capital approaches within our network including: sharing of values-aligned advisors on the list-serv, divestment campaigns against fossil fuels and the prison industrial complex, alignment of foundation endowments to mission, and using a reparations framework in supporting community-governed real estate projects with both grants and loans support. We understand that each member’s investment and grants situation is unique.
Are you curious to learn more about different ways to move capital in alignment with movement?
Join the Center for Economic Democracy for an interactive workshop. Participants will have an opportunity to reflect on how their existing investments fit into a “movement alignment map” and to discuss challenges and opportunities to align investment practices with social justice values. Please register for the workshop at this link. This event is for Solidaire members only; all conversations will be held confidential.
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Wednesday, June 16th, 11 am – 12 pm PT / 2 – 3 pm ET: Uplifting Birth Justice: Our Bodies Our Futures – Organizing for Birth Justice, Session 2
You are invited to join this free, three-part Birth Justice webinar series Solidaire is co-sponsoring with our colleagues at Women Donors Network (and many others!). This series will cover what the birth justice movement is, how it connects to the reproductive justice movement, and what it means to invest in it with an anti-racist, feminist lens. Session 2 will focus on – how grassroots organizing has advanced the birth justice movement by creating innovative direct service models and changing entrenched policy, bringing more healthy outcomes for mothers and parents. Speakers: Indra Lusero, founder & director of Elephant Circle; Jamarah Amani, executive director of Southern Birth Justice Network, co-founder of National Black Midwives Alliance; Sheena Johnson, senior director of grantmaking of Groundswell Fund; Naa Hammond, senior program officer of Groundswell Fund; Amanda Coslor, WDN member. Register for the event here.
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Monday, June 21st from 9 – 10:30 am PT / 12 – 1:30 pm ET: New England Hub Meeting
Join members of the Solidaire New England Hub for a conversation centered on building our connections with each other. This next call will be co-facilitated by members Jom Michel and Greg Jobin-Leeds, and will focus on supporting the housing justice movement and other organizing work members are connected to in the New England region. Join the Zoom meeting through this link.
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Thursday, June 24th from 10 am – 12 pm PT / 1 – 3 pm ET: Building Movement-Aligned Campaigns for Dismantling Wall Street Power – Part 1: A Joint Workshop Between ACRE and Solidaire
We invite you to register for a two-part workshop co-hosted by the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and Solidaire. In these workshops, we will develop a deeper understanding of how corporate campaigns and capital strategies can effectively confront racial capitalism and how individual and institutional donors can support movement calls for corporate accountability and action. Our first session will be an organizing skillbuilding session on various ways donors can show up to flank movements. Our second session will focus on ways Solidaire members can get involved in current campaigns to dismantle Wall Street power alongside ACRE. Register here.
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Friday, June 25th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays – Lessons Learned from the Black Liberation Pooled Fund (BLPF)
Join Beloved Friday this week for a share-back on lessons learned from the Black Liberation Pooled Fund’s first grant review cycle. We’ll be joined by Janis Rosheuvel and Leigh Gaymon-Jones from Solidaire’s Movement Partnerships team to share insights from their black liberation work. Join us via this Zoom link. Passcode: 933230
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Tuesday, June 29th from 6:00 – 7:30 am PT / 9:00 – 10:30 am ET: Global Solidarity Series – Palestine
Join Solidaire, Funders for Justice, Resource Generation, MVP and others for this Global Solidarity Series – organized by the M4BL funders table. Across the globe, we are seeing a rise of state repression, police violence, and fascist leadership deepening the inequities facing Black, Indigenous, oppressed caste, religious minority, and poor communities. We are organizing a series of conversations for funders on what is required to be in solidarity with historically marginalized communities and social movements in Brazil, Colombia, Palestine, India, and Burma/Myanmar. As we watch the state enact violence and criminalize dissent through police raids, targeting of activists, the expulsion of thousands of families from their homes, and dangerous neglectful and criminal response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are clear – our struggles are global and connected. — Learn more about Session 1 titled, ‘From the River to the Sea, shifting the funding landscape on Palestine’ here. Register for the series here.
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Wednesday, June 30th from 10 – 11:15 am PT / 1 – 2:15 pm ET: Global Solidarity Series – Colombia & Brazil
Join Solidaire, Funders for Justice, Resource Generation, MVP and others for this Global Solidarity Series – organized by the M4BL funders table. Across the globe, we are seeing a rise of state repression, police violence, and fascist leadership deepening the inequities facing Black, Indigenous, oppressed caste, religious minority, and poor communities. We are organizing a series of conversations for funders on what is required to be in solidarity with historically marginalized communities and social movements in Brazil, Colombia, Palestine, India, and Burma/Myanmar. As we watch the state enact violence and criminalize dissent through police raids, targeting of activists, the expulsion of thousands of families from their homes, and dangerous neglectful and criminal response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are clear – our struggles are global and connected. — Learn more about Session 2 titled, ‘Anti-Blackness, Authoritarian Rule, and State Violence in Colombia and Brazil’ here. Register for the series here.
JULY
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Thursday, July 8th from 10 am – 12 pm PT / 1 – 3 pm ET: Building Movement-Aligned Campaigns for Dismantling Wall Street Power – Part 2: A Joint Workshop Between ACRE and Solidaire
We invite you to register for a two-part workshop co-hosted by the Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and Solidaire. In these workshops, we will develop a deeper understanding of how corporate campaigns and capital strategies can effectively confront racial capitalism and how individual and institutional donors can support movement calls for corporate accountability and action. Our first session will be an organizing skillbuilding session on various ways donors can show up to flank movements. Our second session will focus on ways Solidaire members can get involved in current campaigns to dismantle Wall Street power alongside ACRE. Register here.
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Friday, July 9th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays – The Backlash Against Critical Race Theory (CRT) with Special Guest Kimberle Crenshaw
Solidaire and the Donors of Color Network are coming together for this event to push back against the right-wing obsession and attack on Critical Race Theory (CRT). The session will feature a very special guest Kimberle Crenshaw – a leading scholar and activist whose work on intersectionality has been luminary. The event will be moderated by Alvin Starks from Open Society Foundations (OSF). More details coming soon, but this is one you won’t want to miss! Register for the event here.
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Wednesday, July 14th from 6 – 7:30 am PT / 9 – 10:30 am ET: Global Solidarity Series – Burma/Myanmar
Join Solidaire, Funders for Justice, Resource Generation, MVP and others for this Global Solidarity Series – organized by the M4BL funders table. Across the globe, we are seeing a rise of state repression, police violence, and fascist leadership deepening the inequities facing Black, Indigenous, oppressed caste, religious minority, and poor communities. We are organizing a series of conversations for funders on what is required to be in solidarity with historically marginalized communities and social movements in Brazil, Colombia, Palestine, India, and Burma/Myanmar. As we watch the state enact violence and criminalize dissent through police raids, targeting of activists, the expulsion of thousands of families from their homes, and dangerous neglectful and criminal response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are clear – our struggles are global and connected. — Learn More about Session 3 titled, ‘Authoritarianism in Burma/Myanmar’ here. Register for the series here.
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Wednesday, July 14th from 10 – 11:15 am PT / 1 – 2:15 pm ET: Uplifting Birth Justice: From Silos to Synergy – Funding Maternal and Newborn Health, Justice, and Equity, Session 3
You are invited to join this free, three-part Birth Justice webinar series Solidaire is co-sponsoring with our colleagues at Women Donors Network (and many others!). This series will cover what the birth justice movement is, how it connects to the reproductive justice movement, and what it means to invest in it with an anti-racist, feminist lens. Session 3 will focus on the politics of the birth justice funding ecosystem. Our panel of speakers will highlight trends, gaps, and key recommendations for shaping the future of maternal and newborn health, justice, and equity. Speakers: Susannah Canfield Hurd, vice president of Global Health Visions; Kay Sandberg, executive director & founder of Global Force for Healing; Kelly Davis, chief equity officer of National Birth Equity Collaborative; Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, MD, founder & president of National Birth Equity Collaborative. Register for the event here.
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Monday, July 19th from 9 – 10:30 am PT / 12 – 1:30 pm ET: Climate Justice Working Group Call
Join us for a call with the Regenerative Economies Organizing Collaborative (REO Collaborative) to learn more about strategies and opportunities for organizing philanthropy to fund climate justice work. We will talk about REO Collaborative’s work as well as how movement funders organized the Bezos Earth Fund to support grassroots organizing rather than moving money to the usual Big Greens! Join the Zoom meeting through this link.
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Wednesday, July 21st from 7 – 8:30 am PT / 10 – 11:30 am ET: Global Solidarity Series – India
Join Solidaire, Funders for Justice, Resource Generation, MVP and others for this Global Solidarity Series – organized by the M4BL funders table. Across the globe, we are seeing a rise of state repression, police violence, and fascist leadership deepening the inequities facing Black, Indigenous, oppressed caste, religious minority, and poor communities. We are organizing a series of conversations for funders on what is required to be in solidarity with historically marginalized communities and social movements in Brazil, Colombia, Palestine, India, and Burma/Myanmar. As we watch the state enact violence and criminalize dissent through police raids, targeting of activists, the expulsion of thousands of families from their homes, and dangerous neglectful and criminal response to the COVID-19 Pandemic, we are clear – our struggles are global and connected. — Learn More about Session 4 titled, ‘Frontlines of Resistance to Authoritarianism, Caste Supremacy, and Islamophobia in India’ here. Register for the series here.
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Wednesday, July 28th from 1 – 2:30 pm PT / 4 – 5:30 pm ET: Solidaire New Member Orientation Part 1
2021 has been a year of growth in Solidaire, with lots of new members joining the network. To welcome our new members – and invite them into deeper relationship with Solidaire staff and other members (new and old), we’re hosting a two-part orientation series. The series is designed specifically for new members of Solidaire, or older members looking to be refreshed on the who, what, why, and how of the Solidaire Network. Both sessions will be hosted by our Organizing Director Malachi Garza and board member Sam Vinal. Session 1 will feature Solidaire’s Executive Director Rajasvini Bhansali who will invite us all to do some storytelling to get to know each other better – and share more about Solidaire’s vision for organizing philanthropy and how we can build towards it together. Register for the session here.
AUGUST
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Tuesday, August 3rd from 10 – 11:30 am PT / 1 – 2:30 pm ET: Solidaire New Member Orientation Part 2
2021 has been a year of growth in Solidaire, with lots of new members joining the network. To welcome our new members – and invite them into deeper relationship with Solidaire staff and other members (new and old), we’re hosting a two-part orientation series. The series is designed specifically for new members of Solidaire, or older members looking to be refreshed on the who, what, why, and how of the Solidaire Network. Both sessions will be hosted by our Organizing Director Malachi Garza and board member Sam Vinal. Session 2 will feature Solidaire staff from the Donor Organizing & Movement Partnerships team to share more about Solidaire’s approach to donor organizing and political education and how you can get involved, as well as an overview of our giving vehicles and how they are designed. All new members will be invited to connect one-on-one with other Solidaire members following the call! Register for the session here.
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Friday, August 6th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays – Update from the Movement Infrastructure Fund (MIF)
This Beloved Friday we’ll be inviting Ada Smith from the Movement Partnerships Team to talk about lessons learned from the Movement Infrastructure Fund’s first round of grantmaking. We recently awarded $7,340,000 to 55 groups as part of the MIF inaugural cohort. From electoral strategies to affordable housing, from legal support to digital security, the grantees selected represent vital back-end services, networks and alliances, as well as political homes —all essential infrastructure for social movements to sustain and grow. This fund is tied directly to Solidaire membership dues, so come learn more about how your dues are being put towards long-term movement infrastructure. Join us via this Zoom link. Passcode: 933230
SEPTEMBER
- Friday, September 3rd from 10 am – 12 pm PT / 1 – 3 pm ET: Getting Free from a Legacy of Silence: The Boarding Schools, Then and Now
Earlier this spring, many of us were shaken, though not surprised, by the devastating unearthing of Indigenous children at former boarding school sites across Turtle Island. These school sites, around which there has been much silence from non-Indigenous communities, hold many stories of settler violence, some of which are coming to light as more children are recovered. As some of us begin to confront the legacies and ongoing traumas of settler history, we must also do internal spiritual work to heal from the many ways settler colonialism impacts all of us. Towards this work, Gathering Power invites members of Solidaire to join a conversation with Phil and Harold Gatensby, sibling survivors of Canadian boarding schools, for “Getting Free from a Legacy of Silence: The Boarding Schools, Then and Now,” an offering facilitated by Sayra Pinto. This gathering aims to bring us into deeper community and to shape our ongoing giving and change work. This will be an interactive session that asks members to show up for the full session with presence. Registrants will be sent pre-reading and materials to prepare in advance. Please register in advance via this link.
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Monday, September 13th from 9 – 10:30 am PT / 12 – 1:30 pm ET: Northeast Hub Meeting
Join members of the Solidaire Northeast Hub for a conversation centered on building our connections with each other. This next call will be co-facilitated by members Greg Jobin-Leeds and Ian Brownell, and will focus on mapping our connections to allied networks and organizing alongside current campaigns for a wealth tax. Join the Zoom here.
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Friday, September 17th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays with Shiree Teng
Lovely people, this week for Beloved Friday we will be joined by the one and only Shiree Teng. We will discuss her powerful work Measuring Love! Here is an excerpt from this report:
Love is the most powerful force in the universe if we understand and learn to wield it. To authentically love yourself and others around you: that is the sign of the true revolutionary in a society that teaches us to hate ourselves; where we are bombarded with pain and shame, stripping us of our power and traumatizing us; and where, as a result, we carry this baggage into every relationship, perpetuating further injustice. In this Brown Paper, we call upon love as an antidote to injustice. We call for a catalytic, decolonizing, transformative love. We shine a light on the love that is practiced by communities like Fathers and Families of San Joaquin. We break open what we mean by self love; love for, with, and of others; love that is a community practice; and power fused with love. We discuss why it matters; where “we” are in the journey from the current state of this practice to where we want to (and need to) go; and how we believe we will get there. Finally, we discuss how we “measure” transformative love, or rather, how we can know it when we see it and how we can document its power for change.
Check out this paper and come inspired and ready to explore love in action together. We are honored to have Shiree join us. Join us via this Zoom link. Passcode: 933230
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Wednesday, September 22nd from 12 – 1 pm PT / 3 – 4 pm ET: Decarceration Working Group – Education and Influence Committee Meeting
We will be meeting with the good folks from FORM. This group consists of Solidaire members, Resource Generation members, and other individuals who are doing multi-generational family organizing around supporting M4BL. This work has brought them into deep struggle with family and friends around DeFund. We will be discussing how this work has gone for them (diving into concrete lessons), key places of struggle and success, and pick their brains around how a tool such as a primer like ours could be helpful in their work. Join the Zoom meeting through this link.
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Thursday, September 30th from 10 – 2:30 pm PT/ 1 – 5:30 pm ET: 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat – Day 1
The 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat is set for Thursday, September 30 — Saturday, October 2, 2021. See the full agenda here! Register to get the Zoom link here.
OCTOBER
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Friday, October 1st from 10 am – 2:30 pm PT/ 1 – 5:30 pm ET: 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat – Day 2
The 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat is set for Thursday, September 30 — Saturday, October 2, 2021. See the full agenda here! Register to get the Zoom link here.
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Saturday, October 2nd from 10 am – 4:30 pm PT/ 1 – 7:30 pm ET: 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat – Day 3
The 2021 Solidaire Member Retreat is set for Thursday, September 30 — Saturday, October 2, 2021. See the full agenda here! Register to get the Zoom link here.
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Thursday, October 7th at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET: Expanding Public Safety & Transforming Policing in Minneapolis—A Funder Briefing on with Yes 4 MPLS
Join us for a virtual briefing with Solidaire Grantee YES 4 MPLS to hear updates on the fight to win Ballot Measure #2 and expand public safety in Minneapolis. For the past 16 months, YES 4 MPLS—a Black-led, multiracial campaign of community organizations, labor unions, individuals, and small businesses—has organized to get Ballot Measure #2 in front of voters and keep change on the ballot in Minneapolis. With voting day one month away, voters will choose either to open the door to the most significant change between a major metropolitan area and its police department in the nation or give into politics of fear and coercion. What happens in Minneapolis will shape the national political debate about crime, policing, and public safety heading into the 2022 Midterms. Join us to discuss what it’s going to take to win, how you can help, and what YES 4 MPLS has learned about responding to backlash and telling a bigger story about public safety. Register here.
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Monday, October 11th at 9 am PT/ 12 pm ET: EDGE Funders Alliance Annual Conference
As part of the JASS’ Women Transforming a World in Crisis Dialogue Series, we will join hands with visionary women leaders (from the Collective Futures Fund, Black Feminist Fund, Solidaire Network, the Global Fund for Women, and EDGE Funders Alliance) to share lessons and insights from varied movement and philanthropic perspectives on resourcing more broadly and funding more specifically as a mechanism for strategically addressing and reforming the inherent and cyclical imbalances of power that hinder real change. Register for the conference here.
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Wednesday, October 13th from 10 – 11 am PT / 1 – 2 pm ET: Southern Hub Meeting
Join members of the Solidaire Southern Hub for a conversation centered on building our connections with each other and resourcing Southern movements. This next call will be co-facilitated by Amy Mandel and Ada Smith, and we will be talking about how to continue to support the Southern Power Fund and planning a future call with organizers from Black AVL Demands. Join the Zoom here.
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Friday, October 15th from 7 – 11 am PT / 10 am – 2 pm ET: Feminist Organizing Framework for Funders
Building on the inspiring success of the International Feminist Organizing School and the Feminist Organizing School for Funders last year and this year, we are happy to offer a mini-training that provides a glimpse into the latest Feminist Organizing School training. Curriculum and trainers are from Grassroots Global Justice, Grassroots Policy Project, World March of Women, Indigenous Environmental Network. The 4-hour mini-training is part of the EDGE Funders Conference and will focus on: 1) Grassroots Feminist Systems Analysis led by Sha Grogan-Brown of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance and María Poblet of Grassroots Policy Project & 2) Feminist Economy Framework led by Cindy Wiesner and Sandra Morán of GGJ and the World March of Women. The fee to attend is $100. Register for this workshop here.
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Tuesday, October 19th from 11 am – 1 pm PT/ 2 -4 pm ET: From Rapid Response to Movement Infrastructure
Join Equality Labs, Funders for Justice, MVP, Solidaire, and others for a closed-door funder briefing to hear firsthand from frontline experts on how we can build digital resilience and invest in thriving movement infrastructures. This briefing will: 1) engage funders in political education about rising far-right attacks on communities and movement organizations as local elections and midterm elections draw near 2) discuss funding needed in order for movements to build long-term safety and security infrastructure and transition out of constant rapid response mode, and 3) discuss next steps to move money to Equality Labs and other movement organizations. Register for the event here.
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Tuesday, October 19th from 2 pm – 3:30 PT/ 5 pm -6:30 pm ET: Funding Black Immigrant Rights
Join Solidaire Network and leaders in the movement for Black immigrant rights to discuss how to support Haitian asylum seekers at the border and how we can fund a robust and inclusive Black immigrant rights movement. Solidaire’s own Janis Rosheuvel, who has been in the fight for Black immigrant rights for two decades, will facilitate the discussion with leaders from African Communities Together, Freedom to Thrive, and UndocuBlack Network. Funding immigrant rights is crucial to Black liberation AND Black migrants must be centered in the movement for immigrant rights! Register for the event here.
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Thursday October 21, 2021 10:00 – 11:30 am PT / 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM EST: Southern Power Fund – Funders Briefing
Join Southern Power Fund for a Funders Briefing to hear about the work of SPF over the past 18 months, as well as plans for the next chapter of this critical work. The next phase of the work is designed to move money and resources to Southern frontlines in a way that intervenes during crises, fortifies existing efforts, and grows new alternative structures to build the world we all deserve. Register for the event here.
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Wednesday, October 27th. 9am PT / 12pm ET: Safety, Security, and Infrastructure Debrief
Solidaire launched the Movement Protection Fund as a temporary strategy to answer the call we received from our movement partners facing security threats. We successfully distributed $3 Million to frontline organizations and have incorporated our learnings to the Movement Infrastructure Fund. The Movement Infrastructure Fund is a multi-year fund, which provides scaffolding support to frontline movement formations and values-aligned capacity builders advancing power building work. Join us on October 27th to discuss how we can take collective effort to mobilize the resources to meet the long-term needs of our movements.. Register for the event here.
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Friday, October 29th. 10 am – 11 am PT / 1 pm – 2 pm ET: Beloved Fridays
Details TBD. Join us via this zoom link – Passcode: 933230
NOVEMBER
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 3:30 – 4:30 pm PT/ 6:30 – 7:30 pm ET: Community Stewardship and the Right to Housing Donor Briefing with Right To The City Alliance
Solidaire is co-sponsoring
Right To The City Alliance‘s upcoming discussion on alternative models of decommodified, permanently affordable housing. We’ll discuss how these models can and do provide a pathway forward out of the deepening U.S. housing crisis. RTTC’s 90+ member organizations are working tirelessly passing much-needed renter protections, serving as on-the-ground hubs for relief distribution, and continuing to call for rent cancellation. We’re also strategizing to answer another key question: What happens when tenants evict their landlords? Can we take land and housing off the speculative market altogether?
Register here.
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Tuesday, November 9th, 10 am – 11:30 am PT / 1 pm -2:30 pm ET: Just Transition in Richmond: Resist, Rethink, Restructure
Building upon
Justice Funders’ upcoming Solidarity Economy webinar on September 30, Justice Funders and
Chorus Foundation invite you to join our three-part webinar series: Just Transition in Richmond: Resist, Rethink, Restructure. In this series, leaders of the Richmond Our Power Coalition will describe how they are building a just transition to a regenerative, living economy in Richmond, CA and encourage donors, funders, and supporters to contribute to the Richmond Just Transition Fund.
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Friday, November 12th, 10 am – 11:30 am PT / 1 pm -2:30 pm ET: Beloved Fridays
Special guest facilitator and circle keeper Vini Bansali will lead us in a collective circle process to deepen our relationships with one another.
Join us via this zoom link – Passcode: 933230
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Monday, November 15th, 3 pm – 5 pm PT / 6 pm – 8 pm ET: Black Liberation Is For Everybody series
Black Liberation for Everyone is a four-part series is a component of Solidaire’s commitment to support Black-led movements and to deepen our members’ engagement in the struggle for Black liberation. Each session will feature a guest speaker and is co-hosted by Malachi Garza and friend of the network
Malkia Devich-Cyril. Each session will last two hours, include intimate breakout sessions, and will be accompanied by suggested reading and viewing materials.
Part 1:
On the Strategic Importance of Black Liberation with
Dr. Barbara Ransby. The session will cover the history of the Black liberation movement, the legal and structural conditions that affect us all, and the political theories underpinning Black liberation including double consciousness, racial capitalism, critical race theory and intersectionality. The homework for this session is to watch
Concerning Violence, a documentary film based on
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
This event will have closed captions.
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Thursday, November 18th, 11am PT / 2pm ET: “Hawaiʻi Rising: Resourcing the Resistance Against u.s. Imperialism”
Join the Hawai’i People’s Fund, Solidaire, and Resource Generation for a timely conversation on the peoples’ #militaryLandBack movement in Hawaiʻi ahead of Lā Kūʻokoʻa, the Hawaiian Independence Day.
We will discuss the growing peoples’ movement in Hawaiʻi, current strategies for deepening people power in the face of renewed threats against Mauna Kea, and visionary sovereignty campaigns like #militaryLandBack and #CancelRIMPAC. Not only will we learn about what is happening right now in Hawai’i, but we will strategize what we can do to support these struggles individually and together!
DECEMBER
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Monday, December 6th. 3 pm – 5 pm PT / 6 pm – 8 pm pm ET: Black Liberation Is For Everybody series
This four-part series is a component of Solidaire’s commitment to support Black-led movements and to deepen our members’ engagement in the struggle for Black liberation. Malkia Devich-Cyril and me will host monthly conversations with feature guest speakers to explore the ideological foundation and critical issues for Black liberation. Each session will last two hours, include intimate breakout sessions, and will be accompanied by suggested reading and viewing materials. All members, staff and friends of Solidaire are welcome!.
Part 2: The New Black Left: Mapping 21st Century Movements for Black Rights and Power will feature two conversations:
Black economic and social rights:
Black political power and voting rights:
Homework (read at least one):
Join us via this zoom link – Passcode: 028445
This event will have closed captions.
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Tuesday, December 7th. 4 pm -5:30 pm PT / 7 pm – 8:30 pm ET: Introducing The Fields at Rootsprings
Join Solidaire Black Liberation Pooled Fund partners – The Fields at Rootsprings for an after-hours fundraising event focused on land-based healing justice work. The Fields is a Black-led and governed cooperative of BIPOC queer women based in Minnesota. The event will feature speakers from the Fields at Rootsprings, as well as Nwamaka Agbo from Kataly Foundation, and others and will involve poetry/song and cultural work to tell the origin story of how this movement space came to being.
Register here.
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Wednesday, December 8th. 10 am – 11:30 am PT / 1 pm – 2:30 pm ET: Just Transition in Richmond: Resist, Rethink, Restructure
Building upon Justice Funders’ upcoming Solidarity Economy webinar on September 30, Justice Funders and Chorus Foundation invite you to join our three-part webinar series: Just Transition in Richmond: Resist, Rethink, Restructure. In this series, leaders of the Richmond Our Power Coalition will describe how they are building a just transition to a regenerative, living economy in Richmond, CA and encourage donors, funders, and supporters to contribute to the Richmond Just Transition Fund.
Part 3: Deep Democracy, Mass Liberation & Self-Determination — Melvin Willis, Alliance for Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE), Jovanka Beckles, Richmond Progressive Alliance, Tamisha Walker, Safe Return Project
Register here.
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Thursday, December 9th. 5 pm PT / 8 pm pm ET: Solidaire Happy Hour – with Farhad and Startender
Join Startender (the famed child bartender and Farhad’s kiddo), Farhad (one of the co-founders of our beautiful network) and beloved board member Shannon Gaggero at this happy hour! Learn to make a signature cocktail from six-year old Startender and listen to and share stories! Recipe forthcoming. Please feel free to pop in for 15 mins or join us for the whole hour! Let’s toast to our community!
Join us via this zoom link – Passcode: 933230
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Friday, December 10th, 10 am – 11 am PT / 1 pm – 2 pm ET: Beloved Friday
Come join us at Beloved Friday to reflect on this past year and our work to make this world a more just place.
This year has been filled with extraordinary events since the beginning—MAGA coup & pipe bombs, Twitter and Facebook kicking Donald Trump to the curb, election of the first woman of color as Vice President, Georgia race for Senate, Mexico/US border crisis, COVID & its variants, anti-vaxxer surge and vaccine apartheid, attacks on critical race theory, the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal, the trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers, attacks on voting rights, etc.
Let’s come together in reflection, relationship building, and love to close us out right.
Join us via this zoom link – Passcode: 933230
