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Solidarity Circles

Purpose

Member-led Organizing

Solidarity Circles are member-driven spaces, where members educate and organize each other toward taking action. Solidarity circles are designed to address varying topics, questions, or aspects of our members’ lives that matter to us, and how we show up in solidarity with social justice movements. Goals of the circles are to:

  • Build deep relationships and community around aspects of lives as donors that matter
  • Offer political education to break habituated patterns of isolation, disconnection, silence, and power-hoarding
  • Encourage members to show up for movements in bolder/deeper ways in their a) giving, and b) peer organizing
  • Develop a more leaderful Solidaire

The first cohort of Solidarity Circles ran from late 2022 to the summer of 2023 and brought together 120 Solidaire members, or more than a third of our membership. The feedback from participants and facilitators taught us small groups allow for intimacy and honesty, learning thrives when we couple the personal with the political and our members prioritize action over abstraction.

We will announce the second round of Solidarity Circles in the coming months. Below are the topics we explored in the first round.

Solidarity Circles

Parenting & Wealth Circle

This circle is for Solidaire members seeking community around the deep and hard questions related to parenting & wealth redistribution that are not often discussed.

Read more here.

 

 

Jewish Solidarity Circle

Join our Jewish Solidaire members for a six-week exploration at the intersections of Jewish identity, Jewish positionality in the history and current moment of racial justice work, antisemitism, and Israel/Palestine.

Read more here.

Spend-Down Circle

This circle invites Solidaire members at any stage of consideration to inquire deeply into the why, when, and how of spending down.

Read more here.

Power Over Patriarchy Circle

In the tradition of feminist consciousness-raising circles, we will share personal stories to talk, for example, about knowledge about and control over money; “earning,” inheriting, and giving it away; and paid and unpaid labor in the home.

Read more here.

 

Executive Directors Circle: Leading with Joy

This is a ten-session monthly series starting in July 2022 with the goal of supporting our ED, CEO, and President members to lead with joy and thrive in their philanthropic transformation work.

Read more here.

Agitating Beyond Philanthropy

This circle is for members desiring to deepen their external influence skills in agitating for change in and beyond philanthropy. It is a continuation of our 2022 Changing Paradigm Series geared towards institutional members.

Read more here.

Wealth, White Supremacy and Repair

This program is specifically for wealthy, individual members of Solidaire who identify as white or have white lineage related to their wealth that they want to explore.

Read more here.

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