Make Shift Happen
The Human, Relational Work of Systems Change
By Elise Belusa, Executive Director
Our journey toward racial justice asked each of us to set down the performance of goodness and step into real relationships.
Episode 15 of Make Shift Happen is called “The Personal Work of Systems Change,” but listening back to my conversation with Ruth, I keep thinking it should be called “The Human Work Necessary for Systems Change.”
Can We Heal Philanthropy’s Money Stuff?
By Elise Belusa, Executive Director
We’re all longing for the same thing: healing from capitalism’s harms.
In Episode 11 of Make Shift Happen, Maria Nakae, Senior Director of Just Transition Investing at Justice Funders and Tenesha Duncan, CEO and founder of Orchid Capital Collective, talk about the healing work necessary to realize a future where we all can flourish.
Short on Funds, Long on Relationship: Spending Out to Meet the Moment
By Elise Belusa, Executive Director
The full experience of being a spend out means finding a role without capital.
I’m excited to share the latest in our Make Shift Happen Conversation Series. In it, Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, and I explore the ways spend out foundations stand apart in a moment and landscape marked by retreat and fear.
Do Philanthropy Differently. Welcome to the Make Shift Happen Conversation Series
By Mia Reilly
In passing the mic, have we passed the buck?
In decentering ourselves, we have avoided the responsibility we have to move the conversation—and therefore each other—in philanthropy.
Beyond the Mirror: Testing our Internal Intentions Against External Perceptions
By Mia Reilly, Director of Engagement Strategy
How aligned are our intentions with how others experience us? At Tara Health Foundation, we believe that building a just world requires philanthropy to transform how it operates—starting with ourselves. We partnered with the Center for Effective Philanthropy to gather candid feedback from our grantees, and the results revealed fascinating insights about trust, reporting structures, and the lasting value of human relationships in philanthropy.