Make Shift Happen

It Matters Who Manages Capital

It Matters Who Manages Capital

By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President, Tara Health Foundation

The flow of capital reflects what we, as people, value.

I could talk with Erika Seth Davies, CEO of Rhia Ventures, all day. 

You’ve heard us talk about opportunities for philanthropy to align endowments with grantmaking and the ways Rhia’s unique structure reorients our relationship to capital to better resource movements. Through all the finance and philanthropy wonkiness, our conversations keep coming back to the humans in the midst of all this capital—the people owning it, managing it, and using it to build a more just and equitable world.

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Why Is Tara Health Spending Out? And Other FAQs

Why Is Tara Health Spending Out? And Other FAQs

By Ruth Shaber, MD, Founder and President, Tara Health Foundation

A window into our spend out journey

Episode 12 of Make Shift Happen features Tara Health’s Executive Director, Elise Belusa, in conversation with Glen Galaich, CEO of the Stupski Foundation, about the experience of leading a foundation as it spends out its resources.

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Movement-Led Funds as Experiments in Regeneration

Movement-Led Funds as Experiments in Regeneration

By Maria Nakae, Senior Director of Just Transition Investing, Justice Funders 

What becomes possible when we shift power with integrated capital?

In Episode 10 of Make Shift Happen, I had the pleasure of talking with Tenesha Duncan, CEO and founder of Orchid Capital Collective, about the growing ecosystem of movement-led funds that are shifting the flow of capital and power while rewriting the rules of finance.

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Community-Led Care Requires Integrated Capital

Community-Led Care Requires Integrated Capital

By Tenesha Duncan, Founder and CEO of Orchid Capital Collective

Our support for midwives and community-led care must reflect their value in dollars and cents—and beyond. 

For this episode of Make Shift Happen, I had the honor of speaking with Kiki Jordan, Founder and Executive Director of Birthland Midwifery, about what becomes possible when we value all forms of capital—social, knowledge, and financial, to name a few—and invest in community-owned and -rooted care systems that are changing outcomes and trajectories for families and communities.

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To Spend Out, We Need to Build Up
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To Spend Out, We Need to Build Up

By Mia Reilly, Director of Engagement Strategy

The power and potential of capital in the hands of community

I’m so pleased to share my conversation with Mariko Miki in this next episode of the Make Shift Happen Conversation Series. Mariko is the co-executive director of If/When/How, an organization that provides wrap-around legal services for anyone facing criminalization for pregnancy, abortion, or birth, while working to stop criminalization from happening to others in the future.

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100% Mission Alignment to Move Beyond the 5/95 Model

100% Mission Alignment to Move Beyond the 5/95 Model

By Ruth Shaber, MD

How impact investing helps us build new relationships with capital—and each other.

In this latest episode of the Make Shift Happen Conversation Series, I talk with Erika Seth Davies, CEO of Rhia Ventures, about the 5/95 model of philanthropy and how foundations can work within it—and beyond—to move toward 100% mission alignment.

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Visible, bold, together: Finding each other to build the world we want

Visible, bold, together: Finding each other to build the world we want

By Tara Health Foundation Team

In this moment of coordinated attacks on our movements, being visible about our commitments isn't just important—it's how we find each other and stand together. That's why we're making our commitments more visible than ever.

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