A big week
What does it take to lead a 30-year-old organization to change its name and brand to reflect its values? I’ll tell you in a few weeks after I’ve had some rest.
What does it take to lead a 30-year-old organization to change its name and brand to reflect its values? I’ll tell you in a few weeks after I’ve had some rest.
There is a growing number of small NGOs and foundations specializing in offering direct funding to grassroots leaders. And 20+ of them have come together to write a book!
Podcasts & Interviews How does rest connect with justice and liberation?, The Possibility Project (2024) Healing & Philanthropy: A year-end reflection, Participatory Grantmaking Community (2022) Countering toxic narratives about grassroots activists, Partos Innovation Festival, with CIVICUS (2022) State of DEI initiatives in Global Aid, Fearless Project (2022) – panel discussion starts at 35:00 Why we must “do good” in a society that’s hurting, SeroTunein with Kurien Thomas (2021) Racism & White Privilege in the Humanitarian and Development Sector, Humanitarian Congress Berlin (2020) Empathy for Social Good, Empathy Speak with Arvind Venugopal (2020) Meet Jennifer Lentfer, The Feminist Leadership project (2020) …
Jennifer Lentfer is a farm girl turned international aid worker turned leadership coach and communications strategist. As the creator of the blog, how-matters.org in 2010, she was named as one of Foreign Policy Magazine’s “100 women to follow on Twitter” at @intldogooder in 2012. A book that she co-edited with Tanya Cothran, Smart Risks: How small grants are helping to solve some of the world’s biggest problems features the growing community of grantmakers that find and fund visionary, yet under-the-radar leaders around the world. It is available here. Jennifer is the most recently the Director of Communications of Thousand Currents. In her …
To be part of offering and receiving the care of sisterhood is available to everyone…and may be the key to our shared survival.
“COVID-19 and the climate crisis are asking me to move towards everything that home offers.”
Listen or read my conversation with Kurien Thomas on his podcast, SeroTunein, a day after the attack on the U.S. capitol.
It’s time to get serious about moving more money in more disbursed ways than ever before. And to do so, this may be what’s most needed.
Poems and do-gooders might share more than you think.
(Plus a small collection of poems in honor of National Poetry Month in the U.S.)
We can’t do this work alone, so we must dwell much more often where we are connected to each other.
Can we responsibly honor others by authentically centering ourselves and our experiences?
Having experience as both a grant seeker and grant maker, it’s funders who I look to for bravery first. Here’s 7 ways funders can be more courageous.