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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 8 months

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Vivek Ramaswamy has described himself as an “outsider”, accusing rivals for the Republican presidential nomination of being “bought and paid for” by donors and special interests.

But the 38-year-old Ohio-based venture capitalist, whose sharp-elbowed and angry display stood out in the first Republican debate this week, has his own close ties to influential figures from both sides of the political aisle.

Prominent among such connections are Peter Thiel, the co-founder of tech giants PayPal and Palantir and a rightwing mega-donor, and Leonard Leo, the activist who has marshaled unprecedented sums in his push to stock federal courts with conservative judges.

Ramaswamy is a Yale Law School friend of JD Vance, the author of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy who enjoyed success in finance before entering politics. At Yale, Vance and Ramaswamy attended what the New Yorker called an “intimate lunch seminar for select students” that was hosted by Thiel. Last year, backed by Thiel and espousing hard-right Trumpist views, Vance won a US Senate seat in Ohio.

Thiel has since said he has stepped back from political donations. But he has backed Ramaswamy’s business career, supporting what the New Yorker called “a venture helping senior citizens access Medicare” and, last year, backing Strive Asset Management, a fund launched by Ramaswamy to attack environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies among corporate investors. Vance was also a backer.

Ramaswamy’s primary vehicle to success has been Roivant, an investment company focused on the pharmaceuticals industry founded in 2014.

The Roivant advisory board includes figures from both the Republican and Democratic establishments: Kathleen Sebelius, US health secretary under Barack Obama; Tom Daschle of South Dakota, formerly Democratic leader in the US Senate; and Olympia Snowe, formerly a Republican senator from Maine.

Ramaswamy’s links to Leo – recently the recipient of a $1.6BN donation from the industrialist Barre Seid, believed to be the biggest ever such gift, but now reportedly the subject an investigation by the attorney general of Washington DC – are many.

As reported by ProPublica and Documented, Ramaswamy has spoken at retreats staged by Teneo, a group Leo chairs and which aims to connect high-powered conservatives, to “crush liberal dominance” in American life.

Other Teneo speakers have reportedly included Ron DeSantis, the Florida Governor polling ahead of Ramaswamy in the Republican primary, and the former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who trails Ramaswamy and clashed with him on stage in Milwaukee.

ProPublica also linked Thiel to the genesis of the Teneo group. According to a document seen by The Guardian, Ramaswamy became a Teneo member in 2021.

Elsewhere, Ramaswamy is a board member of the Philanthropy Roundtable, a group with ties to Leo, and a member of the Federalist Society, the Leo-driven group which works to stock the courts with conservatives.

Ramaswamy has also spoken to and received an award from the State Financial Officers Foundation (SFOF), a group of Republican state treasurers.

In June, in South Carolina, the Post and Courier newspaper reported that last year, before launching his presidential bid, Ramaswamy attempted “to leverage his [Republican] connections to gain access [for Strive] to lucrative contracts to manage pension funds … [with] total assets of $39.6BN”.

Similar pushes were mounted in Missouri and Indiana, the paper said. Curtis Loftis, the South Carolina state treasurer, told the Post and Courier there was “nothing improper” about such approaches.

Asked about Ramaswamy’s claims to be an outsider in light of his links to rightwing donors, activists and establishment figures, a campaign spokesperson told The Guardian: “Vivek has lived the American dream and has had tremendous success in business.”

“There’s a colossal difference between someone who has friendships and business relationships with wealthy individuals and politicians who change their policies and positions to please their Super Pac donors,” they added.

In the Wisconsin debate, Ramaswamy flourished in the absence of Donald Trump, the former US president who faces 91 criminal charges but nonetheless leads Republican polling by huge margins.

Amid speculation that Ramaswamy might end up Trump’s running mate, Reed Galen, a Republican operative turned co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, called Ramaswamy “a classic 2020s America tech bro bullshit artist … Trump for the 21st century”.

Ramaswamy’s claim to be an outsider, Galen said, was part of his “fundamental understanding … that MAGA [the pro-Trump Republican base] wants him to show that the rest of these people [in the primary] are politicians. He’s willing to be the showman … the outsider. Anti-establishment. ‘If anything is there, I dislike it because it’s there.’ You know, ‘I’m going to have fun with this. I’m not going to take it seriously because you’re a bunch of hacks and goons.’”

But in another sense, regarding Ramaswamy’s ties to the likes of Leo and Thiel, Galen said: “I think that he’s an insider.”

“He walks into a room with Leonard Leo and says, ‘What do you need me to do?’ … And they’re like, ‘Here’s what we want you to do. Here’s what we need you to do.’ Right?”

“Do I think [Ramaswamy] cares about [issues like restricting] abortion? No, not particularly. I don’t think he has a firmly held belief on it. But if he thinks that it will help him, and in exchange for that Leonard Leo will throw a little chicken feed of the $1.6BN that old man gave him, to help him? Sure, what the hell?”

“He didn’t ever think he’d get this far. So now he’s just gonna push it as far as he can.”

Ramaswamy, Galen said, was closely tied to a world of donors and non-profits in which Leo is “certainly at the center. And this movement only moves in one direction, and it’s toward the darkness. It’s towards authoritarianism. And it’s because it finds people like Ramaswamy. And the more that all these other candidates will now attack him, they will drive him further and further into the arms of those people.”

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rajanmahtanizambia · 2 years

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youressentialsblog · 3 years

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Philanthropy Roundtable Board Member Insists Big Tech Censorship Is Unconstitutional

Philanthropy Roundtable board member Vivek Ramaswamy blasted Big Tech for its unconstitutional censorship in a Fox News appearance. He argued that the government was using private companies as a backdoor to do what it could not do legally in an effort to subvert the First Amendment. Ramaswamy, who is also founder of Roivant Sciences and author of upcoming book, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate…

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teababe27 · 3 years

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GIVING TUESDAY IS HERE!!!

Giving Tuesday is an annual event held the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving, where communities focus on raising funds for nonprofits. This fundraising mechanism often overlooks or outright ignores the work of on-the-ground radical grassroots organizers who are already poorly funded or otherwise supported. We have discussed during roundtables that philanthropy, charity, and nonprofits are just microcosms of the white supremacist capitalist society in which our organizers are already fighting. They perpetuate racist systems by gatekeeping funding and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead costs instead of giving the majority of their funds to their cause. In the spirit of reparations, we ask that you help us refocus the attention on funding grassroots organizations and organizers. Infuse that money into grassroots organizing, where we know the money will be spent to support the most marginalized in our communities.

I am using this day to highlight why I pay reparations and encourage all of my white followers to do so as well.

I pay reparations because I believe in coming together to do what is right. Because I have friends and loved ones affected by the prejudice facing our nation for centuries. Because it is what we white people owe Black MaGes (marginalized genders); to give money back that we have taken from them and to not perpetuate racist systems, as most nonprofits often do. I believe that there still is humanity left in the world, even though times are tough. We can do this if we work together.

Will you join me in paying reparations for Giving Tuesday this year? You can do so at bit.ly/generalfund2020.

#giving tuesday #important #signal boost #reparations #reparations roundtable #duty not donation #solidarity not charity #accountability not perfection #direct giving #mutual aid #community #2020 #pay bipoc women #year of the reparation #the revolution will not be funded

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Peak billionaire: a billionaire tries to purchase a party nomination to outflank anti-billionaires so he can run against another billionaire

The past two years have seen a tremendous shift in the public perception of capitalism and socialism, the character of philanthropy as reputation-laundry rather than generosity, and the nature of wealth as an indicator of sociopathy, not virtue or cleverness.

The "Overton Window" -- the slate of policies that politicians are willing to discuss and propose in public -- has shifted quickly and profoundly to the left, with the likes of Bernie Sanders anchoring a new outer bound as to what can be said in polite society, reinforced by other Democratic Socialists like AOC -- opening the political space for the likes of Elizabeth Warren to sounds like a relative moderate when she insists that capitalism is good, but needs extensive reform.

How did Overton Window come to shift? Writing in Time, Anand Giridharadas (previously) persuasively argues that capitalism discredited itself, starting with the 2008 crisis. More recently, it was Trump insisting that he was capitalism's flagbearer and explicitly linking capitalism to corruption, ignorance, belligerence, greed, cruelty, xenophobia, racism, sexism and homophobia; Jeff Bezos pulling out of his plan to build a second HQ in NYC because "in a city where a significant number of people struggle to keep up with rising costs and stagnant pay, many weren’t excited by the idea of the state and city giving his company a few billion dollars in tax breaks that wouldn’t be available to a regular Joe starting a business."

Then there was the college bribery scandal in which the inventor of "impact investing" (using capitalism to make the world a better place) stands accused of bribing college officials to get his mediocre loin-fruit into an elite university at the expense of the kind of person whom "impact investing" was supposed to benefit.

Or Facebook being fined $5b for just one of its privacy catastrophes, and then experiencing a massive rise in its share price as investors realized that the FTC wasn't going to fine FB so much that it actually hurt.

The Sacklers' depraved, wanton encouragement of the opioid epidemic made them richer than the Rockefellers.

And then there's Jeffrey Epstein, the ultimate symbol of capitalism's elevation of sociopaths to positions of impunity, who taught America that rich people can literally steal your children by the dozen and repeatedly rape them, with no consequences.

The plutocrats -- Giridharadas calls them "plutes" -- spent 40 years telling us that anything that doesn't embrace the above is "socialism," with the inevitable and totally foreseeable outcome that Americans now embrace socialism at rates not seen since the New Deal. As Giridharadas writes: "History is the story of conditions that long seem reasonable until they begin to seem ridiculous."

So now the plutes are panicking: the Business Roundtable is promising a new form of capitalism (but refusing to even consider kicking out or even censuring members who violate that promise). Michael Bloomberg is buying his way into the Democratic race because he's worried that the frontrunners "aren't plutophilic enough," leading to peak plute: "a billionaire deciding to possibly attempt to purchase a party nomination because of his fear that some candidates in the race aren’t plutophilic enough—and then running against a maybe–billionaire who promised that being a billionaire would make him specially incorruptible and now is in impeachment proceedings over his alleged corruption."

https://boingboing.net/2019/11/24/plutes-in-retreat.html

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deniscollins · 5 years

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Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism

Should the Security and Exchange Commission require public companies to publicly disclose their key stakeholders and show how they are impacting those stakeholders: (1) Yes, (2) No? Why? What are the ethics underlying your decision?

Capitalism, I acknowledge, has been good to me.

Over the past 20 years, the company that I co-founded, Salesforce, has generated billions in profits and made me a very wealthy person. I have been fortunate to live a life beyond the wildest imaginations of my great-grandfather, who immigrated to San Francisco from Kiev in the late 1800s.

Yet, as a capitalist, I believe it’s time to say out loud what we all know to be true: Capitalism, as we know it, is dead.

Yes, free markets — and societies that cherish scientific research and innovation — have pioneered new industries, discovered cures that have saved millions from disease and unleashed prosperity that has lifted billions of people out of poverty. On a personal level, the success that I’ve achieved has allowed me to embrace philanthropy and invest in improving local public schools and reducing homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area, advancing children’s health care and protecting our oceans.

But capitalism as it has been practiced in recent decades — with its obsession on maximizing profits for shareholders — has also led to horrifying inequality. Globally, the 26 richest people in the world now have as much wealth as the poorest 3.8 billion people, and the relentless spewing of carbon emissions is pushing the planet toward catastrophic climate change. In the United States, income inequality has reached its highest level in at least 50 years, with the top 0.1 percent — people like me — owning roughly 20 percent of the wealth while many Americans cannot afford to pay for a $400 emergency. It’s no wonder that support for capitalism has dropped, especially among young people.

To my fellow business leaders and billionaires, I say that we can no longer wash our hands of our responsibility or what people do with our products. Yes, profits are important, but so is society. And if our quest for greater profits leaves our world worse off than before, all we will have taught our children is the power of greed.

It’s time for a new capitalism — a more fair, equal and sustainable capitalism that actually works for everyone and where businesses, including tech companies, don’t just take from society but truly give back and have a positive impact.

What might a new capitalism look like?

First, business leaders need to embrace a broader vision of their responsibilities by looking beyond shareholder return and also measuring their stakeholder return. This requires that they focus not only on their shareholders, but also on all of their stakeholders — their employees, customers, communities and the planet. Fortunately, nearly 200 executives with the Business Roundtable recently committed their companies, including Salesforce, to this approach, saying that the “purpose of a corporation” includes “a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders.” As a next step, the government could formalize this commitment, perhaps with the Security and Exchange Commission requiring public companies to publicly disclose their key stakeholders and show how they are impacting those stakeholders.

Unfortunately, not everyone agrees. Some business leaders objected to the landmark declaration. The Council of Institutional Investors argued that “it is government, not companies, that should shoulder the responsibility of defining and addressing societal objectives.” When asked whether companies should serve all stakeholders and whether capitalism should be updated, Vice President Mike Pence warned against “leftist policies.”

But suggesting that companies must choose between doing well and doing good is a false choice. Successful businesses can and must do both. In fact, with political dysfunction in Washington, D.C., Americans overwhelmingly say C.E.O.s should take the lead on economic and social challenges, and employees, investors and customers increasingly seek out companies that share their values.

When government is unable or unwilling to act, business should not wait. Our experience at Salesforce shows that profit and purpose go hand in hand and that business can be the greatest platform for change.

Legislation to close loopholes in the Equal Pay Act have stalled in Congress for years, and today women still only make about 80 cents, on average, for every dollar earned by men. But congressional inaction does not absolve companies from their responsibility. Since learning that we were paying women less than men for equal work at Salesforce, we have spent $10.3 million to ensure equal pay; today we conduct annual audits to ensure that pay remains equal. Just about every company, I suspect, has a pay gap — and every company can close it now.

For many businesses, giving back to their communities is an afterthought — something they only do after they’ve turned a profit. But by integrating philanthropy into our company culture from the beginning — giving 1 percent of our equity, time and technology — Salesforce has donated nearly $300 million to worthy causes, including local public schools and addressing homelessness. To me, the boys and girls in local schools and homeless families on the streets of our city are our stakeholders, too. Entrepreneurs looking to develop great products and develop their communities can join the 9,000 companies in the Pledge 1% movement and commit to donating 1 percent of their equity, time and product, starting on their first day of business.

Nationally, despite massive breaches of consumer information, lawmakers in Washington seem unable to pass a national privacy law. California and other states are moving ahead with their own laws, forcing consumers and companies to navigate a patchwork of different regulations. Rather than instinctively opposing new regulations, tech leaders should support a strong, comprehensive national privacy law — perhaps modeled on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — and recognize that protecting privacy and upholding trust is ultimately good for business.

Globally, few nations are meeting their targets to fight climate change, the current United States presidential administration remains determined to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and global emissions continue to rise. As governments fiddle, there are steps that business can take now, while there’s still time, to prevent the global temperature from rising more than 1.5 degrees Celsius. Every company can do something, whether reducing emissions in their operations and across their sector, striving for net-zero emissions like Salesforce, moving toward renewable energies or aligning their operations and supply chains with emissions reduction targets.

Skeptical business leaders who say that having a purpose beyond profit hurts the bottom line should look at the facts. Research shows that companies that embrace a broader mission — and, importantly, integrate that purpose into their corporate culture — outperform their peers, grow faster, and deliver higher profits. Salesforce is living proof that new capitalism can thrive and everyone can benefit. We don’t have to choose between doing well and doing good. They’re not mutually exclusive. In fact, since becoming a public company in 2004, Salesforce has delivered a 3,500 percent return to our shareholders. Values create value.

Of course, C.E.O. activism and corporate philanthropy alone will never be enough to meet the immense scale of today’s challenges. It could take $23 billion a year to address racial inequalities in our public schools. College graduates are drowning in $1.6 trillion of student debt. It will cost billions to retrain American workers for the digital jobs of the future. Trillions of dollars of investments will be needed to avert the worst effects of climate change. All this, when our budget deficit has already surpassed $1 trillion.

How, exactly, is our country going to pay for all this?

That is why a new capitalism must also include a tax system that generates the resources we need and includes higher taxes on the wealthiest among us. Local efforts — like the tax I supported last year on San Francisco’s largest companies to address our city’s urgent homelessness crisis — will help. Nationally, increasing taxes on high-income individuals like myself would help generate the trillions of dollars that we desperately need to improve education and health care and fight climate change.

The culture of corporate America needs to change, and it shouldn’t take an act of Congress to do it. Every C.E.O. and every company must recognize that their responsibilities do not stop at the edge of the corporate campus. When we finally start focusing on stakeholder value as well as shareholder value, our companies will be more successful, our communities will be more equal, our societies will be more just and our planet will be healthier.

#Capitalism

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19 September 2019: The Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development, Save the Children, and the MIT Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) convened a high-level meeting on refugee education in Amman, addressing one of the critical humanitarian issues born out of the global refugee crisis.

Held under the patronage of Queen Rania, the meeting brought together philanthropists, business leaders, donor institutions, and international and regional development organizations, and was chaired by Hassan Jameel, Community Jameel President, and Kevin Watkins, Save the Children UK Chief Executive Officer. (Source: Petra)

The Amman meeting followed a high-level roundtable held at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2019, which Queen Rania also attended, and which was chaired by Hassan Jameel and Helle Thorning Schmidt, then Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children International and former Prime Minister of Denmark. The meeting was also part of the build-up to the Global Refugee Forum, which will be held in Geneva in December by UNHCR.

Speaking at the roundtable, Hassan Jameel, Community Jameel President, said, “At Community Jameel, we recognize the importance of education. By supporting teachers’ wellbeing, in conjunction with improving quality teaching practices and student learning, we have the opportunity to re-establish the transformative role of education in vulnerable children's lives.”

Save the Children UK Chief Executive, Kevin Watkins, said, “Save the Children is celebrating 100 years of humanitarian and development experience and we are delighted to be partnering with such high-level, global philanthropists on this critical agenda.

“Over half of the world’s 25 million refugees are children. If those children were a single country, that country would be the country with the world’s worst education indicators. More than half of the world’s school-aged refugee children – 4 million in total – are out of school. These children are being denied a source of hope for the future and the passport to a better future. This is one of the greatest moral challenges facing our generation – and turning a blind eye is not an option.”

Among the attendees were senior representatives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the UAE-based Al Ghurair Foundation for Education, the Saudi-based Alwaleed Philanthropies, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Islamic Development Bank, the LEGO Foundation, Schmidt Futures, and the World Bank.

Jordan has a strong track record of welcoming and supporting refugees, and has become a leading venue for innovation in humanitarian development. Contributing to the country’s efforts in this field are QRF’s various technology-driven solutions to development challenges, including the foundation’s online education initiative, Edraak.

Following its initial launch by Queen Rania as an adult learning platform, Edraak partnered with Google.org and the Jack Ma Foundation to launch a K-12 platform, providing quality Arabic education materials to both children and adults, accessible for free to refugees and others across the region.

Another program, the Transforming Refugee Education towards Excellence (TREE) initiative, received a major boost with the announcement on Monday that philanthropic organization Dubai Cares had committed USD 1.5 million to the program.

TREE is an initiative of Save the Children and MIT J-WEL being piloted in Jordan, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and in collaboration with Community Jameel and Dubai Cares. Over a five-year period, it aims to equip Jordanian teachers with skills to deliver effective teaching, and to help students suffering from trauma overcome challenges.

Established by Queen Rania in 2013, QRF aims to improve education outcomes in Jordan and the surrounding region, focusing its efforts on a range of overlapping areas including early childhood care and dvelopment, innovation in learning, and teacher training. The foundation conducts education research, and supports policy makers as they develop education programs.

Community Jameel was established in 2003 to uphold the legacy of the late Abdul Latif Jameel, who supported and uplifted the disadvantaged in his community throughout his lifetime. Community Jameel runs its programs worldwide, collaborating with major international institutions and grassroots organizations.

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Member Spotlight: Sonos

Submitted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on February 1, 2019.

For the month of February, GIA’s photo banner features organizations supported by Sonos. Founded in 2002 in Santa Barbara, Sonos is a global technology company that makes wireless speakers.

Since its founding in 2002, Sonos periodically gave out small grants to local organizations in music education and STEAM learning, with a focus on the Central Coast region of California. In 2017, Sonos began an active listening program around the world to assess the needs of the communities where it maintains offices. This series of roundtables – which involved gathering nonprofits varying from coding and artistic freedom to immigration and music festivals – led to the creation of Sonos’ flagship initiative, Sonos Soundwaves.

Sonos Soundwaves supports quality music education, providing children in need with opportunities to think creatively, raise academic achievement, develop social skills, and prepare for successful futures. Partnering with nonprofits in local communities and supplying them with financial grants, product donations, and employee volunteers, Sonos aims to provide 100,000 hours of music education within 5 years.

Sonos’ inaugural partners include Zumix, a nonprofit based in East Boston; Notes for Notes, a national program that provides music education in partnership with Boys & Girls Clubs; Leerorkest, an Amsterdam-based organization that provides musical instruments in schools; and United Borders, a London-based organization that converted a double-decker bus into a traveling music studio to reduce gang violence. Soundwaves partners support under-served communities, especially girls, children of color, and immigrant and refugee children.

Knowing that accommodating volunteers can be a challenge for many nonprofits, Sonos is transparent in its grantmaking process about its hope for deeper engagement. Sonos offers unrestricted funding and doubled its initial grant size to support volunteer coordination. Sonos has also found that many music nonprofits do not even have a basic stereo for their staff or in their classrooms – enabling Sonos to donate its speakers to meet their needs, while offering them a dedicated customer service hotline just like its preferred customers.

The journey has only begun for Sonos Soundwaves, and Sonos recognizes that music education is a hugely complex field with a distinguished culture of philanthropy. Sonos is grateful to enjoy the guidance and support of Grantmakers in the Arts to listen, learn, and make a sustained impact over time.

Sonos joined Grantmakers in the Arts in 2018.

You can also visit the Sonos photo gallery on GIA’s Photo Credits page.

Image: Anthony Ross Tyler A student records a vocal track in the Nashville studio of Notes for Notes.

Posted by Carmen Graciela Díaz on February 01, 2019 at 12:01AM. Read the full post.

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politicalbombshow · 3 years

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How Giving Promotes Economic Freedom for All Americans

Giving to good causes is key to maintaining America’s free market system, the head of Philanthropy Roundtable says. It’s not the job of government to meet the needs of all Americans, Elise Westhoff, the organization’s president and CEO, says. So “if we have a strong philanthropic sector,” Westhoff says, “I think that allows us to really make the argument for why the free market works, and also…

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teababe27 · 4 years

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“[Direct giving] avoids a massive problem in international development: Charities prescribing solutions that don’t fit the real needs that poor people have (and sometimes make things worse).”

This Thursday is Give For Good in Louisville, KY, where people and businesses give back to local non-profit organizations. This day is set aside for giving en masse to non-profits doing local work in the city. People may think giving to non-profit organizations is the be-all, end-all for giving back, but that’s not even close.

Non-profit organizations, 80% of which are white-led (90% of the 315 largest non-profits in the country), often overlook or outright ignore the work of on-the-ground radical grassroots organizers who are already poorly funded or otherwise supported, especially the Black MaGes (marginalized genders).

Philanthropy, charity, and non-profits are just microcosms of the white supremacist capitalist society in which our organizers are already fighting. They perpetuate racist systems by gatekeeping funding and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in overhead costs instead of giving the majority of their funds to their cause. In the spirit of reparations, we ask that you help us refocus the attention on funding grassroots organizations and organizers. Infuse that money into grassroots organizing, where we know the money will be spent to support the most marginalized in our communities.

With direct giving, there’s no middle-person, so you know that the money will be going to those who need it most to spend however they need! The article link above mentions evidence that direct giving works!!

We know that these grassroots organizations and individual BIPOC organizers are doing the bulk of the on-the-ground work in our communities, so it is important that we also fund their work. Join us now in giving and raising funds for Reparations Roundtable!

I have a couple of options here for those starting to practice direct giving and paying reparations:

The first one is Reparations Roundtable’s General Fund, where the funds directly go to the BIPOC MaGes we assist.

For those who want to make monthly payments of reparations, you should sign up for the Reparations Roundtable Patreon in order to keep the money coming in a sustainable fashion.

#reparationsroundtable

#reparations

#dutynotdonation

#solidaritynotcharity

#accountabilitynotperfection

#directgiving

#mutualaid

#community

#nobodysgotusbutus

#yearofthereparation

#2020

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