The #DisruptPhilanthropyNOW! Campaign blog has its own site click above for more information. It is a partnership between Old Money New System (OMNS) Community of Practice and the Within Our Lifetime (WOL) Network to curate essays, op-eds, and testimonies to disrupt the ways philanthropy upholds white supremacy and oppression, demand accountability, and advocate for racially just grant-making.
The Old Money New System blog is a multimedia space to share thought-leadership on how to mobilize, pool, and exchange resources through the pathways of wealth redistribution, reparations, and re-investment to politically and economically marginalized communities. Our intention is to spread ideas and practice for a just transition in institutional philanthropy to decentralize governance of the surplus of resources from wealth accumulation in direct community control for an economic democracy in communities marginalized as a result of capitalism.
There are five tactics that serve as escalation steps towards a larger strategy in a framework of abolition. In this case we are explaining abolition with the institution of policing:
Defund the police
Divest from the police
Disband the police
Decentralize the police
Establish community control of public safety
These tactics work in order and together to bring us closer to our goal.
Read MoreWe invite you to join Old Money, New Systems, an online platform for a community of practice that challenges the nonprofit industrial complex and its delusional inner workings of white neoliberal patriarchy and capitalism. It includes workshops, collective learning and new ideas that explore messy questions and generate renewed approaches and grounded strategies on how to practice multi-class solidarity in philanthropy. Old Money New System is a network of resource mobilizers, movement practitioners, grantmakers, impact investors, asset owners, activists, organizers, culture bearers engaged in building shared, evolving liberatory frameworks.
Read MoreIn November 2018, 25 activists, organizers, fundraisers, donors, and other supporters of movements for racial, gender and economic justice gathered at the Watershed Center in Millerton, NY at the 3rd annual Old Money New System (OMNS) community of practice retreat.
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