Rewilded!
Temporada 1
How To Resource a "Beautiful Living Thing"
por Ignited Word LLC
Vaida Odongo imagines a world where a young woman running an education program in Kisumu, Kenya could write a grant in less than an hour. 🌈 She has access to funder networks, and in fact, it is the funder that has reached out to her. How do we get there? Join Ignited Word’s Malaika Cheney-Coker and network weaver Vaida Odongo on Episode 2 of Rewilded! as they discuss why a lot of funders are fed up with the status quo and eager to explore more collaborative and relationship-based ways of working, why restricted funding keeps social innovators stuck in silos, why most funders gladly pay for shiny new communication tools while completely ignoring the invisible human glue that holds networks together, and what happens when we replace lengthy application forms and reports with radical, real-world trust.“ “The one thing that I know is that at the very base of any network, we are all dealing with people. And so people ARE relationships. And when you look at it that way, networks become less complex and they become this beautiful living thing that actually has and serves a purpose." —Vaida Odongo
We've convened as a team because all is not well at the Gulf Coast CRX in New Orleans in the year 2040. The problem? A mysterious source of money that threatens to upend a coalition that could change the lives of many people. On our very first episode we take a look at the medium of flash fiction as a means to explore possible futures for philanthropy and social impact work. For those listening, we invite you to join the conversation and imagination exercise by answering this question: "When we consider the future of community development finance in the U.S. what do we imagine?”