Donors of Color Network

🌍💪 Join DOCN at NYC Climate Week for the BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift! 📅 Sunday, September 21 ⏰ 9:30am - 4:00pm ET 📍 Columbia University 🎟️ Free and open to the public 🔗 RSVP /climatejustice2025 This year’s Summit convenes frontline communities, organizers, researchers, funders, and public servants to build collective power and advance transformative climate justice. Come by for dynamic panels, interactive booths, and creative activations all about: 🔁 Empowering frontline leadership 🧠 Moving from extractive “knowledge” to decolonized knowledge 🏛️ Redistributing power through participatory governance 🌱 Grounding climate justice in reparations ✊ Highlighting mutual aid as a foundational for a just climate future We’ll see you there! #DonorsofColor #ClimatePhilanthropy #ClimateJustice #ClimateFunding #ClimateJusticeSummit #ClimateWeekNYC #MutualAid #ClimateJusticeIsRacialJustice

🌍✨ Kicking off NYC Climate Week with the BIPOC Climate Justice Summit: Power Shift! 📅 Sunday, Sept 21 📍 Columbia University 🎟️ Free and open to the public 🔗 RSVP /climatejustice2025 This year’s summit brings together BIPOC leaders, frontline organizers, funders, researchers, and public servants to drive the shifts we need for climate justice. We’re talking: 🔁 Power redistribution 🧠 Knowledge justice 🏛️ Participatory governance 🌱 Reparations and regeneration ✊ Mutual aid as movement strategy Join us to build the climate future we deserve. #ShiftingPower #ClimateJusticeSummit #ClimateWeekNYC #BIPOCLeadership #ReparationsNow #MutualAid #ClimateJusticeIsRacialJustice

The fight for our planet is the fight for our democracy. This month, join Donors of Color Network for 🌍Protecting People & Planet: Climate Justice is Democracy ✊🏽 The same forces fueling the climate crisis are eroding our democracy — hitting Black, Indigenous, and communities of color first and worst. In this August webinar, we’re bringing together powerful leaders who will connect the dots between environmental destruction and systemic oppression, sharing how donors can mobilize to protect both our people and our planet. Register to join us in this essential conversation at the link in bio. We’ll hear from: 🌟Aru Shiney-Ajay, Executive Director, @sunrisemvmt 🌟Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., President & CEO, @​​hiphopcaucus 🌟Vanessa Toro Barragán, Senior Program Officer for Climate and Economic Justice, Hive Fund 🌟Moderator: Abdul Dosunmu, Leadership and Philanthropic Advocacy Advisor, Donors of Color Network 📅 Tuesday, August 19 ⏰ 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET 📍 Zoom

I want you to know about, learn from and give some flowers to @chereonchen . She is an important leader in US based efforts to organize the rich towards equity and justice. She is the board chair of @donorsofcolor Action, board member of @womendonors , and emeritus president of the Progress Alliance of Washington [the C4 state donor table for WA]. She became wealthy, along with her husband, working for Microsoft in the 90’s and 2000’s. In just posted the full interview with Sharon, titled, “Who’s going to reach my people but me?”. /p/whos-going-to-reach-my-people-but Sharon talks trick or treating with UNICEF boxes, being one of the only women of color in the computer science department at Yale, how she went from being an apolitical techie to a committed political donor and organizer of the wealthy, and why it’s so important to have spaces for wealthy women and wealthy people of color to learn, build and take action together. She models the type of committed, loving and rigorous organizing and movement building orientation I want for all wealthy people who want a healthy and just world. 🔥🎉👏💐 #organizetherich #crossclassmovements #solidarity #organizing #techie #womenlead #racialjustice #asianpride

@chereonchen , board chair of @donorsofcolor Action, board member of @womendonors and emeritus president of the Progress Alliance of Washington is a powerhouse in the world of progressive donor organizing. She brings the heart and the clarity with a message every progressive wealthy person needs to hear...go towards your people, organize them, take responsibility for them, believe in them! As she says... "If not me, then who." "If I believe in my own redemption, then why wouldn't I believe in other people's redemption." Thank you Sharon!!! 💯🔥👏🙌💛💚 I thought this would be a good follow-up to the clip from my interview with Linda Burnham. Sharon is a techie taking responsibility for her class and her people. So needed in this moment. Interview coming soon on the Substack.

Don’t forget to register for October’s Monthly Movement Webinar, Lift Every Voice: How Storytelling Changes Culture. We are so excited to highlight our speakers for this month’s Movement Webinar! On October 2, DOCN will be in conversation with award-winning thought-leaders and creatives in the field, discussing the power of culture and the importance of narrative change. Introducing our speakers: Throughout her life and career, Bridgit Antoinette Evans has been obsessed with one question: What is the relationship between a great story and widespread cultural change? She is a widely respected thought leader investigating this question as CEO of Pop Culture Collaborative, a $60 million fund supporting a network of 300+ pop culture artists, social movement leaders, strategists, researchers, and donors laser-focused on producing stories and other experiences that transform the “narrative oceans” harming our communities and awaken public yearning for a just and pluralist society. Imara Jones, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the creator of TransLash Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. As part of her work at TransLash, Imara hosts the TransLash Podcast as well as the investigative, limited series, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality. Sameer Gardezi is an award winning writer and CEO/founder of the writer development incubator, Break the Room. AS CEO, Sameer has curated 40 writers rooms globally, training over 300 writers. Break the Room has operated in over 10 countries with its latest project with ImageNation. Raiza Licea is a comedian, actor, creator, and artist, and the first woman of color to become Artistic Director for Upright Citizens Brigade, a world-renowned comedy theater and comedy school, shepherding writing, acting and sketch divisions for up-and-coming performers. She also produces "Spanish Aqui Presents," the biggest Latino live comedy show in the US. 📌 link in bio!

We are grateful to our incredible partners—Donors of Color Network, Columbia World Projects, Columbia University Climate School, ACE Observatory, and the Open Government Partnership—for their dedication to advancing climate justice. Your support helped amplify critical voices and ideas that drive our work toward a just and sustainable future. To our speakers, attendees, and everyone who contributed to this event, your insights and passion are the heart of this movement. Together, we are creating meaningful change! 💚✊🏾 #HBCUGreenFund #ClimateJustice #PeopleDeliver

✨🌱 Thank You for Making the Climate Justice Summit A Success! 🌱✨ We’re grateful to all the incredible speakers, participants, and partners who joined us in Harlem to kick off Climate Week with powerful conversations on justice, equity, and community action. Your energy, insights, and commitment inspire us to keep pushing forward! 💪🏾💚 #HBCUGreenFund #ClimateJustice #PeopleDeliver Let’s continue building a future where people and the planet thrive together. Until next time! 🙏🏾🌍

🗣 Storytelling, in all its forms, is one of the most effective ways to influence behavior in a long-term way. Whether it’s the TV we’re watching at home with our families, the podcasts we’re listening to on our way to work, or the content that flashes across our screen as we’re scrolling social media in the breaks throughout our day, there are countless ways to both intentionally and subconsciously influence the minds of people everywhere. Those stories, and the lessons that people learn from them can make huge strides in creating the equitable and just world we strive to live in one day. There are no limits to the examples that show that the power of narrative is massive. But what does it look like to meaningfully support that work? Join DOCN in a conversation about the importance of investing in narrative and culture change work with award-winning thought-leaders and creatives in the field. Speakers include Bridgit Antoinette Evans (CEO, Pop Culture Collaborative), Imara Jones (Founder, Translash Media) , Raiza Licea (Artistic Director, Uprights Citizens Brigade), and Sameer Gardezi (CEO, Break the Room) 📍Link in our bio!

🌍✨ 2 Days Until the Climate Justice Summit: People Deliver! ✨🌍 We’re bringing together climate justice leaders, scholars, and frontline voices from 18+ countries to rewrite the rules and spark REAL CHANGE! 💪🔥 Whether you’re joining us in person at Columbia University or tuning in virtually, this is YOUR moment to be part of the movement. 🌱 We are excited to kick off New York Climate Week with the Climate Justice Summit in collaboration with @hbcugreenfund @columbiaclimate @donorsofcolor @opengovpartnership and Columbia World Projects. This summit is a powerful convening of climate justice leaders from around the world, focusing on global collaboration and knowledge exchange. 💡 Can’t make it in person or didn’t grab a ticket? No worries! You can still join us via Zoom and be part of this transformative experience! 🚀👇 🔗 Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/peopledeliver Get ready for a day of powerful panels, artistic interventions, and interactive sessions that will inspire action and collaboration! 🌍💚 Let’s build a future where People Deliver REAL solutions! 🙌✨ #PeopleDeliver #climatejusticesummit #NYClimateWeek

We are excited to kick off New York Climate Week with the Climate Justice Summit in collaboration with @hbcugreenfund @columbiaclimate @aceobservatory @opengovpartnership and Columbia World Projects. This summit is a powerful convening of climate justice leaders from around the world, focusing on global collaboration and knowledge exchange. Join us as we talk about the impact of our Climate Funders Justice Pledge and the work that faces us ahead! 🌎 Register in our bio 👆

We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our community members that joined us for our annual retreat, Connect + Reflect 2024, in Tacoma this month. Together, we created an incredible moment centered around powerbuilding and celebrating the transformative impact of donors of color. This moment affirmed our mission and continuous impact in philanthropy and beyond. Lastly, a special thank you to our sponsors, speakers, and volunteers who made this event possible. In solidarity, joy, community, and power, The Donors of Color Network team 🌱✨