Change Elemental

What happens when racial equity capacity builders stop competing and start dreaming together? ✨ You get the Knowledge Share Group - a collective of eight multiracial organizations (including IISC!) who’ve spent years building trust, trading strategies, and refusing to hoard knowledge in a field shaped by scarcity.

No, we didn’t come together for optics - we did it to resource each other, challenge each other, and strengthen the ecosystem that justice work relies on.

In a new piece from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the Knowledge Share Group is featured as a model of what’s possible when funders, like The Kresge Foundation, invest in deep, collaborative, and care-centered capacity building.

📣 “This group is a buoy to each of us.”

📣 “We are the people who help build the capacity, the imagination, who accompany people when they are beating themselves against the wall."

📣 “Investing in building this type of community isn’t extra. It’s fundamental to the work and should be funded just like program delivery is funded."

🔗 Read the full post to learn why funders must go beyond program support and invest in the relationships, networks, and co-learning spaces that make true equity possible.
https://www.geofunders.org/news/strengthening-the-ecosystem-resourcing-racial-equity-capacity-building-organizations-for-the-long-haul/

And of course, shoutout to Community Wealth Partners & our KSG peers at Change Elemental, ProInspire, Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training, CompassPoint, Rockwood Leadership Institute, and The Management Center ❤️