Imagination Meets Impact
Learning, to Change Our Future
Learning is crucial to individual and family well-being. It’s also key to building thriving, more equitable and healthier societies. Too often, current education systems reproduce inequities and create barriers to opportunity. As a social change funder, we invest in people, ideas and partnerships that disrupt patterns of inequity and spark transformation for learners of all ages in Brazil, Kenya, South Africa and the United States.
Learn MoreImpacting Learners and their Community
There has never been a greater need for imaginative ideas and inclusive, collaborative leadership in learning. We work together with changemakers to ensure that communities are involved in creating the solutions that work for them. Together with our partners, we are dedicated to co-creating more equitable and healthy systems that give everyone the opportunity to thrive.
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Earning Trust as Funders Is Crucial for Sustainable and Equitable Impact
“Trust-based philanthropy” is a phrase that has attracted a lot of buzz lately among funders. For Atti Worku, cultivating “trust-based relationships” is at the heart of trust-based philanthropy, and is core to the African Visionary Fund, an organization founded in 2020. Our team recently had a conversation with African Visionary Fund to learn about its mission. At the heart of the conversation was how funders can embed trust-based, adaptive practices, influence where capital is deployed, and how power is shared.
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Authoring a New Narrative on the College Experience
While one in five of all college students in the US are raising children, their stories are still largely absent from public consciousness.Two memoirs released in the last few years by former student parents, Nicole Lynn Lewis ("Pregnant Girl") and Stephanie Land ("Maid" and "Class") paint a new narrative on the college experience and who belongs in college.
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Investing in Black-Led Organizations is Key to Creating a More Equal World
We believe that philanthropy has a role to play in creating a more just, equitable and healthier society. We invite you to learn about our JEDI-focused, Black-led organizations we’ve committed to in 2023, as part of our commitment to supporting and furthering racial equity efforts in Brazil.
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Our Latest Learnings
We have an opportunity to change the traditional approaches to learning and schooling — transforming inequitable systems into thriving opportunities for communities of learners worldwide. From our work with partners, we see new insights, networks, tools and approaches, that are leading the way for more people to realize the future they imagined. And, as lifelong learners ourselves, we commit to contributing our learnings, insights, and perspectives back to our community as we learn them.
