This blog originally appeared in Portuguese on the website of the Brazilian Philanthropy Network for Social Justice. The 12 organizations that make up the Brazilian Philanthropy Network for Social Justice are a mixture of social justice funds, community funds and foundations, though what ties them together is that they all work to support civil society in Brazil (including NGOs, civil society organizations, social movements, informal groups, collectives, networks, rights defenders, etc.) in the fields of human rights, social justice and community development. Member organizations were established over the 2000s, largely in response to the reduction of international cooperation and the...

  What will it take to shift from the broken international development system we have to the system we want? This is something both of our organizations have put a great deal of thought into. While we certainly don’t have all of the answers, increasingly, we are using the language and concepts of systems theory to articulate our approach, which makes clear that to truly #ShiftThePower and change the way development is delivered, there cannot be just one organization moving in that direction but rather numerous groups of people, and configurations of organizations, pushing towards this change from different angles and...