Looking forward from Bogotá: How can the Summit shape our next steps?

Looking for blogs, interviews, photos, videos and other highlights from the December 2023 #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá? Head to the Summit website. Or check out some of the blogs and interviews, which help to shape some of the next steps on the #RoadFromBogotá:

Blogs

• Trust is the key to shifting the power (Soni Khanal, Accountability Lab Nepal)
• Shifting the power – a call to transformation rooted in the personal (Masarat Daud, Adeso)
• International philanthropy needs a strategy for human rights, well-being, justice and peace (Pooja Singh, Adolescent Girls Investment Plan)
• “The #ShiftThePower agenda is a liberation agenda” – interview with Dzikamai Bere, ZimRights (conducted by Tarisai Jangara, Africa Philanthropy Network)
• Shifting power in Bogotá: Notes from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Lena Bheeroo, Bond)
• Alternative networked experiences in Latin America: Reflections and insights from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Aghata Gonsalves & Mariane Maier Nunes, Carduma Social)
• It takes all of us: Shifting power and decolonizing development (Grace Boone, CDA Collaborative Learning & Jasmine Kato-Naughton, Peace Direct – Stopping As Success consortium members)
• “Imagine if the Haitian revolutionaries had to write a proposal?”: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Summit (Taís Siqueira, CIVICUS)
• Power to breathe: Reflections on my participation at the #ShiftThePower Global Summit 2023 (Yasmin Morais, Comuá Network)

• The energy of local changemakers is our most powerful resource (Eleanor Cater, Community Foundations of Aotearoa NZ)
• Four takeaways for philanthropy from #ShiftThePower (Ayan Ahmed, Jesse Eaves and Lexi Ferry-Smith, Humanity United)
• Shifting the power and breaking norms (Christine Sow and Kim Kucinskas, Humentum)
• Empowering communities: Insights from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit in Bogotá (Alex Ross, Loop)
• Reclaiming the lost power of alternatives, diversity, and solidarity (Elizaphan Ogechi, Nguzo Africa)
• ‘Shift the power’: Narrow internal gaze or shaping an equal future? (Amitabh Behar, Oxfam International)
• “He who pays the piper calls the tune” (Le Sen, Nishchhal Kharal and Celine Osukwu, Peace Starts Here campaign)
• Is this community philanthropy’s moment? (Ledys Sanjuan Mejía, Proximate Press)
• The change is now – but how? (Rebecca Hanshaw and Barry Knight, Reforming International Development)

• Power shifting through building a community towards collective change (Yande Kalengo, Restless Development)
• Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit: What can funders do differently? (Re-Imagining the INGO – RINGO)
• Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Shelly Satuku, SIVIO Institute)
• Continuing the dance of the revolution (Jane dela Cruz Austria-Young, Sentrong Pagpapalakas ng Negritong Kultura at Kalikasan – SPNKK)
• Three lessons for peace, from Latin America (Felipe Bogotá Rodríguez, TerritoriA)
• Evolving together: What caterpillars can teach us about transforming philanthropy (Kate Cummings, The Lotus Institute & Tsunagu)
• Co-existing in a flawed system, in rest, in care: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit (Gloria Mugabekazi, UHAI EASHRI)
• Decolonial justice at the border: #ShiftThePower in Bogotá (Massah Esther Nyally Bockarie, We Are Purposeful)
• Measuring community well-being – beyond numbers and donor agendas (Samar Awaad)
• Shifting power for Palestine – it’s more than just power (Themrise Khan)

Interviews

Prior to, and following, the #ShiftThePower Global Summit, the Global Fund for Community Foundations spoke with allies from across the global civil society and funding ecosystem to hear their views on the trajectory of the #ShiftThePower movement, the role of INGOs and civil society organizations in this, and a number of other topics.

The road to Bogotá: Where next for the #ShiftThePower movement?

• Interview with Degan Ali, Executive Director of Adeso
• Interview with Jonathan Glennie, Co-Founder of Global Nation
• Interview with Gunjan Veda, Director of Collaborative Research, Policy and Practice at the Movement for Community-led Development
• Interview with Amitabh Behar, Interim Executive Director of Oxfam International
• Interview with Biarj Patnaik, Executive Director of the National Foundation for India

The road from Bogotá: Perspectives on how INGOs are faring as they work to #ShiftThePower

• People talk about building a movement – it’s already here – a conversation with Kate Moger, Global Director of the Pledge for Change at Adeso
• We need to listen, engage, unlearn and relearn – a conversation with Kate Newman, Chief Executive of INTRAC
• Let’s accelerate the change – and only do flexible funding – a conversation with Charlotte Timson, former Chief Executive of Transform Trade

The road from Bogotá: Perspectives on how CSOs are faring as they work to #ShiftThePower

• Finding better ways to engage with donors – a conversation with Jonathan Kifunda, Founder and Executive Director of Thubutu Africa Initiatives
• Speak with a collective voice – and claim our power – a conversation with Rotimi Olawale. Executive Director and Co-Founder of Youth Hub Africa