GFCF Annual Report, 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024
This GFCF Annual Report covers the period 1 April 2023 – 31 March 2024. The highlight of the year was the #ShiftThePower Global Summit, which was held in Bogotá in December 2023 and brought together some 730 participants from all over the world. Four years had passed since our last global convening (the Pathways to Power Symposium in London) and a global gathering of movement members and allies felt long overdue.
A key goal of Summit was to reignite and strengthen the human connections and flows of solidarity across the #ShiftThePower movement, while acknowledging too the growing sense of isolation and exhaustion among many of those on the frontlines of social change. Our second goal was to create space for some radical reimagining. As momentum and obligations continue to grow around the localization agenda, there has been a tendency towards instrumental fixes and tweaks, all within the existing aid paradigm. What if we could start from a different place, which was not about increasing flows of money but rather a world in which humanity – and the planet on which we live – could flourish?
In pursuit of a new, reimagined system, over the year we at the GFCF continued with our work supporting our community philanthropy partners through our grantmaking, connecting the field and building its evidence base, and building a global movement to #ShiftThePower. This Annual Report provides a sense of how we have approached this over the period.
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