Description
At the heart of community change lies the people needed to sustain care-centred work, relational leadership, and an unwavering commitment and vision for strategic investment. From grassroots, non-profit to large-scale movement building, we hear time and time again that systems of white supremacy, including funding structures, basic income and inequitable policies, continue to demand exhaustion, productivity and burnout of people leading the way. What if we chose a different path to systems change? A path that honours the caretakers as essential infrastructure to community change, people who need systems of support to protect their health and wellbeing?
Building on Tamarack’s Open Letter to Philanthropy, this webinar will explore the transformative power of community care initiatives that center love, compassion, and well-being as essential parts of equity-centred systems change.
Our panellists represent grassroots, research, and practice-based approaches to community care:
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FireLoch’s Care for Caretakers Fellowship supports volunteers through reflection and rest.
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Edmonton-based Community of Care for BIPOC Equity Practitioners, which embeds care and relational accountability in equity and reconciliation work.
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Good Futures Collective supports equity-denied communities in responding to climate adaptation
Together, they’ll share how grassroots, community-led acts of care can spark systemic shifts in how we care for the people essential in our systems change efforts, and the shifts required by policymakers, philanthropists and funders to recognize and value care work as essential work. We’ll also discuss how we can better sustain the well-being of those at the heart of community transformation.
Speakers
Anjum Chagpar. Co-Founder, Good Futures Collective
Jennifer DeCoste. Founder, LifeSchoolHouse
Barhet Woldemariam. Executive Director, Centre for Race & Culture
Rochelle Ignacio. Director, Equity, Anti-Racism and Reconciliation, Tamarack Institute
