How Might We Sharpen Movement Strategy for Lasting Change?
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Fall 2022 WIN Week
This Fall, WIN Week will feature the nation’s foremost social justice change and thought leaders across sectors committed to advancing intergenerational health and well-being and equity across the nation. To address these unprecedented challenges, WIN Week’s design is rooted in community, building non-traditional bridges, and changing the narrative, system, and structures to advance intergenerational well-being and equity.
“WIN Week’s underpinning is that to achieve lasting change, we first have to grapple with the painful legacies of the past that inform our current beliefs and reality. On the foundation of that shared analysis, we can create pathways for a more just future built on mutual abundance” said Somava Saha, founder of Well-being and Equity (WE) in the World and executive lead of the WIN Network.
“We see this as a precondition to building pathways for a more just, equitable, and inclusive society in which everyone can participate, prosper, reach their full potential, and contribute to that of others” noted Abeni Bloodworth, co-founder and chief executive officer, chromatic black™ which serves on the Core Implementation Team of the WIN Network.
In this edition we will explore the conversations happening at WIN Week.
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WIN Equitable Economies Quarterly Meeting | |
An equitable well-being economy can be achieved! We are taking steps together to make this a reality. It is a living system built upon the basic goal of all people and places thriving together--with no exceptions. A well-being economy provides opportunities for freedom, voice, power, ownership, and fulfilling life over generations for everyone.
WIN, supported by WE in the World, has recently created a policy library sourced from communities and organizations across the network based on strategies to advance a more equitable well-being.
This session during WIN Week invites anyone who wants to work on a more equitable economy to come together to do that. A panel of speakers will discuss movement-building, multi-solving strategies. Special guests include Randall Johnson, Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Jordana Barton-Garcia, senior fellow, Connect Humanity, Laina Raveendran-Greene, Angels of Impact, and Bobby Milstein, director of system strategy for ReThink Health and Rippel and Visiting Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and moderated by Somava Saha and Anne Ekedahl.
| Laina Raveendran-Greene, Angels of Impact speaks about a SolutionTo End Poverty in this TED Talk | |
Equity is not a far-fetched concept. The WIN network has evolved over 3 years, working together to advance intergenerational equity and well-being. WIN believes that everyone should have the vital conditions needed to thrive.
For the past 3 years, WIN has and continues to change cultures and systems that perpetuate legacies of trauma, creating legacies that foster belonging and inclusion.
WIN continues to expand its network bounded by the WIN Framework for action and the WIN Principles.
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WIN Measurement Cooperative Quarterly Meeting - Data for Equity & Power | |
From a new racial justice scorecard for businesses from HERO to great use of passive data from sidewalk images to change resourcing for municipal dollars to a voting and health index, come find out how change-makers are using measurement in creative ways to improve equitable well-being.
By elevating the work of innovative change leaders who are using data in creative ways to change the system across sectors, we can help other change makers to shift what they are measuring and improving.
Leading professionals in the field Dawn Hunter, Director of Southeastern Regional Office, Network for Public Health Law, Mary Imboden, director of research, Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) and Ramandeep Josen, stantec asset management specialist will be sharing their insights and experience. Don’t miss it!
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WIN Network Hope Exchange- Storytelling Session | |
All share, all learn - come share the work you’re doing and about what you’re learning as you create change to advance intergenerational well-being and equity–and hear what other members of the WIN Network and communities are up to!
Spotlight speaker is: Dr. Ruby Gibsonwith Kara Big Crow, Freedom Lodge, Pine Ridge – Healing generational trauma
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Action Lab! The Right to Vote and Voice
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We will reflect on the legacy of voting in this nation. An equitable democracy requires all of our voices and the forces to suppress the voices of people of color are leading many communities of color to not be able to express this fundamental right in their democracy. In this Action Lab we prepare together to assure the right to vote and voice during election week and beyond.
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The Life & Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer | |
Marking the 105th anniversary of Mrs. Hamer’s birth we bring together a panel to honor the life and work of this extraordinary leader and delve into today’s civil and human rights issues with a screening of the riveting short documentary about Fannie Lou Hamer, featuring an artist talk with Academy Award Winning Aunjanue Ellis and the launch of the WIN Voting Action Cycle. “Is this America?" These three words were part of sharecropper-turned-change maker Fannie Lou Hamer's impassioned plea to defend the right to vote for every citizen regardless of race, creed, or color. It was a simple question with a complex challenge to the credentials committee for the 1964 Democratic National Convention. | |
WIN Network Early Career Professionals Networking | |
Come hang out with others who are beginning their careers and find ways to connect and support one another! This is a special space to create opportunities for connection and mentorship in this networking session in a network connected from the grassroots to the grasstops.
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What's happening in WIN Network?
Be sure to register for the WIN Week activities 25-28th October if you have not as yet. Now more than ever, being interconnected in our mission toward equity is so important. Celebrating 3 years of advancing intergenerational well-being and equity and working strategically together to lay the groundwork for the next 30!
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The Kerr Foundation (Missouri and Texas)
(All applications must be submitted by Indigenous Peoples)
Due Date: April 30, 2023
Overview:The Kerr Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable and educational Oklahoma corporation, established to identify and support 501(c)3 organizations, programs, and institutions that provide new or enhanced opportunities for those within the granting areas, particularly the young.
The Harris & Frances Block Foundation (North Carolina; potentially other locations)
Due Date: Rolling
Overview: The Harris and Frances Block Foundation seeks equitable solutions to social and environmental problems, working with small and emerging organizations to improve our communities and impact the world.
The Block Foundation supports small grassroots not-for-profit organizations with grants that work to foster just and sustainable communities. The foundation focuses on grantmaking in the geographical locations of its Board of Trustees: Vermont, North Carolina, Virginia, and New York. However, grants that fall within the foundation’s Human Rights program area may be considered regardless of location, based on critical need. Grant funding does not exceed $25,000.
The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness) - California
Due Date: Rolling
Overview: Every year, the California Wellness Foundation awards more than $35 million dollars to advance wellness in its communities, cities, and counties, as well as statewide. It supports direct services, public policy, leadership, and capacity building.
To get a grant, an organization’s work must fit into one or more of the foundation’s specific priority areas and serve one or more of its target populations. The foundation funds organizations that address urgent needs people are facing in their communities. Specifically, it focuses on low-income communities, people of color, youth, immigrants, and residents of rural areas.
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