Embedding equitable practices, anti-racism, and racial and economic justice into your fundraising.
As a fundraiser, you may be navigating difficult tensions: you are working towards equity, justice, and systemic change, but relying on funding systems shaped by wealth, privilege, and unequal power.
This workshop creates a space to explore that tension honestly and with practical outcomes. You will examine how power operates within philanthropy and fundraising, and what it means to build fundraising practices that are more equitable, community-centred, and aligned with values around racial, economic, social, and climate justice.
In the session, we will explore questions around legitimacy, trust, agency, and the role fundraisers play within systems that can enable and reinforce inequality. We will also look at the internal realities organisations are facing as they try to balance justice ambitions with income pressures, donor expectations, and culture.
You will be invited to reflect critically on their own practice, organisational systems, and relationships with wealth and power, while exploring practical shifts that can help fundraising become more accountable, inclusive, and community-led. You’ll leave with new perspectives, practical considerations, and reflective tools to support more equitable fundraising conversations and decision-making.
Learning outcomes
- Gain a deeper understanding of wealth, power, and philanthropy in resourcing justice (racial, social, economic, gender, disability, & climate)
- Explore the tensions between justice-centred fundraising approaches and organisational income pressures
- Reflect on what needs to shift internally to support more equitable and community-centred fundraising practice