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Philanthropy is at an inflection point. Communities across Northern California are already feeling the effects of catastrophic wildfires, drought followed by excessive rainfall and flooding, and extreme heat during an increasingly warmer summer season. Historic and current systems of oppression, including environmental racism, land theft and redlining have resulted in the disproportionate burden of these climate impacts on communities of color and rural regions.
What if we built economic systems that facilitated us being in right relationship with resources, the land, and each other? Worsening economic conditions show that our current systems are rooted in historical legacies of extraction and exploitation. Building an economic system that not only recognizes the legacy of slavery and colonization, but works to repair this legacy is vital for philanthropy. As a field, philanthropy has a responsibility to steward resources, capital, and power back to those who have been most harmed by historic injustices.
