Article (Repost): From Speed to Staying Power: Rethinking Philanthropy’s Timelines to Protect Democracy

“Philanthropy faces a choice: will we continue to fund civic change as though it were a series of short sprints, or treat democracy as a thing to be actively and continuously built, and dedicate our lifelines—our capital, attention, and accountability—to the long arc of civic work, nurturing strategies over generations?” 

In an article published on GEO’s Blog, Borealis’ Vice Presidents of Advancement Sadé Dozan examines how funders have unintentionally simplified the reality of what civic and democratic work takes with urgency and metrics as our guiding lens, and makes clear what movements have always required: sustained, generational investments. 

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