06/27/2025
What happens when racial equity capacity builders stop competing and start dreaming together? ✨ You get the Knowledge Share Group - a collective of eight multiracial organizations (including IISC!) who’ve spent years building trust, trading strategies, and refusing to hoard knowledge in a field shaped by scarcity.
No, we didn’t come together for optics - we did it to resource each other, challenge each other, and strengthen the ecosystem that justice work relies on.
In a new piece from Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), the Knowledge Share Group is featured as a model of what’s possible when funders, like The Kresge Foundation, invest in deep, collaborative, and care-centered capacity building.
📣 “This group is a buoy to each of us.”
📣 “We are the people who help build the capacity, the imagination, who accompany people when they are beating themselves against the wall."
📣 “Investing in building this type of community isn’t extra. It’s fundamental to the work and should be funded just like program delivery is funded."
đź”— Read the full post to learn why funders must go beyond program support and invest in the relationships, networks, and co-learning spaces that make true equity possible.
https://www.geofunders.org/news/strengthening-the-ecosystem-resourcing-racial-equity-capacity-building-organizations-for-the-long-haul/
And of course, shoutout to Community Wealth Partners & our KSG peers at Change Elemental, ProInspire, Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training, CompassPoint, Rockwood Leadership Institute, and The Management Center ❤️
