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April 25, 2024

Fighting Shame Around How We Respond in Conflict

When it comes to conflict, are you competitive, accommodating, avoidant, compromising, or collaborative? Which response or style have you been taught is “bad”? In this rich, reflective audio episode, CompassPoint Project Director Kyla Hartsfield and CompassPoint Teacher Team Member Laura Eberly discuss Kenneth Thomas and Ralph Kilmann’s “Conflict Styles” framework together, offering personal storytelling and social justice analysis along the way. They unpack how these different approaches to conflict can work for and against us, depending on where our identities are situated within systems of oppression, our positionalities within power dynamics, and what our goals are when working towards liberation collectively. 

Enjoyed this episode and want to learn more in a supportive space with peers? Check out our Conflict Resolution workshop: https://bit.ly/cpconflictres

 

 

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October 17, 2023

Solidarity with the Palestinian Struggle for Freedom

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August 28, 2023

Asha Mehta Joins Liz Derias and Shannon Ellis as CompassPoint’s Third Co-Executive Director

We’re thrilled to announce that Asha Mehta has joined Liz Derias and Shannon Ellis as CompassPoint’s newest Co-Executive Director.  
 

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July 26, 2023

What I’m Learning: Drawing on Participatory Budgeting Principles to Experiment with Distributed Power

This past year, CompassPoint set out to take on our budgeting season in a different way: using principles from participatory budgeting to inspire new practices for distributing power. 
 

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June 27, 2023

Board Building for Transformative Governance: Introducing CompassPoint’s New Board

We’re excited to re-introduce the CompassPoint board to you—six experienced leaders who are co-creating governance with us in ways that challenge traditional notions around the power of boards, and helping us activate our commitment to racial justice as a multiracial organization that centers pro-Blackness. 
 

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April 22, 2023

We Can’t Authentically Practice Feedback Without Talking About Power

Grappling with feedback without considering power dynamics can replicate the systems of oppression we should be dismantling. Our vision for social justice should not be limited to our mission statement and our programs; it should apply to our workplace culture and norms, too.
 

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Liberatory Principles for White Supervisors
April 10, 2023

Liberatory Principles and Practices for White Supervisors

We're excited to launch a new online, two-day training this summer: Liberatory Principles and Practices for White Supervisors. Read more about it here. 
 

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March 6, 2023

How Do Your Beliefs About Money Shape the Way You Fundraise? | The Money Beliefs Activity Illustrated

Fundraisers and resource mobilizers rarely have time to explore how their relationships to money inform their work.

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January 25, 2023

In Solidarity with Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay

Dear Community,

We extend our condolences to everyone affected by the horrific shootings in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay over the past few days. Lunar New Year should be a time of celebration for many Asian families, and yet we find ourselves here again in an all-too familiar space of grief and despair. 
 

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December 6, 2022

Bringing an “Outsider” Perspective to Financial Systems is a Gift

As we shift our systems towards a bottom line that includes people and the planet, finance professionals from non-traditional backgrounds can step into these roles without having to unlearn practices that have held back our economy and in turn our society for so long.  
 

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