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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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.
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.
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.
Read MoreWe're excited to launch a new online, two-day training this summer: Liberatory Principles and Practices for White Supervisors. Read more about it here.
Fundraisers and resource mobilizers rarely have time to explore how their relationships to money inform their work.
Read MoreDear 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.
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.
CompassPoint continues to grow our ability to support Black leaders and power building efforts and move toward regenerative financial practices, inside and out. We are thrilled to share that we have three new Project Directors joining our team: Monica Marie Avery, Maryssa Hall, and Kyla Hartsfield.
In service of our commitment to practice liberation inside and out, and in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we want to share how a few of our Asian staff members at CompassPoint have benefited from convening as a racial affinity space (or as they were called back in 2016 when they were first established at our organization, racial caucuses), in hopes that more social justice organizations can devote time, space, and resources to provide such spaces for their own staff.