We fund movement support organizations.We exchange grassroots brilliance.
While women, youth, and Indigenous Peoples contribute least to large-scale, global problems like climate change, inequality, poverty, and broken food systems, they often are the most impacted by them.
However, with enough support and resources, everyday people are shaping proven and powerful local solutions to our shared and urgent global challenges.
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Vision
Thousand Currents envisions a world where humanity thrives as a creative force that is reciprocal and interdependent with nature, and creates loving, equitable and just societies.
Values
Courage: We confront injustice and inequality with love, strength, conviction, and integrity.
Humility: We are part of a greater whole. We are one among many currents. We recognize our place among many forces for good and change that exist in the world.
Experimentation: In order to take principled actions together, we prioritize learning, commit to self-reflection, embrace trial and error, and honor multiple ways of knowing.
Creative collaboration: We share power, practices, and resources to reimagine new ways of living.
Interdependence: With our futures intertwined, we respect all beings and build authentic relationships to move forward together.
Theory of Change
When grassroots groups and social movements have the relationships and financial and intellectual resources they desire, they are strengthened to transform the world by changing cultures, systems, and institutions towards self-determination, justice and equity around the world.
Thousand Currents Staff

Maha Akamine
Buen Vivir Fund Coordinator

Rachel Ariniii
Regional Manager, Asia and the Pacific

Felogene Anumo
Regional Director, Africa

Aziz Azad
Accounting Manager

Boipelo Bonokwane
Program Manager, Africa

Sarah Charles
Executive Assistant

Zahra Dalilah
African Diaspora Partnerships Manager

Cindy del Rosario-Tapan
Director of Communications

Jinky Demarest de Rivera
Director of Finance and Administration

Crystal Des-Ogugua
Donor Education Manager

Ayşe Gürsöz
Communications Manager

Ashlesha Khadse
Regional Director, Asia and the Pacific

Rajiv Khanna
Director of Philanthropic Partnerships

Luam Kidane
Director of Global Programs

Solomé Lemma
Executive Director

Heather Masaki
Director of Grants Operations

Hafsa Mustafa
Learning and Evaluation Manager

Jamie San Andres
Program Manager, Latin America

Gaithiri Siva
Buen Vivir Fund Director

Jessie Spector
Director of Donor Organizing

Natalia Vallés Skinner
Senior Grant Writer

Katherine Zavala
Director of Learning Initiatives
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