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In Defence of Home: A Pan-African Conversation on Land and Liberation

Guest post by Zahra Dalilah, former African Diaspora Partnerships Manager Last night, January 27, Africans in the Diaspora (AiD) hosted […]

Doing Money Differently: An AiD perspective on philanthropy

Guest post by Zahra Dalilah, former African Diaspora Partnerships Manager When I began building out a program of work for […]

Why Africans in the Diaspora?

Guest post by Zahra Dalilah, former African Diaspora Partnerships Manager What is it about AiD that gets us excited? Africans […]

Won’t You Celebrate With Me?

by Luam Kidane, former Vice President of Global Programs With an economic recession looming in the wake of COVID-19, mainstream […]

The African ecological think tank advancing climate justice and food sovereignty

by Luam Kidane, former Vice President of Global Programs In November 2019, I spent a week meeting with the Health […]

When Surplus People Project decided on us

By Jennifer Lentfer, former Director of Communications This post is based on a funders’ online dialogue series hosted earlier this […]

When a “crisis” isn’t a crisis

By Jennifer Lentfer, Former Director of Communications This post is based on a funders’ online dialogue series hosted earlier this […]

Climate justice is possible when…we listen to the grandmothers

By Rajasvini Bhansali, Former Executive Director of Thousand Currents This post originally appeared on the Environmental Grantmakers Association‘s and the […]

True change can come from below, and it must

Thousand Currents is currently supporting a joint project by the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) in South Africa and […]

Giving as whole beings, not living ATMs

This article first appeared in Alliance Magazine‘s March 2018 issue on Diaspora Philanthropy. While African Diaspora communities have given for […]

4 New Year’s resolutions for agroecology funders

By Rajasvini Bhansali, former Thousand Currents Executive Director This blog originally appeared on the AgroEcology Fund blog. As a US-based […]

“Globalise the struggle! Globalise hope!”

By Elizabeth Mpofu, General Coordinator of La Via Campesina, and chairperson of Thousand Currents partner, the Zimbabwe Smallholder Organic Farmers […]