Guest-curated by Liberation Ventures, California Philanthropy: A Roadmap for Repair will explore how a culture of repair can inspire new models of philanthropy.
Join 140 philanthropic and social sector leaders with the common goal of advancing economic justice and racial equity in the Bay Area, California, and beyond. Plenary and breakout sessions will guide attendees through the iterative cycle of repair–reckoning, acknowledgment, accountability, and redress–and explore its application to asset-building philanthropy in the Bay Area. The conference will center California’s repair ecosystem with the first state-appointed task force in the nation to explore reparations and will spotlight California’s Truth and Health Council.
Co-presented with Philanthropy California, this conference promises to strengthen the economic security field, deepen economic equity perspectives, and build new relationships among economic justice practitioners. Join us on March 20, 2025, in Oakland as we chart a roadmap for repair.
Guest-curated by Liberation Ventures, the Bay Area AFN’s 2025 conference sessions will focus on advancing economic equity, reparations as an opportunity for transformation, and how a culture of repair can inspire new models of philanthropy serving Black, Indigenous, and other systemically excluded communities. Our current economic inequities and political environment demonstrate that repair is increasingly necessary today to build a just economy and equitable society. A culture of repair is needed at the individual, institutional, and societal levels. The failure to repair the harms of the nation’s establishment through settler colonialism, U.S. chattel slavery, and centuries of discriminatory systems, policies, and practices that continue into the present day point to where we need to build and where we need to dismantle. Additionally, because of the reparations movement’s long and rich history, reparationists have much to teach us as we encounter new injustices and economic harm, and we work toward a transformative future.
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