AFN Member Conversation, Webinar

Peer to Peer – A New Way of Doing Business: Philanthropy’s Role to Support New Frameworks, Rebalance Power, and Promote Justice in Employment

The story of labor exploitation and race and gender determining who has access to what type of employment and working conditions is both a founding story of our country and a root cause of wealth gaps. Low pay and precarious work is not the inevitable outcome of capitalism. Conversations are shifting to address long standing inequities, disrupt conventional notions of work, and seed ideas for system change.  Significant federal investments in infrastructure and green jobs also provide an opportunity at scale to shift how we design a labor eco-system to support justice in work.

Please join Asset Funders Network on March 16, 2023 at 1:00-2:15 ET for a member-only discussion about occupational segregation, how it manifests today and explore opportunities for philanthropy to support a new way of doing business. Specifically we’ll explore:

  • What is the historical throughline from the origins of occupational segregation to present day that have led to the devaluation of work and workers?
  • What concepts, narratives, policies, and practices can we end and what new frameworks can we support to uproot and dismantle inequities in work?
  • What could and do worker-centered, justice-oriented strategies look like? How do funders best support those strategies?
  • What investment strategies and internal and external levers can philanthropy pull to advance culture shift and systems change related to how we work?

SPEAKER:
Dr. Alex Camardelle, Vice President of Research & Policy, Atlanta Wealth Building Initiative

Peer-to-Peer: Advancing an Anti-Racist Economy is a series of member-only monthly sessions centered around AFN’s seven issue areas. Building on critical conversations from AFN’s 2022 National Grantmaker conference, these 75-minute virtual webinars will feature speakers discussing policy and programmatic advances as well as foster authentic dialogue to advance an anti-racist economy.

This session is exclusively for AFN members. Not an AFN member but interested in attending? Please visit our website or reach out to Kristin Rennels, Membership Director (kristin@assetfunders.org) to learn more about joining AFN as a member.