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A Holistic Approach to Spending Down
Responding from a perspective of trust-based solidarity philanthropy and to ensure that our sunsetting strategically continues to support interconnectedness, reciprocity, inclusiveness, and equality, we are approaching our sunsetting through a conceptual model we developed for our holistic program. We believe the Holistic Circle inherently embodies Indigenous perspectives on wealth sharing. In this way we seek to uphold accountability to place and prioritize support for Indigenous Peoples’ home places and All Relations, while also recognizing all our grant partners’ invaluable work in alignment with Swift Foundation’s mission and focus on strengthening their sustainability and resilience.
Our Holistic Circle and Its Pathways
The graphic above depicts our approach: Our holistic circle model has nurtured four parallel pathways radiating around a core circle, which represents the foundation’s mission, and hence aligns the spend down strategy to our mission thus ensuring an enduring vision. Each pathway embodies partners and their work that is aligned and/or accountable to the core circle, allowing each spend down pathway to relate to the whole. In this way, the pathway strategies that are described below ensure interconnectedness, reciprocity, inclusiveness, and equality in their approaches. Our intent is to stay accountable to our mission, with an emphasis on balance and interrelationships across all four pathways.
The Pathways and our Strategies Supporting Them
This is a pathway to support Indigenous Peoples initiatives in the Core circle that aim to create long-term, lasting support for the protection of the places Indigenous Peoples live, love, know and share with all our relations.
Strategy
Currently this pathway is seeding the establishment of the Indigenize Fund, an initiative of Asociación ANDES in Peru focusing on the long-term financing of Indigenous territorial organizations whose goals are strengthening customary systems of territorial governance, reaffirming cultural and spiritual lifeways, building Indigenous wealth and self-determination, food and health sovereignty, language revitalization, and bringing knowledge systems together to enhance community capacity, sustainability, reciprocity with All Relations, and resiliency in an uncertain climate future. Initiatives for Canada and the U.S. are being developed.
This is a pathway to support strategic, transformational, and resilient Indigenous wealth models centered in concepts of holistic well-being and rooted in Indigenous values and lifeways.
Strategy
This pathway will support partners that are strongly aligned with Swift Foundation’s mission and their strategies include building spaces of resistance for land-based small-scale economic activities and practices that are strategic, future-oriented, and focused on creating lasting food and health sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge and language revitalization, and the strengthening of collective land management and organization of production that respect All Relations.
This is a pathway to support the sustainability of trusted partners and to amplify traditional ecological knowledge and critical research that supports the human political, economic, cultural, and spiritual rights of Indigenous Peoples, and local communities.
Strategy
This pathway supports the capacity development of trusted partners to amplify their pioneering critical research and knowledge creation. These partners include regional and international NGOs, social movements, and research organizations that provide strategic legal and policy support and enable new forms of partnerships and alliances to communities threatened by state, corporate, or other forces.
This is a pathway that supports sharing of insights and learning gained during the spend down with other philanthropic organizations about inherent power imbalances in philanthropy. It fosters a critique of traditional philanthropic ideology that stimulates a paradigm shift in philanthropy.
Strategy
This pathway supports communicating the sharing of insights and learning on the spend down with other philanthropies and stimulating dialogue about how to respond in practice to inherent power imbalances and how sunsetting can contribute to paradigm shift in philanthropy. This is carried out in cooperation with philanthropic alliances, media organizations and networks promoting systemic change through solidarity philanthropy, policy, and advocacy.
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