The Healing Through the Land Initiative (HTTLI) is an active practice of reorienting grantmaking to align with Indigenous ways of knowing and being, through the specific work of developing a strong, deeply connected steering committee of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, developing a unique grantmaking and shared learning cycle that involves deepening relationships in order to amplify the solutions Indigenous peoples have for their own healing. This initiative is offered in partnership with the Catherine Donnelly Foundation and the Balsam Foundation. If you are interested in supporting HTTLI, please reach out to Shereen Munshi.
The Canadian Philanthropy Commitment on Climate Change (CPCCC) is a call to all foundations and other funders in this land to signal their commitment to act on climate change regardless of their respective missions. The Circle’s Valine Brown and Shereen Munshi sit on the CPCCC Steering Committee.
In its third year, through The Circle’s partnership and recommendation, the One Day’s Pay campaign supports Indigenous led organizations and its standing organization, Orange Shirt Society who is featured in the ODP Campaign annually. To date, the ODP campaign has raised $750K for Indigenous-led organizations.
Upwelling + Truth Telling is a research and knowledge mobilization initiative in support of Indigenous sovereignty. In this initiative we asked Indigenous leaders from across these lands questions that enabled for truth-telling to elevate their voices and experiences and uncover assumptions about the quality of partnership between settler-led ENGOs and Indigenous peoples.
In Partnership with our sister organizations, Arctic Funders Collaborative (AFC) and International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) we co-hosted the second Aunties in Philanthropy gathering gathering in the Pueblo of Sandia. This gathering focused on how Indigenous women work strategically across culture, geography and time to ensure healthy lands, waters, languages for us all. It was an honour to listen, learn and deepen connection among this cohort of Indigenous Aunties.
