Resourcing Night School ​​​​​​​| March 19, 2025

Resource Member Team: 

The Resource member team collaborates with values-aligned partners dedicated to providing unrestricted multi-year support and/or engaging in recurring giving practices. Additionally, the team plays a key role in cultivating resources to sustain the long-term operating costs of the Boston Ujima Project.

Resourcing Night School: 

Resourcing Night School is a monthly virtual workshop for and by our resourcing community (individual donors, foundations, fundraisers, recurring donors and members). Our hope is to step into a deeper relationship with members by offering a rotating learning hub that cultivates a culture of shared resourcing and communal institution building. Ujima members new and old will enhance their knowledge of resource sharing globally and slowly build skills in areas of donor management, resource mapping, time banking, equity-based fundraising, relationship building, storytelling and trust based philanthropy—while introducing participants to the history of philanthropy, and actively engaging Ujima’s donor community in supporting our full range of needs and organizational priorities. 

Description: 

This session, facilitated by Allen Kwabena Frimpong, will explore the 'Foundations of Resource Mobilization,' focusing on how policy impacts funding, the role of fiat currency in resource mobilization, and alternative approaches like mutual aid. Insights from organizations like Justice Funders will connect historical approaches to contemporary strategies for developing sustainable practices that break the constant need loop.

Faciliator Bio: 

Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a co-op entrepreneur and urban planner engaged in cultural design for community wealth-building globally. He is the co-founder of ZEAL, a creative arts and social impact studio cooperative for artists across the Black diaspora, featured in the New York Times, ABC Nightline, and Hyperallergic. As a conceptual artist, he designs and produces multimedia anthologies through soundscape installations and public art exhibitions.

Allen is currently producing The Remedy is Solidarity, a global multimedia anthology on reparations. He previously led the work of the Old Money, New System community of practice, funded by the Andrus Family Fund, which supports movement resource mobilization initiatives to redistribute wealth in philanthropy nationally. Additionally, he was a senior fellow at PolicyLink and co-founder of Liberation Ventures, a field-building organization fostering a culture of repair to advance reparations in the United States. His work has also been featured in books such as Decolonizing Wealth and Rich White Men. He is currently the board chair of Resist, one of the oldest social movement public foundations in the U.S.

Meeting Schedule:

The Resource member team meets every first Wednesday at 7:15 PM at our #UjimaWednesdays: Political & Financial Education Workshops. 

Note: Resource Member team meetings are always virtual unless otherwise mentioned.

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