NYC!

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Join Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, and Astra Taylor, for a conversation hosted by Carmen Rojas, PhD 🐜

Wednesday, April 24th at 6:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend & get a free book: events.nationswell.com/event/ns-mcf-b…

MCF grant recipient KC Tenants proves it again: organizing gets the goods!

Huge congratulations on this successful campaign to stop a stadium sales tax that would have given private interests >$2B in public funds.

When the people fight, communities win!
kansascitydefender.com/politics/kansa…

NYC!

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Join Naomi Klein, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Astra Taylor, and Carmen Rojas, PhD 🐜 for a discussion hosted by NationSwell and Marguerite Casey Foundation

Wednesday, April 24th at 6:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend:
events.nationswell.com/event/ns-mcf-b…

NYC! Can't wait for this conversation with some of my favourite people.

Thursday April 24

Congratulations to the National Trust for Local News (National Trust for Local News) on the massive positive impact your work is having on community and democracy across ME, GA, CO, and beyond.

We're proud to fund this work and light a path for local news throughout the U.S. sunjournal.com/2024/03/28/wat…

It's the joy in these workers' voices for me.

This More Perfect Union story is a great example of how federal investments—our public dollars—can advance the public good by creating dignified unionized jobs with a living wage and full benefits.

Every community deserves as much. 👏

'A necessary and inseparable ingredient for justice has to be economic rights... a base level of resource so people can engage without a vulnerability of being exploited...'

Listen to the new ACLU podcast featuring MCF Public Dollars for Public Good Advisor Darrick Hamilton ⬇️

Join NationSwell and @caseygrants for the third event in our #MCFBookClub series: “ #SayHerName : Black Women’s Stories of Police Violence and Public Silence” featuring author Kimberlé Crenshaw, Carmen Rojas, PhD 🐜, and Ms. Rhanda Dormeus.

Register buff.ly/3xqAJbv

Congratulations to MCF grant recipient KC Tenants and everyone who fought tirelessly for this rent-increase cap! 👏

As KC Tenants founding director Tara Raghuveer points out, this move signals that federal funding and tenant protections can and must go hand-in-hand.

My latest article for TIME and madebyhistory about why public housing should be part of Biden’s housing agenda featuring the important work of KC Tenants Claremont McKenna College

time.com/6900050/public…

People across the political spectrum feel political anger for many valid reasons.

Understanding the nuances of how we got here is part of what it will take to shift power in this country. Falsely casting rural white Americans as THE PRIMARY threat to democracy just sets us back.

Congratulations to MCF Public Dollars for Public Good grant recipient Economic Security Project for their leading role in launching IRS #DirectFile !

Now, taxpayers in 12 states can file for FREE, cutting out corporations and boosting access to credits, especially in communities of color!

Thank you Confluence Philanthropy for a powerful conference on mission-aligned philanthropy!

MCF leadership—including Carmen Rojas, PhD 🐜—were honored to attend and share the work we're doing to address the racial disparities inherent in who has access to capital and how that money moves.

Gig economy workers-turned-researchers provide the clearest solutions for how to fix the gig economy. 👏

Check out this excellent article in Fast Company by Adrian Haro and Shelly Steward both at @TheWorkersLab—an MCF Public Dollars for Public Good grant recipient.

Thank you Walter & Elise Haas Fund for this breath of fresh air about how philanthropy must evolve!

Our path forward—as funders committed to equity and justice—is not based on a control-centered status quo but leans deeply into a modality rooted in trust.