Emerging from Crisis through Inclusion
      
              Emerging from Crisis through Inclusion
How Diversity and Inclusion Can Build the Future We Want
An interactive discussion with Deborah Frieze, Ingrid Srinath, Tulaine Montgomery and Marilia Bezerra
Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
COVID-19 has spread across the globe and as the pandemic continues to unfold, there will be unpredictable challenges to which none of us have all the answers. Now more than ever, the importance of building inclusive systems--economic, social, cultural, political--is paramount.
Those of us who are fortunate enough to be healthy, are making sacrifices for our global community, but the burden is not spread equally. For many, those sacrifices are life altering.
The crisis makes visible how unequal and unjust our world is. And as many think about how to get back to what was, perhaps we can use the disintegration and disruption of this moment to move towards a more just and loving world. What can we learn from past experiences?
At Synergos, we believe in the power of community, and recognize that interconnectedness is the organizing principle of all living systems. Therefore, we understand that challenging times like these require us to strengthen our bonds and engage the power of our collective imagination and action.
Resources shared during the event included:
- Overcoming the Racial Bias in Philanthropic Funding
 - Ask Nature
 - Janine Benyus on biomimicry
 - Inclusive Impact Report
 - Key Takeaways From the Women Moving Millions Summit
 - The Water of Systems Change
 - Funding from a Place of Trust with related webinar
 - New Views on Trust in Philanthropy
 
Ingrid is Director of the Centre for Social Impact & Philanthropy at 
Tulaine is an accomplished social entrepreneur, educator, and community organizer. She is a Managing Partner and member of the Executive Team at New Profit. A member of the founding team that launched New Profit, Tulaine provides strategic and financial support to many of our nation's most promising social innovations. Tulaine leads New Profit's Inclusive Impact, a comprehensive, sector-wide systems change strategy designed to increase investment and capacity building support for leaders of color. Additionally, she is a member of New Profit's Systems Solutions team and serves as a lead spokesperson for New Profit at a time of growing dialogue in philanthropy about the unprecedented opportunities and challenges facing the sector. She is Host and Executive Producer of "What Had To Be True", New Profit's podcast and online forum for conversations with “America’s Problem Solvers”- the grounded visionaries and practical idealists working hard to make things better.
Deborah is an author, entrepreneur and activist. Her award-winning book (co-authored with Margaret Wheatley), Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now, profiles pioneering leaders who walked out of organizations failing to contribute to the common good—and walked on to build resilient communities. She is a Founding Partner of the Boston Impact Initiative, an impact investing fund working to close the racial wealth divide in Eastern Massachusetts. The fund takes an integrated capital approach, combining investing, lending and grant-making to build a resilient and inclusive local economy. Deborah is also Founder of the Old Oak Dojo, an urban learning center where neighbors gather to rediscover how to create healthy and resilient communities.
Marilia helps lead Synergos' Philanthropy program, including the Global Philanthropists Circle, a community of leading philanthropic families and social investors using their time, influence, and resources to fight poverty and social injustice in their own countries and around the world. She is also the Founding Partner of CARE Enterprises Inc., a for-profit subsidiary of CARE focused on creating gender justice through impact investment.