From precarity to liberatory: creating a new model of resourcing grassroots groups (NSUN Network Meeting July 2024)
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July 25 , 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Thursday 25th July 2024, 4.00-5.30pm
In this month’s NSUN Network Meeting we will hear about the importance of challenging funding practices and the need to build on work at the intersection of racial justice and mental health.
Staff from Synergi, NSUN’s hosted project, will discuss their approach to grantmaking towards racial justice and mental health. Joining the discussion will be Nusrat Faizullah, who launched the Resourcing Racial Justice fund with Farzana Khan in 2020 as a direct response to an inflexible philanthropic approach to funding the racial justice sector. We will also hear from Evie Muir from Peaks of Colour, discussing the precarity of funding/philanthropic environment which maintains and perpetuates the colonial model of grant making creating a state of precarity. This will be an enriching conversation to unpack what it means to be relational and intentional when speaking about and resourcing racial justice beyond an economic framework.
About the speakers
Nusrat Faizullah (she/her) – Resourcing Racial Justice
Nusrat Faizullah is a strategist and ecosystem builder who works between the grassroots and mainstream structures to support them to tackle systemic injustice. Her work is concerned with: understanding and disrupting power, structural oppression and its relationship to identity, and nurturing leadership. She has worked with and advised many institutions including the National Lottery Community Fund, Lankelly Chase, Esmee Fairbairn, Blagrave Trust, Nike Sports for Good and Churchill Fellowship.
She also works with many groups, collectives and organisations across areas including health, criminal justice, homelessness, LGBTQI+ rights, refugees and forced migration, and education. Nusrat was a teacher in the first cohort of the Teach First programme and also developed a number of new models and education projects while working at the Young Foundation. Nusrat is also the co-lead of Resourcing Racial Justice, an experiment that moved resources to communities of colour during the pandemic.
Evie Muir (she/they) – Peaks of Colour (@xeviemuir on Instagram/Twitter)
Evie Muir is a nature writer and founder of Peaks of Colour – a Peak District-based nature for healing grassroots community group by and for people of colour. Having worked in the Violence Against Women and Girls sector for over 10 years, Evie left after becoming burnt out, disillusioned and disenfranchised. Now through their writing and organising
Evie is interested in exploring alternative, anti-carceral routes to healing and justice for survivors of gendered and racialised violence. Their debut book, Radical Rest explores Black Feminist, Abolitionist and nature-allied approaches to activist burnout, and will be published by Elliot and Thompson in July 2024.
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