OPEN LETTER TO PHILANTHROPY
In recent years, Brazil has been facing turbulent times: in addition to being one of the countries most affected by the global COVID-19 pandemic, we are dealing with a serious political and economic crisis that affects, above all, black and indigenous people, who live in our favelas, peripheries, villages, quilombos, settlements and riverside regions.
For us, the periphery is the whole, the place where historically marginalized populations resist and produce solutions with little, impacting the future of a country that belongs to black, indigenous, women and LGBTQIA+ people.
It was we, Brazil's peripheral collectives, organizations and movements, who led the front line to ensure that our people had minimum conditions for survival. Over the last two years, we have worked together to bring food, information and protection to our families and communities, doing a job that governments have failed or omitted to do.
At this time, it was crucial to count on the partnership of private social investment and Brazilian philanthropy, which came together and showed its capacity to collaborate with Brazil's favelas and peripheries. According to the GIFE Census, in 2020 around $5.3 billion reais were mobilized in the country for civil society, an unprecedented result for the sector - and certainly an unprecedented investment in the collectives, organizations and movements that carry out the work on the ground. But as the most serious impacts of the pandemic dissipate, private social investors are signaling a return to old patterns of giving.
In 2021, a preliminary survey conducted by PIPA showed that 90% of organizations from favela and peripheral collectives, movements and grassroots organizations have barriers to accessing funding and ⅓ of these generate less than 5,000 reais a year.In the same survey, 54% of the respondent initiatives stated that they work with their team's own funds.
Of these, 40% say that the institution's main challenge is to pay its staff, the people who transform reality with their own hands. This is a picture that highlights the precariousness and sense of urgency that permeates the work of peripheral collectives, movements and organizations, the same ones that contribute to small revolutions taking place every day in their communities and territories.
We believe that in order to achieve racial and gender equity in our society, it is necessary to share resources and power with those who produce impact on a daily basis in the country's most unequal territories. Together, social impact investors and collectives, movements and organizations from the favelas and peripheries can change Brazil's history.
We are writing this open letter based on our own experience, as an invitation to colleagues in private and family foundations, companies that drive social impact, and the individual donor community, to rethink their internal construction policies, prioritizing the hiring of black, peripheral, LGBTQIA+ and women profiles to manage their portfolios and be in management and board positions, to make the decision about who and how much can be invested in effective change. As well as promoting a model of donation and transfer of resources that prioritizes the promotion of black, peripheral and gender initiatives.
If we were the ones who ensured that the favelas and peripheries could eat and protect themselves during the pandemic, imagine the political, economic and social transformation that we will be able to build if we receive sustainable, flexible and long-term resources, beyond the pandemic moment. Private social investors and their many organizations and companies must finally see the favelas and peripheries, the black, indigenous, quilombola, rural and urban populations, women, LGBTQIA+, not just as beneficiaries, but as protagonists of change.
We believe it's time for private social investment and philanthropic organizations to review their methodologies and scopes of action, reducing bureaucracy in funding methods, deepening relationships of trust with favela and peripheral collectives, organizations and movements, and ensuring that resources reach the front line. If we want to have a philanthropy in Brazil that makes sense and promotes concrete impacts, we need to put the favelas, especially black people, women and LGBTQIA+ and peripheral people at the center of transformation strategies.
We are the peripheries that created us. We have been on the margins of cities, rights and resources. We are territory, community and culture, made with what our people had in their hands. We are the sum of the diversity that runs through us. We are women, blacks and the poor, building powerful but still extremely unequal realities.
What we created was no small feat. We didn't wait for the perfect conditions to start acting. But we want and we can do more. We know what can be done when the money arrives and we do it together when it does. That's why we want to encourage and democratize the distribution of resources, connecting philanthropy to the favelas and peripheries of Brazil.
We are collective achievement. We fly and we call you to action: resources need to arrive where reality happens.
We invite you to raise this PIPA with us, seeking to join forces to democratize the country's future by fostering our next generations.
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