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The PIPA Initiative is collectively building the first network of peripheries to debate Philanthropy and Private Social Investment (PSI) in the country: The PIPA Network!

 

Our network is made up of organizations, collectives and social movements from all over the country, and we continue to summon voices from the peripheries to debate the donation ecosystem in Brazil. This national articulation aims to

 

Bring together peripheral organizations from all five regions of the country;

Promote the democratization of resources agenda;

Build new narratives and strategies in the field of philanthropy.

 

PIPA wants to strengthen leaders in the creation of strategies to spread the voices of the peripheries, echoing the agenda of democratization of resources with new narratives for the field. Through the PIPA Network, we can influence philanthropy and PSI in a qualified, organized and plural way.

ABCR Festival

In July (2024), PIPA took part in the 16th edition of the ABCR 2024 Festival, held by the Brazilian Association of Fundraisers (ABCR) in São Paulo (SP). Considered the largest fundraising conference in Latin America, this is an important space to be occupied and territorialized by managers of peripheral organizations.

 

Leading the debate on “Peripheries and Fundraising: challenges and ways forward” were managers from peripheral organizations who are part of the PIPA Network, the first peripheral network created to debate the donation ecosystem in Brazil. Débora Silva (Sim! Eu Sou do Meio), Daniel Paixão (Associação Fruto de Favela and startup Hub), Jander Manauara (Associação Intercultural de Hip Hop Urbanos da Amazônia) and Antonieta Costa (Instituto de Mulheres Negras de Mato Grosso) spoke about the inclusion of the peripheries in the context of fundraising.

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The PIPA! Network is made up of social movements and organizations from all over the country. Occupying the space of the ABCR Festival, presenting technologies for change, reflecting on donations and fundraising from a local perspective, focused on different realities in the four corners of Brazil, is transformative. It's important to continue networking, occupying spaces for reflection on giving and philanthropy, vocalizing the premise: THE PERIPHERIES HAVE ANSWERS!

Peripheries in a Network - Establishing

Connections with Philanthropy

In recent years, the PIPA Initiative has led the movement to restructure the philanthropy and private social investment (PSI) sector in Brazil, encouraging a critical review of philanthropic practices, their operations and impacts; from the promotion of data, with the launch of the “Peripheries and Philanthropy” and “Guide to the Peripheries for Donors” surveys; through strategic advocacy in key areas, actors and themes in the field; as well as spreading narratives that lead to a change in the distribution of resources, ensuring that they reach the peripheral territories most affected by inequality and lack of investment.

 

And as part of the institutional strategy aimed at bringing together managers of peripheral organizations and donors in the sector, the PIPA Initiative, in partnership with Confluentes, held the first meeting “Peripheries in a network: Establishing connections with philanthropy” in São Paulo, bringing together leaders from the PIPA Network. The event was an opportunity for donors and actors from institutions in the sector to learn about the diverse realities of organizations in the peripheries, their impact on the territories, challenges and strategies. It was also the first time that leaders from the peripheries had sat down face-to-face with those who have the power to decide on the destination of resources. 

 

The protagonists of the meeting were: Antonieta Costa (Cuiabá-MT), founder of the Institute of Black Women of Mato Grosso and the Casa das Pretas Cultural Center; Jander Manauara (Manaus-AM), cultural director of the Intercultural Association of Urban Hip Hop of the Amazon; Daniel Paixão (Paulista-PE), president of the Fruto de Favela Association and creator of the startup Hub Periférico; and Débora Silva (Belford Roxo-RJ), founder of the NGO Sim! Eu Sou do Meio. 

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Black Peripheries in a Network

The “BLACK PERIPHERIES IN A NETWORK” meeting arrived in Salvador in August (2024) at a strategic moment, the month of black philanthropy and the month of remembrance of the Bahian Conjuration, also known as the Buzios Revolt. This is a period in which history and memory remind us that the steps taken by the black community for freedom, autonomy and transformation go back a long way. 

 

The PIPA Initiative held the meeting at the headquarters of the Sociedade Protetora dos Desvalidos (SPD). The event brought together black and peripheral leaders to discuss attracting and democratizing access to philanthropic resources. PIPA wants to promote, together with black movements and collectives in Brazil, the premise of the need for democratization and greater movement of resources for change, which is already led by peripheral grassroots movements. 

 

Black peripheries have the answers to Brazil's systemic problems, which is why PIPA will work with other organizations to reinforce this manifesto and design concrete actions in the field of philanthropy and PSI in Brazil.

If you belong to an organization on the periphery

of the country and, like PIPA, believe that

 

the transformations made by the peripheries
could be greater with inclusion and access

to resources, register your organization to

be part of the PIPA Network using the form.

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