Join us on 12/8 from 5:30-8:30pm at the Blaxk Box to share a meal with 1Hood staff, supporters, and community partners, learn about 1Hood’s collective community work, and discuss our philanthropic partner values.
As 1Hood grows our network of supporters, our philanthropic partner values will help ground our engagement with our supporters in a way that aligns with 1Hood’s values and our Five Pillars of Engagement (Arts and Culture, Media, Education, Activism, Collaboration).
These values and having people-centered conversations helps us to center collaboration, cultural competency, and service to our community as we expand our capacity and respond to community needs.
Our Philanthropic Partner Values
Our Community, Our Support: Everything we do, including raising money, places community-first. Together - 1Hood staff and board members, community members and partners, individual donor and foundation partners - we share resources, shift power, and provide opportunity with respect and in response to community needs.
Black-led and social justice focused: We focus on issues, events, and ideas particularly relevant to Black peoples of Africa’s diaspora. Our work and funding is used to challenge inequity, raise awareness of and contextualize our historical struggles, and build liberated communities through the arts, education, and social justice. We have necessary and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about race, wealth disparities, and wealth redistribution within our staff, communities, and with our philanthropic partners.
Holistic work, holistic funding: We recognize that general operating support allows us to be the most effective, flexible, and with fewer barriers as we respond to community needs. Our team, projects, and partnerships are connected, collaborative, and our strength. Donors who share our values and provide unrestricted support are key to our long-term sustainability and community impact, including our commitment to share resources with aligned organizations, artists, small businesses, and partners.
Shifting Power: We’re shifting the donor dynamic from donor power to partnership by amplifying the experience and decision-making power of those working in our communities and sharing social capital as much as dollars donated. Making this power shift requires all of us to confront, analyze, and unlearn the power, race, and wealth dynamics in philanthropy.
This event's capacity is 50, masks will available, and we ask that anyone not feeling well leading up to the event to stay home, rest, and connect with us in the new year.
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Accessibility: Unfortunately, our space is not ADA accessible (yet). Guests will climb a small flight of wide stairs to access the Blaxk Box. ASL interpretation available. If you require this or any other accommodation, please email Mahogany at mahogany@1hood.org
Parking: Parking is available in front of the Blumcraft Building and in our parking lot behind the building (driveway to the left). Bike racks are available and we’re a short walk from several bus stops. We also encourage you to ride share with a friend!