Featured in the Chronicle of Philanthropy
The California Endowment (TCE) recently featured our partner, the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and our new Lincoln Square Resiliency Hub in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. APEN recently received funding for their work to to improve community resilience and health against climate change disasters through TCE’s Social Bond initiative.
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
APEN is also strengthening climate resilience in Oakland by pushing for a community-driven process to renovate the Lincoln Recreation Center into a Climate Resilience Hub. It revives a long-beloved site where community members can organize and access response, recovery, and social services in disaster situations. “It’s a gathering spot for new immigrants, but it's also a place where people keep returning generation after generation,” Robinson continues.
While Lincoln gets only a brief mention, the full article expands on the broader context for our groundbreaking center, which leverages people power, engages multiple generations, and prioritizes local needs. The article ends with a challenge for philanthropists and grantmakers:
Social Bond grantees continue to create change despite threats to our democracy. Their intergenerational organizing not only makes an immediate impact for the entire state’s health, but also furthers longer-term efforts to realize a just, equitable future.
If their collective impact offers one lesson for philanthropy, it is this: Such courage, tenacity and creativity demands sustained investment far beyond traditional grantmaking. Grantmakers are called to uplift the people who live closest to injustice, and fuel the innovative, long-term solutions our communities are already leading.