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Happy to see you here,
RSS.
January Newsletter
00/2025
Coming soon!
2024 in Focus: Celebrating Progress and Partnerships:
Despite global challenges, particularly for the Global Majority, the RSS team managed to achieve many goals by working hand in hand with you, our partners. Check our achievement list, and celebrate the current and upcoming collaborations with us.
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Our upcoming events include 2025’s Fit for a King, sponsored by RSS. And we’re also extending information about our holiday break.
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Happy holidays!
Looking for new partnerships
As the year ends, we are looking for new nonprofit clients to partner with in 2025. We are offering to create a free 2024 infographic-style impact report for any organization that refers a new potential partner to us by December 15, 2024. Check out our November newsletter to learn more about our work.
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Our Featured Partner for the month was the New Orleans office of the Vera Institute of Justice. We are proud to partner with this organization again to develop a grassroots organizing strategy that will drastically change the criminal justice system in Louisiana.
Art as Resistance
For this newsletter, we want to promote three artistic and cultural events that are closely intertwined with social justice, equity, and immigration, brought to you by our valued partners in the US Deep South. From films to music, and plastic arts, whatever pleases your artistic palate… Our wonderful partners got it.
Our resources include pre-registration for the Financing for Feminist Futures Conference, which will take place in Seville in June 2025. The Global Ambassador Fellowship 2025 is also accepting applications until November 10, 2024.
Our featured partner is Verbena, deserving of a double mention for the hard work it took to set up multiple exhibitions from October through February 2025, covering themes relevant to our society, such as climate change and the legacy of colonialism.
Best & Worst Place to Work
For this edition of the newsletter we’re sharing The Best States to Work Index released by Oxfam and focusing on worker’s rights across the Globe. Since our current US clients are based in five states (California, Illinois, Louisiana, Florida and Mississippi) we reviewed their score cards to open a conversation about where we are, and where we could be.
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Our resources include Fund the People, an initiative that will make our lives, as workers of the non-profit sector, lighter. We’re also sharing The International Trade Union Confederation Global Rights Index 2023 report, in which we’ll be able to ponder on the inequities that are still present in our working environment worldwide.
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Finally, we’re very proud to announce that our featured partner for this month is the Roy and Patricia Disney Family Foundation.
Voting is a DEI issue
With election day coming, and through a very unpredictable political and economic climate, RSS would like to extend some resources to kickstart the participation. Also, one of our associates, Rebecka Bihm Lester, decided to pitch in this month with a few thoughts about how DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) has been transformed into a problem, instead of a solution.
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Our resources include a couple of websites to help you prepare for election day, and a YouTube video in which you can get a quick overview of what a proper DEI initiative looks like.
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Our partner of the month for this edition is none other than the Social Sciences Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú, to which Rosa has partnered to create a DEI program.
Mixing Pleasure with Work
For July, RSS would like to highlight the benefits of collaborations and partnerships. To open the door to that conversation we’re bound to touch on the subject of Pleasure vs Work, and the amazing ways in which we can mix both -apparent- opposites.
On this edition we bring you Louisiana Dreams, a child’s book written By Rebecka Bihm Lester, a blog “Collaborative Change: Harnessing Strategic Partnerships for Justice” written by Keeta Jackson, both members of our team, a soulful event and news about our collaboration and partnership with The Verbena Group.
Exploitation or Burnout?
This month RSS wants to take a deep look into the role organizational culture plays inside our dear nonprofit organizations. Passion Exploitation is the Dark Side of Nonprofit Work is an article that talks about how some people will take advantage of our best intentions, and Employee Burnout Is a Problem with the Company, Not the Person shows us many flaws we might be incurring in order to pursue those best intentions.
Moreover, our partner spotlight for this month is LAN Consultants, a network of consultants who are partnering with RSS to design a customized training to prevent consultant burnout.
From Charity to Liberation
On this month wanted to raise our voices for Palestine, discuss the conjunction between Charity & Liberation, and congratulate Nastacia Pereira on her birthday!
For our resources there is We, the Nonprofit Institutions: Transformation for Liberation, an article by PolicyLink's, a series of Stanford Social Innovation Review. But also The Indigenous Futures Network, as part of HIP's Colibrí Initiative on climate and migration justice.
For our partner spotlight we have Return to Hope (RTH), an organization founded by D’Marria Monday, aiming to develop a community-based violence intervention and prevention program.
April News!
We celebrated Rosa’s and Keeta’s birthday by showering our readers with very special resources. Check Justice Funds to access funding opportunities in the Global South, and NoVisa Jobs to find and post true remote job opportunities open to all nationalities anywhere in the world.
We also invite you to read the Urban Institute’s Housing Resilience in Greater New Orleans research report, that focused on the perceptions of and home Adaptations to climate hazards in post-Katrina Louisiana.
Our featured partner this month is Operation Restoration, an organization that will receive three customized training series for its fiscal sponsorship program, Operation Innovation, from RSS.
Awakening Voices: The Power and Perseverance of Southern Women
In honor of Women’s History Month all the women who work at Radical Southern Strategies shared a small contribution of thoughts, memories and opinions by answering a couple of questions. This is our second blog!
For our resources, we presented the Begallio Center, from the Rockefeller Foundation, and our recommended promoted Building a New Legacy, an evening of ultimate financial nurturing between female investors and entrepreneurs.
Journey into Education and Teaching (JET), our featured partner of the month, will be receiving a six-month strategic planning process and includes a capacity plan to propose the required organizational structure, among others.
Healing Justice in Action
For the US Black History Month RSS is launching the first RSS blog written by “Keeta” Jackson, our Senior Advisor.
For our resources we brought our readers a 3 session workshop by A Bookkeeping Cooperative, and we also shared a timeline from Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, an interesting reading that sheds light on the fight for citizenship rights in the United States.
Epicentro.TV is our highlighted partner, a group of highly experienced Peruvian journalists with the mission of independently exercising investigative journalism to deliver analysis, context, news, and opinion-oriented towards the fight against corruption!
Our 2024 Intentions
Our promoted events included Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy (EPIP), a conference for emerging talents in philanthropy, and the HIIP - Heart & Power, a conference made to try and reimagine philanthropy. Of course, if you missed both of the events, you can also read about Building an Anti-capitalist Business, an incredible piece written by Emily Eley.
The Acadia Foundation (TAF) is our featuted partner, an organization that wants to establish itself as a grantmaking pilar in the Acadiana region of Louisiana.
Decolonizing Our Work
For November we promoted Exploring Nonprofit Decolonization Concepts, a report from Play for Peace, and a tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr hosted by the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center.
Our highlighted partner was Pure Legacee Inc (PL)., a NY haven of healing for girls who have experienced trauma as a direct result of the criminal justice system.
Closing 2023: A Quick Review of This Year’s Accomplishments
To close 2023, we kept this newsletter edition short and sweet. We reviewed some of our achievements and wish our beloved partners the best. Get to know the 11 social impact organizations in the USA and 3 in Peru that we worked with in 2023.
October is the Purple Month in Peru!
We were very excited to promote Facing Race 2024, the US's largest multiracial, intergenerational racial justice conference. For our resources get to read Why We’re All Burned Out and What to Do About It by Cathleen Clerkin, and nourish your soul.
This month RSS features Unspoken Treasure Society (UTS), an organization dedicated to finding solutions to the ever-growing needs of the Transgender community.
Happy Latinx Heritage Month!
RSS proudly recommended Latinx Philanthropy: Understanding Generosity Trends Across Latinx Communities in the U.S as a substantial and integral reading, while our resources included Communicating with Multilingual Populations: Language Access Toolkit and the Building a Race Equity Culture using the Awake to Woke to Work Framework by Candid webinar.
For this month our team decided to highlight Familias Unidas en Acción, a membership-based organization led and operated by Black and Brown immigrants in Louisiana.
We Have a New Team Member!
This month we welcome Sofia Sarmiento, who comes from Click Virtual Support, LLC. We hope our partnership with her and Heidi McClellan will strengthen our administrative capacity.
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For our upcoming events we promoted the Feminist Funded '23 conference, while in our recommended readings A Generosity of Spirit: The Legacy of Black Philanthropy and Pocket Change: How Women and Girls of Color Do More with Less. And our resources included the Excellence in Black Philanthropy Award 2023, which awarded prices to black philanthropists.
The highlighted partner of the month was BAJI (Black Alliance for Just Immigration), a team that advocates for racial, social, and economic justice!
Our first monthly e-blast!
We promoted a couple of events, CHANGE Philanthropy and Funding Forward 2023: Funders for LGBTQ Issues.
On our resources you’ll be able to find the 2023 Anti-trans Bills Tracker, an online platform that tracks anti-trans legislation in the United States, and A Bookkeeping Cooperative training course.
For our first featured partner, we introduced to our friends and partners Life Is Work, a Chicago-based organization supporting and uplifting trans people of color through direct services, activism, and advocacy.
