I am increasingly convinced that if philanthropy should exist at all, it should be focused on reparations and embracing accountability for its complicity in so much harm. At the 2023 Funders Institute of Funders Together to End Homelessness, I opened the session with reflections on how philanthropy might institutionalize an understanding of accountability rooted in the wisdom of transformative justice. And I can’t stop thinking about what this might look like.
