As the season shifts to winter or summer (depending where you are!) we honor and celebrate what the changes bring and mean in our lives.

At the same time as this seasonal transition, we have been reflecting on and celebrating a transition that is happening in the Illuminate network.

The Funder Node was a 6-part series of participatory sessions and dialogues with 20 representatives from funding institutions and collaboratives from the US, Canada, and the UK who met to build relationships and grapple collectively with funding practices that most effectively support systems change.

Read more to explore the node’s Miro board which tells the fullest story through imagery, audio and video tours of the experience together as a platform for the collective wisdom of the group.

Read on to learn more about Fabienne - Illuminate’s Network Director!

Janvieve Williams Comrie speaks to systems change processes, spanning the role of mothering in organizing work, being raised with systems change language, the power and importance of baby steps, moving at the speed of dynamic relationships, resilience practices, personal contradictions, blackness, and so much more.

Click “read more” to listen to Janvieve Williams Comrie sharing experiences on the edge, her journey to this work, and important lessons about being clear and honesty with oneself.

Vanessa Mason shares about her mermaid and freedom dreams, perspectives on funding systems change, and the importance of seeing yourself in the systems you are trying to shift.

Click “read more” to listen to a joyful and energetic conversation on the possibilities of the collective practice of systems change.

A conversation with Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia, and Roberto “Tito” Soto-Carrion, social change architect and Illuminate Luminary Cohort Member.

Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia, in conversations with Lorena Garcia Duran, Global Leader for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at Ashoka.

Join Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia, in conversation with Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis about socio-environmental transformation.

You are invited to an international conversation about power in the systems change field and the role of equity and justice work in changing systems.

Announcing the launch of the Funder Node! 🎉 — a new node within our growing network, responding to demand from funders seeking space to gather and learn together about how to support systems change. Registration is now open!

Click “Read more” to learn more and register for our one-time, FREE Information Session happening October 5th (listed at the bottom of the page).