What I am taking with me into 2024
Hi friend,
What a year!
What am I taking with me as I enter 2024? Here are my top 3:
Nostalgia for my biweekly calls with the indominable Spreeha Foundation team in Bangladesh. Working with them over this year- first doing a Diagnostic & Roadmap and then a personalized Funded with Ease intensive, was a total honor. The team will tell you they are now empowered to proactively reach out to funders, get feedback, build long term relationships, and bring in not just project funding but also the overhead funding they need to do their work, and that they have put all this, and more, into action.
With our calls being 7am my time/7pm their time, we definitely made sure to do some breaths of joy and have a mini dance party to stay awake and together make big steps towards Spreeha's $1M fundraising goal.
A lot of joy to continue working in Spanish with Circula Liderazgo Restaurativo in Guatemala as we power up their grants team for today and years to come.
Circula is doing powerful work training communities in restaurative leadership, in a country where genocide occurred just 25 years ago. We have 3 months to go in our collaboration.
A lot of excitement to dive into the year-long collaboration I have just begun with the Omidyar Network 's The Tech We Want Luminaries.
I am working with three incredible Luminaries in the U.S, building these young organizations' grants capacity from the ground up and advising them as they put it all into action. These Luminaries are the movers and shakers creating the systems change we need.
Ok I need to add a 4th: Whole-body excitement to get started with the small group Funded with Ease participants in January. The group is already half filled!
I also want to say a huge thank you to all of you for being part of this journey for greater social impact— for your responses, your shares, and the collaboration with so many of you! It has enriched how I work with organizations and what I bring to each one, so THANK YOU!
With ease,
Shoshana
