Collective Care Blog

Building the power & resilience of LBTQI movements, now & for the long haul.

The Astraea Collective Care Blog uplifts the transformative work of our grantee partners and the radical, care-based movements they are building, along with centering thought leadership and sharing resources for peer funders and allies on how feminist grantmaking, resourcing, and philanthropic advocacy are critical to the collective care ecosytem.

Our movements and communities have shown us that organizing, advocacy, art, and policies rooted in collective care, joy, and healing are the way forward if we are to achieve true justice. The Astraea Collective Care Blog uplifts the transformative work of our grantee partners and the radical, care-based movements they are building, along with centering thought leadership and sharing resources for peer funders and allies on how feminist grantmaking, resourcing, and philanthropic advocacy are critical to the collective care ecosytem. You’ll hear from a number of Astraea voices, from Program Officers to Development staff and Astraea partners and advisors. We hope you’ll read this blog and join us on our collective care journey!

The blog was first launched in April 2020 as part of our organizational COVID-19 Collective Care Response. We began with the belief that it is our responsibility as a feminist funder to shed light on the ways our grantee partner communities are being impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, share insights around the criticality of healing justice and collective care, and keep shifting power to the grassroots. While we are experiencing this crisis together, it has become abundantly clear that certain communities — LBTQI folks, Black people, People of Color, migrants, Indigenous people, and ethnic and racial minorities — are being disproportionately impacted as a result of longstanding deep structural inequities around the world. This blog has been a space for us as Astraea to share our insights into how best we can support these communities and movements to heal and continue their critical work towards our collective liberation through resourcing, breaking isolation, and building sustainability and resilience as a praxis.

Collective Care Blog Posts

Published on : Aug 15, 2024 Illuminating Liberation Strategies

 

Published on : Aug 15, 2024 Interview with Right Side NGO

 

Published on : Apr 19, 2024 Climate Justice & Grassroots LGBTQI+ Liberation

 

Published on : May 12, 2023 Mother’s Day 2023: Honoring Our Legacy

 

Published on : May 10, 2023 Listen to Our Grantee Partner’s Podcast!

 

Published on : Jun 16, 2022 We Honor the History of Juneteenth

 

Published on : May 26, 2021 Q&A with Sandy Nathan

 

Published on : Apr 1, 2021 A Pandemic Year in Reflection

 

Published on : Sep 23, 2020 Celebrating Bi Visibility Day

 

Published on : Aug 6, 2020 Collectively resourcing the ecosystem

 

Published on : Aug 4, 2020 The Power of Pausing

 

Published on : Jun 30, 2020 Out of Office: We’re Pausing to Reflect

 

Published on : May 27, 2020 Collectively caring through resource sharing

 

Published on : May 13, 2020 Meeting the Moment

 

Published on : Apr 22, 2020 Caring for community, caring for ourselves