G4GC’s Maheen Kaleem, Solace Mensah-Narh, Amirah Fauzi, and grantee partners joined the CHANGE Unity Summit in Minneapolis

Solace’s session, Living Data: Mapping Representation and Resourcing of the Nonprofit Sector, featured the launch of a new intersectional equity tool, co-created by members of the Women’s Funding Network that links 990 financial data with Candid’s demographics dataset of 77,000+ organizations. Attendees learned how to apply the tool to advance their equity strategies. 

We also hosted a session titled Safety Strategies Rooted in the Wisdom of Youth of Color with grantee partners Young Women’s Freedom Center, Mirror Memoirs, and Transformations.

In a time when communities are being called to reimagine what safety looks like beyond state systems, this panel highlighted the power of collective care, peer support, and youth-led leadership as pathways toward true freedom.

Article Spotlight: ‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Tell You’

In a new Proximate piece written by G4GC’s Maheen Kaleem alongside Jody Myrum and Laura V., we explore how youth-led movements across the Global Majority are reimagining democracy from the ground up. “Youth are not waiting for seats at broken tables – they are building their own.” 

Across the globe, human rights are being stripped away amid the rise of fascist regimes, intensified surveillance, and coordinated attacks on women, girls, LGBTQI+, migrant, and refugee communities. Yet, amid this repression, some of the most courageous and visionary resistance is emerging, led by girls, queer youth, feminists, Indigenous peoples, and caste-oppressed communities who are not only surviving and resisting but actively building democratic, liberated futures. The article calls on philanthropy to fund resilient, autonomous, and agile infrastructures, supporting youth-led and intergenerational organizing so movements can thrive for generations to come. Read more HERE.