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Scenario

When activist groups disagree about accepting imperfect funding

Our environmental justice organization is trying to decide whether to accept funding from a foundation that has some fossil fuel investments in their endowment and it's splitting our group apart. Some people say we can't be pure about everything and need the money to do the work, others think it compromises our integrity, and we're stuck because we all came into this with different relationships to compromise and different levels of economic security.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group committed to environmental justice is discovering that their different lived experiences and economic realities lead to fundamentally different approaches to moral compromise in pursuit of their shared goals.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Climate justice and global responsibility?”

Peri

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