Archives for 2011

Social Change is a Team Sport

Our fall newsletter is now available. Read highlights of our current partnerships and learn more about what’s working to break cycles. If you like what you read, please subscribe to the newsletter, and share it with a friend or colleague!

PBHA Honors FFI Founder Katya Fels Smyth

On Saturday, October 14 Harvard’s Phillips Brooks House Association honored Katya Fels Smyth with its “Outstanding Alumna” award. [Read more…]

Webinar: Are Foundations Doing All They Can?

FFI Founder & CEO Katya Fels Smyth led a June 23rd webinar on Leveraging Social Networks in Social Services, co-sponsored by The Foundation Review and the Association for Black Foundation Executives.

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The Full Frame Initiative believes ending racism and advancing racial equity depends on increasing access to wellbeing — the needs and experiences essential in combination and balance to weather challenges and have health and hope. The United States is set up to make it easier for some people to have access to wellbeing than others, based on their race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, disability status and other identities. Differences in access to wellbeing create differences in experiences and outcomes, and this perpetuates inequities. In particular, racism is a key part of what keeps inequity alive in the United States. Ending racism and other forms of oppression in our country depends on a broad and deep recognition that we all share a universal drive to wellbeing, we all have a right to wellbeing, and we all deserve a fair shot at wellbeing. FFI is an anti-racist organization committed to addressing issues of racial and social equity in all our work.

Holding Cognitive Dissonance During COVID-19

As the pandemic hit, a friend asked me, “what has your experience of this time been like?” I felt compelled to respond with something around how bad it has been because that’s what I should feel. This has been a time of suffering for many, particularly for people who already live in crisis all the […]

Moving Forward With What Has Been Working

COVID-19 has forced all of us to adapt to unexpected, major life changes that have come with many challenges. Chances are, you’ve been analyzing all of these challenges and looking forward to the day when they aren’t there. We know that when we get overly focused on challenges, in our best efforts to address them, […]

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Archives for 2011