By Nichole M. Christian
Conversations and forward-thinking questions are central to all that we do at Ambitio US. Our mission is big and our time intentionally limited: Ten years to amplify, uplift and of course fund systemic economic change as envisioned by leading BIPOC arts workers.
To do this work well, we are also constantly listening and learning from a special group we call allies . As often as possible, we want to share some of the learnings that make this group vital to our understanding of the hurdles, opportunities and under-resourced possibilities. In a recent blog for Nonprofit Quarterly, Ambitio US ally, Nwamaka Agbo , who is also CEO of the Kataly Foundation and Managing Director of the Restorative Economies Fund, poses several powerful questions.
She asks: “What would it look like to have our democratic values shape our economy, instead of having a capitalist economy that shapes our democracy?’’ We wonder right
alongside Agbo and we welcome you to share your ideas too. Tell us what democracy in economics might look like if the power were yours, or the world more equitable ?
The urgency and potential impact that she lays out are worth watching and sharing as well. “The framework of restorative economics provides a roadmap — albeit one with forks, detours, twists, and turns — to arrive at a just and equitable economy. As always, the challenge lies in the implementation. Restorative economics asks us to prioritize five guiding principles: democratic governance, capacity building and human development, non-extractive integrated capital, power building through social movements, and systemic change.’’
Allies like Nwamaka Agbo continue to ground Ambitio US in our belief for more daring ways now.
Nichole M. Christian is the Narrative Shifter at the Center for Cultural Innovation , a nonprofit intermediary that supports individuals in the arts to realize greater financial self-determination.
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