The Perrin Family Foundation partners with organizations based in under-resourced communities across Connecticut in order to create environments that support
youth as leaders of social change.
Why Youth Led Social Change?
Creating opportunities for youth to share their truths, question the status quo, exercise leadership and take action to create change will not only pave the way for young people’s lifelong participation and leadership in the civic sphere, it also has the potential to transform our youth, communities, and institutions in the here and now.
GRANTMAKING
Investing in organizations and grassroots groups engaged in youth-led social change
CAPACITY BUILDING
Deepening the effectiveness and impact of youth-led social change efforts across Connecticut
FIELD BUILDING
Cultivating a community and philanthropic ecosystem committed to youth-led social change
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PFF Program Officer Amarilis Pullen Writes on Her Expectations for the Upcoming GEO Conference
PFF Program Officer Amarilis Pullen was interviewed by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations on what she looks forward to most about their upcoming national conference. Click the link below to read the full post, and learn more about what opportunities the national...
PFF Statement on Student Walkouts
Dear Friends and Partners, We, like many of you, have been moved by the power and courage of young people across the country that have responded to the tragic mass shooting in Parkland with calls for change and action. On March 14th, thousands of students across the...
🚚 We've Moved! 📦 - https://t.co/vqC8ZeviDN
The Perrin Family Foundation is now located at 85 Willow Street, New Haven, CT 06511.
. @davidbperrin recommends caucus groups by identity, e.g. by race, class, gender, to "unwork" personal conditions w/ others like you, to have compass for when go out into spaces w/ others. 👉🏻 This is great approach for white folks on learning journey about race. @familygiving
Laura McCargar @Perrinfamilyfdn: Part of the work includes diving in at the moment and allowing yourself to sit [in the potential discomfort]. #NCFPweb
Laura McCargar of @Perrinfamilyfdn: You cannot have the external work without the internal work. #NCFPweb
The necessity of doing the internal work/reflection on power, privilege and race is particularly challenging for funders to accept. Internal awareness, understanding and action is critical to dismantling white supremacy culture in philanthropy and building a Race Equity Culture
NCFP on Twitter
“Laura McCargar of @Perrinfamilyfdn: You cannot have the external work without the internal work. #NCFPweb”
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Honored to have moderated panel with @FordFoundation @Demos_Org about the INTERNAL work our sector must do to operationalize values of inclusion equity and justice within our own organizations. #ypc2019
“A lot of organizations stop and end with diversity,” says Diane Samuels of @FordFoundation, ignoring the structures that prevent inclusion and equity #ypc2019
Frances Padilla of @UHCF_CT on the need for partnerships: “The issues we are all trying to address are incredibly complex and interrelated, and involve multiple systems.” #YPC2019
“The first philanthropists were native people - otherwise most of you wouldn’t be here,” says Sherry Salway Black in her talk on native philanthropy #YPC2019
In US we're just getting started w/ ability to acknowledge shadow + oppressive factors of slavery + institutional racism. Name that we're product of that, + want to create diff future. Develop critical analysis of conditions that led to this. @davidbperrin @Perrinfamilyfdn
Damn, @davidbperrin going in on intersectional identities that award him + those like him certain privileges. Names how his eyes have been opened thru learning w/ @ResourceGen + Haymarket People's Fund, + how coming to terms w/ his own power + how can leverage it. @familygiving
Re: whether good luck + smarts earn family funders right to be public stewards, @davidbperrin @Perrinfamilyfdn names that we live in society that awards certain privileges based on identity -- names his own privileges as white man from background of wealth
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New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 438-7349
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CONTACT US
85 Willow Street
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 438-7349
info@perrinfamilyfoundation.org
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