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Shorter form reading that has influenced us
Collated by members of the outgoing team, the links and articles below are a nod to the thinking which has influenced our practice over the years.
This (necessarily partial) list aims to cover Lankelly Chase’s development from a funder of innovative support work for people facing marginalisation and disadvantage; to an increasing interest in complexity and systems change methods in pursuit of social justice; to the fundamental critique of institutional philanthropy behind the transition pathway redistribution decision.
This list mainly covers online reading from external sources and inspirations. Work that Lankelly Chase directly published or funded is in the media section and more substantial books are summarised here.
On disadvantage in the UK
- The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s series on Poverty in the UK
- Information on child poverty in particular from CPAG
- Statistics on race, poverty and deprivation from the Institute of Race Relations
- The UK Government’s 2017 race disparity audit
- The Fawcett Society on Invisible Women and intersectional discrimination
On systems of oppression
- Jason Hickel and Dylan Sullivan’s The Collateral Damage of Capital
- Audre Lorde’s The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House
- Martin Luther King Jr’s Letter from Birmingham Jail
On philanthropy’s entanglement with colonial capitalism
- Fozia Irfan’s article on neo-colonial philanthropy
- Why Philanthropy is No Substitute for Taxation in the LSE Public Policy Review
- An opinion piece in the Pioneers Post by Bayo Adelaja on funders’ treatment of Black-led organisations (paywalled/membership)
On systems change
- The Dawn of System Leadership by Peter Senge in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and its follow-up The Water of Systems Change
- Donella Meadows’ Leverage points: places to intervene in a system
- Three steps to dismantling systemic racism (Race on the Agenda) and Systems Change & Deep Equity (pdf), which both explore systems change through a racial justice lens
- Brap/Local Trust’s insights on promoting inclusion in place-based change work
On the polycrisis and philanthropy’s failure to respond
- The Climate Justice Alliance’s strategic framework for a just transition graphic
- Dougal Hine’s blog on Four things worth doing in challenging times
- Articles by Barry Knight and Keiran Goddard on the need for, and limitations of, philanthropic responses to collapse
- How we got here in Inside Philanthropy and Would the world be better off without philanthropy? in the New Yorker – both discussions from a North American perspective
- A deep-dive reading list from Open Democracy: What can we learn from 30 articles on philanthropy and social change?