FIRE Reimagining Resilience series 2025

Resource Library

"Reimagining Resilience: Sustaining our mission in a changing world" is a 2025 series by Spring designed to support rights and justice organizations to collectively make sense of the unprecedented cuts to foreign aid, changing philanthropic priorities and shrinking civic space—while staying resourced to sustain their missions in the long haul.

Check out the resources below from this three-part webinar series. We'll update this resources page after each session to better support you and your organization to navigate this moment.

🔥 Session #1: How funding flows and geopolitical landscapes are changing—and what that means for resourcing movements worldwide

🔥 Session #2: The creative ways teams have evolved their operating models, diversification and communications strategies.

🔥 Session #3: Generative ways of working together and leading through change.

Thank you for joining the conversation!

Reimagining Resilience: Reckoning with changing funding realities with Kellea Miller and Ikal Angelei

Session #1:

Reckoning with changing funding realities (April 22, 2025)

Dr. Kellea Miller of Human Rights Funders Network and Ikal Angelei of Friends of Lake Turkana joined the Spring team to explore how funding flows and geopolitical landscapes are changing—and what that means for resourcing rights and justice organizations and movements worldwide.

Watch the session recording in:

English | Español | Português | Français

Slides available in English here.

Blogs

From funding cuts to collective strength: Stories of financial resilience for turbulent times

English | Español | Português | Français

Explore more financial resilience impact journeys

Braving the storm in rights and justice funding: A primer on emerging opportunities

English l Español

Tools

Sli.do list of emerging opportunities. (Crowdsourced responses to the discussion question: what opportunities or possibilities do you see in your work moving forward? (multilingual)

Session #2:

Exploring alternative funding models: what are the possibilities beyond grants? (May 8, 2025)

Exploring alternative funding models, from community fundraising to cryptocurrency and real estate investments, to building circular economies. Guest speakers included Margarita Campuzano of Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental, Mukami Marete of UHAI - The East Africa Sexual Health and Rights Initiative, and Justus Eisfeld of the KOPPA - The LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab.

Watch the session recording in:

English | Español | Português | Français

Slides available in English here.

Tools

Sli.do list of emerging opportunities.

(Crowdsourced responses to the discussion question: what are the possibilities for alternative models beyond grants do you see right now? (multilingual)

Mapping: Alternative financial models beyond grants

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This document compiles a few examples, trends, and ideas for financial alternatives, many of which are tried and tested in the field already. Use it as a jumping off point for you to ground in your local context.

Thriving together: Building collective resilience with intention with Theo Sowa, Mitzi Jonelle Tan and Jac sm Kee

Session #3:

Thriving together: Building collective resilience with intention (May 22, 2025)

Our final conversation focused on nurturing generative ways of working together by reclaiming our humanity and our histories. 🌀⌛ Speakers included Theo Sowa (Interim CEO of the Graça Machel Trust and Co-Chair of the Equality Fund), Mitzi Jonelle Tan (climate justice activist) and Jac sm Kee (co-founder of the Numun Fund & the Feminist Principles of the Internet). Check out the resources below for nurturing rest, joy and care.

Watch the session recording in:

English | Español | Português | Français

Slides available in English here.

Tools

A Collective Resilience Community Garden