{"id":372,"date":"2024-04-06T17:00:36","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/?page_id=372"},"modified":"2024-04-06T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:11:45","slug":"us-and-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/us-and-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong\/","title":{"rendered":"Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The lecture that started it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3.-Us-and-Them-What-It-Means-to-Really-Belong-Print-Version.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 3.-Us-and-Them-What-It-Means-to-Really-Belong-Print-Version.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-81d5bd80-284d-4fd9-8f83-27409bab8a53\" href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3.-Us-and-Them-What-It-Means-to-Really-Belong-Print-Version.pdf\">3.-Us-and-Them-What-It-Means-to-Really-Belong-Print-Version<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/3.-Us-and-Them-What-It-Means-to-Really-Belong-Print-Version.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-81d5bd80-284d-4fd9-8f83-27409bab8a53\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>The Converstaion Amplified<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-99 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/the-tide-is-turning-%e2%88%bc-no-place-for-racism-in-fundraising\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cUs and Them: What It Really Means to Belong\u201d  \u223c No Place for Racism in Fundraising Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">&#8220;If knowledge is power then understanding is liberation.&#8221; Manulani Aluli Meyer Artists\u2014especially writers and activists\u2014have long before productively recognized the need to carve out spaces to give voice to injustices and to offer alternative paradigms for being. Yet, the voices of racially oppressed people are often unheard, as they struggle to get published, rendering their&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-21T10:27:00+00:00\">February 21, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-164 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/i-first-came-across-nneka-allens-name\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cUs and Them: What It Really Means to Belong\u201d Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">I first came across\u00a0Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC&#8216;s name when I picked up a copy of Collecting Courage. Reading the first-person narratives shared by accomplished Black fundraisers and equity, racial, and social justice advocates, and viscerally feeling their joy, pain, freedom, and love in their words helped provide me visibility into the systemic oppression inherent&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-21T09:42:00+00:00\">February 21, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-272 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/post-to-share-read-us-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong\/\" target=\"_self\" >&#8220;Us Them: What it Really Means to Belong&#8221; Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">If we want to see change we need to be part of the change &#8211; even when it\u2019s hard to do. I have met some pretty amazing people throughout my career that have left lasting impressions on me, but no one quite like my dear friend\u00a0Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC Nneka and I met while&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-15T11:27:00+00:00\">February 15, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-248 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/the-pull-of-whiteness-is-real-reposting-nnekas-lecture-post-us-and-them\/\" target=\"_self\" >\u201cUs and Them: What It Really Means to Belong\u201d &#8211; Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">The pull of \u2018whiteness\u2019 is real. Being brown in rooms full of white folks and not showing up the way you want or need to out of self-preservation or fear. Feeling like you\u2019re at an ongoing disadvantage and have to make up for it by giving up a piece of yourself. The sense that any&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-15T11:14:00+00:00\">February 15, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-236 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/bearing-an-untold-story-repost-us-and-them-what-it-really-means-to-belong\/\" target=\"_self\" >&#8220;Us and Them: What It Really Means to Belong&#8221; &#8211; Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">\u201cThere is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you\u201d &#8211; Maya Angelou In Us and Them: What It Really Means to Belong, Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC shares her truth about an experience of anti-Black racism in the charitable sector. Nneka, your brave words and testimony, your fearless activism and love for&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-14T14:14:00+00:00\">February 14, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-194 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-linkedin tag-us-and-them-lecture\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"padding-top:30px;padding-right:30px;padding-bottom:30px;padding-left:30px\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.takeactionafp.com\/beta\/in-reading-us-and-them-what-it-really-matters-to-belong\/\" target=\"_self\" >&#8220;Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong&#8221; Reshare<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">In reading Us and Them: What it Really Means to Belong, a story shared by my sister-friend\u00a0Nneka Allen, CFRE, COC, PCC\u00a0about confronting Anti-Black Racism in the charitable sector, the following verse from my contribution to Collecting Courage seems apply to the situation she encountered:\u00a0\u2018tis Pain &amp; HurtBreak\u00a0A reckoning well overdue\u2026now\u2019s the time for heeding advice.Truth&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-14T10:28:00+00:00\">February 14, 2023<\/time><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lecture that started it all. 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