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Friday, Apr 3, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
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Join us for a Collective Conversation with June Wilson, Executive Director of the Compton Foundation, for a candid dialogue on the Foundation’s bold decision to fully spend down its endowment by 2025 in order to advance racial justice, climate resilience, reproductive justice, democracy, and peace-building. Rather than preserving capital for perpetuity, Compton chose urgency — aligning its 75-year legacy with the moral demands of this moment. Yet this conversation goes deeper than institutional strategy...

Under June’s leadership, the Compton Foundation has also supported and participated in relational repair circles — intimate, cross-racial cohorts of Black and white-bodied women engaging in what has become known as relational reparations. These circles move beyond transactional philanthropy toward ceremony, trust-building, wealth return, and soul-level repair. Participants commit to multi-year financial “returns” alongside the harder work of unlearning, grief, truth-telling, and shared dreaming. Repair is framed not as guilt or charity, but as love in motion — tending soil before planting seeds.

June Wilson is Executive Director of the Compton Foundation and a nationally recognized philanthropic leader advancing racial justice and alternative approaches to legacy and perpetuity. She is guiding the foundation’s 75-year trajectory toward a “Spend Up” strategy, deploying all assets by 2025 to support leaders, organizations, and priority areas including racial repair, climate resiliency, reproductive justice, democracy, and peacebuilding, while expanding philanthropic practice beyond traditional grantmaking toward relational models of redistribution.

Previously, Wilson served as executive director and trustee of the Quixote Foundation, where she led its successful sunset in 2017 and implemented a limited-life “Spend Up” approach focused on fulfilling mission rather than preserving assets. Her work is deeply informed by a background in cultural and community organizing, and she continues to advise philanthropic and family foundation leaders on racial equity–centered, decolonial frameworks that strengthen the connection between philanthropy and community engagement.

Friday, May 1, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom

Join us for an upcoming Collective Conversation with Stacey Borden, Founder & Executive Director of New Beginnings Re-Entry Services, a Dorchester-based nonprofit dedicated to supporting formerly incarcerated people through trauma-informed care, education, healing-centered programming, and practical reentry resources. Founded by Stacey in 2016 out of her own lived experience of incarceration and recovery, New Beginnings has evolved from a residential program for women into an Adult Reentry Day Center serving people of all genders impacted by incarceration. Through services including workforce development, financial and digital literacy, counseling, creative therapies, wellness programming, and community-based support, the organization is helping people move from surviving to thriving.

This conversation comes to our community at the invitation of CLTV alumni Lisa and Karen. Karen and members of her synagogue group visited New Beginnings to learn more about its powerful transition and current work, and CLTV5 also supported the organization through a powerful collective giving effort in 2023. Together, we’ll hear from Stacey about her journey, the organization’s evolution, and what it means to build healing, dignity, and real opportunity for people returning home after incarceration.

Stacey Borden is a Boston-area social entrepreneur, advocate, and formerly incarcerated leader who founded New Beginnings Reentry Services, a Dorchester-based nonprofit supporting people returning from prison. Drawing on her own lived experience—nearly 30 years cycling in and out of incarceration beginning in the 1980s—she created the organization in 2016 to address the lack of trauma-informed resources for people reentering society.

Since her release, Borden has become a prominent voice for criminal justice reform and healing-centered reentry support. She holds degrees in human services and mental health counseling and focuses her work on addressing trauma, addiction, and systemic barriers faced by formerly incarcerated individuals. Through New Beginnings, she has developed programs that include counseling, workforce training, financial and digital literacy, and creative therapies to help people rebuild their lives and reduce recidivism.

Friday, Jun 5, 12 – 1 PM ET/9 – 10 AM PT
Via Zoom

Join us for a Collective Conversation with Deborah Frieze, co-originator of the Berkana Two Loops Model, a powerful framework for understanding how systems change and how new possibilities emerge from times of disruption. The Two Loops model helps us make sense of the moment we are living in: a time when existing systems are showing signs of decline while new approaches are emerging at the margins. Rather than trying to “fix” failing systems, the framework invites us to recognize where transformation is already underway and how we can support it.

In this conversation, Deborah will explore how meaningful change happens through emergence—when innovators connect, form networks, and grow into communities that influence a new system. Together we will discuss the roles people can play in times of transition: pioneering new ideas, bridging emerging efforts, and stewarding the graceful transition of systems that no longer serve us. This session will offer a hopeful and practical lens for anyone working toward systems transformation, social change, and regenerative futures—and help us consider where our own work sits within the broader arc of change.

Deborah Frieze is an American social entrepreneur, author, and educator focused on building fairer local economies and stronger communities. She is the co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative (BII), an impact-investing fund that supports diverse entrepreneurs and works to reduce economic inequality. Frieze previously worked in the technology sector after earning an MBA from Harvard Business School, but later shifted her career toward social change and community-based economic systems. She is also the co-author of Walk Out Walk On, which highlights communities around the world creating innovative solutions to social and economic challenges, and the co-originator of the Berkana Two Loops Model, a framework that explains how new systems emerge to replace outdated ones through community leadership and innovation. Her work centers on promoting local ownership, inclusive investment, and community resilience.

Our in-person weekend is the cornerstone of a 3-part series that will help guide you from awareness to action. Within a like-minded community of white women committed to exploring the complexities of race and money, you'll develop powerful tools to align your resources with your values.

Our no-judgment approach will support candid group dialogue and personal reflection. You'll walk away with what you need to make a more immediate and lasting impact on the issues and goals that matter to you.

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This workshop series will guide you from awareness to action, empowering you to align your financial resources more with your social justice minded values. Within a community of other white men, you'll explore the implications of race and money in your life and plan new financial actions. Through videos, readings, group discussions, 1-1 coaching, and personal reflection you’ll gain tools to make a tangible impact and promote racial and economic equity.

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Imagine a world where your resources do more than just grow—they ignite change. When couples are aligned, their money can do just that. Impact Collective founder, Julia Johannsen, and Breaking the Mold co-founder, Ethan Kerr, will team up for this special 3-part workshop experience, open to couples of all races, orientations and backgrounds. The workshop will offer a unique opportunity for couples to explore some of the challenges and opportunities of aligning their money with their values. We will explore our relationship dynamics through lenses of race and gender, and consider some of the implications for our partnerships, our money, and our impact on the world.

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