The opportunity is now.
It’s 9 p.m. After a full day of back-to-back meetings, you’re still sitting in front of your laptop, combing through grant language for an application due tomorrow.
It’s the umpteenth application you’ve submitted this year. You’re still waiting to hear back from several others. And now it’s October, with another $100,000 to raise to meet next year’s budget.
Sound familiar?
Across San Diego, nonprofit leaders and community organizations are navigating a critical moment. Government funding is shifting. Conversations with foundations feel increasingly uncertain. Meanwhile, community needs continue to grow in an increasingly complex political and economic climate.
You’re being asked to do more with less—often competing with organizations doing equally essential work for resources from the same limited pool.
But what if you didn’t have to do this work alone?
This is an invitation to shift how we resource our communities:
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Move beyond silos and competition. Practice collective resourcing by sharing relationships, knowledge, resources, and opportunities.
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Create conditions for resources to move differently. Build toward a region where resources flow with greater intention, equity, trust, and accountability.
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Build together. Develop bold, actionable collaborations with other community leaders and change-makers to strengthen the people and communities at the heart of San Diego.
What is Collective Resourcing?Collective resourcing is pooling, sharing, and mobilizing resources…money, relationships, skills, and knowledge…across communities and organizations to meet collective needs and advance shared goals.
It's a shift away from silos and competition, and toward a region where resources flow with intention, equity, solidarity, and trust.
