We’re living in a moment where the complexity and the divisiveness behind the challenges we face require a new way of leading in philanthropy – how we see and understand each other, how we repair what’s broken, and together build a future we can all believe in.

To look deeper into that, on this episode of our podcast we pass the host mic to BBMG’s Strategy Director, Hannah Thomas, who recently wrote the piece, Why the World Needs Regenerative Philanthropy, about the exciting possibilities for the field when it places humble, brave, and mutual relationships at the center of how it operates.

Hannah speaks with Mayra Peters-Quintero, Executive Director at Abundant Futures Fund – a new donor collaborative co-founded by Emerson Collective, Ford Foundation, and the JPB Foundation – about how proximity, relationship, and shared narrative have been essential to helping them on their mission to ignite progress on immigration in the US by raising $100 million dollars over five years to supercharge the movement.

Because immigration is so politicized and intentionally polarizing, and because new immigrants rarely have voting power, it’s a sorely underfunded issue. Less than 1% of all philanthropic funding goes to immigrant and refugee issues.

BBMG had the great honor of helping to create the name, brand position and story for Abundant Futures Fund, which in just its first two years has already raised $60 million dollars to help fund immigrant justice.

Tune in to learn:

• All about the power of narrative to open minds and hearts
• How to embrace the beauty – and the messiness – of relationships
• The benefits of proximity and reciprocity when working on social justice

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Our Guest:
Mayra Peters-Quintero is Executive Director at Abundant Futures Fund. Mayra has spent her career advancing the rights of immigrants through positions in philanthropy, government, and law. Prior to launching Abundant Futures Fund, Mayra spent more than a decade overseeing migration funding for the Ford Foundation. She co-led the Immigrant Rights Clinic at New York University School of Law; served as Director of the Bureau of Immigrant Workers Rights at the New York State Department of Labor; and was a Skadden Fellow and Associate Counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF. Mayra earned her JD from NYU and her MPA from Princeton University. She was born in Panama and raised in San Diego, CA.

For more on BBMG’s work with philanthropic foundations and organizations, check out our case studies from branding the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Einhorn Collaborative, and New Pluralists.

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The Future We Want is produced by Liz Courtney.

Sound editing and music is by Go Destroy Art.