Romy Krämer on Guerrilla Funding Ratio Talks

This year, Ratio Talks is exploring how a relational social policy can nurture the power of a big civil society. In recent episodes we have been considering the role of philanthropy.
Today, we talk to Romy Krämer from Germany. She helped establish and then shape the Guerrilla Foundation.
The foundation is the clearest example of next generation philanthropy. It is absolutely focused on civil society. It takes power away from rich donors and gives it to social activists, the moral agents who challenge the dominant order.
The Guerrilla Foundation is funding the next generation of suffragettes, civil rights activists, and climate agitators. The troublemakers operating outside of traditional civil society organisations.
It is the attention to the detail of how to shift power as much as the what of civil society led change that impresses.
The conversation between Michael and Pritpal reflects their views.
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