1 hr 24 min
The Full Set w/ Allen Kwabena Frimpong The Full Set
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- Society & Culture
Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a cultural strategist, serial cooperative entrepreneur, resource mobilizer, and artist who organizes through social movements for a just transition in philanthropy towards a solidarity economy. He is a co-founder and Managing Partner of AdAstra Collective. Through this consulting cooperative, he is a co-host of the Old Money, New System community of practice that supports resource mobilization initiatives that strengthen social movement ecosystems to be relational, center community healing, and redistribution of wealth through learning and innovation. He is also a co-founder of ZEAL, a black arts studio cooperative.
He holds an interdisciplinary practice rooted in the Black radical tradition through community organizing, cultural strategy, transformative leadership coaching, resource mobilization, and participatory planning within complex systems. Allen’s body of work as a harm reductionist has been providing capacity-building in philanthropy within the public health sector and drug policy field internationally with organizations such as Justice Funders, the Harm Reduction Coalition, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Movement NetLab, and the Start Network in the UK. He also mobilized resources for the national ride to Ferguson that led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter National Network along with other local responses to state sanctioned violence nationally.
He is currently a board member of one of the oldest public foundations for social movements in America, Resist. Allen is also an activist advisory member of the Solidaire Network’s Movement Research & Development Fund as well as a giving circle member of ThriveAfrica. His body of work and contributions have been featured on NPR, WNYC, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inside Philanthropy, and the New York Times.
Allen Kwabena Frimpong received his Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Affairs at CUNY Hunter College. He also has attended the Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute at Amherst College and has received his graduate certification at Cornell University ILR School in Labor Leadership Skills. He is currently a fellow with the Bridging Studio in New York City and a graduate candidate with the UPenn's School of Social Policy: Arts & Cultural Strategy executive program.
Payment links:
paypal: press.zeal@gmail.com
Social Media:
IG: @blackstar1984
Twitter: @a_kwabena
ZEAL- Black Artist Cooperative:
IG/Twitter: zeal_press
Website: https://www.zeal.press/
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Allen Kwabena Frimpong is a cultural strategist, serial cooperative entrepreneur, resource mobilizer, and artist who organizes through social movements for a just transition in philanthropy towards a solidarity economy. He is a co-founder and Managing Partner of AdAstra Collective. Through this consulting cooperative, he is a co-host of the Old Money, New System community of practice that supports resource mobilization initiatives that strengthen social movement ecosystems to be relational, center community healing, and redistribution of wealth through learning and innovation. He is also a co-founder of ZEAL, a black arts studio cooperative.
He holds an interdisciplinary practice rooted in the Black radical tradition through community organizing, cultural strategy, transformative leadership coaching, resource mobilization, and participatory planning within complex systems. Allen’s body of work as a harm reductionist has been providing capacity-building in philanthropy within the public health sector and drug policy field internationally with organizations such as Justice Funders, the Harm Reduction Coalition, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Movement NetLab, and the Start Network in the UK. He also mobilized resources for the national ride to Ferguson that led to the formation of the Black Lives Matter National Network along with other local responses to state sanctioned violence nationally.
He is currently a board member of one of the oldest public foundations for social movements in America, Resist. Allen is also an activist advisory member of the Solidaire Network’s Movement Research & Development Fund as well as a giving circle member of ThriveAfrica. His body of work and contributions have been featured on NPR, WNYC, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Inside Philanthropy, and the New York Times.
Allen Kwabena Frimpong received his Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Affairs at CUNY Hunter College. He also has attended the Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute at Amherst College and has received his graduate certification at Cornell University ILR School in Labor Leadership Skills. He is currently a fellow with the Bridging Studio in New York City and a graduate candidate with the UPenn's School of Social Policy: Arts & Cultural Strategy executive program.
Payment links:
paypal: press.zeal@gmail.com
Social Media:
IG: @blackstar1984
Twitter: @a_kwabena
ZEAL- Black Artist Cooperative:
IG/Twitter: zeal_press
Website: https://www.zeal.press/
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-full-set-podcast/support
1 hr 24 min