The mission of Astraea is needed now more than ever. You will see how our grantees-from Burundi to Peru-are building power, collaborating, and disrupting the status quo to create a global social justice ecosystem that is both deeply interconnected and truly inclusive. We are so appreciative of these partners who are graciously providing Astraea with the resources both to grow our support for movements, as well as to invest in ourselves-in staff wellbeing, leadership development, and long-term infrastructure within the organization.Īs you flip through this year in review, you will see the ways we both learn from and work in deep partnership with the movements we support from our Healing Justice report to our Feminist Funding Principles. This faith in Astraea is affirming of our role as philanthropic leaders in the gender, racial, and economic justice landscape, and is a testament to our charge as funders. Astraea has laid the foundation for this funding over the last several years, through a sustained commitment to our core philanthropic pillars and to our movements. Our overall budget increased by over 25% in just a year, making us a $14 million organization in 2020, thanks to a number of large multi-year grants from institutional and government donors. We are simultaneously experiencing a period of phenomenal growth and transformation. To nurture ourselves in order to keep fueling the global activism and organizing that’s so desperately needed.

We took a moment to pause, breathe, and reflect. Like many social justice organizations of our time, we know that in order to keep supporting our movements through these challenges, we need to embody the healing justice principles we espouse and commit to our own sustainability. In September, we welcomed Interim Executive Director, Sandy Nathan, who began working with the board and staff to lay the groundwork for Astraea’s next permanent Executive Director, who will be critical in helping us vision the next chapter in Astraea’s life cycle. We are deeply grateful to her for her stewardship of Astraea. and globally, and deepened our philanthropic presence and leadership. Bob expanded Astraea’s capacity to deliver resources to LGBTQI groups in the U.S. Bob Alotta, following eight visionary, tremendous years. In July 2019, we bade farewell to our outgoing Executive Director, J. We are at a pivotal time at Astraea, and we are taking the time to pivot so that we can thrive. In 2019, Astraea began to imagine what our most ideal ecosystem would look like, in order to continue building and shifting power to our movements. It takes an ecosystem to create lasting change, to build thriving, connected, resilient communities, to fight for the liberation we know is possible.

Wendy vanessa rosales honduras