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Growing Leaders to Build Change

Tending Power, Transforming Power through Intentional Communications Practices

Posted on December 14, 2022

Words matter. At Tzedek, we have learned that language impacts how we think about and do our work. Changing our relationship to power has required finding new ways to talk about money,…

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Growing Power through Community-Led Grantmaking

Posted on December 11, 2022

Equity requires sharing leadership with those most impacted by the problems we hope to solve. We cannot hoard power and expect change. Marsha Davis In 2021, Tzedek launched Community-led Grantmaking. Even as…

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Nourishing Power through Community-Led Boards

Posted on December 7, 2022

In 2021, Tzedek welcomed what we described as a Community-Led Board of Trustees. Like many family foundations, our previous Board was helmed by our founder and funder. The shift to a Board…

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Redistributing Power: A How-To Series for Philanthropy

Posted on December 5, 2022

What does it look like for a philanthropic organization to redistribute financial resources and POWER in practice? What organizational power dynamics, decision making processes, and power structures are calling to be transformed?…

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Celebrating Tzedek Grantees: Word on the Street/La Voz de les Jóvenes

Posted on December 17, 2021

Since 2011, Asheville Writers In The Schools and Community (AWITSC) has created free arts and culture programming, for youth and families of color who do not have access to such experiences due…

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2021 Impact Award Winners Part Two

Posted on December 12, 2021

Congratulations to the 2021 winners of the Tzedek Impact Awards!  The Tzedek Impact Awards are designed to honor individuals who have engaged in systems change or community healing work in the Asheville region…

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Introducing the Tzedek Community Grantmaking Fellows

Posted on August 18, 2021

We are so excited to introduce the first cohort of Tzedek Grantmaking Fellows.  Clarissa Harris, Anna Marie Smith, Ashley Cooper, Sala Menaya-Merritt, and Ray Hemachandra will be working together to create a…

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Celebrating Tzedek Grantees: The Center for Participatory Change

Posted on July 14, 2021

There’s so many things we appreciate about the Center for Participatory Change. Here are just a few.  An Inspiring Vision and Mission CPC’s vision is collective liberation, la liberación del pueblo. CPC…

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Announcing Tzedek Fellows for Community-Led Grantmaking

Posted on June 3, 2021

Out of Tzedek’s commitment to redistribute money, shift power and support systems change, Community-Led Grantmaking has emerged. Through this program, a committee of Community Grantmaking Fellows, facilitated by Tzedek’s Director of Community-Led…

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Tzedek (pronounced “tz” as in ritz, TZEH-dek) is the Hebrew word meaning justice, which is at the heart of our mission.

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