About the Event:
Join us for a conversation on the needs of our Black communities, led by Stephen Robinson, Director of Community Engagement and Learning at the Black Future Co-op Fund. Over the past year, the fund has been diligently listening to and gathering valuable insights from our communities, which have been compiled into a comprehensive report for funders. Stephen will provide a preview of the Black Future Co-op Fund’s plans for the upcoming year, offering a glimpse into the fund's future direction and initiatives, including some new pilots.
Note: The program will be approximately 45 minutes, leaving time for Q&A, followed by the WPGC Annual Membership Meeting.
Pricing:
WPGC Members | $20, $45 with lunch
Non-Members | $35, $60 with lunch
About the Speaker:
Stephen Robinson
Director of Community Engagement & Learning
Stephen (he/him/his) leads the Black Future Co-op Fund’s community listening, engagement, and learning endeavors to build a powerful network of Black people, groups, and organizations across Washington’s 39 counties. As a half Black man, he has always played the role of a bridge and a community builder. He will use these talents collaboratively with nonprofits and community leaders to drive positive change and resource redistribution to further Black liberation. Since 2014, he served as a senior philanthropic advisor and a scholarship program manager at Seattle Foundation, and before that as a community development project manager at LDA Struga, a regional United Nations Development Programme office in Macedonia, where he was a Peace Corps volunteer.
He has been a longtime volunteer with the Pride Foundation, in both their grant and scholarship programs. He is a board trustee for the Friends of Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Washington, an advisory to the Office of Minority Affairs & Diversity that promotes academic excellence for underrepresented students impacted by educational and economic injustices. Stephen is also a teaching assistant for a Bastyr class called "Spiritual identity,” and is apprenticed to the medicine woman who teaches the course.
A chartered advisor in philanthropy (CAP), Stephen has a bachelor’s in religious studies from Humboldt State University and an MPA from the University of Washington. He lives in Rainier Beach, and when he’s not working, you can find him knitting, listening to books while walking around Seward Park, or making bolo ties out of buffalo teeth.