OUR STORY
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Vision
Create a long-term strategy for proactive funding that supports our community’s capacity to survive.
Encourage dynamic partnerships between donors and organizers that join the spiritual and political imperative of our movements.
Reimagine philanthropy as a transformative experience that extends beyond financial contribution.
Encourage dynamic partnerships between donors and organizers that join the spiritual and political imperative of our movements.
Reimagine philanthropy as a transformative experience that extends beyond financial contribution.
PURPOSE
Kolibri Foundation is a movement-led foundation that seeks to shift the paradigm of philanthropy through strategic funding and donor organizing.
Pillars
To guide our grantmaking, we look to organizations’ needs within several pillars. This list is non-exclusive in alignment with our desire to provide support where its needed.
- Alternative systems of safety
- Healing Justice
- Gender and Sexual-Based Violence
-Movement Building
- Alternative systems of safety
- Healing Justice
- Gender and Sexual-Based Violence
-Movement Building
VALUES
Accountability.
Transparency.
Intention.
Imagination + Experimentation.
Humility.
Intersectionality.
Transparency.
Intention.
Imagination + Experimentation.
Humility.
Intersectionality.
WHO We Are
As an organization, we are committed to grappling with the role we play in systemic oppression through wealth accumulation.
In 2019, the Farbmans transitioned their generational family foundation into the Kolibri Foundation. That transition led us into 2020, when we entered a year-long dreaming and structuring process with movement leaders Thenjiwe McHarris, Cara Page and Lorraine Ramirez, who make up our current six-person (and growing) Board.
We come to this work as a multi-racial, multi-class team with lived experiences as survivors of state and interpersonal violence and as folks with disabilities, amongst our other identities.
Under our unified name, Kolibri Foundation commits to spending down our assets, creating grant making strategies guided by our movement partners, and working collaboratively on community-identified solutions to create a better, more just future for all.
We come to this work as a multi-racial, multi-class team with lived experiences as survivors of state and interpersonal violence and as folks with disabilities, amongst our other identities.
Under our unified name, Kolibri Foundation commits to spending down our assets, creating grant making strategies guided by our movement partners, and working collaboratively on community-identified solutions to create a better, more just future for all.
BOARD Of Directors
STEVE Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
EILEEN Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
LORRAINE Ramirez
MOVEMENT BOARD MEMBER
CARA Page
MOVEMENT BOARD MEMBER
LEO Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
STEVE Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
EILEEN Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
LEO Farbman
FAMILY BOARD MEMBER
CARA Page
MOVEMENT BOARD MEMBER
LORRAINE Ramirez
MOVEMENT BOARD MEMBER
LEADERSHIP Team
AFIA Reynolds
INTERSECTIONAL CARE AND LOGISTICS
CHI-ANTE Jones
CO-DIRECTOR
ROBERTO Tijerina
CO-DIRECTOR
AFIA Reynolds
INTERSECTIONAL CARE AND LOGISTICS
ROBERTO Tijerina
CO-DIRECTOR
CHI-ANTE Jones
CO-DIRECTOR