Redesigning funding models for minoritised groups & community businesses

Industry: Non-profit organisation and climate action

Keywords: Service implementation, Transformation, Systems Change, Social Justice, Systems Practice, Climate Crisis, Design Justice, Climate action, Regenerative design, Systems thinking, Service Mapping

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Challenges:

• Systemic structures and power dynamics have created our current problems

• Systems thinking must be applied to understand the intersectionality of pro-sustainable behaviours within communities of colour, the mental health care system for people of colour, and the interconnection between climate justice, social justice, and fossil fuel extraction.

• Systems practice further provides an understanding of the narrative of trust and hope for a just transition.

Approach:

Our approaches provided an understanding of how communities of colour have been marginalised through social structures of power, and what levers in the system need to be changed. We developed a Service Blueprint for inclusive and accessible services to community businesses.

Outcome:

The priority impact areas for this project were carbon emission reduction, social justice, and systems change. The programme engages and funds community businesses to address the climate emergency as they share their knowledge with other leaders and community members.