Radical Philanthropy

Perhaps you feel and see it happening already: from mutual aid scenes, to the changing landscape of solidarity not charity, to resource circulation, and more.

Find out how to take radical philanthropy one step further from Turquoise Sound, Shardé Nabors, Priyanka Das, and Donnie Maclurcan as they:

unpack what radical means to them
share how to navigate relationships during strategic transitions
discuss bold and applied methods in fundraising

Meet Your Panel Guests

Turquoise Sound

Turquoise is a human being dancing at the intersection of wisdom, art, and societal technologies in service to human flourishing. She grew up on and off military bases across the globe, ran 20,000 miles to be a D1 NCAA athlete, and was once a touring festival musician — playing for over 20,000 people per year.

She now co-stewards transdisciplinary research teams focused on the economic interoperability of prosocial tech, the transformation of political worldviews and climate change action-logics, and the application of wisdom and computational social sciences to guide cultural evolution.

Turquoise is the Chief Strategic Officer at Dyer Global Solutions, Board Member of The Integral Leadership Review Journal, a Research Fellow and grant recipient at Human Data Commons, Post Growth Institute, and Collaborative Technology Alliance.

Shardé Nabors

Shardé is a caregiver, community organizer, and resource mobilizer who was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She has a background in racial equity consulting, political education curriculum development, and participatory grantmaking. Her work is rooted in a Black Queer Feminist approach to radical wealth redistribution and collective liberation. In 2022, she joined New Economy Coalition to help steward resource redistribution in the network and broader Solidarity Economy movement.

Donnie Maclurcan

Donnie is executive director of the Post Growth Institute, an international organization exploring how we interdependently thrive within ecological limits. As a social entrepreneur, his initiatives include the Offers and Needs Market, Free Money Day, the Post Growth Fellowship, and the Post Growth Alliance.

As a consultant, he has worked with more than 500 projects, across 36 countries, with considerable time based in Egypt, the U.S., Australia (where he was born) and Argentina (where he lives). An affiliate professor of economics at Southern Oregon University, and Adjunct professor with the Sydney-based Institute for Sustainable Futures, he initially trained as an exercise physiologist, before completing a PhD assessing nanotechnology’s implications for global inequality.

Donnie also holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest journey on foot across Australia, with his 2002 solo run of 4,000 kilometres taking 67 days.

Priyanka Das

Priyanka is the director of development of the Post Growth Institute (PGI), a role they transitioned into this past year while stewarding their leadership roles within Offers and Needs Market (OANM) team. They were radicalized during the uprisings of 2020, and a comrade had suggested they complete the OANM Facilitator Training in 2021.

This initial experience of the PGI affirmed the care philosophy that Priyanka had been internally developing as a result of observing and noting the institutional patterns as they played out in their experience volunteering and working for wages across a cornucopia of industries.

Radical Philanthropy