SURVIVOR-DRIVEN CHANGE

OUR COMMITMENT TO
SURVIVOR-DRIVEN CHANGE

Survivor-driven change solves issues of injustice and oppression through the leadership of those who have personally survived that injustice.

Survivor-Driven Change in Action

James Kofi Annan in Ghana was sold into slavery in the commercial fishing industry on Lake Volta at age 6. He escaped at age 13, got through high school, then college, then worked for Barclays Bank. He quit the bank to go back to Lake Volta where he has rescued 100’s of other children from slavery and trained them also to rescue others.

IMAGINE 1,000 JAMES

Why is Survivor-Driven Change
Disproportionately Effective?

Investing in survivors provides a high return on philanthropic capital because survivors have a:

Unique insight into the injustice they survived
Tenacious motivation to combat the causes of what they survived
Potential to become powerful changemakers in their communities and the world

This makes investing in survivors a generative approach that keeps giving and giving.

WHERE WE FUND

We fund international work (outside the United States) to maximize our impact per dollar and to reach survivors that have few other resources at their disposal.

SURVIVOR-DRIVEN CHANGE

OUR COMMITMENT TO
SURVIVOR-DRIVEN CHANGE