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Dear friend,
For those who seek grounding in what it looks like to show up fully, carry one’s identity into every room, and stand firm in pushing others to do what is values-aligned and principled, we encourage you to take inspiration from Chi-Ante Singletary, NFG’s Board Co-Chair and Co-Founder and Chief Reparations Officer at Cypress Fund. As she wrote on LinkedIn after NFG’s first quarter board meeting in New Orleans:
"My relationship with NFG actually starts in an airport. I was rushing through a terminal, laptop open, when I jumped on a Zoom with [NFG Interim President, Amy Morris] to talk about a consultant role helping build out the Amplify Fund's strategy for the Carolinas. It wasn't glamorous. But it was one of those conversations that quietly changes the shape of things.
"That moment was happening at the same time my co-founders and I were preparing to launch Cypress Fund and I was in the middle of figuring out how to come back home to the Carolinas in a real way. I was trying all sorts of new things at once, things I had deep faith I could do but very little external evidence to point to. I knew my home. I knew grantmaking. I knew organizing. But threading those things together in this new context was genuinely scary; not because I doubted my knowledge, but because so much was at stake if it went wrong. These were communities I loved. People I loved. And I wanted to do work that would actually do justice to them.”
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