Chung-Wha Hong

Chung-Wha Hong is Co-Executive Director of Grassroots International, a global justice grantmaking and social action organization. Since 2014, she has worked with Grassroots International’s phenomenal team to expand long-term partnerships with more social movements and to grow donor organizing projects around food sovereignty, grassroots feminisms, human rights, climate justice, and healing.

For over 30 years, Chung-Wha has worked on a range of social justice issues locally and internationally, through organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and philanthropy. She was named by New York Magazine as one of the Most Influential People in Politics for her work on immigrant organizing in NY State.

Chung-Wha Hong in Kosmos

Redefining philanthropy’s purpose and role by centering social movements

This essay delves into the pivotal relationship between philanthropy and social movements, challenging traditional paradigms. Emphasizing the need for philanthropy to move beyond mere funding and engage in true allyship with movements, the authors envision a praxis of solidarity philanthropy rooted in liberation.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 3

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,