Sgraffito is the careful removal or paint or layers to reveal something underneath. It’s wellleaving in the art world, and we have a lot to learn from it.
What if funders notifying nonprofits about grant renewal just before a grant runs out isn’t just a pain in the neck? What if it has real implications for impact? What if it creates a debt in community that accrues interest — and no one who created that debt takes responsibility for paying it?
Leaving badly is costly, but will be the norm until we start to think differently about impact and responsibility.
Our collective failure to reckon with the difference between the damage left by the suddenness of a shutdown and the difficulty, but lesser damage, of a winddown is borne most by the communities that have the least say in any of this. Learn about the harms of how, and why funders need to buy time— not take it.
What’s been extracted from communities is so much more than financial wealth.
