A funder learning community for
the Global Challenge
Philanthropic advisors Katherine Fulton and Mark Valentine recently authored “Reimagining Philanthropy” for OMEGA. It is well worth reading.
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The Global Challenge is the sum total of all stressors affecting planetary health.
It’s an unprecedented global systems problem. We need to understand it in order to respond as wisely as possible.
COVID-19 is a poster child for the fragility of global systems. Several dozen global stressors have created a “perfect storm” for humanity and the biosphere. OMEGA helps funders understand the Global Challenge. We can build deep resilience for the storms ahead.
The Global Challenge is far greater than any individual stressor. Non-governmental and civil society organizations play a critical role in social and environmental change. But most work on silo issues such as climate change or poverty. Few work on the Global Challenge.
Most philanthropy is also focused on silo issues. Philanthropy tends to overlook the Global Challenge—the greatest cumulative threat to humanity and the biosphere.
Increasingly severe future shocks may lead to:
If we prepare, these and other future shocks may prove survivable.
We could build a greener and more just world on the remains of the old order.
People give four good reasons not to think about the Global Challenge.
We understand. We’re not here to argue. We’re here to talk to the people who do want to think about it.
The Global Challenge won’t go away. But there are reasons for hope.
OMEGA is hopeful. Whatever the future may hold, we are committed to human service and the community of life on earth.
OMEGA focuses on the Global Challenge.
OMEGA is a learning community, not a funder affinity group in the usual sense.
We’re not trying to change your decisions on resources or mobilize collective funding for specific initiatives.
We just think the Global Challenge is worthy of consideration.
We welcome a wide range of views from across the global spectrum of perspectives and opinions.
And we welcome your interest.