This is part of a series of interview/conversations with people involved in collaborative and democratic approaches to moving money in service to a Just Transition.
These sessions are part of a discovery process that will inform the design of an "action-learning lab" in 2021 to support collaborative funding practices for networks and organizations. Learn more about this inquiry on the Now What?! Invitations blog here.
Mary Emeny, Lynnaea Lumbard, and Leslie Meehan, are members of the Threshold Foundation: a network of individual funders committed to a just, joyful, and generative world. In 2012, Leslie and Lynnaea co-founded Threshold's Thriving Resilient Communities funding circle, which has been the lead sponsor for the TRC Council collaborative funding program. The program has distributed over $1,500,000 to transformative climate, economy, and justice organizations and is governed by a majority grantee-led Council. Mary and Leslie have been the lead Council funder members for the past several years.
Leslie Meehan, MSEE, Ph.D, is a leadership consultant and co-creator of collaborative networks committed to community healing and transformation. She has over 25 years experience in strategic planning, intuitive process, systems architecture, management, and peer facilitation in business and nonprofits. She co-founded the Gaiafield Project and founded and co-stewards the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory. Leslie is a mom, artist, healer, traveller, and serious chocoholic. She lives with her husband Roger Sanford in the redwood forest mountains between Silicon Valley and the Pacific Ocean.
Lynnaea Lumbard, Ph.D, is a transformational psychologist, interfaith minister, wilderness guide, community weaver, social artist and strategic philanthropist. She offered a wide range of consciousness and spiritual work through co-founding Temenos Associates, All Seasons Chalice Church, and a four-year mystery school. She is co-founder and current Board chair of New Stories: illuminating and disseminating new stories and practices for a life-affirming future. When not writing or speaking, Lynnaea engages with small collaborative teams to strengthen, support and synergize the burgeoning new stories movement through convening, hosting, and facilitating social change workshops and gatherings. She lives with her husband, Rick Paine, in the land of ferries on either side of the Salish Sea: Whidbey Island, WA and Cortes Island, BC.
Mary Emeny, Ph.D, has been active in community service her whole life. She spent years with the American Friends Service Committee (Quakers) overseas in Tanzania, Vietnam, and Paris with Thich Nhat Hanh. She was on the founding boards of Habitat for Humanity International as well as San Antonio and Amarillo Texas. While raising three children, she managed the family ranch and founded the Wildcat Bluff Nature Center in Amarillo. While enjoying her grandchildren during her 70's, she completed her education doctorate, co-founded a cooperative hospital laundry as part of transforming an abandoned hospital, and serves on the Democracy Collaborative Board.
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These interviews are hosted by the Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory (TRCC) in partnership with the Regenerosity Network and the Now What?! global gathering and gift economy.