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    Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
    Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
    Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
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    Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance

    Written by Edgar Villanueva

    Narrated by Larry Herron

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    About this audiobook

    Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides.

    Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm than good. After 14 years in philanthropy, Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: the old boy networks, the savior complexes, and the internalized oppression among the “house slaves,” and those select few people of color who gain access. All these funders reflect and perpetuate the same underlying dynamics that divide Us from Them and the haves from have-nots. In equal measure, he denounces the reproduction of systems of oppression while also advocating for an orientation towards justice to open the floodgates for a rising tide that lifts all boats. In the third and final section, Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing.

    With great compassion—because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing—Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers
    Release dateOct 16, 2018
    ISBN9781523097883
    Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
    Author

    Edgar Villanueva

    Edgar Villanueva is Founder and Principal of the Decolonizing Wealth Project and an associated fund, Liberated Capital, that supports Indigenous and other people-of-color-led initiatives working for transformative social change. In 2020, the Liberated Capital Fund raised over $3 million across various giving programs. He is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, and serves as chair of the board of directors of Native Americans in Philanthropy and NDN Collective, and is a board member of the Andrus Family Fund. Villanueva is also senior vice president at the Schott Foundation for Public Education.

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      Eye-opening look at the inequities and colonial structures of modern philanthropy. Everybody who donates to a nonprofit, works for one, or wants to make a real difference, should read this. What’s most wonderful about this book is that it offers a healing way forward.