Guest Blog: Gabriela Sandoval
Alan Davis is on sabbatical, returning to work on April 1, 2024. During this time, his monthly letters will be written by three distinguished colleagues: Gabriela Sandoval, Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute; Larry Ottinger, civil rights attorney and WhyNot Initiative senior advisor; and Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund.
We are coming up on the fourth anniversary of the beginning of the COVID-19 global pandemic and while I’d like to say we’ve come out the other side of it, the treads of the pandemic’s impact remain. They remain vividly on our communal health–physical, mental and emotional, and they remain on our economic, democracy, racial justice, and other societal structures.
My name is Gabriela Sandoval, I serve as Executive Director of the Excessive Wealth Disorder Institute and I’m writing the CCC’s January newsletter because Alan is on a much deserved sabbatical and because EWDi is in the process of adopting the Crisis Charitable Commitment as a project that will be housed with us.
EWDi’s mission is to organize, educate and support research that helps build a broad-based movement to dismantle the social, economic and environmental dangers posed by wealth extraction, wealth hoarding and the corrosive effects of excessive wealth on our democracy.
We’re thrilled to be in partnership with you!
I’d also like to introduce you to EWDi’s Administrative Lead, Patricia Arroyos. During the next few weeks you can expect Patricia to reach out to you via email and by telephone to introduce herself, renew your membership in our effort, if you have not yet done so for 2024 and invite you to EWDi’s first in-person event.
Leading Change Summit: Charitable Giving Reform
April 30, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.
More details to follow soon.
We hope you will be able to join us!
We’ve joined forces with our friends at IPS, Solidaire Action and Patriotic Millionaires to organize a Donor Revolt for Charity Reform.
You can get a sneak peak at our effort here!
We haven’t gone public yet as we are still enlisting signers. We are three-quarters of the way to our goal. We need your voice so we can roll out this effort in February!
Will you join us?
You should also feel free to reach out to folks in your networks who are also committed to common sense charitable reform.
At EWDi, we are looking forward to getting to know you all better in 2024. Please feel free to reach out any time by replying to this email or contacting us here.
We’ve got a big year ahead and we are grateful you are on this journey with us!