Transition Resource Circle

We are the Transition Resource Circle (TRC), a collective of activists, funders, writers, cosmologists, and researchers dedicated to tackling the root causes of our meta-crisis. We foster transition pathways to guide us from our current meta-crisis to adjacent possible futures that serve Life. We work with/in/through philanthropy to alchemize and liberate capital toward post capitalist realities rooted in liberatory and post-anthropocentric values such as solidarity, relationality, reciprocity, interbeing, and animism. We see the wealth concentrated within the opaque sector of philanthropy as the world’s shared, collective endowment, built upon the backs of countless generations and an accumulation of human, and more-than-human labor, destruction and sacrifice. Philanthropy believes it is part of the solution. And sometimes it is. Yet, all too often, philanthropy exacerbates our current exploitative system through undemocratic and unaccountable processes – for example, by increasing endowments through existing market mechanisms – and through a lack of imagination on how to support the requisite paradigm shifts. This will require more than a paradigm shift; it will require ontological shifts in seeing, being and relating with the world. We call this work Justice Plus Onto Shifts. We believe that the philanthropic sector requires a deeper structural analysis of power, privilege and capital; a more experienced understanding of how to build transition infrastructure; a stronger relational web of partners, communities and organizations; a circle of allies to support the necessary inner work of contemplation and accountability, decolonization and spiritual/political praxis to go beyond extractive capitalism and make kin with the living world once again.