Giving Compass' Take:

• Ai-jen Poo, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, discusses how justice-based philanthropy can help advance domestic workers and others working in the margins of our economy. 

• Poo believes that a justice model for philanthropy "invests in  the people and solutions that it finds in the margins until those margins disappear." In what other industries can funders apply a justice-based philanthropy model? 

• Learn more about the National Domestic Workers Alliance. 

Ai-jen Poo, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, on why and how we need to value “the work that makes all other work possible.”

More in her excerpt From Generosity to Justice with Ford Foundation President Darren Walker:

DARREN: Over the past ten years, what have you learned that has most profoundly impacted you, that you didn’t know when you started this work? And how can other people apply what you’ve learned to their work?

AI-JEN: There is something important to be learned in every single room. And one of the great gifts of privilege has been the ability to be in meetings with all kinds of people: advertisers, creatives, entertainers, people in business and tech and the world of investment capital. In every single room that I’m in, I learn something profound that is related or relatable to what we’re doing.

Read the full article about domestic workers by Darren Walker at Ford Foundation.