About the Collective
Our Inception
In 2018, the Collective’s founder Nneka Allen gathered a group of Black women fundraisers to share their collective thought leadership on the strategic direction of their profession’s largest membership organization, the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Realizing that their gathering was validating and uplifting for them as Black women and as professionals, they continued to meet. In the late part of 2018, they organized as a community group offering support to both current and emerging Black Canadian Fundraisers across Canada
Our Approach
We approach our work through a distributive model of leadership - a holacracy or a circle. Holacracy is a way of structuring and running our organization where decision-making is shared through a holarchy of circles organized around projects or initiatives. We currently work within the following Circles:
Super Circle
All members of the collective
Black Philanthropy Fund (BPF)
Donor-advised fund supporting the education of Black Canadian Fundraisers
Belonging & Engagement
Membership and stewardship
The Collective Academy
Building capacity in B3 organizations
B3 Organizations (Black-led, Black-serving, Black-focused)
Nonprofit database development
