Welcome to SUSTAIN
SUSTAIN is a leadership fellowship for emerging cultural leaders and founders from knowledge rich and systemically marginalized communities, using arts for social change in their projects, organizations and companies. SUSTAIN will support 10 fellows to build trusting relationships, tools, strategies and resources to drive systemic change.
Through online learning, co-coaching, in-person gatherings, research co-creation and action-based strategy, leaders gain the skills to challenge barriers and sustain their work.
SUSTAIN is designed for leaders who have experience running businesses, organizations, or projects for 5+ years; and who are at a pivotal moment in their leadership journey where additional skills, networks and organizational capacity would meaningfully advance their work and impact.
Importantly, SUSTAIN is designed for leaders who want to examine and shift their relationship with money and wealth, while understanding the impacts of racial capitalism and colonization.
SUSTAIN fellows actively want to engage in strategy for a more just economy that involves working with people with different economic & racial identities.
Finally, the SUSTAIN model is designed to be co-researched with a Research Lead, Fellows and team members to understand effective leadership development models for leaders working for social change.
SUSTAIN Fellowship schedule:
- 1 weekly online 2-3 hour live facilitated module
- Regular research reflection sessions on just economy research, including the SUSTAIN model for holistic leadership training
- Optional weekly 2-hour reflection & connection time with FLIP staff and/or other Fellows
- 2-3 in-person gatherings
- Catalyst Dinners
What you’ll receive from the Fellowship:
- $1,000 per month basic income stipend to support your full participation.
- Networks & access to a peer community of practice, facilitators, financial activists and movement leaders across Canada and the US.
- Practical tools like building financial management systems, the Flourishing Business Canvas, coaching and completion of your business plan.
- Skills for building personal and professional resilience, somatic and emotional awareness, working across difference and grounding in your leadership practice.
Facilitators
Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik
Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik, LCSW is a therapist specializing in treating OCD, CPTSD, and PTSD, prioritizing women, survivors, and queer & trans folks. She utilizes EMDR, IFS, I-CBT, and ERP to help clients feel safe in the present and come home to themselves. Andrea is also an EMDR consultant for therapists getting certified in the modality. She can also be found at andreaglik.com
Jasmine Rashid
Jasmine Rashid, (she/her) is a New York-raised, California-based, mixed-Bangladeshi-American who believes deeply in people power. As a financial activist, writer, and strategist, she successfully supported the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition in shifting billions of dollars in big bank financing away from the migrant detention and private prison industry. In her role as Director of Impact for Candide Group, over the course of 6+ years she helped impact investors flow their money to predominantly women & BIPOC-led social justice-focused companies, funds, and vital organizations building the next economy.
Her first book —The Financial Activist Playbook— builds on her knowledge base as a: Congressman John Lewis fellow; Just Economy Institute alum; Trauma of Money Method certified practitioner; and lived experience as a girl in her late 20s just trying her best to navigate contradictions under Late Capitalism (and help build something better).
Ondine Hogeboom
Ondine Hogeboom (she/her) is a South African entrepreneur, researcher, author, and facilitator, as well as a mother of two daughters. She currently lives as a settler in Canada on the unceded lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal).
She is the Co-Founder and Director of Flourishing Startups (FS) and a Social Innovation Fellow at Georgian College, Canada. With over two decades of experience, Ondine has founded seven social enterprises across South Africa, Botswana, and Canada, coached more than 300 entrepreneurs, and designed flourishing entrepreneurship programs that have reached over 12,000 founders worldwide.
She is the co-creator of the Flourishing Startup Method (FSM), a systems-based approach that helps entrepreneurs design business models aligned with social, environmental, and economic well-being. Her work focuses on supporting entrepreneurs to reimagine business not as extraction, but as care, rooted in regeneration, reciprocity, and relationship with self, culture, land, and community.
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