We imagine a world where people are in right relationship with each other and nature.
As an organization, we aim to:
Build a world where Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and other frontline communities enjoy dignity and self-determination.
Ensure communities have voice, power, and representation—locally, regionally, and globally.
Restore and regenerate the natural world, bringing people into right relationship with the climate, land, and seas.
Respect and honor the beauty of peoples’ cultures, artistic practices, self-expression, and individuality.
Cultivate global solidarity and reciprocity for our partners’ communities.
Shift agency and financial resources back to the global south from the global north.
All of our work is led by these core values
Our values are inspired by our partners, the people they serve, and the funders who support them, with special thanks to the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.
Respect
We recognize and honor the rights and worldview of different communities, and work to support their self-determination, aspirations, solutions, and initiatives. We value difference and engage conflict as a pathway to create shared understanding and transformative solutions.
Reciprocity
We accompany and align partners across the Caribbean, the Americas, and around the world—from grassroots activists to peer funders and intermediaries. We mobilize for mutual benefit and transformation across the full spectrum of histories, identities, and places that shape us.
Relationship
We prioritize creative agency and wellbeing. Our team embraces and brings personal and professional experience and connections to bear in service of our partners.
Responsibility
We create meaningful, long-term partnerships based on mutual trust and accountability, mindful of power dynamics that often undermine community-led efforts. We invite and integrate feedback to shape best practices in our foundation and across philanthropy.
Redistribution
We support culturally-informed living, sharing, and giving practices that acknowledge and repair past harms, ensuring that our partners inform our strategic funding priorities and that their communities concretely benefit from those resources.
Where we began, and where we’re going.
Panta Rhea is focused on supporting frontline communities across the Caribbean and Americas. Our new brand helps tell that story.
Here’s what it’s all about:
Looking forward while honoring our past
This new brand builds on Panta Rhea’s legacy values and longstanding support for grassroots efforts to build power, honor culture, and regenerate nature.
All things flow, all things change
We remain intentional— yet fluid, adaptive, and responsive. We embrace emergence, exploring, and investing in the possibility of what’s not yet known.
Centering people
We center people as the heart and soul of our work. Partnerships with frontline communities working for justice convey Panta Rhea’s best impact. We honor their leadership, visions, and successes.
Systems change and mutual aid
We address the root causes of unjust structures, customs, power, and policies. We also offer mutual aid in solidarity as we work for long-term sustainability and justice.
Hope and collective action
We believe positive social change is possible, even in times of trauma and crisis, like natural disasters, political oppression, and pandemics.
Holistic care
We celebrate interconnectedness, nature, beauty, creativity, and culture. We believe communities should convene, collaborate, create, rest, cultivate safety, and recharge in support of movement-building.
Making equity explicit
We’re now explicit about how diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to our mission, vision, and values, reflecting our shared global histories and lived, data-driven experience.
Aligning philanthropy
Ultimately, we hope that by modeling effective global community-centered philanthropy, we will inspire more funders and donors to align resources to frontline communities around the world.
The people of Panta Rhea
