Even as we tackle urgent problems, we recognize systems change takes time and requires patience. We embrace Systems Change: In pursuing community, grassroots, and youth power, we prefer to generate the biggest impact possible for our limited dollars by focusing on work that changes systems and addresses the root causes of problems rather than just treating symptoms.We embrace Operational Integrity: We always place the highest value on earning the ongoing confidence of those who’ve donated or entrusted their money to us and who interact with us as volunteers, grantseekers, and peers.Taking into account their diverse perspectives and advancing their interests must be a major focus of our efforts to build community, grassroots, and We embrace Diversity and Inclusion: None of our other values can be lived out unless we ensure that communities of color and other communities which are disadvantaged today as a result of historical oppression are included in our work.Building long-term community and grassroots power requires developing more youth as advocates who will become life-long community leaders. We champion Youth Power: We believe youth have a unique voice that needs to be heard when it comes to environmental justice, nature’s rights, and people’s rights.In particular, we’ve repeatedly found that smaller groups organizing and mobilizing can have a major impact when given basic enabling funding. We champion Grassroots Power: In pursuit of community power, we believe first and foremost in organizing and mobilizing a broad range of people within communities as the best way to ensure long-term sustainable progress.We champion Community Power: We believe involving communities in the decisions that affect them leads over the long-term to better outcomes when it comes to nature’s rights, people’s rights, and environmental justice.We have a particular moral obligation to ensure these rights are protected for those communities whose rights have historically been ignored. We believe in Environmental Justice: Everyone has the right to clean air and water, a stable climate, and access to healthy natural areas.We work to right these wrongs, particularly for communities that currently lack economic and political power. We believe in People’s Rights: Every day, powerful interests take advantage of individuals and communities in ways that hurt them financially, threaten their health, and deprive them of their privacy.Since nature can’t speak for itself, we have an obligation to speak up for nature. We believe in Nature’s Rights: The natural world has intrinsic value independent of its usefulness to humans.The Values Wheel centers the Why, What, and How of the Rose Foundation in our work to drive forward change. Build Power: People (including our grantee activists and New Voices youth leaders) feel empowered and, in many cases, their organizations and communities have more power to drive change.Grow Capacity: Grantees and youth use their “wins” to attract more resources (dollars, volunteers, etc.).Win: Grantees and youth leaders “win” a campaign, generate some other concrete progress, and/or build their base of support for future efforts.Mobilize: Grantees and youth leaders mobilize people and their peers to advocate for protecting nature, ensuring people’s rights, and advancing environmental justice.The four phases serve as a feedback loop, allowing the Change Wheel to spin faster and faster for grantees and youth leaders over time. Surrounding our Vision are four phases - Mobilize, Win, Grow Capacity, and Build Power - that Rose Foundation grantees and youth leaders pass through, although not everyone starts at the same phase and some grantees and youth leaders will simultaneously be experiencing multiple phases.
The Rose Foundation envisions a future where nature is protected, people’s rights are ensured, and environmental justice is advanced, and where these three values are deeply interconnected. The center of the Change Wheel outlines our Vision: The larger Change Wheel is propelled forward by the Values Wheel and Resources Wheel. Read more about the Change Wheel, Values Wheel, and Resources Wheel below.ĭonate to the Rose Foundation today to help drive forward this Vision for Change. However, we also recognize that all three Wheels mobilize each other, and sometimes, for example, it is necessary for the Change Wheel to drive the Resources Wheel forward. The Values Wheel and Resources Wheel act as inputs for the Change Wheel’s forward movement. This graphical representation reflects the ways our values, resources, and strategies drive forward our vision for change.
The Rose Foundation’s Theory of Change is represented as a set of three interlocking “gear wheels” that generate change as they rotate.
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