Panta Rhea Foundation

We imagine a world where people are in right relationship with each other and nature. As an organization, we aim to:

1. Build a world where Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and other frontline communities enjoy dignity and self-determination.
2. Ensure communities have voice, power, and representation—locally, regionally, and globally.
3. Restore and regenerate the natural world, bringing people into right relationship with the climate, land, and seas.
4. Respect and honor the beauty of peoples’ cultures, artistic practices, self-expression, and individuality.
5. Cultivate global solidarity and reciprocity for our partners’ communities.
6. Shift agency and financial resources back to the global south from the global north.

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.