LOOKING AHEAD
THE NEXT 20 YEARS
As we look ahead at the next 20 years, Mission Capital is excited about the opportunities to realize our vision of a Central Texas where all have access to opportunity and can thrive, where leaders feel empowered to elevate their voices, organizations are equipped to fulfill their missions, and our networks apply an equity lens to a collective community vision. Our role feels as important as ever – to spark progress from within individuals, cultivate community, foster organizational resiliency, and maximize opportunity and impact across the nonprofit sector through collaboration, leadership development, customized trainings, strategic consulting, and pushing the boundaries of our sector’s culture.
We also know that Central Texas is becoming a diverse “global majority” region. The Central Texas social sector is vital to providing adaptive leadership and resources that support our local communities. To do this effectively, we must critically examine our own organizations’ role in perpetuating existing disparities in the communities we serve, and proactively shift mindsets, practices, and systems that embrace community wisdom and advance community potential.
Our mission is to equip and connect mission-driven leaders, organizations, and networks advancing equity and opportunity through their work, and we will continue to put these into practice through three strategic goals:
GOAL 1: Close the racial leadership gap in the Central Texas social sector.
In the Central Texas social sector, race no longer predicts a leader’s likelihood of achieving and sustaining a leadership role.
GOAL 2: Increase organizational resilience and sustainability.
All social sector organizations in Central Texas have equitable and adequate infrastructure to advance race equity in their strategies, programming, internal structures, and community engagement/accountability.
GOAL 3: Expand and strengthen the capacity of collaborative networks.
Organizations and leaders in the Central Texas social sector ecosystem bring an equity lens to influence others in networks and coalitions.
APPROACHING THE FUTURE WITH CURIOSITY
We are excited to launch and scale new offerings that support our bold goals and vision – like WeThrive cohorts for EDs/CEOs, which launched in 2021, and a new BIPOC mentoring program still under development.
As we look ahead, Mission Capital reflects on these curious questions and trends that may impact the evolution of our work in the years to come:
How will the global pandemic impact our local communities over the long term, and how can our nonprofit sector proactively respond?
How will Central Texas’s economic growth impact communities that haven’t historically benefited from similar trends? How might we reverse the tide of the growing racial wealth gap in our region?
How might Mission Capital use our position as an influencer to advocate for structural changes in the social sector, in pursuit of equity and shifting power to the community?
How will trust-based philanthropy and the community-centric fundraising movement continue to shift sector practices, and how might we support those changes?
How might we support the critical work of BIPOC leaders and their organizations, recentering social sector decision making about BIPOC communities back to those communities?
How might we elevate the relevance of cross-sector and broader social issues that impact the daily lives of the communities we serve, like racial equity, education, health, and economic justice, as we consider what communities need to thrive?
We look forward to navigating questions like these, and many more we can’t yet anticipate, with you – our community – over the next twenty years.