I Believe in the Value of

creating community-driven economic power

Help build a platform to confront capitalist financing mechanisms and operational systems that are driving worker exploitation and planetary destruction and help community-driven, BIPOC-led initiatives to operate with the scale and agility of white-led enterprises, without capitalistic values.

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Raymond  Pettit

Director of Partnerships | he/him

Raymond leads Possibility Labs’ partnership work, including business development, philanthropic relationships, strategic communications, and field building efforts. He has 15 years of experience in the social justice sector leading work around fundraising, partnership strategies, philanthropic advising, project development, and research.

Previously, Raymond worked as Fund Officer at Movement Strategy Center, Director of Development for Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, and as a consultant for the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. Raymond holds a B.A. in Anthropology from CUNY Hunter College and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center. As an economic anthropologist, his research examines how infrastructure shapes the possibilities for economic development and our relationships with the environment.

"I'm looking forward to building systems and collaborations with philanthropic partners, embedding democracy in decision making, and developing equitable resourcing strategies that push back on exclusionary development practices. To move philanthropy to deploy its full charitable portfolios towards a platform where Black/Brown folks build power and economic might, rather than accepting old limitations of grant making models."