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Beezer de Martelly

Beezer de Martelly

Beezer de Martelly (they/them) is Senior Director of Philanthropic Organizing at Common Counsel Foundation, a Bay Area-based donor organizer advising donor-advised fund and family foundation donors on resourcing frontline social justice movements.

Sep 8, 2026

Block & Build

Block & Build

Blueprints for Donor-Advised Funding w/ Beezer de Martelly and Fatema Ahmad

Sep 8 · 49m

Caden Mock
Caden MockHOST
11:38
What is my relationship with that larger like financial institution?
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
11:43
Right.
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
11:43
So as a donor, you have choices to make.
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
11:47
And a lot of times those are presented as pretty neutral.
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
11:49
You know, wherever perhaps you receive the lowest deal, you might deposit your funds there.
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
11:56
But there's something happening in exchange for that low rate investments that are undergirding a whole lot of right wing projects.
Beezer de Martelly
Beezer de MartellyGUEST
12:05
But like you were saying, a donor advised fund itself, it's infrastructure that can be organized.

11 MINS LATER

Caden Mock
Caden MockHOST
23:32
And how has the donor organizing that y'all have been doing enable that?

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