Ecosystem map
Mapping interdependence
We wanted to understand the landscape shaping racial justice and community power in the UK, and how Tudor could better allocate resources that support long-term systemic change. Recognising that change does not happen through isolated interventions or actors, but through interconnected relationships and conditions, nurturing this interdependence is central for a new future system to thrive.
Guided by our learning question “What does it take to create an ecosystem where multiple forms of resource and money flow to meet the ambitions of communities?”, we worked to create a visualisation of how partners connected, what foundations their work was grounded in, and how their practice cohered with our layers of a new future system. The map below is a partial view of the ecosystem map which informs our grant-making.
Foundations
Movement building
Resourcing the connective tissue between organisations, strengthening relationships and building solidarity and collective power beyond siloed approaches.
Healing & repair
Resourcing caring infrastructures in organisations and communities through building deep connection and compassion to enable repair and accountability. These approaches recognise justice sitting at the centre of health towards restoration.
Alternative governance
Centring accountability and transformative models of decision-making, embedding community-led governance systems that draw on examples such as feminist leadership and indigenous knowledge to shift power away from traditional hierarchies.
Economic power
Redistributing wealth through alternative ownership models and civic infrastructure, rewiring how assets are held and governed to build long-term economic resilience and community self-determination.
Knowledge & narrative
Investing in the storytelling, wisdom and practices that sustain movements and shape public understanding through community perspectives and knowledge exchange.
Tech justice
Resourcing communities to shape, govern, and build digital infrastructures on their own terms for collective benefit, from organising tools to advocacy on the politics of data and algorithmic power.
Systemic layers
Stewardship in practice
This layer is situated in a grounded practice, where partners are stewarding wealth and assets through new forms of governance and leadership. These organisations provide and anchor deep collaboration, demonstrating alternative ways of holding and exercising power.
Fields in motion
This layer is found in movement building and shared infrastructure, bringing communities together so that they can strategise, convene and build power. It is about the key connectors who reduce fragmentation by centring relationships and enabling coordinated action.
Seeding the future
This layer operates at the margins of imagination and experimentation. These margins are not limitations but understood as emergent spaces where the work urges us towards new futures and ways of seeing. There is power in what can be possible here without forcing certainty or scale.