Note: This is an excerpt of the speech given by Jake Goodman, Opportunity Fund’s Executive Director, at the foundation’s 10-year anniversary celebration on February 28, 2025.
I want to talk about the time we’re living in right now. It’s just February. Our country has elected a president whose administration is actively expanding its power, authoritarian in nature, dismantling so very much, wreaking devastation left and right. We’ve all been touched by it – some of us more than others. “And then they came for me” has never felt so resonant in my lifetime.
At Opportunity Fund we are asking: What do we do? What can we do? And with whom?
Here’s what I’m thinking: