All over the world, the civic infrastructure hasn’t collapsed completely. It’s being re-stitched together, not only by organizations and movements scrambling to adapt, but by people who have relational capital and are already adapting. Accountability Lab Senior Fellow Florencia Guerzovich calls them invisible weavers.

Invisible weavers aren’t a new category on your grantee list. They’re the ones making your existing investments work better — and go further. They’re the ones connecting the dots when formal systems falter and when frameworks show cracks. They move between sectors, roles and vocabularies: donor to NGO, movement to ministry, global north to rural community. That loop isn’t a liability — it’s a superpower.

Lina María Jaramillo in Colombia moved between peacebuilding roles in USAID projects and a grassroots organization she co-founded. When the aid taps turned off, she didn’t freeze; instead, she shifted her energy to where opportunity was strongest: community ties she helped weave over a decade. That’s the descongelado mindset she writes about — unfrozen, attuned, always moving.

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Samina Anwary