Dilafruz Khonikboyeva - Philanthropy and Underfunded Solutions
Event Date: January 16, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm
This program is on Zoom
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva is the Inaugural Executive Director of Patagonia’s Home Planet Fund. Patagonia’s business model is a triple-botton-line approach that prioritizes planet and people, built on a foundation of producing durable, high-quality gear to reduce consumption. Key strategies include using sustainable and recycled materials, promoting repair through its Worn Wear program, donating 1% of sales to environmental causes, and encouraging customers to buy less, all of which aligns with a strong anti-consumerist and environmentalist brand identity.
Dilafruz will talk about Home Planet’s purpose-driven philanthropy, a type of philanthropy that eschews fancy dinners and expensive galas to focus on funding the underfunded geographies and underfunded people. Currently, 1,725705 square kilometers or Earth’s land and waters are stewarded by Home Planet Fund programs. This is a little more than 1% of Earth’s land mass. For example, their programs are funding people and programs in East Africa, where carbon is being sequestered across millions of hectares by Maasai, Samburu and other tribal groups. They work with partners in the Tongass Rainforest and many indigenous groups around the world to steward our planet’s resources.
Dilafruz Khonikboyeva was previously a political appointee of the US Biden-Harris Administration, spent five years with the Aga Khan Development Network, and eight years responding to conflict and climate crises. She is a transformational conflict expert, focused on civil war, environment and resource conflicts, and storytelling. She has served on the Board of her alma mater the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University and leads the Climate Change Working Group for Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security and Conflict Transformation (WCAPS). She is a Presidential Leadership Scholar.
Dilafruz is indigenous Pamiri from Khorog, Tajikistan.
$20 ($15 for Praxis members)
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