The term “sanctuary” most recently refers to local policies that limit when and if local law enforcement communicates with, or submits to, (often unconstitutional) requests from federal immigration agents. But in a country where over-policing results in 1 in 3 people being arrested at least once by the age of 23, during a time when evolving technology places fingerprint scanners in the palm of every law enforcement officers’ hand, and as we anticipate the growth in...
article and photo provided by the Movement Net Lab
In tandem with the many movement networks of the last decade, innovative funding channels and configurations have emerged to support them.
These changes are part of the shift from foundation-centered funding to a broader conceptualization of resources we call a living resource system . A living resource system provides a relationship-based approach to resources:...
by Manuel Pastor and Rhonda Ortiz, originally published in March 2009
Social movements are a hidden underpinning of the American story. Using the tools of relationship building, community mobilization, and symbolic protest, they have helped bring us civil rights, labor protections, and even a healthier environment, sparking people’s aspirations, imaginations, and actions for a better nation.
This document seeks to provide a guidepost to both funders and the field by detailing what makes for a successful...
BreakOUT! and NOWCRJ ’s Congress of Day Laborers recently released the Vice to ICE Toolkit , a resource on organizing across intersections of identities, including race, sexual orientation, gender identity,...
The Black Social Change Funders (launched by Hill-Snowdon Foundation and ABFE ) presents "The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change" as a charge to inspire sustained commitment to strengthen and expand the infrastructure for Black-led social, institutional and political power in the U.S. The case addresses three interwoven questions:
Why focus on anti-Black...
Visit United Against the Muslim Ban to learn more about the policing of Muslim communities through the travel and migration ban. Now is the time to take a stand, regardless of your faith, ethnicity or cultural heritage. These policies threaten more than Muslim, Arab, Black, and South Asian communities. They threaten our Constitution. They threaten our vision of America. They threaten our core values and ideals.
This site will provide resources...