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Grantmakers for Southern Progress 2016 Post-Election Webinar Recap
After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice
Civil Rights Monitor
Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
Uprisings and Funding Needs
Post-Election Resources
Funders for a Just Economy's Alabama Learning Tour Resources
Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis
New Reports: And Still I Rise, #BlackWorkersMatter
Webinar Resources from Hope in the Heartland: Racial Justice and the White Working Class
FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era
Recapping the Strategy in Action Learning Tour: Equitable Revitalization and Regional Power-Building in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania
Webinar Recap: Governance, Participatory Budgeting, and Grantmaking
Reports from the Movement Strategy Center
The Movement Strategy Center offers a plethora of resources that speak on transformative practices, collective impact, intersecting issues, and building progressive power. Below is a curated list.
Practices of Transformative Movement Building We need transformative strategies to generate exponential change. But how do we accomplish this? How do we achieve...
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
Project Phoenix Readings
Below are several of the reports and readings that supported our learning in Project Phoenix, a year-long cohort collective learning program for funders exploring fronts ranging from local economies and climate justice to worker co-ops under the frame of a “just transition” or “solidarity economy” or “economic resiliency” or “new economy.” Learn more about it here.
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Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results by Funding Policy and Community Engagement
Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies
Organizations Addressing Police Accountability and Racial Justice
Living Resource Systems: A New Approach for Supporting Movement Networks
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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: resources are...Grantmakers for Girls of Color - Watch the National Funders Convening
Making Change: How Social Movements Work - and How to Support Them
Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation
New Southern Strategies: Employment, Workers' Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
What will it take to win successful economic justice campaigns in the South? With many families facing chronically low wages and economic insecurity, an understanding and attention to the political economy of the South can help funders and field organizations develop successful intervention strategies.
Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age
Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement
Baltimore Uprisings
Race and Policing - A Resource from IssueLab
DIVEST/INVEST: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities
Project Phoenix Grantmaking Tools
Project Phoenix convened a group of funders from a broad range of issue perspectives (climate, civic engagement, worker rights, local economies, etc.) and a broad range of institutional types and positions (size, mission, geography, approach, level of risk-taking, etc.). We realized we often meant very different things by the terms “just transition” or “new economy” or “solidarity economy” and found it difficult to understand each others’ work and the possibilities at the intersection in a shared framework. Learn more about...
CampaignZERO Launched
CampaignZERO presents a comprehensive package of policy reforms to end police violence in America. It encourages people to petition their elected representatives to implement 10 policy solution areas at the local, state, and federal level of government to achieve an America where police do not kill people.
Protestor Progress
This project tracks movement victories that have happened to date as a testament to the power of protest to change the systems and institutions that perpetuate police violence in our communities.
Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making
Press Release from Amnesty International
California Funders’ Convening on Gentrification and Displacement
Native Voices Rising: A Case for Funding Native-led Change
This is a pivotal time in Native America. Opportunities are opening up as the result of improving economic standards, higher levels of educational attainment, and better health outcomes in certain regions; however, many of the challenges that have long faced our population still persist. For every major challenge and issue there are also efforts to make positive changes.
Native Voices Rising is a joint research and re-granting project of Native Americans in Philanthropy and Common...
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities Report
Moving Money, Making Change: Funding the Movement for Black Lives
The Black Scholar: Ferguson, the Black Radical Tradition and the Path Forward
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement
Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders
As a first step in establishing a framework and priorities, the Integrated Rural Strategies Group commissioned a scan of rural organizing work, Voices from the Field: Rural Organizers on What They Need from Funders . From this scan, the group has gained literacy in the organizing work...
Recap: 2017 Grantmakers for Southern Progress Spring Convening
In bayous, hollers, cities, and small towns across the American South, visionary leaders have long pioneered cutting edge, successful strategies to build lasting change in their communities and beyond. These leaders have the skills and expertise necessary to navigate an inclusive way forward for everyone in this era of unprecedented political, economic, and demographic shifts. Yet philanthropy—for reasons both mundane and profound—hasn't kept up. How can Southern and national philanthropists alike change this trend and help advance progress in the region and the nation overall?
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From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?
As We #SayHerName, 7 Policy Paths to Stop Police Violence Against Black Girls and Women
Amplify Fund's Response to COVID-19
Webinar Recap of From Sanctuary to Freedom: Cities in Resistance
How White Foundation Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
From Protest to Power - Behind the scenes of disruptive social movements
Resourcing the Movement for Black Lives
From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns
Webinar Recap: Why Should Social Justice Funders Care About Impact Investing?
Towards a More Resilient Place: Voices from the Convening
The Road Ahead for Worker Justice: Where to Lean In, Pull Up, Push Back and Pivot
Technologies for Liberation: Toward Abolitionist Futures
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Technologies for Liberation: Toward Abolitionist Futures is a new report by the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice in collaboration with Research Action Design (RAD).
The report explores the ways the state and corporations in the U.S. are using...
Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization, and How Justice Reinvestment Can Build a Better Future for All
Communities United , Make the Road New York , and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos have just released a new report, The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization, and How Justice Reinvestment Can Build a Better Future for All , detailing how the U.S.’s misguided criminal justice policies wasted $3.4 trillion over the last three decades that could have instead been used to more...
Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy's Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement
Transnational Workers Rights: Emerging Strategies from the Global North and South
This report was commissioned by the Society for Labour and Development (based in India), the Project of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ProDESC, based in Mexico), and the National Guestworkers Alliance, three labor rights organizations developing transnational strategies for organizing workers in low-wage industries. Economic globalization has created new strains on labor forces and communities, and the increasing mobility of capital (and with it the threat of exit, disinvestment, and job loss) poses unique challenges to traditional models of labor organizing.
The substantial...
Webinar Recap: How to Creatively Fund Social Movements
Neighborhood Funders Group and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) co-hosted "How to Creatively Fund Social Movements," a webinar that explored how foundations can be more flexible in supporting grassroots groups and leaders. Experienced grantmakers and organizers shared strategies for responding to this movement moment's critical need for resources to frontline social change actors.
View materials from the webinar here:
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Healing Justice Guidance to Philanthropy During COVID-19, the Uprisings, and Beyond
Thoughts on Ferguson
COVID-19 Funds: Where to Donate to Support Communities
As the South Grows
As the South Grows is an initiative of Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) and the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) to give philanthropists the tools they need to partner effectively with visionary leaders across the South. The initiative will produce a four-part investigative research and resource report series around place-based strategies for supporting structural change in the South. Through timely...