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New Reports: And Still I Rise, #BlackWorkersMatter
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities Report
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and...
Reports from the Movement Strategy Center
The Beat is (Back) On! Labor Reporting Reemerges
Police in Ferguson committed human rights abuses: Amnesty report
The Immigration Detention Transparency and Human Rights Project: August 2015 Report
Obama Calls for Changes in Policing After Task Force Report
Ferguson Commission Report Examines Issues Behind Mike Brown Uprising, Proposes Action
Building a Beloved Community: Strengthening the Field of Black Male Achievement
Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People
California Funders’ Convening on Gentrification and Displacement
On July 20, 2015, NFG partnered with the California Endowment, Ford Foundation, Common Counsel Foundation, and Smart Growth California to convene a day-long meeting for 70 funders and practitioners working on gentrification and displacement issues in California.
Our goal was to deepen a shared understanding of the problems and solutions to the crisis of displacement affecting residents and small businesses in many cities in California due to gentrification. We also sought to lay the foundation for potential alignment on strategies addressing these issues.
We developed a...
Press Release from Amnesty International
Journey Towards Intersectional Grant-Making
And Still I Rise/#BlackWorkersMatter
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...
Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities
On July 5, The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD), Law for Black Lives , Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100), and over 25 affiliates and allies released a new report examining the budgets of 12 city and county governments that reveals the extent to which local jurisdictions pour money into policing and incarceration, at the expense of community safety priorities such as infrastructure and social safety net programs.
The report,...
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...
Embattled Ferguson police chief resigns
L.A. RISING: The 1992 Civil Unrest, the Arc of Social Justice Organizing, and the Lessons for Today’s Movement Building
Making Change: How Social Movements Work - and How to Support Them
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.
Ferguson in Focus
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...
The criminalization of Muslim students must end
Police Reform Organizers Pitch Net Neutrality To FCC
Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results by Funding Policy and Community Engagement
Black Lives Matter,' NYC Mayor Says After Grand Jury Doesn't Indict Officer
Expanding Sanctuary: What Makes a City a Sanctuary Now?
Thoughts on Ferguson
Democratic Development for Thriving Communities: Framing the Issues, Solutions, and Funding Strategies to Address Gentrification and Displacement
The Democratic Development for Thriving Communities report is the result of collaboration between the California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement , field leaders, and academics. It builds on previous work from the philanthropic, academic, and organizing sectors to present a framework for philanthropy to consider in strategically addressing gentrification and displacement.
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#SayHerName: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women
Project Phoenix Outcomes and Evaluation
Project Phoenix: Connecting Democracy, Economy, and Sustainability was 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.
What emerged from our year of learning together? What paths have we found for cross-sector philanthropic engagement around a broad set of interventions that are commensurate to...
Reclaim, Remain, Rebuild: A Conversation with Funders on New Strategies for Urban Democracy & Equity
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...
CPR Statement re: Deaths of NYPD Officers Wenjian Liu & Rafael Ramos
Project Phoenix Readings
Governance, Participatory Budgeting and Grantmaking
New Southern Strategies Webinar: Employment, Workers’ Rights and the Prospects for Regional Resurgence
Black Churches Are Burning Again in America
Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families
Cuomo Appointed A Special Prosecutor For New York Killings Involving Police
Timeline of Race, Racism, Resistance and Philanthropy 1992-2014
By Larry Raphael Salomon, Julie Quiroz, Maggie Potapchuk and Lori Villarosa
This historical timeline attempts to capture, in one place, many significant moments, events, controversies and victories that have defined the racial landscape since the turbulent days following the LAPD/Rodney King beating verdict over two decades ago. When communities in Los Angeles rebelled, "race riots" exploded the commonly held myth that our nation had progressed from the explicitly unjust conditions that had defined earlier generations. And in the decades since, the...California Funders Working Group on Gentrification and Displacement
VICTORY: HUD Program Changes to Reduce Foreclosures and Increase Affordable Housing
USHRN Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence
Response to Ferguson: Systemic Problems Require Systemic Solutions
Dear friends,
Last night, like many across the world who were watching, we experienced deep disappointment in the decision by the St. Louis County grand jury not to indict Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson for fatally shooting Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenage boy, on August 9. Our thoughts are first with the family of Michael Brown and the community of Ferguson. It’s important to note that this case has never been about just one police officer. The spotlight on Ferguson has revealed with a renewed, sharper focus a deep divide in our society highlighting...OBS Launches Quality Policing Initiative
Rural Rising: Supporting Equity, Sustainability, and Resilience in Rural & Small-Town America
National and Local Recommendations for Police Accountability
Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy
In response to a resurgence of interest in place-based grantmaking, the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group convened over 100 funders and leaders from the field in September 2014 for Towards a Better Place: A Conversation About Promising Practice in Place-Based Philanthropy. This conference report provides an overview of the discussions that took place at this conference, including:
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lessons shared by experienced place-based funders;
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key challenges and
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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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Grant-making with an Intersectional Lens
Five Things President Obama Could Do to Stop the Killing
Outrage Over Garner and Brown Cases Should Keep Philanthropy Focused on Criminal Justice
Police arrest protesters as St. Louis awaits grand jury decision
Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test
Solutions Emerging from the Movement for Black Lives
Seven Ways That Funders Can Support Racial Justice
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change
Why focus on anti-Black racism?...
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Kris Hayashi
Philanthropy on the Frontlines of Ferguson
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Jenny Arwade, Interviewed by Manuela Arciniegas
FFJ Call Recap: Policing and Criminalization in the Trump Era
“This is a time for you and for us to be fearless; to find ways and resources to fund organizing and base building.” — Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center
Over the course of these past few weeks, marginalized communities have been relentlessly targeted and criminalized by the new federal administration. These include immigrants, with an executive order to begin building a wall along the southern...
A Pivotal Moment for Racial Justice
Funders for a Just Economy - Network Meeting & Florida Tour Review
In Defense Of Black Lives — How NFG's Amplify Fund is Supporting Power Building in Black Communities
For Philanthropy, Time to Double Down to End Injustice
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...Field & Funder Convening explores strategies to resource transformative solutions to the US housing crisis
In July 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group and the Right To The City Alliance hosted a Funder & Field Convening alongside the Homes For All Member Assembly in Atlanta, GA. Grantmakers met with grassroots leaders to strategically align and move more resources to support housing justice efforts happening throughout the country. The convening included workshops on investing in long-term narrative shift, a funder tour through Atlanta with the ...
COVID-19 and Indigenous Communities: A Call to Action and Relationship for Philanthropy
Police Accountability: Organizing and Philanthropic Strategies
Policing the Homeless: Broken Windows ‘On Steroids”
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
From the Front Lines of Ferguson
Justice Dept. to investigate NYC chokehold death
The long, halting, unfinished fight to end racial profiling in America
Third Wave Fund Launches Mobilize Power Fund for Urgent Gender Justice Activism
Weathering the Storm: Building Resilience Against Opposition Attacks
Lifting up Philanthropy Forward Fellows’ Response to Coronavirus
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Mary Hooks
Minneapolis Protestors Occupy Police Precinct, Shut Down Highway After Police Kill Jamar Clark
Bringing Our Whole Selves to Philanthropy and Our Grantmaking
Can place-based grantmaking help turn the tide of inequality?
Racial Capitalism, Power, and Resistance Movements Convening
For Love of Humankind: A Call to Action for Southern Philanthropy
A Multiracial Rural Equity Summit: Why Now
As We #SayHerName, 7 Policy Paths to Stop Police Violence Against Black Girls and Women
#HandsOffTheHomeless Protest of de Blasio’s NYPD
Minneapolis repeals lurking, spitting laws that criminalize people of color
The Power of the People – SB1445 is a Strategic Victory With Lessons for Alliance Building
Urgent Funding Needs and Opportunities
Funder Coalition Calls for Building a Just and Resilient New Orleans
5 Hot Causes for Donors in 2015
Health, Housing, Race, Equity and Power Funders Convening
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
For the Surdna Foundation, Communities Should Define Their Futures
Strategies to Address How Amazon’s HQ2 Will Impact Workers and Local Economies
Strategies to Address How Amazon’s HQ2 Will Impact Workers and Local Economies
Philanthropy Isn’t Doing Enough to Support Youth-Led Voter-Mobilization Efforts
Strike Watch: From Food to Fashion, Workers are Countering Corporate Talking Points with Organizing for Economic Security and Protection
Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement
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...
What It's Going to Take to Change Philanthropy
Community Ownership and Land Trusts: Power-building Solutions for America’s Housing Crisis
Feature: Freedom Inc.’s Creative Response to the Criminalization of Black Communities in Madison, Wisconsin
Questions Linger for LGBT Community After Police Kill Jessie Hernandez
Ferguson Action Demands
OUR VISION FOR A NEW AMERICA
WE WANT JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR OUR COMMUNITIES
We Want an End to all Forms of Discrimination and the Full Recognition of our Human Rights
The United States Government must acknowledge and address the structural violence and institutional discrimination that continues to imprison our communities either in a life of poverty and/or one behind bars. We want the United States Government to recognize the full spectrum of our human rights and its...Response to Eric Garner's Case: A Deeper Conversation
Eight days after thousands took to the streets in protest, grief, and outrage following a Ferguson grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager, we are faced with the reality that a New York grand jury, tasked with determining whether to hold another white police officer accountable for the publicly witnessed and video recorded death of an unarmed black man, reached the same decision: no indictment.
We are faced with the reality of a...Five Principles for Engagement on the Future of Work(ers) and Two Big Ideas
Answering the Call from Movement Leaders
Choosing to be a Liberated Gatekeeper
Webinar Recap of Stabilizing Communities: Advancing Housing Justice Organizing and Policy Strategies in This Political Moment
Across the country, resident-led institutions and their allies continue to build organizing strategies that address housing, displacement, and gentrification at the local, regional, and state level. Strategies and solutions to gentrification and displacement like rent control measures, passing local ballot initiatives for renter protections, developing community land trusts, and financing affordable housing has had some success, but the demographics of many communities are still rapidly changing.
At the center of these shifts, philanthropy continues to play a critical role...
Can you tackle poverty without taking on place?
Funders for a Just Economy Florida Learning Tour
FFJ Advisor Discussion Series: Zachary Norris
Announcing the 2019 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner
Support Minneapolis Protesters
"Intersections of Justice in the Time of Coronavirus" by Cara Page & Eesha Pandit
Youth on the Move: How Funders Can Support the Growing Movement of Young People of Color in 2015
Catalyzing a Movement for Health and Housing
COVID-19 Strike Wave
Healing Justice Guidance to Philanthropy During COVID-19, the Uprisings, and Beyond
By maisha quint, Libra Foundation; Cindy Alvarado, The Simmons Foundation; Claribel Vidal, Ford Foundation — members of the Funders for Justice Healing Justice Strategy Group
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As we witness the ongoing health and economic crisis of the pandemic of COVID-19, and the simultaneous murders and violence by the state and White nationalists, and the glaring role of ableism in our nation, we must recognize that our country is being forced to reckon with...