Building Movement Project
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BMP develops research, tools, & training materials that help nonprofits support the voice & power of the people they serve. https://buildingmovement.org/
Women of color-led organizations in our analysis received just 8% of asset-building funding. We need to close the leadership capital gap by investing in the infrastructure and partnerships that ensure long-term stability. Read the full report here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
🎧 On the newest episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, Adaku Utah talks with UyenThi Tran Myhre about episodic solidarity in our movements and why we need to build and resource transformative solidarity infrastructure for the long haul: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
With this Solidarity Syllabus, we invite you to begin or deepen learning about the life and work of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black trans activist who fought for over fifty years for her trans/gender nonconforming community: www.solidarityis.org/syllabus/hon...
Philanthropy often funds the "work," but systematically underinvests in the infrastructure and governance that sustain women of color leadership.
Fund women of color leaders like you mean it! This blueprint in @buildingmovement.bsky.social's new report tells philanthropic colleagues how! #beyondtheglasscliff #newreport #BMP #movementinfrastructure
Building Movement Project@buildingmovement.bsky.social · last mo.If we want to truly sustain leadership, we have to move beyond short-term fixes. Our new report, "Beyond the Glass Cliff," outlines how philanthropy can better support the infrastructure, governance, and capital that women of color leaders need to thrive. Full report here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
We hosted a funder briefing alongside the release of our latest report, "Beyond The Glass Cliff: Investing in Conditions That Sustain Women of Color Leadership.” Here’s what funders and leaders in the sector had to say about the findings. Read the full report here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
If we want to truly sustain leadership, we have to move beyond short-term fixes. Our new report, "Beyond the Glass Cliff," outlines how philanthropy can better support the infrastructure, governance, and capital that women of color leaders need to thrive. Full report here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
So excited to have this research in the world! Women of color lead some of the nonprofit sector’s most powerful work. We must work with our philanthropic colleagues to ensure their leadership is seen, supported and fortified for the long haul. #fundwomenofcolor #beyondtheglasscliff #newreport #BMP
Building Movement Project@buildingmovement.bsky.social · 2mo agoDespite increased grants for women of color-led nonprofits, philanthropy still underfunds the support needed for long-term stability. The new Building Movement Project report, "Beyond the Glass Cliff," examines how to sustain women of color leadership. Read it here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
Juneteenth reminds us that progress is measured not only by what is promised, but by what is made possible. “Beyond the Glass Cliff” explores how philanthropy can move beyond commitments and invest in the conditions that sustain women of color leadership. Download the report bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
Despite increased grants for women of color-led nonprofits, philanthropy still underfunds the support needed for long-term stability. The new Building Movement Project report, "Beyond the Glass Cliff," examines how to sustain women of color leadership. Read it here: bit.ly/BeyondGlassCliff
NEW Solidarity Is This podcast episode - brought to you in partnership with Transgender Law Center (@translawcenter), the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
Applications open for the 2026 Solidarity Is Cohort! Over six sessions, we’ll learn about mapping social change roles and ecosystems, solidarity as strategy, transforming conflict and building trust, and more.
NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast - artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales @rlmartstudio.bsky.social joins guest host UyenThi Tran Myhre for a conversation on solidarity, hope, and cultural organizing in Minneapolis and beyond: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
Solidarity and Cultural Organizing in Minneapolis and Beyond — Solidarity Is
In this episode, guest host UyenThi talks to Minneapolis organizer Ricardo Levins Morales about cultural organizing, coalition building, and how solidarity work can be messy, chaotic, and full of poss...
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“Disabled people are the real hackers of society. And that to me is, I think, a form of activism as well. It’s a way of being, to carve out, negotiate, and navigate through this world.” In honor of Alice Wong: www.solidarityis.org/syllabus/solidarity-syllabus-honoring-alice-wong
Solidarity Syllabus: Honoring Alice Wong — Solidarity Is
This Solidarity Syllabus is an invitation to begin or deepen learning about the life and work of Alice Wong, a disabled activist, writer, editor, and community organizer.
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🎧 NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast: Co-host Adaku Utah and Reverend Dr. Liz Theoharis @kairoscenter.org discuss the reclamation of justice work by faith communities and the solidarity possibilities that arise from interfaith organizing www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
In this State of Solidarity webinar on May 12, we navigate the “solidarity wedges” shaping our movement ecosystems, and reflect on how transformative solidarity can move us into deeper alignment and collective action in the midst of them: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Today marks the five year anniversary of the deadly shooting at a FedEx ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. On April 15, 2021, eight people—including four members of the local Sikh community—were murdered by a gunman.
Join BMP this spring for a two-part learning series on solidarity wedges and opportunities! For more about our State of Solidarity on May 12 and our half-day Solidarity Intensive on June 9: www.solidarityis.org/public-progr...
In March, community and faith leaders from around the country began a 90-mile march from the Dilley immigrant detention facility to San Antonio, TX, to raise awareness about the surge in child detention by the Department of Homeland Security: www.instagram.com/p/DVbNyIgkeW...
freefamiliesforever on Instagram: "What began on Wednesday, walking past the South Texas Detention Facility in Dilley, Texas—where hundreds of families and children a…"
What began on Wednesday, walking past the South Texas Detention Facility in Dilley, Texas—where hundreds of families and children are detained—ended Saturday, as our steps erupted in number and hundreds of people joined the final 9 miles of the 90 mile walk. Pastor Dianne Garcia and other leaders in the National Coalition to end Family and Child Detention (including Trudy Taylor Smith/Children’s Defense Fund TX @childdefender1973, Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis/Kairos Center @liztheoharis @kairoscenternyc, Mike Ishii/Tsuru for Solidarity @tsuruforsolidarity, Michelle Venegas-Matula/UU TX Social Justice, Leslie Takahashi/Mt. Diablo UU Church CA, and more) began the fourth and final day of the walk at the San Antonio Migrant Memorial site and ended at the San Antonio Municipal Courthouse, chanting, singing, and speaking to raise awareness and call for an end to family and child detention.photos by @stevepavey#liberation #freefamilies #song
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Great piece taking stock of what we’ve learned in the past year and how folk are organizing to build community and resist in these times. #1yearin #movementbuilding #protectthenonprofitsector
Building Movement Project@buildingmovement.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW brief from BMP: In the midst of ongoing crisis and complexity, many nonprofit organizations and movements have continued to build alternative infrastructure where government systems have failed or disappeared. 1/ www.solidarityis.org/solidarityle...
⭐ Applications are open for our summer 2026 Security to Wellbeing cohort - a free virtual learning series for direct service organizations who want to step into social change! Learn more and find the app here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ny5j...
NEW brief from BMP: In the midst of ongoing crisis and complexity, many nonprofit organizations and movements have continued to build alternative infrastructure where government systems have failed or disappeared. 1/ www.solidarityis.org/solidarityle...
Solidarity Lessons — Solidarity Is
Solidarity Lessons from a Year of Crisis and Change offers a deeper look at how the nonprofit sector is navigating a prolonged period of constraint and contestation.
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NEW brief from BMP: In the midst of ongoing crisis and complexity, many nonprofit organizations and movements have continued to build alternative infrastructure where government systems have failed or disappeared. 1/ www.solidarityis.org/solidarityle...
Solidarity Lessons — Solidarity Is
Solidarity Lessons from a Year of Crisis and Change offers a deeper look at how the nonprofit sector is navigating a prolonged period of constraint and contestation.
solidarityis.org
⭐ Applications are open for our summer 2026 Security to Wellbeing cohort - a free virtual learning series for direct service organizations who want to step into social change! Learn more and find the app here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ny5j...
As our remembrance tree at Blackburn Park takes root and grows, so does our collective power. Read our solidarity letter and add your name: bit.ly/5yrmarch16 *Video footage from the 2023 Memorial Tree Planting at Blackburn Park.
As we share these artworks by Nicole Kang and Nathalie Bui in remembrance of this tragedy, we reflect and hold space for the lives lost and the communities that continue to carry their memory. To learn more about these art pieces and their meaning, please visit bit.ly/march16artexhibit.
This month marks five years since the Atlanta Spa Shooting on March 16, 2021, when eight lives, including six Asian women massage workers, were violently taken.
We are excited to offer a number of co-learning opportunities for movement groups, leaders, and organizers this year - from virtual gatherings to new episodes of the Solidarity Is This podcast. Learn about these offerings and more and join us! www.solidarityis.org/public-progr...
Brilliant visioning and calling to action from my @buildingmovement.bsky.social comrades, Adaku and Deepa! Solidarity is urgent work! And 'transformative solidarity requires infrastructure’! #movementsolidarity #solidarityisapractice #movementbuilding #wegotus
Building Movement Project@buildingmovement.bsky.social · 6mo agoNew at @npquarterly.bsky.social - BMP's Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social write about the solidarity infrastructure that our movements need to move beyond episodic solidarity. nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-build...
New at @npquarterly.bsky.social - BMP's Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social write about the solidarity infrastructure that our movements need to move beyond episodic solidarity. nonprofitquarterly.org/how-to-build...
How To Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Many movements get stuck in episodic solidarity because they lack scaffolding and support, but solidarity infrastructure must go beyond movement moments.
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