For 25 years, Building Movement Project (BMP) has helped nonprofits and movements live their values-aligning principles with practice so organizations can lead effectively, serve justly, and sustain change for the long haul.
Mission
BMP provides insightful research, practical resources, and pathways for transformative relationships that support nonprofit organizations, network, and movements in their work to create a just and equitable world.
Vision
BMP imagines a world where all community members live with dignity and power, support by diverse and resilient organizations, networks and movements that work to eradicate root causes of inequity and injustice.
OUR IMPACT
We support the nonprofit sector through research:
BMP supports thousands of nonprofit staff and movement partners through workshops, trainings, and convenings—from Solidarity Is gatherings to Service and Social Change cohorts.
We produce and share resources:
BMP produces widely used tools, explainer resources, and sector updates to help organizations navigate complexity and adapt to a fast-changing landscape.
We build and support relationships:
BMP builds and strengthens relationships between progressive leaders and organizations by facilitating and convening networks of peer support and cohort-based learning.
WE UNDERSTAND THE SECTOR
BMP produces rigorous, data-driven research that reveals how race, leadership, and power shape the nonprofit sector. By translating complex findings into accessible insights, we help organizations and movements understand the conditions that affect equity and effectiveness—and take informed action.
WE KNOW NONPROFITS
BMP equips nonprofit leaders and organizations with the research, tools, and support they need to turn insight into action and build lasting change. We help changemakers strengthen leadership, shift organizational culture, and advance equity while developing the long-term capacity, relationships, and resilience that justice movements require. By bridging data and practice, we ensure the sector has what it needs to thrive today—and endure for the future.
How We Do It
BMP ignites nonprofits’ potential to have an impact in advancing movements for progressive social change and focuses that potential into tangible action
Listening and Learning: Through surveys, focus groups, interviews and convenings, we explore ways organizations can shift their focus to transforming the structures and systems causing inequality and injustice.
Leading and Influencing: BMP advances ideas that matter. We bring a critical, values-based, and inclusive perspective to shape ideas and practices in the nonprofit sector.
Consulting and Training: BMP supports nonprofits, philanthropy, and networks in order to align their practices with their values and to better address issues facing their communities.
If your organization seeks more customized, hands-on support, Building Movement Project conducts keynotes, workshops, presentations, and also offers consulting services for nonprofit organizations.