Introducing Solidarity Is
Written by Deepa Iyer I am excited to join Building Movement Project where I will be supporting BMP’s movement building initiatives and leading Solidarity Is, a project that I have […]
Category: Movement Building
2018: The Year in Review
2018 has been Building Movement Project’s busiest year ever! We’ve been crisscrossing the country talking about the Nonprofit Racial Leadership Gap, documenting how groups are working across boundaries to create movement for social change, and supporting important place-based […]
Bridging Differences and Movements
Written by Sean Thomas-Breitfeld Recently, I was in Detroit for a community summit organized by our partners at the Detroit People’s Platform and led a workshop on coalitions and alliances. Since the […]
Why Family Definitions Matter
Written by Sean Thomas-BReitfeld As Pride month came to a close this year, LGBTQ people were reminded that the struggle continues to have our lives and loves be valued equal […]
Webinar Recap: Systems Change with an Equity Lens
Community Interventions that Shift Power and Center Race Written by Natalie Bamdad from MAG and Noelia Mann from BMP This piece is a follow-up to a recent webinar on systems change and […]
Katrina, Sandy, Harvey: Centering Race and Class at the Eye of the Storm
Written by Noelia Mann We’ve seen this before. Natural disasters strike and communities of color and those affected by poverty are hit the hardest. As with the storms named Katrina […]
Sustaining the Movement for Sustainability
Written by Noelia Mann At the Climate March last weekend, over 200,000 people took to the streets of DC, again. This time, they gathered in the name of environmental justice. Thoughtful planning ensured […]
When Community and Labor Join Forces
Parent, Student and Teacher Partnerships that Yield Systemic Change Written by Sean Thomas-Breitfeld On March 31st, I sat down for a fast-paced webinar with two veteran organizers, and I knew our conversation […]
Permanently Affordable: The Community Land Trust Model
Written by Noelia Mann As anyone who has ever lived (or tried to live) in New York City knows, rent price tags are no joke. In NYC, chronic disinvestment in communities […]
Reflecting on the Women’s March on Washington
Written by Frances Kunreuther The day after Trump’s inauguration, I was one of the 500,000 or 1.2 million who marched in Washington, D.C. I was glad to be there, even with the flaws. […]