One Year of Genocide, Decades of Solidarity
By Priti Nemani, BMP Staff In October 2023, as the genocide in Gaza began and Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim community members began experiencing backlash and scapegoating here in the United […]
Tag: Community Involvement
Meeting the Moment: The Role of Nonprofit Service Organizations in Making Broad Social Change
On December 7th, the Building Movement Project (BMP) is excited to host a conversation about the Security to Wellbeing Framework (SWB), a new tool that supports service organizations to begin or expand their social change work.
WEBINAR—Tools2Engage: #OurNeighborhoods Anti-Displacement Toolkit
Join us on Thursday, February 13th 2020 at 1pm EST for a FREE webinar on one of our newest Tools 2 Engage resources: the #OurNeighborhoods Anti-Displacement toolkit. This toolkit was […]
More Than Food: How Service Providers Engage Their Communities and React to Policy
Written by Helga Garza The Common Good Action Project is a cohort-based program that BMP developed to support nonprofit leaders in New Mexico to learn how to align their direct […]
Webinar Recap: Engaging Constituents, Addressing Root Causes: Food Banks and Beyond
Recently, the Building Movement Project (BMP) hosted a 60-minute webinar featuring Randi Quackenbush and Lyndsey Lyman of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier (FBST) and Alicia Swords, Associate Professor at Ithaca College. […]
Briefings in New Mexico Reaffirm the Importance of Strong Partnerships
Written by Alicia Lueras Maldonado During the first week of May, the Building Movement Project team gathered in Santa Fe and Albuquerque with local partners and community members to share […]
Webinar Recap: Feedback Loops vs Constituent Engagement
Thank you to all of those who registered for and participated in BMP’s recent interactive webinar: “Feedback Loops vs Constituent Engagement.” It was a resounding success full of conversation and […]
The Land of the Common Good
Written by Sean Thomas-Breitfeld Tourists fall in love with New Mexico because of the food, culture, and natural landscapes. But over the past three years of BMP working with a […]
Reflections from the 3rd Detroit People’s Platform Annual Meeting
Written by Murphy Austin “We have worked out a system to deal with the system.” These words, spoken by Detroit People’s Platform member Jocelyn Harris at our annual meeting, stand […]
Who’s in Charge of Transforming Detroit?
Written by Frances Kunreuther This blog post is due to the courtesy of openDemocracy. Bill and Billie Hickey live in Brightmoor, a neighborhood about twenty minutes away from the gentrified Midtown area of Detroit. […]