Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days
Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days is part of BMP’s Movement Infrastructure Series, which offers ideas, approaches, and practices to strengthen individual organizations and broader social movement ecosystems.
Many of the recommendations in this brief emerged from conversations and inquiries that arose in BMP’s work with nonprofit organizations, working groups, and networks before and during the first 100 days. Through a series of interviews, a survey of the sector, and weekly field meetings with grassroots and national organizations, BMP captured a glimpse of how organizations around the country grapple with a range of multi-layered consequences. The organizations that we supported and engaged during the first 100 days included social service providers that provide immigration services, support for survivors of gender-based violence, and homelessness prevention and mental health, as well as advocacy, organizing, and movement groups that advocate for policy demands from specific communities.
Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days has the following goals:
- Provide a snapshot of how executive orders issued in the first 100 days affect the nonprofit sector.
- Highlight movement infrastructure needs and challenges while documenting how organizations and movements are adapting through innovation, solidarity, and care.
- Synthesize strategic recommendations for the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors that center sustainability, collective power, and solidarity.
