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Our Field Building program partners with foundations, donor networks, individual funders and community-based organizations to direct more resources to social justice organizing. As an intermediary connecting funders and base-building organizations, MSC helps create alignment between funders and practitioners and expand the field of work for racial justice.
MSC helps to increase the resources available for entire fields of work rather than just individual organizations. By expanding the larger funding infrastructure, we also support organizations to transform competitive relationships into effective long-term partnerships, and build a larger movement. Similarly, we believe that developing a coordinated strategy between funders is the best way for them to leverage their resources, ensure the success of their grantees, and elevate their grantmaking to the scale of coordinated, sustainable, national work.
Through the strategic alignment of resources we are helping to build a more sustainable movement.
Our Field Building program provides:
Fundraising Strategy for Organizations, Alliances and Sectors
MSC provides fundraising strategy support to base-building groups, including strategies for collaborative fundraising that supports alliances and fields rather than single organizations. We also work with individual organizations to map their sectors and funding sources.
Strategic Planning and Grantmaking Strategy Development for Foundations
MSC works one-on-one with funders to construct grantmaking plans that incorporate community participation and a movement-building frame. We also help foundations work as alliance builders and funder organizers.
Donor Education on Movement Building
Through presentations at funder convenings, group study circles and individual sessions, we bring a movement-building approach to funder strategy and provide alternative models to current resource allocation systems. MSC also convenes funders and base-building groups to initiate dialogues on how to resource the progressive movement more efficiently and equitably.
Research and Field Mapping
MSC is experienced at mapping entire sectors of work, documenting the best practices within that sector, and producing large-scale reports that directly inform racial justice grantmaking and organizing.
Fertile Ground: Women Organizing at the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Reproductive Justice
By Kristen Zimmerman and Vera Miao
Movement Strategy Center, © 2009
Fertile Ground explores the ideas and work of 24 organizations that are
working for reproductive and environmental justice. The purpose of this report is to highlight the powerful contributions these groups are making to secure safer and healthier environments for all women, children, and communities, and to examine how an intersectional approach to organizing and movement building can lead to more powerful outcomes at all levels.
Movement Strategy Center ©2009
This summary highlights findings from the reports Fertile Ground (above) and Climate of Opportunity: Gender and Movement Building at the Intersection of Reproductive Justice and Environmental Justice (published by the Women's Foundation of California). While these are two separate and distinct reports, they share similar foci and findings. The importance of the work they describe, and the extraordinary opportunity they represent, compelled us to create a joint executive summary that links these reports in a useful and proactive way.
Regeneration: Young People Shaping the Environmental Justice Movement
By Julie Quiroz-Martinez, Diana Pei Wu and Kristen Zimmerman
Movement Strategy Center, ©2005
Full Report {92 pgs.}
Executive Summary {16 pgs.}
ReGeneration examines the powerful visions and strategies of young people in the U.S. environmental justice movement. The Movement Strategy Center interviewed groups across the country, and found that youth organizers in the environmental justice movement are creating new ways to expand leadership, build intergenerational alliances, work sustainably and bridge issue areas and communities. The groups profiled in this report offer models and strategies to reinvigorate every sector of the national progressive movement.
By the Movement Strategy Center, ©2005
Bringing It Together reveals how youth organizing groups across the country are incorporating innovative approaches to support the holistic - emotional, physical, spiritual and political - development of their members. This report profiles six groups that are using a wide range of support strategies, depending on history and context. These new approaches are creating healthy lives in tandem with community change, and leading to a more sustainable social justice movement.
Making Space Making Change:
Profiles of Youth-Led and Youth-Driven Organizations
By the Young Wisdom Project of the Movement Strategy Center, with the Youth Speak Out Coalition, ©2004
Making Space Making Change is the only available guide for understanding youth-led organizations and their place in the contemporary youth movement. Follow the stories of five youth-led and youth-driven organizations from around the U.S. - how they started, build youth leadership and power, deal with challenges, and make real change in their communities. This report is for all young organizers and their allies who want to put their principles into practice and invest in the next generation!
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