Why MSC - Movement Strategy Center

Movement Strategy Center

MSC is a movement support organization that weaves, builds, and amplifies power to accelerate a Just Transition through our fiscal sponsorship, philanthropic services, and capacity building offerings. Since 2001, we’ve provided space for reflection, experimentation, and incubation to Transformative Movement leaders tackling interconnected social justice causes. We insist on a radical shift in philanthropy that transforms giving practices in support of radical interdependence and love. Join us!

Putting love at the center.
Embodying the values and spirit of our partners.
Committed to a Just Transition.

Movement Strategy Center

MSC is a movement support organization that weaves, builds, and amplifies power to accelerate a Just Transition through our fiscal sponsorship, philanthropic services, and capacity building offerings. Since 2001, we’ve provided space for reflection, experimentation, and incubation to Transformative Movement leaders tackling interconnected social justice causes. We insist on a radical shift in philanthropy that transforms giving practices in support of radical interdependence and love. Join us!

Putting love at the center.
Embodying the values and spirit of our partners.
Committed to a Just Transition.

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Arab Futures Healing & Liberation Network is creating containers for healing and safety, repairing wounds caused by systemic oppression, and restoring harmony and peace (“Weyam wa Salam”) to the earth, ourselves, and each other.

This May, we're highlighting MSC partners and glossary terms related to mental health, healing, and support.🌞 #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

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Between 1865-1930, formerly enslaved people and their descendants established more than 1,200 communities, including Freedmen’s Settlements and other historic Black towns. @chisholmlegacy (TCLP) recently launched its Freedmen’s Settlements campaign to secure funding and protect these historic communities. Visit our link in bio to learn more and watch TCLP’s short video, “Making A Way Out of No Way — Freedmen's Settlements: A Story of Community Resilience.”

📷Image credit: TCLP

*TCLP Founder and Executive Director @jacquipatterson9 is an MSC board member.

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Well? You're *not* going to miss the opportunity to make a wish, are you?! Sending you whimsy and hoping all your wishes come true. #MotivationMonday

Images via @sadderlizards

REPOST: Our partners @intelligentmischief ask us t

REPOST: Our partners @intelligentmischief ask us to consider the harms of the past and our role in helping heal them —

“What if we took responsibility for repairing the harms of the past?
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For healing what was broken.
For reclaiming what was stolen.
For restoring what has been lost.
For ending the cycle of exploitation and domination.
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Breathe.
Pause.
Remember.
Grieve.
Reckon.
Acknowledge.
Apologize.
Return.
Compensate.
Heal.
Grow.
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Everything transformed
A promise fulfilled
A radical reconstruction.
A chance at something new
At the horizon's edge.”

We reposted @jnaydaily's fantastic “What I Wish

We reposted @jnaydaily's fantastic “What I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Started Boycotting” primer a few months ago. She recently shared the primer above, saying “redirecting my attention has become the foundation for all other resistance — and often costs nothing.” Are you boycotting any digital and/or brick-and-mortar spaces?

✨Original posted by @jnaydaily, @earthlingsundone, @thegeneralstrikeus, @earthlyguy

@clayborn_temple, site of the 1968 Memphis Sanitat

@clayborn_temple, site of the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, was devastated by fire on April 28. Executive Director @anasatroutman* set a goal of reopening the church in 2028 — just in time to mark the 60th anniversary of the strike. We’re committed to helping Troutman achieve her goal, and believe Clayborn’s long history as a site of faith and resilience will ensure its doors will reopen on schedule. #BelovedCommunity

If you’d like to help make this goal a reality, please continue to share Clayborn’s story. To make a donation, visit our link in bio.

📷Image credit: Historic Clayborn Temple

*Troutman is an MSC board member and founder of the @thebigwe. BIG We Foundation is a Movement Strategy Network member.

“What do volunteer firefighters, mutual aid grou

“What do volunteer firefighters, mutual aid groups, and artist collectives all have in common? They rely on fiscal sponsors to sustain their work.” Fiscal sponsors offer stability, infrastructure support, and solidarity to grassroots organizations. Our partners @proximate.press (in collaboration with Social Impact Commons) just launched “Common Ground,” a series covering the future of fiscal sponsorship in the U.S. Click our link in bio to explore the series! #FiscalSponsorship #CommonGround #Grassroots

🎨Image credit: @proximate.press

May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, and we’re he

May is #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth, and we’re here to remind you that your identity, feelings, and mental health is valid — no matter who you are or where you’re from. For this edition of #BookClubTuesday, we’re highlighting a few mental health-related books. As always, our list, which lacks fiction books this time around, is by no means exhaustive. We’d love to hear your recommendations!

📚Featuring @theraemcdaniel, @dr.rheedawalker, @jbrekkie, @disability_visibility, @thewintersgroup, @foofoofoo, @teresemariem

BRB, choosing a Pokémon to identify with — whic

BRB, choosing a Pokémon to identify with — which one is speaking to you? Images via @hopehealingarts. #MotivationMonday

How does your garden grow? With all the chaos surr

How does your garden grow? With all the chaos surrounding us, gardening in your backyard, tending to a community plot, or watering house plants are all wonderful ways to reset your nervous system and give back to planet Earth. Let us know your best gardening tips and tricks (or funniest fails) in the comments! #memedump

🎉New blog post!🎉 Catch up on events, cohorts

🎉New blog post!🎉 Catch up on events, cohorts, conferences, and more throughout the MSC ecosystem in the latest edition of “Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity.” See how our partners continued to inspire us throughout the long, dark days of winter at our link in bio! #CommunityChronicles

Fire devastated @clayborn_temple, home to more tha

Fire devastated @clayborn_temple, home to more than 130 years of history, on the morning of April 28. The devastating loss affects not only the local Memphis, Tenn., community, but all who believe in Clayborn’s mission to honor the humanity and dignity of Black, poor, and working-class people.

As @anasatroutman (an MSC board member and founder of @thebigwe*) recently shared, “Sometimes what looks like a boundary is just a new horizon.” If you’d like to make a donation to help preserve Clayborn’s past and uplift its future, please visit https://clayborn.org. #BelovedCommunity

*BIG We Foundation is a Movement Strategy Network member.

We’re committed to amplifying our mission of adv

We’re committed to amplifying our mission of advancing a Just Transition, and we stand in solidarity with hundreds of other nonprofits who are united in our goal in protecting the freedom, independence, and future of the sector. You can learn more at our link in bio. #UniteInAdvance

“When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Persp

“When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in a Timeplace of Collapse” by Norma Wong (one of our favorite books of 2024) is now available as an audiobook!

Wong is an Indigenous Hawaiian leader, Zen master, and MSC mentor. She narrates the visionary guide to co-creating new worlds from one in crisis (the forward is read by Nāʻālehu Anthony, a Native Hawaiian activist, changemaker, and storyteller).

You can immerse yourself in Wong's wisdom wherever you get your audiobooks! #WhenNoThingWorks

📷Image credit: Collective Acceleration

“Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, an

“Truth Demands: A Memoir of Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice” is a call to remember, to grieve — and to act.

The book is a powerful story of love, loss, and climate justice that’s rooted in the true events surrounding the 1999 murders of her partner and two colleagues in Colombia. Author @abbysreyes* is the Director of Community Resilience Projects @ucirvine.

#TruthDemands is out today. Check out what @jacquipatterson9 (an MSC board member and founder of @chisholmlegacy) and @rositagon888 (founder of our partners @facilitatingpower) shared about the book, and visit our link in bio for more info!

*Reyes is also the director of The Seamstress Project, an MSC fiscally sponsored project.

Signs of renewal and rebirth are all around us! Th

Signs of renewal and rebirth are all around us! This #MotivationMonday post is from @nabalo, who reminds us “each season carries wisdom, and sometimes, the land knows what you need before you do.”

When @anasatroutman described her vision for @clay

When @anasatroutman described her vision for @clayborn_temple, she said, “In this rebirth, we aspire to be more than a historical monument.”

Over the last eight years, Troutman has been instrumental in renovating Clayborn (which had shut its doors in 1999) into a beacon for civil rights advocacy, artistic exploration, and meaningful community engagement. It was destroyed by fire in the early morning of April 28.

MSC’s Executive Director Carla Dartis visited Troutman in Memphis, Tenn., and explored Historic Clayborn Temple in 2023. We wrote about Dartis’ visit, Clayborn's history (it was the organizing site for the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike), and Troutman’s vision for the future on our blog (link in bio).

Please help us amplify Clayborn's legacy of faith, resilience, and building Beloved Community by sharing stories, photos, and articles. To make a monetary donation, visit our link in bio.

*Troutman is an MSC board member and founder of @thebigwe. BIG We Foundation is a Movement Strategy Network member.

#We❤️PeoplePlanet! We’ve joined over 100 non

#We❤️PeoplePlanet! We’ve joined over 100 nonprofits, businesses, cultural leaders, and foundations in pledging our commitment to protect and advance climate solutions that improve people’s lives and promote healthy communities. Be part of the movement to step up and create the positive climate tipping point we need by signing and amplifying @solutions.project’s letter at our link in bio!

🎨Image credit: @punkyaloha

MSC's 501(c)4 affiliate is the MSC Action Fund.

MSC's 501(c)4 affiliate is the MSC Action Fund.