Beloved Communities Network Launches Kickstarter for Ten Thousand Beloved Communities In the earliest and most precarious days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Leila McCabe of Beloved Communities Network (BCN) and Kristen Zimmerman of Root. Rise. Pollinate! hosted a series of powerful conversations with ecosystem buddies including Aisha…
Our Storytelling Series Features the Folks Most Associated With MSC’s History: Meet Kristen Zimmerman In this installment we get to know activist, artist, and storyteller Kristen Zimmerman — co-founder of Movement Strategy Center (MSC) and Root. Rise. Pollinate! , and illustrator of the new graphic guide…
MSC Board Member Tomás Garduño on Getting to the “How,” and Other Insights From the Transitions Labs Originally published on December 2, 2014. A few weeks ago I got to spend two days in Oakland with a tremendous group of wonderful people brought together by the…
Our Storytelling Series Features the Folks Most Associated With MSC’s History: Meet Jacqui Patterson In this installment we get to know researcher, advocate, and activist Jacqueline “Jacqui” Patterson founder and executive director of the Chisholm Legacy Project — former director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate…
Movement Strategy Center on Forging Authentic Relationships Between Funders and Movement Leaders Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is values-aligned with the activist organizations we offer infrastructure to and thought partnership with; and dismantling white supremacy in philanthropy and intermediary services is fundamental to our goal and mission.…
Movement Strategy Center Chats with Corrine Van Hook-Turner, Director at Climate Innovation (Soon to be People’s Climate Innovation Center) About Consensus Building It is said that “you can’t be what you can’t see.” The conversation around representation is often concentrated on the silver screen or the…
Movement Strategy Center Chats With Aisha Shillingford of Intelligent Mischief in a 73 Questions-Style Interview Movement Strategy Center and Intelligent Mischief present MSC’s 73 Questions with Aisha Shillingford, creative director of Intelligent Mischief. This is our take on Vogue’s iconic 73 questions and in it we…
Movement Strategy Center on How Philanthropy Must Evolve Funding Practices Today Last summer, we witnessed many institutions and nonprofits denounce systemic racism amid the world’s sharp focus on George Floyd’s murder and the larger Black liberation movement, yet few organizations have moved toward tangible action. A…
This Crisis is Real, Intersectional, and It’s Already Happening This summer, the normally pleasant Pacific Northwest has seen three-digit temperatures while unprecedented heat advisories were in place for 80 million Americans across 20 states. As you’re reading this, 97 large wildfires are scorching over 2,000,000 acres…
Movement Strategy Center Reimagines Equitable Regranting Through Philanthropic Innovation Regranting Today In 2006, Warren Buffett announced he would donate 85 percent of his Berkshire Hathaway stock to charity. At the time, Buffett was the richest person in the United States, and his portfolio of stock in…
