By Movement Strategy Center, Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, National Community Development Institute, Building Movement Project

This report centers on how a group of social justice organizations, in the Bay Area and nationally, are linking leadership development to executive leadership transitions, paying particular attention to race, class, gender, and age. The four collaborating organizations that oversaw the project and the production of this report — Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action, National Community Development Institute, Movement Strategy Center, and Building Movement Project — have all worked with a diverse group of social change oriented nonprofit organizations on leadership issues in the midst of dramatic demographic and generational shifts.

By Rosa Gonzalez in affiliation with Facilitating Power and Padres Unidos

Published 2020

The Spectrum of Family Engagement for Educational Equity is designed to provide school districts and community/family organizing groups with shared language for being explicit about the level of family engagement in school planning and decision-making, and the impact that level of engagement has on families, communities, and on student outcomes. It is based on the Community Engagement to Ownership Spectrum. Padres Unidos, a parent organizing group that was founded in 2016 on the eastside of Salinas, CA, to ensure parents have a voice in their students’ educational success, collaborated with Rosa González of Facilitating Power, to adapt the tool for use with school districts.

Por Rosa Gonzalez in affiliation with Facilitating Power and Padres Unidos

Publicado 2020

El Espectro de Participación Familiar para la Equidad Educativa proporciona a los distritos escolares y a los grupos organizadores de la comunidad/familia un lenguaje compartido por ser explícitos sobre el nivel de participación de la familia en la planificación y toma de decisiones escolares y el impacto que el nivel de participación tiene en las familias y las comunidades, así como en los resultados académico de los estudiantes.

By Rosa Gonzalez, Facilitating Power

Published 2019

The Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership charts a pathway to strengthen and transform our local democracies. Thriving, diverse, equitable communities are possible through deep participation, particularly by communities commonly excluded from democratic voice and power. The stronger our local democracies, the more capacity we can unleash to address our toughest challenges, and the more capable we are of surviving and thriving through economic, ecological,and social crises. It is going to take all of us to adequately address the complex challenges our cities and regions are facing. It is time for a new wave of community-driven civic leadership.

By Movement Strategy Center

Published 2021

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 discuss Afrofuturism, art and design, movement building, social justice, the Golden Girls — all for MSC’s first-ever #GivingTuesday and End of Year Giving campaigns.

Credits: Talent: Aisha Shillingford @aishashillingford
Videographer: Auden Barbour @audenbarbour
Produced by: @MSContheMove

By Julie Quiroz in affiliation with Higher Ground Strategies, Movement Generation

Published 2017

Featuring Makani Themba (Higher Ground Strategies), Quinton Sankofa (Movement Generation), and Nwamaka Agbo (Movement Strategy Center).

By Julie Quiroz in affiliation with DRUM, Native Organizers’s Alliance, Octavia’s Brood

Published 2016

Powerful videoconference hosted by MSC in December 2016, featuring Judith LeBlanc (Native Organizer’s Alliance), Fahd Ahmed (DRUM & #NoMuslimRegistry), and adrienne maree brown (Co-Editor Octavia’s Brood).

By Weyam Ghadbian, Jovida Ross

Published 2016

How do we envision a radically different world with courageous love and responsibility? How can sharpening our purpose and defining our horizon build transformative movements? Webinar #2, Leading with Vision & Purpose — part of the Transformative Movement Building Webinar series — was developed by MSC and Move to End Violence and includes a slidedeck, a recording of the webinar, and a practice guide.

By Taj James

Published 2013

What We’re Learning 5: The Wheel and the Web makes the case for a holistic understanding of climate resilience, including remaking our democracy and economy.