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Equitable Intermediaries in the News

NPQ Publishes a Piece on Power, Protection, and Partnership by MSC Staffers After months of research and conversation, Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) published “ Equitable Intermediaries: Power, Protection, Partnership ,” an essay by Frank Gargione and Andrea Granda , MSC’s Communications Director and Chief Innovation and Strategy…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Summer 2025

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Spring 2025

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Winter 2025

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

MSC Pushes the Envelope with New Fiscal Sponsor Fundraising Program

Movement Strategy Center’s Fundraising Task Force Blazes a New Path for Fiscal Sponsorship Fundraising It’s not a secret: Raising money is hard. Nonprofits around the world dedicate countless hours and funds to writing grant proposals and chasing individual donors in hopes they see the slightest increase…

Meet the Artists Building a Future of Solidarity and Care

Art.coop’s New Fellowship Supports Six Arts and Culture Groups Remember the Future At a time when the future seems more uncertain than ever, many of us will be looking toward artists and the arts to help us imagine a world of liberation, interdependence, and resilience. We…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Fall 2024

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Summer 2024

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

Community Chronicles: Stories of Solidarity, Spring 2024

Movement Strategy Center Highlights Milestones, Stories, and Achievements from the Ecosystem Community Chronicles is a seasonal shout-out to our ecosystem partners and their incredible achievements. Read on for some of the ways our ever-growing list of over 150 community-led and centered partners — including Fiscally Sponsored…

Movement Strategy Center DAF with blocks spelling the word DAF (Abbreviation of Donor Advised Fund)

MSC Launches a Donor Advised Fund Program

New Program Gives Donors a Chance to be a Part of Their Own Impact Investing Story In late 2023, MSC launched the Movement Strategy Center Donor Advised Fund (DAF) program, allowing individuals, families, companies, private foundations, trusts, and other entities to invest their assets toward building…

Jacqui Patterson Named a Time Woman of the Year

2024 Time Woman of the Year, Earth Award Recipient, and MSC Board Member We’re thrilled to celebrate Movement Strategy Center (MSC) Board Member Jacqui Patterson being chosen as one of 12 2024 Time Women of the Year! Patterson’s Woman of the Year profile lifts up her…

Language Matters: MSC Unveils Updated Glossary and Terms

A Collaborative Refresh Informed by Community Feedback — Explore the Guide At Movement Strategy Center, our dedication to language as a transformative tool recently inspired a significant update to our Glossary and Terms to Avoid webpage — an in depth resource for definitions and terms to…

Announcing Our Website’s New Landing Page: Why MSC?

Over a Year in the Making, Our New Landing Page is Also Our New DEI Page Back in 2022, Carla Dartis, MSC’s Executive Director, asked us to consider adding a DEI page to MSC’s website. Honestly, we — MSC’s small Communications Team — were taken aback…

In Memoriam:
ibrahim abdul-matin

Movement Strategy Center Remembers ibrahim abdul-matin, Environmental Activist, Urban Strategist, and Dear Friend of the MSC Ecosystem It is with heavy hearts that we mourn the loss of ibrahim abdul-matin, a bright, playful spirit who made a lasting impact as an environmental activist, urban strategist, and…

It Seemed Like an Open and Shut Case

Movement Strategy Center on the Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict A minor with an illicitly-sourced military-grade semi automatic firearm crossed state lines to join a group of pro-police vigilantes who gathered in Kenosha to allegedly protect homes and businesses from those protesting yet another instance of extreme police…

Acting Boldly, Creatively, and Collectively on Climate Change

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…

It’s Time For a Vision That is More Humane

Movement Strategy Center Stands with Cuba, Haiti, and All Victims of Imperialism On July 11th, for the first time in 62 years, thousands of Cubans took to the streets in Havana and other cities, calling for freedom, vaccines, and food. Since then, two dominating views have…

Condemning Violence and Colonialism and Standing With Palestinians

Movement Strategy Center’s Thoughts on Israel and Palestine This week, Muslims around the world are celebrating the end of Ramadan and the holiday of Eid-ul-Fitr. In Palestine, however, days meant for families and communities coming together in joy and prayer have been marked by brutal violence…