Fiscal sponsorship enables movement nonprofits to focus on mission and not compliance. A coalition has formed to help nonprofits access the supports they need.
Equitable Intermediaries: Power, Protection, Partnership
When Funding Is Under Threat, Your Mission Is the Strategy
Staying true to your mission—in your language, your programs, and your public narrative—is not only an ethical imperative but often a crucial component to securing and maintaining long-term funding.
As Mayor, How Can Mamdani Advance Immigrant Wellbeing?
As a candidate, Zohran Mamdani lauded New York as a city “powered by immigrants.” Advocates are counting on Mamdani to convert sentiment into policy.
Paving the Path for a Third Reconstruction
Can movement advocates imagine liberation in a time of mounting authoritarianism? Not only can we, but we must. To do so requires imagination, planning, and action.
Whose Solidarity? Race, Colonialism, Economy, and the Global South
A social and solidarity economy conference held in France this fall, attended by about 10,000 people, shows how colonialism continues to affect solidarity economy activism.
Restoring Agency, Redefining Development in Richmond, CA
How can a community self-organize and build its capacity to act on its own behalf? A story from Richmond, CA, illustrates why bottom-up organizing is so powerful.
How MediaJustice Is Leading Communities to Push Back Against AI Data Centers
Artificial intelligence is touted as the innovation for the future, but poses significant risk to the health of our communities. MediaJustice advocates for communities nationwide to push back against AI data center expansion.
Reclaiming the Spaces that Once Confined Women Against Their Will
In Montgomery, AL, an artist seeks to reclaim the history of enslaved Black women who were subjected to brutal medical experimentation in the name of science.
How to Use Art Spaces to Build Civic and Political Power
Many nonprofit arts groups have latent political power that they can leverage to advance their missions. It all starts with the physical spaces that organizations like museums and theaters occupy.
Standing Up for Food Justice in a Time of Fear: Pandemic Reflections
When the pandemic came, members of a food pantry in Brooklyn had to make a choice: Shelter in place or expand distribution as safely as possible. We chose the latter.
If Farm School NYC Closes, What Will the City Lose?
Federal funding cuts are putting urban agriculture education at risk.
A Community Land Trust Movement Rises in New York City: Leadership Lessons
How can housing and land justice be achieved in New York City? A community land ownership movement is gaining strength—and making a difference.