Barni Qaasim - Solidaire Action

Donor Organizers of the Year: Solidaire Network

Inside Philanthropy has named Solidaire Network the Donor Organizers of the Year in their 2022 Philanthropy Awards. A decade into its work, this envelope-pushing progressive donor network has only gotten better at mobilizing money — even as it challenges the legitimacy

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Funding Freedom: Philanthropy and the Palestinian Freedom Movement

Funding Freedom outlines the increasingly severe attacks on organizations that support Palestinian rights and offers human rights funders a roadmap for creating the conditions to give sustainably, consistently, and without doing harm.

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“It’s Not Just About Moving Money.” How Solidaire Is Challenging Wealth, Power and Privilege

Dawn Wolfe of Inside Philanthropy wrote an article featuring Solidaire Network and Solidaire Action. Wolfe tells the history of our network, shares our collective power to fund movements, and explores how we are pushing the field

The Future of Democracy Depends on the Ground Game

Linda Burnham, Solidaire Elder in Residence, published an op-ed in the Nation Magazine title, The Future of Democracy Depends on the Ground Game. The street-level work to educate and motivate voters goes uncelebrated, but our norms and institutions depend upon it.

Organizing for Black Power and Electoral Justice: Interview with Kayla Reed of Action St. Louis

Powerhouse organizer Kayla Reed shares her brilliant vision for social change, her excitement about the power of Black-led electoral justice organizing, and the mandates philanthropy must take up in order to support movements’ contesting for power.

The Time Is Now

With the help of our fiscal sponsor, Tides Advocacy, and a newly formed Advisory Board of donor members and movement leaders, we are honored to roll out a new strategy and a new website to expand c4 grantmaking. This strategy is a direct and deliberate response to our movement partners’ mandates for how to fund them to win for the long haul.

Five Ways Funders Can Support Movements Building True Multiracial, Feminist Democracy

What role can philanthropy play in leading us towards a more just democracy and resource social movements? We offer some reflections on the current moment as well as recommendations to guide social justice, human rights, and democracy funders.

Author: Barni Qaasim