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Solidaire Action and our members are supporting some of the most innovative campaigns across the country. Learn more about our strategy, current movement campaigns, and campaign wins here.

BUILDING POLITICAL POWER FROM THE GRASSROOTS

We have long flanked movements by supporting innovation, risk taking, strategic moments and long term grassroots organizing. Our contribution as a funding partner rests, in part, on our ability to be deeply connected and responsive to our movement partners' larger vision so we can help fund their stated needs and the evolution of those needs over time.

We fund organizations working to build progressive political power through different strategies including civic engagement, developing candidates, and building lasting campaigns and political organizations. We make multi-year commitments to organizations so they can take risks and innovate.

NOTES FROM THE FIELD

Solidaire’s C4 strategy is driven by our grounding values to build movement infrastructure while organizing to liberate wealth. This strategy also enables us to demonstrate the impact of moving money directly to our movement partners rather than through donor-centered intermediaries with uneven values, praxis and results.

Our movement partners are advancing some of the most powerful visions for electoral justice and social change in the nation:

Yes 4 Minneapolis' Action to Transform Public Safety Together: End-of-Campaign Report (Yes 4 Minneapolis)
Texas Working Families Party Announces 2022 Congressional Endorsements in Texas (Working Families)
Warehouse Workers for Justice Named As a Recipient of Cook County and Chicago Bar Foundation Outreach Grants (Warehouse Workers for Justice)
Pima County Attorney’s “New” Bail Policy Isn’t New at All (Mas Liberation AZ)
The Freedom Papers (Dream Defenders)
Bay Area Candidate and Ballot Initiative Endorsements (APEN Action)
Voices for Timber Country (Firelands Workers Action)
COVID inequities show why Ohio’s fair map mandate must not be ignored: Jeniece Brock (Ohio Organizing Collaborative)

Read below for more to find out what our network and movement partners have been up to.

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Solidaire Action FY24: Grantees Info & Strategy

Solidaire Action is entering its third year of relationships with 16 (c)(4) partners. According to our strategy, we selected these partners for their base-building efforts. While we continue to learn from many of our electoral funding partners that have a depth of experience in supporting national wins, Solidaire Action is clarifying our role as an entity that builds political power across working class communities and communities of color.

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.