Organizing Strategy and Practice

Philanthropy & Organizing

banner for Philanthropy & Organizing

Photo by Nadia Normotova, Getty Images

Featured Story
Philanthropy and Organizing: My Journey

Getty Images

Navigating Philanthropy

Gara LaMarche talks with Jee Kim, Urvashi Vaid, and Bill Vandenberg — activists and organizers who went on to work in key positions in philanthropy — about their experiences navigating the philanthropic sector, what needs to change to shift the balance of power toward organizers, and the relationship between philanthropy and organizing today. 

Hands made of people

Getty Images

Organizing Philanthropy

Three leading organizers on their experiences with philanthropy, what true partnership might look like, and why it’s so critical for philanthropy to invest in self-sustaining funding for movement organizations.

Getty Images

Knowing What to Do Will Never Be Enough

Funder organizing” has become a common phrase, but it lacks a shared definition. What could transformative funder organizing really look like?

Getty Images

Organizing the Foundation Board

Cecilia Muñoz and Cecile Richards talk about their experiences sitting on foundation boards, how philanthropy’s relationship to organizing is shifting, and the most promising innovations they’re seeing in the field right now.

Getty Images

Donor Collaboration Is Necessary to Fund Movements at...

The economic crisis of the past year has expanded the table of funders who want to support workers, economic recovery, and power building — and helped model new relationships for future efforts.

Photo by Josh Appel

What (Economic) Liberation Requires

We need to change how the progressive movement finances grassroots power building.

Philanthropy Can & Must Help Dismantle Racial...

If philanthropy does not take action to dismantle racial capitalism, it will remain complicit in maintaining the status quo and be unable to meet the growing needs of the most impacted communities.