Building Movement Project

How do we build and protect cross-racial solidarity for the long term? In this last Solidarity is This podcast episode for 2024, co-host Adaku Utah explores this question with Alvina Wong (APEN); Anna Castro (Transgender Law Center); and Janis Rosheuvel, our ED here at BMP! This conversation is a lightly edited recording from our September State of Solidarity. Listen wherever you get your podcasts; find the episode notes and transcript on the SolidarityIs website: https://bit.ly/4gyuaoC Graphic notes by Onibaba Studio.

This #GivingTuesday, we're asking for your feedback. We value your perspective. This year, BMP released five reports, published nearly ten resources, and facilitated five cohorts focused on equity, solidarity, and social change. We want to hear from you if you've engaged with our work! Help us understand how our work has supported you in 2024 and guide us as we prepare for 2025. Take the survey at https://bit.ly/3D1ixZa

"Who are your people? What are you choosing? What is your role and your assignment?" 🎧 Tune in for SOLIDARITY BEYOND THE ELECTIONS, a special podcast episode of Solidarity Is This with our BMP colleague Adaku Utah in conversation with Margaret Faliano (IllumiNative), Mary Hooks (M4BL), and Rachel Cheek (NNAF) about the necessary and ongoing work we need to cultivate a democratic society beyond the ballot box. Listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts or visit our website to listen, read the transcript, and find related resources: https://bit.ly/3OuOdsh 💜 Graphic notes by Onibaba Studio.

💡NEW RESOURCE! Co-Executive Directorship Learnings, draws on BMP’s internal documentation and interviews with BMP’s former co-executive directors, Frances Kunreuther and Sean Thomas-Breitfeld, to capture their learnings and reflections on their co-directorship in the context of the organization’s leadership transition. As BMP transitions from a durable co-directorship model back to a sole executive director, it’s useful to pause to ask what can be learned from BMP’s experience with co-directorship that can be useful for the field. Access the resource: https://bit.ly/3AQhQB8

Trans people have always existed and deserve to live full, joyful lives. We must keep fighting for a world where trans youth can thrive, grow into elders, and be celebrated. A world where trans people are protected, valued, and supported by community and policies that affirm gender identity and expression. Today, we honor the lives of trans individuals lost too soon and celebrate the strength and resilience of the trans community.

BMP staff are looking forward to attending this year's Facing Race conference November 20-22 in St Louis, Missouri. Attendees have three opportunities to check out sessions BMP will be participating in. ✅ Constructing Solidarity Narratives during Conflict and Crisis Thursday, November 21st at 2pm | Location: 228 BMP’s Deepa Iyer will be co-facilitating this session with Anna Castro, Transgender Law Center. Participants will receive tools, guides, and resources to strengthen their capacity to develop strategic solidarity narratives and practices within their organizations. ✅ Real Talk About Building Organizational Capacity for Racial Equity: A Peer Exchange Friday, November 22nd at 11am | Location: 225 BMP’s Mercedes Brown, Esq. will be co-facilitating this session with the Deep Equity Practitioners Network. If you fund or build organizational capacity for racial justice or facilitate or fund learning, strategy development, healing, team building, coaching, organizational change, and more to advance racial justice, this session is for you. ✅ Closing Plenary | From Hope to Action: Building Multiracial Solidarity Friday, November 22 at 2:00 pm CST | Location: Hall 4 Deepa Iyer will be speaking as a panelist for the closing plenary. This plenary is an invitation to imagine and build a future where solidarity itself becomes our most powerful shared purpose against forces undermining the advancement of racial justice in the United States. This plenary can be accessed with a virtual pass.

Nonprofits are facing threats and rising challenges in an increasingly hostile and polarized political climate. This recent article from Nonprofit Quarterly explores findings from our latest report, "Sounding the Alarm: Nonprofits on the Frontlines of a Polarized Political Climate," which surveyed over 500 nonprofit leaders and sheds light on what many have been feeling for years. We hope this report offers insight, grounding, and a reminder that we are not alone in this work. Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/4hQyW2c

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We once more find ourselves as a sector in a fraught moment of questioning, regrouping, planning and mourning. The coming days, weeks, months, and years will bring known and new challenges that we can meet by locking arms, tapping into our creativity and fortifying ourselves and our organizations for the future. This new blog from BMP's Executive Director, Janis Rosheuvel, outlines infrastructure promises from BMP. Here’s what we are committing to: BMP will... - Support Principled Dialogue - Help Fortify Organizations - Conduct Responsive Research - Nurture Experimentation - Help Funders Build Resolve Read the full blog at https://bit.ly/3O57Pmv

Like many of you, here at the Building Movement Project, we are processing, listening, learning, and dialoguing with our partner organizations. We will have more to say over the coming weeks, but for now, we want to offer a few resources that may be helpful for individuals and organizations to fortify and sustain themselves during this time and beyond. Our 2024 Elections and Beyond Toolkit can be a starting point; we recommend taking what’s valuable and leaving the rest. Here is a roadmap for how to work through the toolkit - learn more here: https://bit.ly/4fB6FLq ➡️ Gather and collect what we have - analyses, frameworks, practices, relationships - by using the Movement Pantry worksheet. ➡️ Map the social change roles that we need to play as individuals: Our individual and organizational roles might need to shift between now and January, and then again. ➡️ Clarify the strategies that might be required by our movements during the next few months: Defend, Disrupt, Demand, Document, Discuss, Deepen, Design. ➡️ Join us for our State of Solidarity webinar, aptly titled Solidarity Beyond the Elections, on Thursday, November 14: https://bit.ly/40xHy7J