Solidaire Board member Alan Preston has a powerful new piece in the National Center for Family Philanthropy: “Overcoming Barriers to Giving: My Personal Story of Wealth Redistribution.”
This thoughtful article is a powerful tool in moving donors from intention to action.
🔗 bit.ly/solid-alan
Join us to celebrate the launch of Solidaire Network’s Transformative Donor Organizing: The Developing Theory and Practice: bit.ly/solid-tdo
Thurs., April 16, 1 - 2 pm PT / 4 - 5 pm ET
Hear from Isaac Lev Szmonko and Vini Bhansali in conversation about our approach and methodology.
What Is the Solidarity Economy? : shelterforce.org/2026/02/26/w...
The solidarity economy reminds us that capitalism is an economic system that has not existed forever but has a historical start point and, therefore, likely an end point…”
Our members are watching Grasping at the Roots: A Love Letter to the Black Environmental Justice Movement by our movement partner Climate Justice Alliance. As temperatures rise around us, this short film highlights people creating positive change in Black Climate Justice. @cjaourpower.bsky.social
For Rachel Sherman, being a “class traitor” means rejecting wealth hoarding and disrupting the power dynamic in philanthropy. Class traitors give in unconventional ways, organize their base of donors, invest for redistribution and use all levers of power toward justice. bit.ly/npqseries5
By offering her family history, Katrina Schaffer shows how centering disability justice can extend justice to all. She shares what she’s learned about organizing family members to move money and take risks alongside movements. bit.ly/npqseries4
Margi Dashevsky shows that donor organizing grounded in Indigenous leadership, climate justice, and redistribution can redefine wealth, build power and strengthen the movement work that facilitates collective healing in Alaska. bit.ly/npqseries3
Deborah Sagner names how philanthropy has actively excluded funding Palestinian liberation from progressive funding spaces and shows how educating funders is essential to building accountability and resourcing movements for Palestinian human rights.
bit.ly/npqseries2
We are inspired by this strategic intervention and curious to see how it holds the sector accountable. Our members are participating and mobilizing.
Congratulations! So well deserved
In a new series, co-produced by Nonprofit Quarterly and Solidaire Network, Farhad Ebrahimi makes the case for organizing donors and funders as a core strategy for transforming people with wealth, building power and winning justice: bit.ly/npqseries1
Targeting philanthropy isn’t going to prevent people from supporting Palestinians.
Inside Philanthropy reports on how funders are being attacked to silence people standing up for peace and Palestinian human rights. We stand with Palestinian people and our movement partners:
bit.ly/SN-IP
Must read about the ingenious organizing on the ground in MN, the few funders who are stepping up and a reminder to us all to do more.
Thank you for centering the communities who are experiencing and have long endured this violence and uplifting their ingenuity, resilience and solutions. This is a provocative call to funders to do more!
The climate crisis is reshaping every issue we care about. However, for much of philanthropy, climate remains at the margins. Join the CLIMA Fund for a four-part learning series, Not If, But How, that unpacks the climate crisis and how to reach grassroots solutions: Register now: bit.ly/NIBH-26
Solidaire's Building the Fire Fund (BFF), Turtle Island’s only national fund dedicated to Indigenous Reproductive Justice, has released an RFP for an Indigenous Reproductive Justice Landscape Assessment. Learn more here: solidairenetwork.org/announcement...
What does it take to build true financial resilience for gender justice movements?
A new learning report from Gender Funders CoLab and Valiente Capital Design.
Read the report:
bit.ly/4p9wqYt
The first two episodes of the Reimagining Philanthropy film series, Philanthropy & Racial Justice Funding, are live! It is an ongoing series of short films about some of the most important issues in philanthropy, featuring Solidaire members and partners: www.philanthropyfilms.org
Solidaire members are proud to support @DemocracyFund.bsky.social #AllByApril campaign to ask philanthropy to move all 501(c)(3) funds to support community governing power out the door by April 30, 2026.
Democracy can’t wait, and neither can those defending it.
Learn more at www.allbyapril.org
Divesting from harm and investing in justice is part of choosing to be on the side of people over profit, people over empire, communities over isolation. Funding Freedom’s latest toolkit helps turn your values to action:
www.divestgenocide.org
It’s a great day to learn more about @vetsaboutface.bsky.social.
This holiday season, we’re saying NO to exploitation – and YES to empowerment. No to @Target, @HomeDepot, @Amazon 🚫🚫🚫 and corporations that back regressive policies, cave to anti-DEI pressure, and let ICE terrorize our communities while people go hungry. #WeAintBuyingIt 🚫🚫🚫
For @insidephilanthropy.com, here's a report about right-wing online and government threats against #foundations and #nonprofits -- and what to do to protect yourself. #philanthropy #doxxing #cybersecurity. @solidaire.bsky.social @borealisphil.bsky.social
“For Borealis Philanthropy, safeguarding democratic freedoms isn’t abstract…” said Borealis Director of Communications Carrie Kholi-Murchison. “When speech is restricted, so too is our ability to organize, to resist, and to build a multiracial democracy where everyone can thrive.”
📣 Before the Shofar Sounds TODAY 📣 In Our Name is raising $1M for Palestinian liberation as part of their $10M goal. Join us to hear from Solidaire member Deborah Sagner with Brad Lander, Linda Sarsour, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling at 4 pm ET / 1 pm ET. Register here 👉 Bity: bit.ly/BeforeTheShofar
Join us at Thousand Currents' upcoming series to explore:
🌏 Why internationalism is key to a more just & resilient world
📚 Strategies & tactics for social movements
🏢 How #philanthropy can support the infrastructure that civil society & social movements need
events.zoom.us/ev/AsppXEF_r...
“The fake rule is that it’s a zero-sum game, that you benefit if somebody else loses."
@solidaire.bsky.social co-founder @lhh.bsky.social joined Break Fake Rules to talk about reimagining philanthropy and why solidarity doesn’t fit in a 501(c)(3).
🎧 Listen wherever you get podcasts
THREAD: Palestinians are dying from Israel’s deliberate starvation. We should all be speaking to our communities about what’s going on and how we can help. Here’s what you can say.
What is “a money story” and why is it helpful for both fundraisers and wealthy donors?
In Episode 2 of Movement Money, Allison and Mike share their money stories and reflect on what it’s like to talk so publicly about money and family.
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Four Funders Supporting the Right to Protest
Screenshot from "Four Funders" article with highlighted quote "since 2017, 45 states have considered more than 350 bills that would restrict the right to assembly."
Screenshot from "Four Funders" article with highlighted quote "Philanthropy must protect frontline organizers before freedom of speech and assembly is stripped from us all."
Screenshot from "Four Funders" article with highlighted quote "Digital attacks, vigilante violence, state repression and institutional backlash...long-term safety infrastructure... To date, MPF has awarded more than $.93 million for this work."
We're proud to be featured alongside our allies in "Four Funders Supporting the Right to Protest" on @insidephilanthropy.com. Our Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund has awarded > $9.3 million to protect frontline organizers & build long-term safety infrastructure.
bit.ly/funderssuppo...
