4 Essential Shifts Foundations Can Make to Advance Social Movements

Organizations like Faith in Action, Jobs with Justice, People’s Action, and Sunrise Movement — all grantees of JPB — have fostered intersectional visions and are trying to build a mass base and power. Philanthropy can do much to help people build power to change oppressive systems through community and worker organizing that exemplifies the best of the craft, but also innovates to address the realities of our times. As grant makers, we must stretch outside our comfort zones and engage people and communities that are not already part of the social-justice choir. We must expand the pro-democracy coalition to win.