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Building Movement Project
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BMP develops research, tools, & training materials that help nonprofits support the voice & power of the people they serve.
https://buildingmovement.org/
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"🗣 Nonprofit voices drive this work.
With 4 days to go, we’re calling on staff and leaders across the country to take the #RaceToLead Survey.
Help us spotlight the experiences shaping equity and leadership in our sector.

✅ Take the survey today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#NonprofitLeadership"
November 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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⏰ 9 days left! The 2025 #RaceToLead Survey is closing soon. Nonprofit staff: your voice matters—help capture an honest picture of our sector. 📢 Don’t miss out. Take the survey ➡️bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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✨ NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast - we explore the challenging terrain of movement conflict with co-host Adaku Utah and Tamika Middleton (Women's March), Mike Ishii (Tsuru for Solidarity) and Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez (Foundation for a Just Society).
Graphic illustration for the Building Movement Project by Onibaba Studio, depicting a quote from the State of Solidarity conversation in fall 2025, on the topic of Solidarity Through Conflict - Navigating Internal Movement Tensions. The handwritten text is a quote from Adaku Utah, facilitator and staff at BMP: "The ground under us continues to be unsteady, amidst all of that, we are still here. Conflict is not a sign that we're failing, it's a part of the living fabric of collective struggle!" The quote is set against an illustration in shades of deep and light purple, showing building silhouettes and green trees. There are individuals of varying ages, sizes, racial backgrounds, and abilities, who are facing each other and holding a green thread that connects them all, despite the fissures on the ground where they stand.
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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📢 The 2025 #RaceToLead Survey is open! Nonprofit staff + leaders: help paint an honest picture of our sector. Share your experience today and shape the future of equity + leadership. Take the survey: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
October 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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📊 Nonprofit staff + leaders: your voice matters. Workplace realities shape the future of our sector. Share your experience in the #RaceToLead Survey—add your voice today. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#RaceToLead #NonprofitLeadership
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Workplace challenges strongly shape leadership aspirations—especially for BIPOC nonprofit staff. Limited wellness supports, heavy DEI burdens, and few advancement paths fuel higher aspirations. Share your experience: take the Race to Lead Survey. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#RaceToLead
BIPOC Nonprofit Staff to the Front. We want to hear you
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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🎧 NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast: How are Native and Japanese American communities marking a shameful part of American history? Our guest, Satsuki Ina, shows us how to build solidarity from a national tragedy. www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...
A graphic flyer with a blue background with two photos: one of Satsuki Ina and another of the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Memorial with a sculptural wall encasing stones, and stone face with the Memorial name engraved in it. The text on the flyer reads: Solidarity Is This Podcast - Solidarity as Public Memory, a conversation with Satsuki Ina. The Building Movement Project and Solidarity Is logo is at the top.
October 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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We're excited to host another State of Solidarity on Sept 30 - this time, we'll be talking about navigating internal movement tensions and conflict. Join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A yellow ombre background with an illustration of a white dandelion puff going to seed. The graphic is announcing Building Movement Project's webinar on September 30 - State of Solidarity: Navigating Internal Movement Tensions and Conflict, taking place at 3pm EDT. The conversation with Mike Ishii, Tsuru for Solidarity; Tamika Middleton, Women’s March; and Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez, Foundation for a Just Society will be moderated by BMP’s Adaku Utah. The four speakers are pictured.
September 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Disability Justice means more than checkboxes.
If you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability–visible or not–your story matters.

Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.

🔗: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025 

#RaceToLead #DisabilityJustice
The background shows colorful cutouts of human figures and disability access symbols on a black surface. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Do you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability? Your story matters." In smaller font, beneath it reads, “Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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📢 The South got something to say!

Too often, national nonprofit conversations ignore the critical Southern lens. This time, let's get loud.

If you work at a nonprofit based in the South, take the #RaceToLead survey & make sure your story is counted.

Add your voice today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
The background shows a black-and-white photo of a map of southern states. In the foreground, bold text reads: "THE SOUTH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY" and continues, “Work at a Southern-Based Nonprofit? We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.
September 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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🌍 Migration shapes lives—and the nonprofit sector.
Whether you're first-gen or recently arrived, your experience adds depth to how we understand power, purpose, and belonging at work. Take the Race to Lead survey if you work at a nonprofit.

🔗: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8366111/R...

#RaceToLead
The background shows a black-and-white photo of people raising their fists in the air. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Migration shapes lives —and the nonprofit sector" and continues, “If Immigration Is Part of Your Experience, We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.
September 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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🗣️Your perspective as a nonprofit leader isn’t optional—it’s essential.

#RaceToLead captures what’s working, what’s not, and what leaders like you need next.

Take the survey today and shape the future:
bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
The background shows a black-and-white photo of people with their laptops around a table. In the foreground, bold text reads: "EXECUTIVE NONPROFIT LEADERS TO THE FRONT!" A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold
September 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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📢 Tired of glass ceilings, glass cliffs and performative equity? This is your moment. The Race to Lead survey uplifts BIPOC voices to confront what’s real in nonprofit workplaces and push for change.

Take it. Share it. Lead it.

🔗 bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
The background shows a black-and-white photo of people raising their fists in the air. In the foreground, bold text reads: "BIPOC Nonprofit Staff to the Front! We Want To Hear From You!" A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.
August 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Join Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social from BMP on September 9 for this LinkedIn Live, where we’ll explore how movements can use Solidarity Stances to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity — even under authoritarian conditions: www.linkedin.com/events/solid...
A flyer for a live episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, with co-hosts Deepa Iyer and Adaku Utah pictured. The episode will be live on LinkedIn on Sept 9 at 2pm EDT, with Deepa and Adaku speaking about Building Movement Project's latest offering - Solidarity Stances, a resource for organizations and movements navigating authoritarian conditions.
August 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🎧 NEW episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast! Our ED @janishazel77.bsky.social talks with Charles Long at @movment4blcklives.bsky.social on the importance of trusting Black leadership, the role of philanthropy, and the necessity of community and rest at this time.
A graphic showing a Q&A between Janis Rosheuvel from the Building Movement Project and Charles Long from the Movement for Black Lives. This is an excerpt from the August 2025 episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast. Janis asks: "What are some tools for how we need to be doing solidarity right now, particularly given just the threats and also the real division that's being sown across our movements?" Charles responds: 'Trust Black leadership. When Black people win power, win change in our society, that change will benefit all other folks who find themselves vulnerable to that system."
August 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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In these turbulent political times, you know what nonprofit work looks like on the ground.

If you work at a nonprofit, Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead survey turns your lived experience into data that drives change.

📊 Share your story. Shape what comes
next. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
The background is a dark overlay over an image of hundreds of people in a street. At the top, there is a megaphone icon followed by white text reads: "In these turbulent political times, you have real insight into what nonprofit work looks like on the ground. The Race to Lead survey turns your experience into action.” Below in green reads “Take a few minutes to share your story. Shape what comes next.” The image includes logos for Race to Lead and the Building Movement Project at the top and the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 at the bottom.
August 6, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The #RaceToLead survey launches today! We’re calling on all #nonprofit staff to share your experiences by taking our 2025 Race to Lead Survey. Help us accurately understand what nonprofit staff are experiencing in this critical moment.

Take and share the survey today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
It's Time! Take the Race To Lead Survey today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
August 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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As the harms we face are vast and intertwined, our solidarity practices must be equally expansive, discerning, coordinated and intentional. Solidarity can become a strategy to distribute and withstand risk in these times.

Find the full resource: www.solidarityis.org/stances
Background of yellow flowers against a blue sky, with a graphic of a murmuration of purple and blue birds against the sky. The BMP and SolidarityIs logo is at the bottom. The text reads: "In the Solidarity Stances resource, the seven stances invite us to move with intention and connection in order to protect one another, disrupt authoritarian narratives and systems, strengthen movement infrastructure, and deepen our collective capacity to come together - rather than defaulting to defensive postures or act in isolation."
July 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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🌼 NEW RESOURCE >>> Solidarity Stances: A Resource for Organizations and Movements Navigating Authoritarian Conditions

www.solidarityis.org/stances
Background of yellow flowers against a blue sky, with a graphic of a murmuration of purple and blue birds against the sky. The BMP and SolidarityIs logo is at the bottom. The graphic describes a new resource from BMP, titled Solidarity Stances. This new resource from the Building Movement Project offers seven strategic "Solidarity Stances" that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity while taking into consideration their unique circumstances, constraints, and possibilities. The full resource can be found at solidarityis.org/stances
July 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Since January 2025, Building Movement Project has been sharing information about how nonprofit organizations are being affected by changes in federal policy, withdrawals of federal funds, and attacks on their programs.
Graphic of a paperclipped note highlighting an updated resource from the Building Movement Project. Dark blue text reads: FAQ - Nonprofits in the New Landscape, updated July 17, 2025. The FAQ covers the following, which are listed as checked off bullet points: the impact of federal actions on nonprofit groups, the unique ways frontline groups are being affected, resources/responses for nonprofits and funders. Find the full FAQ at bit.ly/nonprofit-faq
July 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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July is Disability Pride Month! In a recent episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, our BMP colleague Adaku Utah spoke with Dom Kelly (@thetattooedjew.com) from @newdisabledsouth.org about lessons from disability justice movements:
Gold background with wavy brown and blue lines as a graphic element. A cream colored text box with dark brown font reads: Disability Pride Month, July. Gold background with the Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs logos at the top. There’s a picture in the lower right corner of Dom Kelly, a white man with short curly hair and a beard, wearing a maroon blazer and a black shirt with a chest tattoo visible. A quote from Dom, Co-Founder, President & CEO New Disabled South is included (excerpt from the Solidarity Is This podcast episode from April 2025): “I think that learning about and really spending the time to understand the 10 principles of disability justice is such a critical place to start. And to expand that beyond just reading the 10 principles, there's so much literature out there and thought from movement leaders around why these principles were chosen and the time spent by the folks at Sins Invalid on developing them and where they come from and the reasoning.”
July 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Celebrate #Pride with this lovingly curated reading list filled with words that stir, stretch, and sustain us. Each title is a testament to queer brilliance, resilience, and radical imagination: bit.ly/pridepages
A graphic with a rainbow and butterfly and star illustrations on a blue sky background. Rainbow letters read: Pride Pages. Additional text reads: A curated Pride Month reading list filled with words that shape our movements, featuring works from living legends. The Building Movement Project logo is at the bottom of the page.
June 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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🌼 Applications are now open for BMP's 2025 Solidarity Is Cohort!

This is a free, virtual training for emerging organizers and activists - learn more and apply by July 21!

www.solidarityis.org/solidarity-i...
A turquoise and yellow ombre background with a graphic of 3 dandelion puffs. The BMP and Solidarity Is logos are at the top. The header text reads: Solidarity Is - Applications now open for the 2025 cohort! Additional text reads: Are you ready to build power, connect with purpose, and make a lasting impact in your communities? Apply to join the SolidarityIs Cohort, a 6-week training program on transformative solidarity principles and practices for emerging activists and organizers working for a just, equitable, and sustainable world.
June 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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(2/2) In this updated edition of BMP’s Nonprofits FAQ, we highlight the ways in which organizations are being impacted and what groups and funders can do. Read more here: bit.ly/nonprofit-faq
A graphic of a sticky note held by a green paper clip. The header on the note reads: How are nonprofits being affected by the current political environment? This is followed by 3 bullet points: Nonprofits with particular purposes are being cast as engaging in “illegal activities” by the federal government. Nonprofits are considering how to respond to certifications and assurances related to receiving federal funding. Nonprofit staff are dealing with burnout, low morale, fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. This FAQ was updated on June 2, 2025, and you can learn more in the full faq at bit.ly/nonprofit-faq and in BMP's latest brief at bit.ly/100DaysMovementBrief
June 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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NEW! In this episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, we share a conversation from our State of Solidarity series exploring how movements are responding to political upheaval, and highlight strategies from our new report, Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days.
A graphic illustration by Cori Nakamura Lin (Onibaba Studio), introducing Building Movement Project's first State of Solidarity webinar for 2025. The illustration shows different drawings of individuals, pairs, families holding up candle light to navigate through a dark cloud. The cloud is surrounded by a tangle of dark scribbles, but the candles, the people, and the pink glow in the background of the entire image are meant to evoke an overall feeling of hope. The handwritten text reads: State of Solidarity #1 - Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days, April 30, 2025. Adaku Utah, the facilitator, has a quote that reads: "Over 130 executive orders have decimated so much of what we've fought for, for generations. These attacks are real: they're intense, they're chaotic, and we're still here!" A purple and orange ombre background, with text reading: May 2025 Special Episode - Solidarity Is This podcast - Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days. A conversation with Oluchi Omeoga, Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project; Taja Lindley, All-Options; Ramla Sahid, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans; and Nancy Nguyen, VietLead; moderated by BMP's Adaku Utah. The speakers are pictured.
May 19, 2025 at 3:18 PM