FUNDING CHANGE, CHANGING FUNDING ... it’s the commitment to the whole program and to taking the time and then the support from the funders to take that time – a proposal to do a major piece of policy that’s going to take less than two years is not serious… you have to be committed to working on a piece of policy for the long haul. – Madeline Janis, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
One key part of the L.A. experience was the role of through peer-to-peer exchanges, so that groups a set of key small-scale funders who were willing can meet new challenges; provide resources to provide resources for new specifically aimed at deep experiments in movement collaboration, recognizing building – and then also that this takes attention Invest where there is no willing to educate larger and time and cannot be power, but don’t divest from funders as the experiments done just “on the side;” and where there is power. began to work out and change practice what you preach lives for the better. by engaging in appropriate – Angelica Salas, Coalition for Humane funder collaboratives (perhaps Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles We see several implications with less meetings than those of the L.A. experience for usually involve). interested funders. Some of them are fairly familiar: fund Some implications that we grassroots organizing so that the real heart of think are perhaps a bit more novel and worth social movements continues to beat; offer multistressing: year operational support (i.e., “patient capital”) so that groups can pivot from issue to issue as times • Invest in anchors and new organizations: There is a tendency to think small is change; support capacity building, particularly
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