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From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns

Transformative Campaigns are a means to create the operational alignment our progressive infrastructure needs to build a new, and specific, type of power: the power to govern based on our values. The capacities needed to govern are much different than the capacities we’ve needed to successfully elevate grievances and lead protests. In order to govern, we need political power. In order to govern with progressive and social justice values, that political power has to be independent from the two dominant political parties. That’s why a critical mass of progressive and social justice organizations is aligning around a strategic focus on building independent political power.

2017-02-19T12:07:47-05:00May 4, 2016|Analysis, Reports and Case Studies|Comments Off on From Grievance to Governance: 8 Features of Transformative Campaigns
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Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities

Settlement generally come out of city budgets, not police budgets, and in Chicago these payouts compound the city’s financial distress, leaving less money for public services and forcing cuts.

2016-03-18T14:22:17-04:00March 11, 2016|Analysis, Reports and Case Studies|Comments Off on Chicago Has Spent Half a Billion Dollars on Police Brutality Cases—And It’s Impoverishing the Victims’ Communities
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Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy’s Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement

To overcome the fictions we tell ourselves requires us to acknowledge that the way the criminal justice system operates for Black and brown people, like the way our national security system has operated since 9/11, and the way our immigration system has functioned for virtually all of American history, is to restrict and confine participation in American democracy – to squelch civic engagement in the most literal sense.

2017-02-19T12:07:10-05:00February 29, 2016|Analysis|Comments Off on Control, Disruption and Democracy: Philanthropy’s Role in Inclusive Civic Engagement
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Sustaining a movement for fair and just policing: Accelerating the pace of real change

Tides and its sister organization, The Advocacy Fund, work closely with funders and grassroots organizers to accelerate policing reform. Since 2010, we’ve been bringing people together to find innovative solutions for safer communities.

2017-02-19T12:07:19-05:00December 9, 2015|Analysis, Opportunities for Funders|Comments Off on Sustaining a movement for fair and just policing: Accelerating the pace of real change
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Five Questions with Casey: Sophie Dagenais on the Baltimore Unrest and the Way Forward

In this Five Questions edition, Dagenais discusses the importance of bringing all Baltimoreans to the table — particularly those with limited access to opportunity — to achieve lasting, positive change.

2017-02-19T12:07:30-05:00November 9, 2015|Analysis, Opportunities for Funders, Reports and Case Studies, Webinars, Conference Calls, and Discussions|Comments Off on Five Questions with Casey: Sophie Dagenais on the Baltimore Unrest and the Way Forward
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What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall

People can’t get to Laverne Cox or Janet Mock, so instead, they go after a girl walking in a street in her neighborhood at night, just trying to make money to survive. And when the police come, the murderer goes home free of charge, while this trans woman nobody cares about lies dead in the street.

2020-11-20T20:18:56-05:00September 16, 2015|Analysis, Reports and Case Studies|Comments Off on What We’ve Gained And Lost Since Stonewall
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A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?

By Nat Chioke Williams. ...[T]he Hill-Snowdon Foundation recently launched the Making Black Lives Matter Initiative, a three-year project that seeks to build the kind of long-term institutional and political power that the black community needs to achieve real racial justice.

2020-11-20T20:19:07-05:00August 27, 2015|Analysis, Opportunities for Funders|Comments Off on A Decade After Katrina, Can Philanthropy Make Black Lives Matter?
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CampaignZERO Launched

CampaignZERO presents a comprehensive package of policy reforms to end police violence in America. It encourages people to petition their elected representatives to implement 10 policy solution areas at the local, state, and federal level of government to achieve an America where police do not kill people.

2015-11-09T18:14:59-05:00August 21, 2015|Analysis, Reports and Case Studies|Comments Off on CampaignZERO Launched
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