Month: August 2017
Solidaire in the News
Solidaire in the News
Keeping Up: Philanthropy In an Era of Sweeping Social Movements
Inside Philanthropy | Oct 10, 2017
By Tate Williams
Donors and Groups on the Left (and Leftish) in a Period of Reconfiguration
Nonprofit Quarterly | Oct 9, 2017
By Ruth McCambridge
The ‘Resistance,’ Raising Big Money, Upends Liberal Politics
The New York Times | Oct 7, 2017
By Kenneth P. Vogel
San Francisco Magazine | Aug 24, 2017
By Lauren Smiley
A Bay Area–based network of wealthy progressives is testing a new model for funding the resistance: Give fast and get out of the way.
Stanford Social Innovation Review | Nov 1, 2017
By Kathleen Kelly
A new generation of wealth is making a difference using powerful technology, inventing new financial models to better leverage capital, and rigorously focusing on getting proven results.
LXMI | Oct 24, 2017
There’s a flaw in the traditional charity model, which results in a two-tiered system of givers and beneficiaries. The system doesn’t solve the underlying problems that lead to the need for charity in the first place. In fact, it often robs the beneficiaries of agency.
Our Growing Team
Our Growing Team
We received hundreds of applications from incredibly talented folks for our open positions, and the hiring process has been very competitive. We greatly appreciate all of the interest in joining our team and wish all of the applicants our best! Please follow our Facebook Page (facebook.com/SolidaireNetwork) for updates and to hear about future opportunities.
Please help us welcome our two newest team members:
Janis Rosheuvel
Program Director
Janis will hold the vision and implementation of our grant-making programs. This includes building and maintaining relationships with organizational leaders, developing curriculum to help educate members, and improving the impact, evaluation, and accountability of our programs.
For over a decade, Janis has organized with communities most impacted by injustice, following their lead and demanding just and right repair for past and ongoing harms. She has worked as Executive Secretary for Racial Justice with United Methodist Women and was formerly the Executive Director at Families for Freedom, a national anti-deportation organization center. She was also a Fulbright Fellow to South Africa, where she documented the struggles of migrants, shackdwellers, and other working class activists. Janis also does political education with the Flatbush Tenant Coalition and lectures at John Jay College on the criminalization of migrant life. Janis serves on the boards of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and the National Religious Campaign Against Torture. She holds an MA in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford in England.
Eugenia Lee
Membership Manager
Eugenia will help facilitate our community culture and be a support to members. She’ll be the point person for new members, will explore ways to encourage member participation and leadership, and will be thinking about the overall health of the community.
Eugenia first became involved with organizing and movement work in 2007, when she worked on the Obama campaign in Iowa. Since then, her work has focused on community empowerment and bringing new voices to the table for more equitable decision-making. Prior to joining Solidaire Eugenia worked in international development and consulted for The Global Philanthropists Circle, a membership group for philanthropists moving over $1 MM/year to global causes. She has lived and worked in various parts of the world including in Nairobi, Kenya where she conducted teacher training and leadership development in informal settlements, and led projects throughout East Africa and South Asia. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration in Nonprofit Management from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service.
2017 Summer Movement R&D Grantees
2017 Summer Movement R&D Grantees
The Solidaire Movement R&D Fund was created to support innovations in movement building: to seed tactics, strategies, and experiments with the potential to advance entire movements. We look for organizations that are testing out exciting new ideas, are not yet foundation ready, and are rooted in communities of color. As part of their dues, members contribute $10,000 per year to this Fund, which is distributed biannually based on set criteria and guidelines. Since 2013, seven R&D funding cycles have granted $1,470,000 to 84 projects across a diverse spectrum.
Each cycle we learn from and iterate on our giving process. This cycle we continued movement-engaged giving, with six former grantees joining four Solidaire members to narrow 220 applications down to a nal grant slate of 18. Several points of insight emerged:
- Inspiring movement building work is happening in pockets all across the country, rooted in communities of color. On this slate, Solidaire is supporting innovation in Mississippi, Kentucky, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois, Texas, and Michigan. We are thrilled to support local projects with the potential to inspire movements and seek to increase our distribution network to keep nurturing new ideas beyond the coasts.
- New constellations of leaders and projects are forming to creatively address intersectional movement needs. Several grants on our nal slate are partnerships between three or more groups.
- Running a rigorous movement-engaged decision-making process virtually, even in a short span of eight weeks, is doable thanks to collaborative technology and facilitation. Movement leaders appreciate participating in grantmaking, and wish that more leaders could see the breadth of inspiring work happening nationwide.
Throughout this cycle’s process, we provided opportunities for members to engage with all of the applications. As a result, members pledged an additional $65,000 in individual donations to projects they felt passionate about – what we call Pooled Plus gifts. While the movement-engaged team decided to keep most grants at a $25,000 standard amount this year, variance in grant size on the nal slate is due to these additional gifts.
We hope you’ll be as inspired by these organizations as we are.
If you’re an organization that would like to apply for our next Movement R&D funding cycle, opening this Fall, please email [email protected] to be added to our notifications list and follow us on Facebook for funding opportunities and updates.
August Partner & Ally Events
August Partner & Ally Events
2017 Change LA: Fast Forward
9.16, 4p-6p | West Hollywood, CA
On Saturday, September 16, Liberty Hill Foundation will host its popular 2017 Change LA: Fast Forward networking mixer. More than 200 of L.A. County’s new-generation progressive donor-activists will come together in affirmation of our shared commitments to advance justice here in Southern California, and to resist efforts (whether in Washington or elsewhere) to divide and disempower us.
2017 Change LA: Fast Forward will also give special recognition to community philanthropists and organizers by spotlighting the contributions of new generations of local social justice visionaries. Our Executive Director, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, will be honored with the Sarah Pillsbury NextGen Award. Come help us celebrate!
More information and tickets at LibertyHill.org/ChangeLA