Who We Are - Solidaire

Born out of a need to fight against corporate greed, economic inequality, climate change, gender and racial injustice, and anti-Blackness, Solidaire Network is a community of donor organizers who mobilize quickly to get critical resources and unprecedented amounts of solidarity to the frontlines of social justice movements. Solidaire Network positioned itself as a bold alternative to the risk-averse and slow-moving philanthropic mainstream. To learn more about our sister organization, visit Solidaire Action.

We hold a collective vision of radical giving that invites donors to transform ourselves and our own relationship to power and wealth. Solidaire continues to learn from resourcing and building relationships with Black and Indigenous led movements throughout the United States and to further build our capacity to enact practices away from exploitation and extraction and towards abundance, connection and collective liberation. We believe:

The current economic, political and cultural systems that concentrate power and wealth must be fundamentally reimagined to fulfill our vision for social and racial justice.

In social movements: people coming together to transform their own lives and improve the lives of their loved ones, neighbors and entire communities.

That supporting Black and Indigenous-led social change advances racial and social justice for all people.

THREE-PRONGED STRATEGY

We accomplish our vision through shared principles and a three-pronged strategy:

Donor Engagement and Activism

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Grow and engage the Solidaire Network to 300+ members, engaging them through 12 regional hubs through consistent community building, political and popular education, membership meetings and innovative programming. Members are also engaged in three working groups focused on Indigenous sovereignty, decarceration and environmental justice.

Resource Mobilization

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Liberate wealth and increase donor investments in a range of power building strategies for intersectional and interdependent movements and serve as a critical resource mobilization arm for movements.

Shifting New Paradigms

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Strengthen donor practices through praxis-based political education and peer learning to shape a new paradigm that positively transforms relationships between donors and movements.