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10-Year Strategy

Solidaire Network’s 10-Year Strategy is a roadmap to liberate wealth for movements to build lasting left power in the United States. Our new strategy was inspired by our 5-Year Retrospective 2018-2022 and Solidaire Action’s Movement Elder-in-Residence Linda Burnham’s Project2050. We embark on this strategic direction with internal rigor and the capacity to learn, innovate, grow, and transform.

Through donor organizing and social movements, we can transform our society so that every community has the resources to flourish. To redistribute stolen wealth and build systems where we care for one another, we must work together strategically and sustainably.

Our Method
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Organizing Donors

Organize and strengthen a movement-aligned base of donor members resourcing long-term power-building.

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Accompanying Movements

Accompany movements as they contest for power by funding experimentation, sustainability, and infrastructure.

Our Goal

In a ten-year time frame, it is possible to build new left power and influence in the United States that can have an outsized impact on national and international scales. Communities with access to wealth must join the fight as resource organizers within their networks to liberate wealth for movements. We must match the commitment, calculation, and strategic clarity of our movements.

Having a strategic, long-term view of the future, we do so much more than react to the here and now. Instead, we are invited into a long arc of possibilities that our actions in the present day make possible. As you read this strategy, you will see that we are not alone on this path of fighting for liberation but are bolstered by a network connected by courage, trust, and commitment.

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Theory of Liberation

How We Got Here

Our 10-year strategy was made possible by the the insight and deep relationships developed during our Our Theory of Liberation and the learning and reflection processes. In 2019, with new leadership at the helm, and anticipating the challenges and opportunities emerging, Solidaire engaged in a Strategy Evaluation and Theory of Liberation process to define its strategic direction—and outcomes—for the next three years (2019-2022). Solidaire doubled down on its commitment, with a 10-year goal to move $1 billion to social change movements so that grassroots organizers have more of the resources they need to win. This means:

  • The revenue streams of social movement organizations in the United States are increasingly less dependent on traditional philanthropy and foundations.
  • Resource holders are transformed into donor organizers, moving new and unprecedented amounts of solidarity and support to the frontlines of social and racial justice movements.

In 2022 we engaged independent professional evaluators to assess Solidaire’s progress in implementing our Theory of Liberation since 2019. They conducted interviews and surveys with stakeholders including members, movement partners, board, and staff. Through this process we took a critical look at our progress in order to find our path forward. We produced  Reflections & Learning, an interactive digital report to share what we learned with our members and philanthropy at large.

Read Our Learning and Reflections

“It’s truly amazing what they’ve done in three years. It’s been way beyond my expectations. The last three years have been about building internal infrastructure. A really big lift. Now with a vision and with the infrastructure, we are poised for impact.”

—Solidaire Member

 

Membership

Solidaire Network and its members move more than money – we move social change by ensuring grassroots movements have what they need to win, now.

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