Movement Strategy Center

🎉New blog post!🎉 MSC staff visited Saginaw, Mich., and spent time with our partners @the_neighb and Saginaw Just Transition Indaba (SJTI) earlier this year. Learn more about these organizations and their uplifting work, at the link! movementstrategy.org/blog_post/its-…

🔋🪫Generators are an essential in a world increasingly in need of disaster relief. @FootprintPrjct is replacing traditional generators with batteries charged by solar panels. Click the link to learn more! #EnvironmentalSustainability #DisasterRelief grist.org/energy/this-di…

🗄📋 Some of the nation's most important documents are housed at the National Archives. Staff are facing backlash after recent decisions that paint a sanitized picture of U.S. history. Click the link for more. binnews.com/content/2024-1…

LA County is suing PepsiCo & Coca-Cola over plastic pollution, stating the companies "knowingly misled" consumers about recyclability. The 2 were recently found to be the world's top two #plasticpolluters. Does any of this shock you? More at the link. grist.org/accountability…

🍎 Lack of money and/or financial literacy often results in food insecurity among college students. Click the link for @bioneers interview with Tim Galarneau, who works to combat student hunger @ucsc. #NoChildHungry bioneers.org/the-dark-secre…

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Did you know that #Native Americans in Flagstaff have been arrested at a higher rate than white people, most often for misdemeanor quality-of-life crimes? Explore Urban’s #research that highlights racial disparities & how #equity could be advanced. urbn.is/40NcFfO

Norway plans to enforce a strict minimum age limit of 15 for users of social media. Click the link for more on the plan to shield children from the "power of the algorithms." theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Choreographer Bill T. Jones broke barriers with his romantic/business partner Arnie Zane (they founded @BTJAZCo in 1983) when homosexuality & HIV/AIDS were highly stigmatized. More on Jones and the restaging of his masterpiece "Still/Here" at the link! them.us/story/bill-t-j…

#Nehalennia, Dutch goddess of the sea, fertility, and rebirth, was originally worshiped in the pre-Christian times. Click the link for more on how she's been reintroduced as a way of understanding the modern #climatecrisis. yesmagazine.org/climate/2024/1…

@studiomuseum is known for advancing work by artists of African descent. It recently received a $10M grant from @FordFoundation! More on the museum & the grant at the link! #DiversityInTheArts #NationalPhilanthrophyDay blackenterprise.com/ford-foundatio…

📣📚 "If you do have a concern about a book ... read it." Click the link for more on a settlement that has 49/56 banned books returning to an Alaskan school district's shelves. Is it enough? adn.com/alaska-news/ma…

✨ It's #NationalPhilanthropyDay! Darren Walker, president of @FordFoundation, spoke to Christiane Amanpour about social justice, capitalism, the arts, & "the business of hope." Watch the full interview at the link below! #TheBusinessOfHope edition.cnn.com/2024/08/15/tv/…

"For far too long California's First People and their history have been ignored or misrepresented." More on how CA is righting educational wrongs when it comes to instruction about Indigenous people at the link! #EducationForAll #RepresentationMatters bit.ly/3Nh4sIH

Vu Le has been blogging on @NonprofitAF for over a decade. Earlier this year, he launched "Crappy Funding Practices," a LinkedIn page dedicated to making philanthropy more equitable. Click the link for more on Le & his work! #PhilanthropicEquity insidephilanthropy.com/home/talking-t…

New York isn't New York without artists! @ArtsCRNY are calling for the state's policymakers to develop a strategic plan to grow a statewide #creativeeconomy. #SolidarityEconomy creativesrebuildny.org/2024/10/17/pol… 📷Image credits: Creatives Rebuild NY

"Generosity [is] the fuel in the tank as far as American civil society goes … a deeply held & widely shared value amongst diverse people." @Philanthropy unpacks #TheGenerosityCommission's study on the decline in charitable giving at the link. philanthropy.com/article/americ…

Theresa Harlan, founder/director of MSC partner @felix_alliance, recently joined a discussion on #allyship between an Indigenous family and colonial settler family in Point Reyes, CA! Click the link below for the recording! #LandBack kwmr.org/post/163755

✨🏳️‍⚧️ Trans activist #CeciliaGentili, who died in Feb., published a memoir-in-letters in 2022. @BookRiot on "Faltas," which is full of letters to the women who helped shape Gentilli's life. *adds to #TBR list* #Faltas bookriot.com/faltas-cecilia…