Movement Strategy Center (MSC)
MSC helps organizations, alliances, and grantmakers design and implement successful strategy and programs.
MSC is a support organization with more than 300 partner grassroots organizations, alliances, and networks that operate at local, regional, and national levels. MSC is dedicated to the inclusion and leadership of traditionally marginalized communities in progressive movement building. MSC places the experience and leadership of those most impacted at the center of our transformative movement building. The vast majority of its partners are organizations led by low-income people of color, immigrant, youth, and other marginalized populations.
Grants
Stop the Frack Attack Transition Support
This project works to communicate the human toll of America's devastating fracking boom. Individuals and communities who have been directly affected by fracking are some of this movement's most powerful messengers, carrying unparalleled credibility and standing as they speak out against willful negligence on the part of industry, regulators, and politicians.
| Amount | $46,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016-2018 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |
Reinvest in Our Power: Support for Network Gathering pre-meeting at Common Bound Conference
The Reinvest in Our Power (RiOP) national collaboration hosted a “Network Gathering” pre-meeting before the New Economy Coalition’s Common Bound Conference in Buffalo, NY, on July 8, 2016. RiOP member organizations also participated in the conference and presented in multiple works and plenaries to promote Student Divestment, the Financial Cooperative and non-extractive finance, the larger collaboration, as well as the political foundations of the project.
| Amount | $14,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |
Wildfire Project
The Wildfire Project trains, supports, and links grassroots groups, laying the foundation for a powerful movement toward political, economic, and ecological justice. Using democratic, experiential methods, the Wildfire Project fuses political education and skills training with personal and group transformation in a curriculum tailored to specific needs of groups in action.
| Amount | $50,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |
Stop the Frack Attack Support and Expansion
Engage the broader environmental movement to align anti-fracking efforts and leverage its efforts and power into large-scale collective action
| Amount | $30,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |
Stop the Frack Attack Support and Expansion in 2014
Stop the Frack Attack and its ongoing work as a national movement hub for nonprofit and community groups concerned about the dangers of fracking
| Amount | $30,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2014 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |
Environmental and Climate Justice Funders Convening
Convening of a small gathering of funders and philanthropic advisors to develop a strategy and action plan to better coordinate aligned efforts to shift resources to grassroots environmental and climate justice efforts
| Amount | $23,600 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Moving Philanthropy |
From Resistance to Strategy: Building a Powerful Network to End Fracking
Design, support, and implementation of the Stop the Frack Attack Network
| Amount | $25,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Collaboration and Movement Building |