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Grassroots funding, part 2: Ways to build grassroots financial support.
As I mentioned in part 1, providing financial support for our own movements is key to their sustainability. In the words of Andrea del Moral, it can “keep us true to our visions, flexible in our goals, and relevant to the people who yearn and strive for justice.”
Sounds good, right? So how do we do it? Read on, friends, read on.
Grassroots funding, part 1: The perils of big money.
I recently read The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, published in 2007 by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. One of the book’s arguments is that the ubiquity of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit model limits the political left’s imagination and “threatens to permanently eclipse autonomous grassroots-movement building in the arena of social justice.”
doughy ($) presidential tactics
Does the most-financially supported candidate always win? Does the person with the most money get the message out to the most people? Will this presidential race be like anything we have seen before? As reported in an NPR article the magic number to accumulate this year is $100 million. But why? And more importantly where do all those millions go?
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