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Solidarity is in our collective DNA, but systems, narratives, and habits can create wedges that prevent us from being in deeper relationships across movements. This Solidarity Intensive, facilitated by SolidarityIs at Building Movement Project, invites individuals working actively in nonprofit and movement spaces to deepen solidarity practice and be part of a hands-on reflection and skills-building practice session.

Learn more and apply by submitting an interest form by May 15.

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Solidarity Wedges & Opportunities Intensive - Solidarity Is

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The session takes place virtually on Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 12:00pm - 5:00pm EDT / 9:00am -2:00pm PDT ( see in your timezone) Zoom: We will be meeting virtually via Zoom. To support you in navigating materials, we encourage you to join the training via a computer or laptop if you have access to one.

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Join Building Movement Project’s Solidarity Is Cohort for a 6-week training program on transformative solidarity principles and practices tailored towards emerging activists and organizers ready to sharpen their analysis, deepen their connections, and strengthen their skills for the long struggle ahead.

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The Building Movement Project (BMP) is excited to launch the 3rd annual Security to Wellbeing cohort slated to begin in July 2026 for Direct Service Organizations who want to step into social change!

Through this cohort, BMP hopes to create a space of learning and community with service organizations to both, offer a rich and meaningful experience for its members and provide holistic support that turns lessons learned into applied action and positive change for the communities they serve.

Applications due May 15.

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Learn more about the Building Movement Project

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Activating Nonprofits, Fueling Change - Building Movement Project

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We bring a critical, values-based & inclusive perspective to shape ideas and practices in the nonprofit sector. Our passion is advancing ideas that matter.

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A program of the Building Movement Project, Solidarity Is generates tools, trainings, and narratives to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building organizations and activists who are invested in meaningful social change.

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Building Blocks for Change (BB4C) is an assessment designed to help nonprofits build the foundation to foster more racially equitable workplaces.

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Building Blocks for Change | A Race Equity Assessment | An Initiative of Building Movement Project

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Building Blocks for Change (BB4C) is a nonprofit assessment tool for building more racially equitable workplaces. An initiative of Building Movement Project, BB4C is designed for organizations that want to meaningfully incorporate race equity strategies.

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Anna Castro is Transgender Law Center’s Principal Narrative Strategist for the Trans Agenda for Liberation Narrative Lab. With fifteen years of experience designing and leading integrated advocacy campaigns in the voting and civic engagement, immigration, and transgender rights movement, Anna’s work with the Trans Agenda for Liberation Narrative Lab is centered on building narrative infrastructure at the national and state level. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Black Studies from Amherst College, led communications strategy at the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties and Mi Familia Vota, and worked with Deepa Iyer to launch the Solidarity Is program to facilitate transformative solidarity practices for movement building organizations and activists.

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Rinku Sen is a writer and social justice strategist. She is formerly the Executive Director of Race Forward and was Publisher of their award-winning news site Colorlines. Under Sen’s leadership, Race Forward generated some of the most impactful racial justice successes of recent years, including Drop the I-Word, a campaign for media outlets to stop referring to immigrants as “illegal,” resulting in the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, and many more outlets changing their practice.

Her books Stir it Up and The Accidental American theorize a model of community organizing that integrates a political analysis of race, gender, class, poverty, sexuality, and other systems. In her current role leading Narrative Initiative, she is building a vision of true multiracial, pluralistic democracy, and helping organizers across movements learn how to saturate every story with their ideas.

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Sharmin Hossain (she/her) is a Bangladeshi Muslim organizer and artist from Queens, New York. She is the Organizing Director of 18 Million Rising, building national Asian American political power that contributes to movements for racial justice, abolition, anti-militarism, and democracy through political education, campaigns, and deep base building. Sharmin was formerly an organizer with East Coast Solidarity Summer (ECSS) and Political Director of Equality Labs.

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Transgender Law Center Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002 we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members towards a long-term, national, trans-led movement…

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We organize strategy labs, conduct landscape assessments, and explore opportunities for greater alignment among organizations, sectors and movements in order to advance deep narrative shifts.

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We organize strategy labs, conduct landscape assessments, and explore opportunities for greater alignment among organizations, sectors and movements in order to advance deep narrative shifts.

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Born in Baltimore, Maryland, raised in Festac, Nigeria, grounded in her legacy of organizers, farmers and healers, Adaku harnesses her seasoned skills as a grassroots strategist, abolitionist healer, movement facilitator, somatics coach and ritual artist as an act of love and commitment to her community. She enjoys co-cultivating social justice leaders and organizations to be more strategic, sustainable, and impactful. For over twenty years, their work has centered on movements for radical social change, with a focus on gender, reproductive, race, youth, and healing justice. They currently work on staff with the Building Movement Project where they support movement building organizations to tackle the most significant social issues of our times by developing research, creating tools and trainings, providing guidance, and facilitating networks for transformative change.

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Journalist Resource – Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants

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Journalist Resource – Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants

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Media makers have the power to flip harmful narratives by aligning journalistic integrity with thoughtful and nuanced reporting. This guide examines how the media shapes public perception, reinforces systemic inequities, and offers pathways and narrative strategies towards more just and accurate storytelling.

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Journalist Resource – Guide for Reporting on Queer and Trans Migrants - Transgender Law Center

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Telling authentic and humanizing stories is a key tenet of ethical journalism. Well-researched and community-focused stories of people—across race, gender, and country of origin—are a critical part of ensuring everyone can see themselves truthfully portrayed in media. This guide focuses on how queer and trans migrants are depicted in U.S.-centric media and the impact of […]

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Solidarity Stances, a new resource from BMP, offers seven strategic stances that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity while taking into consideration their unique circumstances, constraints, and possibilities.

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The Solidarity Is This Podcast explores the principles of transformative solidarity and provides examples of what solidarity looks like in action.
In each episode, you'll hear from activists, artists, faith leaders, and organizers throughout our social change ecosystem who are working for equity, justice, and liberation. Providing a glimpse into the many faces of transformative solidarity, we hope this podcast will give you inspiration, ideas, and support for your own journey with solidarity practice.

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Solidarity. It's become a buzzword. But what is solidarity? And how do we go about practicing solidarity, as activists, as organizations, as people who care deeply about building inclusive schools, campuses, workplaces and neighborhoods?

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Transformative Solidarity Principles | Tools & Resources — Solidarity Is

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When we look to the social change and movement work past and present, we can see the principles of transformative solidarity in action.

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How to Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul

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How to Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul

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For Nonprofit Quarterly, BMP’s Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer write about episodic solidarity in our movements and why we need to build and resource transformative solidarity infrastructure for the long haul.

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Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

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How to Build Solidarity Infrastructure for the Long Haul | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

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Many movements get stuck in episodic solidarity because they lack scaffolding and support, but solidarity infrastructure must go beyond movement moments.

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Race Forward's Drop the I-Word campaign is part of a larger body of work dedicated to ending the mass criminalization of communities of color. To learn more visit www.MassFreedom.org.
Immigrant and refugee rights are increasingly under attack by U.S. institutions, while racially derogatory and dehumanizing language used in the media and political discourse has paved the way for a rise in hate crimes against immigrants. We need to strongly reject efforts to criminalize immigrants hold our media accountable for dropping the i-word.
Looking Back: Race Forward's Drop the I-Word Campaign Why It Matters Now

Right now, immigrant families are facing a period of heightened persecution and crisis as President Trump continues to stoke the anti-immigrant sentiment that gained him popularity during the 2016 Election. We need to strongly reject efforts to criminalize immigrants.

In the first ten days following the election, there were almost 900 reports of harassment and intimidation from across the nation.

Anti-immigrant harassment accounted for 32% of of the 867 hate incidents collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Words make a difference: in the week after the election, over 2,500 educators described specific incidents of bigotry and harassment in schools that could be directly traced to election rhetoric.

Which Outlets Have Dropped the I-Word?
Race Forward looked at how often the i-word has been used in immigrant-focused coverage by The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Associated Press since 2013. We learned:

Since officially dropping the i-word in 2013, The Associated Press has consistently been the best performer of these four major national outlets.

While The Washington Post has steadily improved its coverage each year, it has also consistently been the worst offender of the four outlets studied.

Although The New York Times never officially pledged to drop the i-word, it has the second best record of the four outlets studies. However, some of the publication's leading immigration reporters continue to use the term.

(see our full findings here)

And the i-word continues to be used with great frequency on the leading cable TV news networks. According to a Media Matters for America study, in the first half of 2017 the anti-immigrant slur was used on MSNBC, CNN, and Fox News prime-time shows a total of 1,296 times.

MSNBC hosts and contributors used the i-word 87 times.

CNN hosts and contributors used it 102 times.

Fox News hosts and contributors used it 1,107 times, making the network the worst offender of all three networks by far.

and when the slur was used, it was rarely challenged by hosts and contributors.

Drop the I-Word Resources: Support our efforts to Drop the I-Word on Twitter by sharing and retweeting here! More Resources
Sign up for updates from Mass Freedom: Race Forward's anti-criminalization initiative, here.

For Drop the I-Word news and updates:
Follow RaceForward on Twitter and Facebook
Contact: media@raceforward.org

En español: Guía de Acciones

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We launched the Drop the I-Word campaign in September 2010 to eliminate use of the dehumanizing slur "illegal" to describe immigrants. By Spring 2013, the Associated Press, USA Today, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other news outlets dropped the i-word, affecting millions of readers daily nationwide.

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The social change ecosystem map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individiual roles, and the broader ecosystem.

It has two components: shared values embodied in the yellow circle in the middle; ten roles that people and organizations often show up in when they are participating in social change efforts. These are premised on an ecosystem concept, that we are more effective and more sustainable in our social change work when we build connections with others.

The framework has become a tool used by people and organizations, particularly during a time of unprecedented challenges, from the global pandemic to the 2020 uprisings to climate disasters, to find ways to engage in social change efforts more effectively, collaboratively, and sustainably.

The Social Change Ecosystem framework was created by Deepa Iyer, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Building Movement Project. Deepa first developed the map in 2017, and in 2022, she released Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection, a workbook which provides a deeper dive into the framework. You can find ways to purchase the workbook and to get involved at www.socialchangemap.com.

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The Social Change Ecosystem Framework | Tools & Resources - Solidarity Is

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The social change ecosystem map is a framework that can help individuals, networks, and organizations align with social change values, individiual roles, and the broader ecosystem.

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Here We Are is a national storytelling campaign launched on June 1, 2024, joining an ongoing campaign to build a country where transgender people can be their authentic selves and express their identity openly and free from fear.

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Here We Are is a national storytelling campaign launched on June 1, 2024, joining an ongoing campaign to build a country where transgender people can be their authentic selves and express their identity openly and free from fear.

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The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a community-led guide towards the world we deserve. Trans people hold the knowledge, power, and joy to create a future where we can all not only survive but thrive.

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As part of the Trans Agenda for Liberation, TLC has crafted a virtual care package to alleviate the pain and grief of our time. We deserve to be well. Our collective liberation relies on it. The care package includes music, guided meditations, artwork, and DJ mixes, showcasing the vast talent of our community. We hope it brings you the nourishment you need.

The Trans Agenda for Liberation is put forward by a national coalition of majority Black, indigenous, and migrant trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming leaders, working with Transgender Law Center, the largest transgender advocacy organization in the United States. We have challenged each other, supported each other's work, and dreamed about how we can realize a future where we are all free. Together, we birthed a framework to understand the forces harming our communities, and how we can unite to bring forward something new.

Lead authors: Micky B and Ash Stephens of Transgender Law Center

National coalition membership has shifted over time, and has included: Dee Dee Chamblee, LaLa Zannell, LaSaia Wade, Umí Vera, Kiara St. James, Emmett Schelling, Cathy Kapua, Evonne Kaho, Janetta Johnson, Mattee Jim, Tamara Jean, Gabriel Foster, Agaiotupu Viena, Bamby Salcedo, Stefanie Rivera, AnaAndrea Molina, Jennicet Gutiérrez, Zahara Green, Tiara Gendi, Marin Watts, Andy Marra, Sasha Buchert, Isa Noyola, Ola Osaze, Chase Strangio, Gia Cordova, Yozantli Lagunas Guerrero, Sophia Kass, Oluchi Omeoga, Ash Stephens, Kayla Gore, Mariah Moore, and Shelby Chestnut.

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The Trans Agenda for Liberation is a community-led guide towards the world we deserve. Trans people hold the knowledge, power, and joy to create a future where we can all not only survive but thrive. About the Trans Agenda for Liberation This agenda addresses the urgent political, legal, and social violence enacted against our communities, [...]