Beyond grantmaking, we provide funders with strategic insight and partnership to strengthen the work of our grantees who are boldly leading activism on the ground.

• Expertise – Through our extensive knowledge and deep relationships at the state and local level, we monitor trends across the country, engage with advocates in the field, and amplify the collective impact of our funders.
• Grantmaking – In partnership with our donors, we invest in and incubate emerging organizers and organizations who share our vision of inclusive democracy. In partnership with grantees, we identify capacity and infrastructure gaps and design thoughtful grants to address them.
• Field Coordination – We regularly convene grantees and other key stakeholders in the field to encourage collaboration, develop strategy, learn from each other and coordinate efforts.
• Funder Education and Engagement – We regularly hold funder briefings and offer other opportunities for funders to learn about organizations and activists in our field, and to hear about grantees’ successes and challenges, in order to better inform and mobilize donors.
• Communications and Narrative Power – We commission research and polling, and work collaboratively with grantees to offer spokesperson training, introductions to journalists and media producers, op-ed writing assistance, and rapid response talking points.
• Grantee Safety and Security – We support not only our grantee’s often risky work, but their physical and digital security and health and wellness while doing it.