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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 1d

📢 The 2025 #RaceToLead Survey is open! Nonprofit staff + leaders: help paint an honest picture of our sector. Share your experience today and shape the future of equity + leadership. Take the survey: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 8d

Workplace challenges strongly shape leadership aspirations—especially for BIPOC nonprofit staff. Limited wellness supports, heavy DEI burdens, and few advancement paths fuel higher aspirations. Share your experience: take the Race to Lead Survey. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#RaceToLead

BIPOC Nonprofit Staff to the Front. We want to hear you

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 27d

We're excited to host another State of Solidarity on Sept 30 - this time, we'll be talking about navigating internal movement tensions and conflict. Join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A yellow ombre background with an illustration of a white dandelion puff going to seed. The graphic is announcing Building Movement Project's webinar on September 30 - State of Solidarity: Navigating Internal Movement Tensions and Conflict, taking place at 3pm EDT. The conversation with Mike Ishii, Tsuru for Solidarity; Tamika Middleton, Women’s March; and Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez, Foundation for a Just Society will be moderated by BMP’s Adaku Utah. The four speakers are pictured.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 12

Comrades working in the nonprofit sector who have a disability, please complete this survey! Our voices matter! #disabilityjusticeISracialjustice #racetoleadat10 #raceandleadership #protectthenonprofitsector

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 12

Disability Justice means more than checkboxes.
If you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability–visible or not–your story matters.

Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.

🔗: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

#RaceToLead #DisabilityJustice

The background shows colorful cutouts of human figures and disability access symbols on a black surface. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Do you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability?
Your story matters." In smaller font, beneath it reads, “Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 11

Southern comrades, please complete @buildingmovement.bsky.social's Race to Lead survey! #thesouthgotsomethingtosay #racetolead #10years #raceandleadership #protectthenonprofitsector

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 The South got something to say!

Too often, national nonprofit conversations ignore the critical Southern lens. This time, let's get loud.

If you work at a nonprofit based in the South, take the #RaceToLead survey & make sure your story is counted.

Add your voice today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The background shows a black-and-white photo of a map of southern states. In the foreground, bold text reads: "THE SOUTH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY" and continues, “Work at a Southern-Based Nonprofit?
We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on Tuesday, Sept 9, for a live podcast conversation! Details below ⬇️

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social from BMP on September 9 for this LinkedIn Live, where we’ll explore how movements can use Solidarity Stances to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity — even under authoritarian conditions: www.linkedin.com/events/solid...

A flyer for a live episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, with co-hosts Deepa Iyer and Adaku Utah pictured. The episode will be live on LinkedIn on Sept 9 at 2pm EDT, with Deepa and Adaku speaking about Building Movement Project's latest offering - Solidarity Stances, a resource for organizations and movements navigating authoritarian conditions.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hello, migrant / immigrant / refugee / asylee comrades, please complete this survey! Our work and voice are critical in the nonprofit sector! #immigrantvoices #protectthenonprofitsector #BMP #RacetoLeadat10 #migrantsarenonprofitleaders #raceandleadership

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 Migration shapes lives—and the nonprofit sector.
Whether you're first-gen or recently arrived, your experience adds depth to how we understand power, purpose, and belonging at work. Take the Race to Lead survey if you work at a nonprofit.

🔗: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8366111/R...

#RaceToLead

The background shows a black-and-white photo of people raising their fists in the air. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Migration shapes lives
—and the nonprofit sector" and continues, “If Immigration Is Part of Your Experience, We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 4

Calling all nonprofit executive leaders! Please complete this survey on race and leadership in the nonprofit sector! #racetolead #BMP #10years #protectthenonprofitsector #nonprofitleadership #raceandleadership

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗣️Your perspective as a nonprofit leader isn’t optional—it’s essential.

#RaceToLead captures what’s working, what’s not, and what leaders like you need next.

Take the survey today and shape the future:
bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The background shows a black-and-white photo of people with their laptops around a table. In the foreground, bold text reads: "EXECUTIVE NONPROFIT LEADERS TO THE FRONT!" A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎧 NEW episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast! Our ED @janishazel77.bsky.social talks with Charles Long at @movment4blcklives.bsky.social on the importance of trusting Black leadership, the role of philanthropy, and the necessity of community and rest at this time.

A graphic showing a Q&A between Janis Rosheuvel from the Building Movement Project and Charles Long from the Movement for Black Lives. This is an excerpt from the August 2025 episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast. Janis asks: "What are some tools for how we need to be doing solidarity right now, particularly given just the threats and also the real division that's being sown across our movements?" Charles responds: 'Trust Black leadership.
When Black people win power, win change in our society, that change will benefit all other folks who find themselves vulnerable to that system."

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share this conversation on the @buildingmovement.bsky.social / SolidarityIS podcast with my comrade, Charles Long, Deputy Director of Fund Strategy at @mvmnt4blklives.bsky.social! #blackaugust #M4BL #tenyears www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

Racial Justice During Black August and Beyond — Solidarity Is

This episode features a conversation between BMP’s Executive Director, Janis Rosheuvel, and Charles Long, the Deputy Director of Fund Strategy at the Movement for Black Lives, on the importance of tru...

www.solidarityis.org

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hey all, please join @buildingmovement.bsky.social in our 10-year study on race and leadership in the nonprofit sector! Complete the survey and if you’d like your organization or network to be a distribution partner let us know by filling out this form: nrnk4.share.hsforms.com/2_TK9pJalTNS...!

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Jul 24

Now is the time when solidarity across communities, geographies, and differences, is so vital. It’s not an option. We need each other to survive and thrive like never before. This resource helps us practice solidarity in the real world! #solidaritynow #movementbuilding #protectthenonprofitsector

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Jul 23

🌼 NEW RESOURCE >>> Solidarity Stances: A Resource for Organizations and Movements Navigating Authoritarian Conditions

www.solidarityis.org/stances

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Jul 10

July is Disability Pride Month! In a recent episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, our BMP colleague Adaku Utah spoke with Dom Kelly (@thetattooedjew.com) from @newdisabledsouth.org about lessons from disability justice movements:

Gold background with wavy brown and blue lines as a graphic element. A cream colored text box with dark brown font reads: Disability Pride Month, July.

Gold background with the Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs logos at the top. There’s a picture in the lower right corner of Dom Kelly, a white man with short curly hair and a beard, wearing a maroon blazer and a black shirt with a chest tattoo visible. A quote from Dom, Co-Founder, President & CEO New Disabled South is included (excerpt from the Solidarity Is This podcast episode from April 2025): “I think that learning about and really spending the time to understand the 10 principles of disability justice is such a critical place to start. And to expand that beyond just reading the 10 principles, there's so much literature out there and thought from movement leaders around why these principles were chosen and the time spent by the folks at Sins Invalid on developing them and where they come from and the reasoning.”

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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · Jul 3

"What good is a politics that hinges on calling on the consciences of those who profit from the status quo?"

In our summer issue, Jackie Wang reviews Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims: and the Politics of Appeal.
jewishcurrents.org/the-sympathy...

The Sympathy Trap

On Mohammed El-Kurd's Perfect Victims

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Asian Law Caucus @asianlawcaucus.org · Jun 27

NEW: We filed a nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

The lawsuit responds to Supreme Court ruling that potentially opens the door for implementation of the executive order.

Read more: bit.ly/brc-classaction

Groups File Nationwide Class-Action Lawsuit Over Trump Birthright Citizenship Order

Immigrants rights’ advocates today filed a new nationwide class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

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NPR @npr.org · Jun 9

UPDATE: U.S. Northern Command says the infantry battalion would be supporting the National Guard troops "who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area."

Trump mobilizes Marines for duty in Los Angeles

U.S. Northern Command says the infantry battalion would be supporting the National Guard troops "who are protecting federal personnel and federal property in the greater Los Angeles area."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 9

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, has died at 82

Sly Stone, pioneering leader of funk band Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

Sly Stone, the pioneering leader of the funk band bearing his name, Sly and the Family Stone, has died, according to his family. Stone was 82 years old.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Jun 5

Check out this great piece by @deepaiyer.bsky.social!

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · May 28

Read and share this article by BMP’s @deepaiyer.bsky.social in @npquarterly.bsky.social. In this article, Deepa recounts how Asian American leaders and groups are moving through tough times with solidarity and determination.

Read more at: bit.ly/43ui3Ed

#AAPIHeritageMonth

Asian American Heritage Month Brings Somberness and Solidarity - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Amid the struggle for a multiracial, equitable democracy in the United States, Asian American Heritage Month takes on a somber tone.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · May 13

hbr.org/2025/05/what...

What People Get Wrong About Psychological Safety

Psychological safety—a shared belief among team members that it’s OK to speak up with candor—has become a popular concept. However, as its popularity has grown, so too have misconceptions about it. Su...

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Apr 28

Check out @buildingmovement.bsky.social's new brief on the impacts of the first 100 days of this administration on the nonprofit sector. Thank you to our colleagues fighting to preserve rights, justice, institutions and democracy, ultimately. #protectthenonprofitsector #100days

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨 Just released - a new brief from BMP: Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days 🚨

130+ executive orders.
Funding freezes.
Attacks on civil society.

Movements are adapting through adaptation, solidarity, and collective power.

📚 Download: bit.ly/100DaysMovem...

The new brief from Building Movement Project is pictured - the cover includes a photo of a dandelion puff going to seed, an illustration of a golden sun, and a collage cut-out of a hand holding up a megaphone. The brief is titled "Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days" and can be found online at bit.ly/100DaysMovementBrief

The graphic has bright colors in purple and orange tones.

The 3 main goals of the new brief from BMP are outlined in this graphic that is brightly colored in purple, orange, and yellow tones. The brief is titled Movement Lessons from the First 100 Days, and the 3 main goals are: 1) Provide a snapshot of how executive orders are affecting the nonprofit sector; 2) Highlight movement infrastructure needs and challenges while documenting how organizations and movements are adapting through innovation, solidarity, and care; 3) Synthesize strategic recommendations for the nonprofit and philanthropy sectors that center sustainability, collective power, and solidarity

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Apr 9

Come work with @buildingmovement.bsky.social!

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Apr 4

BMP seeks a visionary, strategist and leader to serve as Senior Strategic Communications Manager. This role will lead our communications planning, drive digital and traditional media outreach, and manage cross-functional teams.

Priority Deadline: 4/21

Learn more at bit.ly/bmp-comms-ma...

We Are Hiring! Senior Manager, Strategic Communications, US Remote. $100-110K

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New Jersey Working Families Party @njwfp.bsky.social · Apr 3

Jersey, it’s time to show up and show out!

We are facing an unconstitutional threat to our country and our freedoms through an illegal power grab. Now is the time to make our voices heard.#HandsOff #April5

Find an action near you! ➡️ handsoff2025.com

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Apr 2

Listen to this! <3

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Apr 2

New on the Solidarity Is This podcast: co-host Adaku Utah is in conversation with Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.bsky.social of @newdisabledsouth.org about what it means to build movements rooted in care, access, and interdependence.

Listen/notes/transcript: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

A deep blue background with gold accents. Text reads: Solidarity Is This podcast - Solidarity at the Pace of Interdependence and Care: Lessons from New Disabled South. Co-host Adaku Utah of BMP and episode guest Dom Kelly of New Disabled South are pictured.

Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is a great reflection on how direct service providers are responding to this moment!

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Mar 19

Right now, millions of families rely on nonprofits to stay housed, fed, and healthy, but these essential programs are at risk.

buildingmovement.org/blog/sustain...

Sustaining the Safety Net: How Service Providers are Navigating Political Uncertainty - Building Movement

by Héctor Malvido, Sr. Manager of Partnerships, Building Movement Project This blog will cover the recent impacts Direct Service Organizations (DSOs) have felt through the onslaught of presidential Ex...

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Mar 19

Join us!

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Mar 14

What does solidarity look like in times of political upheaval and uncertainty? How have movements adapted to the challenges of the first 100 days of the Trump administration?

www.solidarityis.org/state-of-sol...

State of Solidarity | 2025 Programs — Solidarity Is

This series, hosted by SolidarityIs at the Building Movement Project, includes virtual gatherings that will explore the evolving praxis, demands, and trajectories of solidarity within social justice m...

www.solidarityis.org

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