Organizing and Activism

Founded in 2009 and a Thousand Currents partner since 2023, Center for Justice Governance and Environmental Action (CJGEA) works to protect and advance the human and environmental rights of Indigenous…

Each summer on Martha’s Vineyard, leaders of color working in philanthropy across the United States gather to strategize, to vision, and to be in community with one another on an…

Justice Funders has just launched a new base-building initiative and formed a new base-building team to carry out this work. The new team is made up of Jessica Espinoza-Jensen, Director…

What if the community-driven solutions to our greatest challenges were already all around us? This idea comes from a simple yet radical belief that the wisdom to transform our world…

More than 20 million people took to the streets after George Floyd’s death in the summer of 2020, calling for an end to police violence and mass incarceration. Many in…

In 2017, I released a book that I thought a few people would read. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds has gone further than expected. It has reached organizers, activists,…

Nearly 10 years after the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) was founded to uplift the needs and interests of Black people across the country, issues like police brutality and mass incarceration…

For Elayne Gregg, voting on the Tohono O’odham Nation evokes memories of her grandmother. She remembers sitting at the long wooden table in her family’s kitchen and spending time with…

A group of six unhoused New Yorkers filed a lawsuit against the City of New York on Oct. 29, seeking to prevent city agencies from conducting homeless sweeps. The lawsuit,…

Activist Camille Bennett never backs down from a fight, despite her life being in danger. She’s endured racist and violent threats in rural Alabama, a part of a life she’s…

In the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s three-part series, president Phil Buchnan revists several questions he wrote about in 2022. In part three he tackles two questions: How can funders best…

Across the country, renters and unhoused people are organizing to demand that all levels of government address the nation’s housing crisis through social housing. On September 25–28, housing justice organizations held National…