Building Movement Scale: U.S. Social Justice
Base-Building Ecosystem and the Impact on Progressive Social Change

The goal is to raise the visibility and understanding of organizing within the Ford Foundation and provide a forum for disseminating effective strategies within the practitioner community. To achieve this goal, PERE proposes to achieve the following objectives: To increase the understanding of the strategies, capacities, and needs of U.S. social justice base-building organizations through an analysis of Ford Foundation grantees and other leading organizations in the field; to assess the impact of social justice base-building organizations on progressive social change at the local, state, and national levels; to distill lessons and implications for philanthropy’s role in strengthening the capacities and impact of the social justice, base-building ecosystem; and to develop products and tools, including interim and long-term process evaluation metrics and methods, that will help build the capacity of both foundations and base-building organizations to adopt “best practices.”

Publications

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Transactions – Transformations – Translations: Metrics That Matter for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements
Manuel Pastor, Jennifer Ito, and Rachel Rosner
October 2011