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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
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‘Act of dissidence’: Memorial dedicated to honor Japanese Americans incarcerated in ND • North Dakota Monitor North Dakota’s United Tribes Technical College on Friday celebrated the completion of a memorial for the nearly 2,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned there during World War II.

The Snow Country Prison Japanese American Memorial is at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota. Learn more about how this Memorial came to be: northdakotamonitor.com/2025/09/05/a...

A graphic flyer with a blue background with two photos: one of Satsuki Ina and another of the Snow Country Prison Japanese American Memorial with a sculptural wall encasing stones, and stone face with the Memorial name engraved in it. The text on the flyer reads: Solidarity Is This Podcast - Solidarity as Public Memory, a conversation with Satsuki Ina. The Building Movement Project and Solidarity Is logo is at the top.

🎧 NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast: How are Native and Japanese American communities marking a shameful part of American history? Our guest, Satsuki Ina, shows us how to build solidarity from a national tragedy. www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

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.

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...

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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

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

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📢 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

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

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🌍 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

Twenty Years After Katrina: Lessons in Climate, Justice, and Solidarity - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly Two decades after Katrina, community leaders offer lessons for nonprofits on supporting local organizations navigating climate disasters.

Two decades after Katrina, community leaders offer lessons for nonprofits on how to support local organizations navigating climate disasters in an era of democratic erosion. nonprofitquarterly.org/twenty-years... @deepaiyer.bsky.social

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

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🗣️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

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📢 Tired of glass ceilings, glass cliffs and performative equity? This is your moment. The Race to Lead survey uplifts BIPOC voices to confront what’s real in nonprofit workplaces and push for change.

Take it. Share it. Lead it.

🔗 bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

Solidarity Stances — Solidarity Is 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 solid...

Before the conversation on Sept 9, check out the Solidarity Stances resource here: www.solidarityis.org/stances

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.

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...

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...

Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen and find the transcript + show notes here: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

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."

🎧 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.

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...

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...

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...!

Building Movement Project (2023-2025) Graphic Recording // Illustrated Notes for Building Movement Project’s Solidarity series from 2023-2025

Over the past three years we partnered with @buildingmovement.bsky.social to create graphic notes for their State of Solidarity series of panels. The panels were stacked with powerful organizers and community leaders sharing about their work and wisdoms.
Read more: onibaba.studio/2025/07/24/b...

Solidarity Stances — Solidarity Is 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 solid...

RESOURCE: How should your organization navigate rising authoritarianism? Solidarity must be our foundation but it might look different depending on your org's role or positioning. This guide from @buildingmovement.bsky.social offers 7 different strategic stances to helps us all stand together.

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In these turbulent political times, you know what nonprofit work looks like on the ground.

If you work at a nonprofit, Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead survey turns your lived experience into data that drives change.

📊 Share your story. Shape what comes
next. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

It's Time! Take the Race To Lead Survey today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The #RaceToLead survey launches today! We’re calling on all #nonprofit staff to share your experiences by taking our 2025 Race to Lead Survey. Help us accurately understand what nonprofit staff are experiencing in this critical moment.

Take and share the survey today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

Solidarity Through Sacred Work: Organizing from Hope and Healing in Divided Times — Solidarity Is In this episode, co-host Adaku Utah sits down with Alia Bilal to explore how the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) has spent the last 30 years building a vibrant ecosystem that weaves together h...

New on the Solidarity Is This podcast: Adaku Utah talks with Alia Bilal about how the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) built a vibrant ecosystem weaving together healthcare, housing, arts, and organizing to nurture transformation in Chicago’s inner city.

www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

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

Background of yellow flowers against a blue sky, with a graphic of a murmuration of purple and blue birds against the sky. The BMP and SolidarityIs logo is at the bottom. The text reads: "In the Solidarity Stances resource, the seven stances invite us to move with intention and connection in order to protect one another, disrupt authoritarian narratives and systems, strengthen movement infrastructure, and deepen our collective capacity to come together - rather than defaulting to defensive postures or act in isolation."

As the harms we face are vast and intertwined, our solidarity practices must be equally expansive, discerning, coordinated and intentional. Solidarity can become a strategy to distribute and withstand risk in these times.

Find the full resource: www.solidarityis.org/stances

Background of yellow flowers against a blue sky, with a graphic of a murmuration of purple and blue birds against the sky. The BMP and SolidarityIs logo is at the bottom. The graphic describes a new resource from BMP, titled Solidarity Stances. This new resource from the Building Movement Project offers seven strategic "Solidarity 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. The full resource can be found at solidarityis.org/stances

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

www.solidarityis.org/stances

The FAQ spotlights the ways in which groups working on immigration, climate, racial justice, and Palestinian solidarity are uniquely being impacted in the current landscape. Find the full FAQ at bit.ly/nonprofit-faq

This July, we are sharing the latest update which includes a snapshot of current threats, with specific impacts for frontline groups, as well as resources for nonprofits and funders: bit.ly/nonprofit-faq

Graphic of a paperclipped note highlighting an updated resource from the Building Movement Project. Dark blue text reads: FAQ - Nonprofits in the New Landscape, updated July 17, 2025. The FAQ covers the following, which are listed as checked off bullet points: the impact of federal actions on nonprofit groups, the unique ways frontline groups are being affected, resources/responses for nonprofits and funders. Find the full FAQ at bit.ly/nonprofit-faq

Since January 2025, Building Movement Project has been sharing information about how nonprofit organizations are being affected by changes in federal policy, withdrawals of federal funds, and attacks on their programs.