Movement Building
Boosting the Capacity of Statewide Organizations
Our Movement Building team runs Creating Change, the nation’s premier lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference.
We’re also building the grassroots political power and infrastructure of state-level LGBT organizations across the country by helping them to build their organizational capacity. We’ve formed intensive multi-year partnerships to increase their effectiveness and sustainability.
Never before in the LGBT movement has capacity building been attempted on such a comprehensive, intensive, long-term basis for the purposes of building progressive political power on the state-wide level.
What we do:
- Identify each group’s core organizational challenges.
- Develop an ambitious but doable multi-year plan.
- Offer services and interventions for organizations at every stage.
- Create models that can be replicated all across the country.
- Support the development of progressive coalitions on the statewide level.
We assist with:
- Board development
- Strategic planning
- Budgeting and financial systems
- Staffing structure
- Fund raising
- Building a base of supporters
- Building sustainable and diverse coalitions
- Executive director coaching
- Leveraging progressive political power in states
Current state partners:
Opportunities for non-partners:
Movement Building also offers coaching and support to leaders of local and state LGBT organizations, building leaders to sustain the movement and build LGBT grassroots political power.
For campaign resources and support, check out Organizing & Training.
Individuals and organizations alike are welcome at the annual gathering of more than 2,000 activists: Creating Change.
