Demos

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Demos pioneers bold progressive ideas, reinforces them with original research and analysis, and equipts grassroots partner organizations to move them into practical reality.

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BOLD: Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (Fiscally Sponsored by Highlander Research & Education Center)
BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) is a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the US to increase their alignment, impact and sustainability to win progressive change. BOLD carries out its mission through training programs, coaching and technical assistance for BOLD alumni and partners.
Cross Cutting National
Community Change
Community Change builds the power of low-income people, especially people of color, to win changes on the issues that impact their lives. By fusing the power of organizing, ideas, and politics, Community Change fuels bold and enduring movements that win big.
Cross Cutting National
Emergent Fund (fiscally sponsored by the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation)
Emergent Fund is a queer women of color-led, movement-aligned participatory grantmaker with intersectional, collective liberation values. We fund rapid response and emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and organizers of color with trust-based, no-string-attached grants. A nationally recognized philanthropy culture disruptor and praxis leader, Emergent Fund challenges power in who we fund as well as with how we fund. Our 100% women of color and Indigenous decision-making Advisory Council and our grantees all come from directly impacted communities committed to building movement and transforming crisis into change. Emergent Fund supports the work of communities under threat to build their own reality: the one that would emerge on the other side of crisis with a powerful new vision for what comes next.
Gender Justice National
Greenlining Institute
The Greenlining Institute works toward a future when communities of color can build wealth, live in healthy places filled with economic opportunity, and are ready to meet the challenges posed by climate change.
Environmental & Climate Justice California
Highlander Research & Education Center
Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South, working with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.
Cross Cutting South
Maria Fund (fiscally sponsored by Tides Center)
The Maria Fund envisions a Puerto Rico where we recognize ourselves as free, interdependent people who are interconnected among ourselves and with the rest of the world.
Gender Justice Other