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Documentaries
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Flow
This award-winning documentary investigates what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Interviews with scientists and activists reveal the global and human face of this rapidly building crisis and introduces many of the culprits behind the water grab, while asking the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?"
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Reports
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UNTAPPED: How Community
Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors
And Raise Big Money
This guide is a free, downloadable manual on reaching major donors
to tell them about community organizing! It is a crucial addition
to community organizing's fund development toolbox full of insights
and specific how-to's to engage long-term supporters.
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Criteria for Philanthropy of
Its Best
This report is a set of measurable guidelines to help foundations
and other institutional grantmakers operate ethically and maximize
the impact of their dollars.
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Giving While Living
A comprehensive look at how the Beldon Fund handled the practical implications of putting the foundation on a spend-out course while seeking to accomplish an ambitious mission.
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Funding Social Movements
This report by the New World Foundation explores what Social Movements are and why they are critical to social change.
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Podcasts - SouthWest Organizing Project
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Part 1 - Community Organizing
In this interview, SWOP Executive Director, Robby Rodriguez, sits
down with Marjorie Fine, Director of the Linchpin Campaign of the
Center for Community Change to discuss the organization's successes
in community organizing.
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Part 2 - Organizational Development
SWOP Executive Director, Robby Rodriguez, continues his conversation
with Marjorie Fine, Director of the Linchpin Campaign of the Center
for Community Change to discuss the organization's successes in
organizational development.
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Videos
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Atlantic Philanthropies
Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of Atlantic Philanthropies speaks
about supporting advocacy for social justice as the best way to
achieve lasting social change. Atlantic believes in empowering
the people who need the change the most to advocate for a more
equitable and just world. Like FACT, Atlantic Philanthropies is
planning to completely spend down its assets and close its doors
within the next ten years.
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Communities for a Better Environment
Daphne Zuniga explores the environmental justice work of Communities
for a New Environment (CBE) in Los Angeles.
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West Virginia woman wins the Goldman
Environmental Prize
In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally-devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations. Her advocacy has led to the closure of mines in the region and stricter regulations for the industry.
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No Food Taxes!!
Tennessee's sales tax on groceries hurts low income families and costs Tennessee millions in lost revenue each year. This video by Tennesseans for Fair Taxation (TfT) describes the negative impacts of the stateŐs regressive food tax.
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Blasting on Coal River Mountain, as soon as TODAY!
In the face of an impending 6,600 acre mountaintop removal strip mine, activists fear blasting for the proposed site on Coal River Mountain, which rests beside a 6 billion-gallon toxic coal waste sludge dam above underground mines, could be catastrophic for the communities downstream.
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Victories
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In a victory for the movement to clean the air and create good green jobs at our nationŐs ports, a U.S. District judge denied a preliminary injunction that would have threatened the San Pedro Bay PortsŐ Clean Trucks Programs. This was a critical test for the Clean Trucks Programs, which aims to reduce diesel truck pollution by 80%, deliver $5 billion to the regional economy, and create stronger safety and security enforcement.
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Articles
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Why Spend Out
John Hunting, founder of the Beldon Fund talks about why he chose to spend down the assets of the foundation in ten yearsÉ
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Every Dollar Spent
When the office-equipment manufacturer Steelcase Furniture went public just over a decade ago, the deal supplied its major stockholder, John Hunting, with the financial muscle to endow his small foundation with $100-million.
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Featured Organizations
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The California Alliance
The California Alliance works toward a common progressive vision through innovative public policy and civic participation strategies for communities of color and low-income communities. The CA Alliance is predominantly led by people of color and is comprised of 15 recognized social justice, environmental justice and labor-affiliated organizations.
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