Tools & Resources
Find all of our tools and resources below, or visit this page to see our
frequently accessed resources and newest offerings.
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The social change ecosystem framework helps individuals, networks, and organizations align and get in right relationship with social change values, individual roles, and their broader ecosystem.
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For Nonprofit Quarterly, this piece written by BMP’s Adaku Utah and Deepa Iyer explores the infrastructure that our movements need to move beyond episodic solidarity.
Solidarity Is Practice Guide
An offering from Building Movement Project and SolidarityIs that enables individuals and organizations to engage in transformative solidarity practice. When we engage in transformative practice we have an opportunity to change ourselves, our communities, systems, institutions, and cultural norms.A resource offering seven strategic stances that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity
Solidarity Narrative Resources for Organizations
Find process questions, considerations, examples of solidarity statements and additional resources related to solidarity narratives.A blog series exploring solidarity lessons from movement elders, stories, art, and more.
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An offering of frameworks, exercises, and reflection questions to support organizations in developing their rapid response infrastructure.
Ecosystem of Well-Being
This tool provides a starting point for networks and organizations to integrate self-care and community-care and sustainability practices with systemic changes.Movement Leadership Stool
We created the movement leadership stool to describe the various areas of support that movement leaders identified.Movement Pantry
This framework and tool helps individuals and organizations think about what’s in their movement pantry (frameworks, practices, relationships) and how they can shape and mold it to meet their goals.The toolkit contains frameworks and exercises that the Building Movement Project has utilized in trainings, workshops, and election scenario planning.
Between July and September 2024, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans (NCAPA), in partnership with Aurora Commons and the Building Movement Project, developed and convened 2024 elections scenario planning conversations for organizations working closely with Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. Learn more and read the report back, which includes key recommendations on how to build cross-movement solidarity, provide community education, protect physical and digital safety, build legal defense infrastructure, invest in rapid response infrastructure, and secure organizational operations and resources, among others.