A wide range of important work is underway across the U.S. to build a fairer, more democratic society. The briefs below are designed for donors who are keen to advance progressive change in specific issue areas. Each offers a primer on the different strategies that donors can support, along with examples of effective organizations to donate to and tips for getting started.
Climate change is perhaps the single most important challenge of our time and should be a top priority for donors, with a focus on shifting power and policy.
The movement for criminal justice reform has made huge strides over the past decade. Donors have a range of options to help keep up the momentum for change.
Real political change nearly always starts from the bottom and emanates upward. Here’s how to give effectively for grassroots organizing.
To reduce the carnage created by guns, donors need to prioritize winning close elections and supporting advocacy, organizing and research.
The housing crisis is inflicting huge economic hardship and undermining hope for the future. Donors can back several strategies to address this problem.
Donors have many good choices of where to give to strengthen a robust ecosystem of progressive media outlets and underwrite hard-hitting reporting.
Donors have many choices for advancing racial equity, including giving for grassroots organizing, electoral work, litigation, and more.
A range of groups are working to rein in Wall Street and challenge corporate power with growing success. But this area remains seriously underfunded.
Securing abortion rights requires investing in efforts to win more power at the state level, as well as supporting groups focused on the courts and federal policy
One of the most consequential developments of recent decades has been the right’s capture of the judiciary. Donors can help reverse this trend.
No matter what issue donors care about, they need to be concerned with strengthening U.S. democracy and government accountability.
Labor groups are achieving growing gains in their fight to improve the wages and benefits of workers. Donors have many options to help.
