Executive Summary

People of color and marginalized communities are in dire need of healing, reparation, and justice. Community organizing is the most effective way to empower and equip these communities with the tools they need to achieve meaningful justice. However, traditional philanthropy does not typically fund community organizing. Bread & Roses addresses this important gap by facilitating three processes:

1. Training grassroots fundraisers to raise money for racial, gender, and criminal justice community organizers.

1. Partnering with institutional funders to redistribute transformational funding to the grassroots level.

1. Providing financial resources to community organizers through a democratic, equitable grantmaking process.

Bread & Roses actively cultivates a diverse community of staff, Board members, and grassroots organizers that directly reflect the movements it funds, and works to establish a representative balance among race, class, and gender identities to ensure meaningfully inclusive processes and practices.

For 50 years, Bread & Roses has built essential knowledge about impactful organizing work on the ground level – as such, donors and institutions trust Bread & Roses to distribute funds to community organizers who create change by: training community members to advocate for themselves and their communities; canvassing deeply in marginalized communities; creating public awareness campaigns to combat social injustices; engaging in research and coalition building; organizing public demonstrations and civil disobedience; and working directly with elected officials to influence legislation from the ground up.

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