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​As Young People for Progress (YPP) transitioned to become a formal organization, the technical assistance and mentorship we received from Movement Matters was invaluable. Their thoughtful advice—rooted not just in theory, but also in experience—gave us more confidence in our direction while getting off the ground. Their careful feedback helped us make crucial adjustments to our internal structure, practices, and models of leadership that helped ground our organizational development in our liberatory values and vision.
​Danielle Blocker,
Founder & Steering Committee President, Young People for Progress.

Technical Assistance and Mentorship

​Integrating the values and vision of movement work into our organizational structures is deeply challenging work. We find ourselves simultaneously trying to balance liberation and accountability, freedom and results. Roadmaps and models for these kinds of organizational structures and leadership are few and far between. The needed systems and practices can seem elusive.

Movement Matters’ technical assistance helps our partners wrestle with and create better infrastructure around visionary organizational development. Whether solidifying campaign plans and strategy, organizational leadership structures, staff management, or fundraising/resource development, we help groups integrate their values into their organizational practices.  

Our approach is not a “one size fits all”. We recognize that each organization is different, with different history, culture, and personalities. We make sure that our work fits the needs of our partner groups, recognizing where they are but also moving them to create new, more visionary ways to reflect the world we are trying to create in the ways our organizations function internally.

Though our work is tailored to each group, it is also grounded in Movement Matters’ Organizing Framework (see graphic below). We strongly believe that organizing groups need to integrate relationship, constituency, and power building if they are going to be effective agents of change. We help organizations develop the policies, practices, and systems that they need to build this work and develop a reflective organizational culture that engages all of its members in a process of organizational growth.
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© Movement Matters Organizing Framework.

Relationship Building

Constituency Building

Power Building

​Our work with Movement Matters really helped Emgage Action to envision and begin to practice a deeper constituency building process into our organizing work within our chapter states. Movement Matters provided clear guidance on why and how we should invest in this work, as well as how we could build it into Emgage's existing infrastructure.
Mohamed Gula,
Executive Director, Emgage Action.

A Selection of TA Recipients:

  • ​ONE DC
  • Tenants and Workers United
  • Annenberg Institute for School Reform​​
  • DC Greens
  • Teaching for Change
  • Alliance for Justice​​​​
  • Critical Exposure
  • Hill-Snowdon Foundation
  • Sitar Center for the Arts
  • Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
  • Montgomery Community Investment Cooperative​
  • United Houma Nation​​
  • Justice for Muslims Collective
  • SEIU 1199
  • DC Jobs with Justice​
  • UFCW Local 400
  • DC Tenants Union
  • NeighborWorks America​
  • Virginia Climate and Equity Working Group
  • ​Cancel Rent Coalition
  • Greater Washington Community Foundation​​
  • Empower DC
  • Latino Economic Development Center
  • Restaurant Opportunities Center DC
  • ​Communities for Public Education Reform
  • Fair Budget Coalition
  • Dance Institute of Washington​
  • Impact Silver Spring
  • Miriam's Kitchen
  • Many Languages One Voice​​
  • BloomBars​​​ Community Arts Center
  • Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans
  • Young People for Progress
  • EMGAGE Action
  • DC Action for Children
  • Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
  • DC Adult and Family Literacy Coalition​​​​​
  • ​DC Consortium of Legal Service Providers​
  • Ecumenical Program on Central America and the Caribbean
  • Montgomery Housing Partnership​
  • DC Collaborative for Education Organizing
  • Youth Education Alliance
  • Under 3 DC Campaign
  • DC Safe Our Safety Net Campaign
  • DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative​
Movement Matters are experienced, insightful, and engaging capacity and movement builders. Their trainings left me with skills and resources that helped shift the way DC Greens understands our own vision and work around food justice, while their technical assistance and mentorship moved us further towards building community power and leadership within the organization and in our city.

Working with Movement Matters is not a one-off—it's an entrance into ongoing opportunities for mentorship, program building, and organizational development.
Asha Carter,
Technical Assistance and Training Alumni.
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​Movement Matters is based in Washington, DC. ​
We work regionally with various communities and with national partners.

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