Posts Tagged ‘Rural Organizing’
How the New York Rural Organizing Portfolio is Shifting Power in New York
We launched our New York Rural Organizing Portfolio in June 2024 with an attainable yet impactful goal: raise $15,000 in general operating funds for each of the thirteen organizations featured to support rural organizing that is overlooked by New York City-based funders and the coalitions they support. Our ‘why’ was two-fold. First, leaders of organizations…
Read MoreIRSG at NFG’s Convening in Nashville, TN: Resourcing & Following Grassroots Power Builders
NFG’s Convening this July in Nashville, TN, “Seeding (and Ceding) Transformational Power” brought movement leaders together with grantmakers to co-conspire and strategize around seeding transformational power — investing in grassroots powerbuilding, movement organizing and infrastructure, relationships, and supporting BIPOC communities now and for the long term — and ceding power — shifting and ending harmful…
Read MoreRoots Revealed: Spotlighting Rural Grassroots Models of Work that are Critical to a Multiracial Democratic Future
Developed by Biz Ghormley, Lindsay Ryder, and Stephan Oak, designed by Karla Flemming In the months leading up to the 2024 election, the Integrated Rural Strategies Group set out to create a resource that would – regardless of the election’s outcomes – serve as a guide and framework for action for philanthropy. We knew that…
Read MoreIRSG Rural Organizing Dialogue Series
Over the course of the summer, IRSG held a Rural Organizing Dialogue Series. This series was educational and genuine! It was a space for funders in IRSG’s network to get to know this work and the rural leaders that are holding and leading it. The dialogue featured many of IRSG’s Movement Advisors and created opportunity to…
Read MoreActualizing our values: A gathering in rural Oregon grounds IRSG’s work in community and place
by Lindsay Ryder, Director, Integrated Rural Strategies Group The week before last was a gift. The Integrated Rural Strategies Group (IRSG) gathered its Rural Movement Advisors in Woodburn, Oregon* for a week of rest, reflection, joy, tequio, and breaking bread together. The impetus for this gathering was to renew our partnership with this group of…
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