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This document is connected to the Solidaire Network Member Brief and is a Solidaire Member-Only Document

There are currently over 50 organizations serving on various tables within the M4BL and at least 100 in the M4BL national ecosystem. The list of organizations at the local, state and national levels is growing daily and will be updated for members as the Solidaire becomes aware of additional organizations. For our Year 1, $350,000/year pledge goal, we recommend members focus their funding to stabilize 15 organizations providing key leadership within the M4BL and that meet the following criteria:

1. Organizations with predominantly Black Board, executive leadership, staff leadership and membership/leadership base; 2. Organizations whose primary purpose is explicitly stated in their mission to work to build power with and for the Black community; 3. Organizations with budget sizes under $2M. We believe that given the $350,000 goal for this strategy, our members can make a unique contribution by beginning to build the major donor base of some of the smaller organizations leading in the ecosystem.

While we recommend priority funding the 15 organizations described in this document, grants made to any organization in the M4BL ecosystem (see below) will be counted toward this option pledge goal. Recommended organizations are listed in alphabetical order. This prioritization is only intended to inform the goal within this $350,000 strategy as part of the Solidaire $1M Aligned Giving Program. 1. Baltimore Bloc • Baltimore, MD | Facebook Baltimore Bloc is a grassroots collective of friends, families & neighborhoods united to rebuild communities & organize for justice.

2. Black Alliance for Just Immigration • Brooklyn, NY | Facebook BAJI believes that a thriving multi-racial democracy requires racial, social and economic justice for all. and black immigrants are stronger together and we can win by becoming leaders in the fight against structural racism and systemic discrimination. BAJI was formed to bring Black voices together to advocate for equality and justice in our laws and our communities.

3. Network • 38 Chapters | Facebook BLMN is a chapter-based national organization working for the validity of Black life. #BlackLivesMatter was created in 2012 after ’s murderer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted for his crime, and dead 17-year old Trayvon was posthumously placed on trial for his own murder. Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our dehumanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society.

4. BOLD [Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity] • Miami, FL BOLD is a national Leadership Training Program designed to help rebuild Black (African-American, Caribbean, African, Afro-Latino) social justice infrastructure in order to organize Black communities more effectively and re-center Black leadership in the U.S. social justice movement.

5. Black Youth Project 100 [BYP100] • Chicago, IL | Facebook BYP100 is a national activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a base focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy and education using a Black queer feminist lens.

| 2016 -2020 ALIGNED GIVING STRATEGY: STRATEGY 1 P 2 6. Blackbird • Oakland, CA | Facebook Blackbird formed organically in the intensity of Ferguson, Missouri, during the first 100 days after Michael Brown’s death. As early as the second week of protests, Blackbird helped create the conditions for collaboration among a crowded (yet divided) field of organizations and emerging leaders through the use of a coordination table. Our team helped establish the importance of developing collaborative spaces as the center of organizing during and after crisis moments and helped match intense protests at sites of decision making with methodical base building in working class Black communities.

7. BlackOUT Collective • Oakland, CA | Facebook BlackOUT is a full service Black Direct Action collective, which provides on the ground support, training and the opportunity for deep space visioning in communities that prioritize the liberation of Black people.

8. Dignity and Power Now • Los Angeles, CA | Facebook DPN is a grassroots organization based in Los Angeles that fights for the dignity and power of incarcerated people, their families, and communities. In doing so DPN wages a fight for everyone because the prison industrial complex forms an imaginative limit on everyone’s capacity to envision freedom and liberation.

9. Freedom Inc. • Madison, WI | Facebook Freedom, Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI. We work to end violence against people of color, women, those that non-traditionally gender identify, and our youth, to promote healthy lifestyle. We create healthy communities by campaigning against the root causes of violence, creating new definitions and solutions of identity and resiliency, and empowering all community members as agents of change.

10. Million Hoodies Movement for Justice • New York, NY - Nat’l Network | Facebook Founded in 2012, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice is a racial justice membership organization confronting anti-black racism and systemic violence. Our mission is to build next generation human rights leaders to end mass criminalization and gun violence through grassroots organizing, advocacy, and education. We are building a racial justice movement committed to creating a democracy where all Black and Brown people have social, political, cultural, and economic freedom and the right to be safe.

| 2016 -2020 ALIGNED GIVING STRATEGY: STRATEGY 1 P 3 11. Organization for Black Struggle • St. Louis, MO | Facebook The Organization for Black Struggle was founded in 1980 by activists, students, union organizers and other community members in order to fill a vacuum left by the assaults on the Black Power Movement. Our vision is to contribute to the creation of a society free of all forms of exploitation and oppression. Our mission is to build a movement that fights for political empowerment, economic justice and the cultural dignity of the African-American community, especially the Black working class.

12. Project South • Atlanta, GA | Facebook Project South is a Southern-based leadership development organization that creates spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle– to strengthen leadership and to provide popular political and economic education for personal and social transformation. We build relationships with organizations and networks across the US and global South to inform our local work and to engage in bottom-up movement building for social and economic justice.

13. Southerners on New Ground [SONG] • Atlanta, GA | Facebook SONG believes all our identities, issues and lives are connected across race, class, culture, gender and sexuality. SONG is a membership-based, Southern regional organization made up of working class, people of color, immigrants, and rural LGBTQ people. We vision a world where the 3rd shift factory worker and the drag queen at the bar down the block see their lives as connected and are working together for liberation.

14. Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project [TGIJP] • San Francisco, CA TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people— inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers—creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom. We work in collaboration with others to forge a culture of resistance and resilience to strengthen us for the fight against human rights abuses, imprisonment, police violence, racism, poverty, and societal pressures. We seek to create a world rooted in self- determination, freedom of expression, and gender justice. Our members are low income transgender women of color and our families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police.

15. UndocuBlack Network • Los Angeles, CA | Facebook A first-of-its kind space for black undocumented folks to heal, organize and be empowered by each other.

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