What can MVP donors do now besides donating?

Our top recommendations:

1. Organize donors with us. We are a political home for donor-activists who want to help build a movement of donors funding year-round local organizing and movement-building work.
2. Take action with MVP grantee partners and allies directly, as they work to defeat authoritarianism, win power, and advance policy change.

Why join MVP in organizing donors?

Here’s why we consider donor organizing an integral part of building our movement for progress, and why MVP is investing in creating the largest, most united movement of donors supporting grassroots organizing year-round, on the ground – every year, not just big election years:

• To date, philanthropy has never adequately funded year-round local progressive organizing in the United States. As a result, we’ve not yet been able to realize the full potential of organizing “ecosystems” at the local, state, or national levels. 
• The closest we get to huge financial infusions in power-building organizing work is during high-profile Presidential election years. But long-term power building doesn’t work with sporadic investments every two or four years.
• When enough donors see that the odd-numbered years are as critical as the even-numbered years, we will finally be able to keep up the momentum, keep veteran staff and seasoned organizers on payroll, seize key political opportunities no matter when they arise, and grow our long-term political power in a far more consistent way.

While there is enough wealth out there to fully fund our movements for progress, too few people with wealth give away substantial amounts to power-building organizing. Even fewer are willing to make multiyear commitments that would allow the work to grow. And among those who do, too many often place restrictions and conditions on the types of work organizations can do. This is the big-picture problem that MVP is working to change through both donor advising and donor organizing. 

The only way to fund and build organizing ecosystems to the degree needed in this country is through a cross-class giving revolution. We hope you will join us in making this vision a reality!