What can MVP donors do now besides donating?

Our top recommendation? Organize donors with us! Funders large and small have always been among the unsung heroes of successful movements throughout modern history.

Here’s what you can do right now: Sign up to be an MVP donor-organizing volunteer.

By filling out our intake form you are raising your hand to say, “I’m in – let’s do this! Let’s fully fund the movement together!”

After you sign up, we’ll follow up to connect you to volunteer opportunities, online and in-person (where applicable). We have four established local volunteer hubs in the Bay Area (CA), Washington State, Eastern MA (Boston), and Western MA (Northampton), with emerging hubs (or “hublets” as we affectionately call them) in places including DC, NY, LA, and Atlanta. We also have national volunteer opportunities you can participate in remotely, like our current “donor thank-you” effort.

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 US. 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 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!