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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 25m

60%+ of nonprofit workers face demanding workloads—but burnout isn’t inevitable.

New @BldingMovement #RaceToLead data shows inequities in voice, recognition & advancement drive burnout, esp. for BIPOC frontline staff.

🔗 Read via @Candid bit.ly/4olBKXD

Frontline nonprofit workers face burnout from workloads, invisible labor, and lack of voice

Candid insights | Delve into data that illustrates why frontline nonprofit workers have high levels of burnout and what can be done to retain key staff who directly serve and impact their communities.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 2d

📢 The 2025 #RaceToLead Survey is open! Nonprofit staff + leaders: help paint an honest picture of our sector. Share your experience today and shape the future of equity + leadership. Take the survey: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 7d

📊 Nonprofit staff + leaders: your voice matters. Workplace realities shape the future of our sector. Share your experience in the #RaceToLead Survey—add your voice today. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#RaceToLead #NonprofitLeadership

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 8d

Workplace challenges strongly shape leadership aspirations—especially for BIPOC nonprofit staff. Limited wellness supports, heavy DEI burdens, and few advancement paths fuel higher aspirations. Share your experience: take the Race to Lead Survey. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025
#RaceToLead

BIPOC Nonprofit Staff to the Front. We want to hear you

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 13d

The Snow Country Prison Japanese American Memorial is at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota. Learn more about how this Memorial came to be: northdakotamonitor.com/2025/09/05/a...

‘Act of dissidence’: Memorial dedicated to honor Japanese Americans incarcerated in ND • North Dakota Monitor

North Dakota’s United Tribes Technical College on Friday celebrated the completion of a memorial for the nearly 2,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned there during World War II.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 13d

🎧 NEW on the Solidarity Is This podcast: How are Native and Japanese American communities marking a shameful part of American history? Our guest, Satsuki Ina, shows us how to build solidarity from a national tragedy. www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · 27d

We're excited to host another State of Solidarity on Sept 30 - this time, we'll be talking about navigating internal movement tensions and conflict. Join us! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A yellow ombre background with an illustration of a white dandelion puff going to seed. The graphic is announcing Building Movement Project's webinar on September 30 - State of Solidarity: Navigating Internal Movement Tensions and Conflict, taking place at 3pm EDT. The conversation with Mike Ishii, Tsuru for Solidarity; Tamika Middleton, Women’s March; and Mónica Enríquez-Enríquez, Foundation for a Just Society will be moderated by BMP’s Adaku Utah. The four speakers are pictured.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 12

Disability Justice means more than checkboxes.
If you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability–visible or not–your story matters.

Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.

🔗: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

#RaceToLead #DisabilityJustice

The background shows colorful cutouts of human figures and disability access symbols on a black surface. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Do you work at a nonprofit and live with a disability?
Your story matters." In smaller font, beneath it reads, “Take the Race to Lead survey and show what access and leadership really look like.” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 11

Southern comrades, please complete @buildingmovement.bsky.social's Race to Lead survey! #thesouthgotsomethingtosay #racetolead #10years #raceandleadership #protectthenonprofitsector

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 The South got something to say!

Too often, national nonprofit conversations ignore the critical Southern lens. This time, let's get loud.

If you work at a nonprofit based in the South, take the #RaceToLead survey & make sure your story is counted.

Add your voice today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The background shows a black-and-white photo of a map of southern states. In the foreground, bold text reads: "THE SOUTH GOT SOMETHING TO SAY" and continues, “Work at a Southern-Based Nonprofit?
We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 10

📢 The South got something to say!

Too often, national nonprofit conversations ignore the critical Southern lens. This time, let's get loud.

If you work at a nonprofit based in the South, take the #RaceToLead survey & make sure your story is counted.

Add your voice today: bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 8

Join us on Tuesday, Sept 9, for a live podcast conversation! Details below ⬇️

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social from BMP on September 9 for this LinkedIn Live, where we’ll explore how movements can use Solidarity Stances to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity — even under authoritarian conditions: www.linkedin.com/events/solid...

A flyer for a live episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast, with co-hosts Deepa Iyer and Adaku Utah pictured. The episode will be live on LinkedIn on Sept 9 at 2pm EDT, with Deepa and Adaku speaking about Building Movement Project's latest offering - Solidarity Stances, a resource for organizations and movements navigating authoritarian conditions.

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 8

🌍 Migration shapes lives—and the nonprofit sector.
Whether you're first-gen or recently arrived, your experience adds depth to how we understand power, purpose, and belonging at work. Take the Race to Lead survey if you work at a nonprofit.

🔗: survey.alchemer.com/s3/8366111/R...

#RaceToLead

The background shows a black-and-white photo of people raising their fists in the air. In the foreground, bold text reads: "Migration shapes lives
—and the nonprofit sector" and continues, “If Immigration Is Part of Your Experience, We Want To Hear From You!” A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

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NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) @npquarterly.bsky.social · Sep 5

Two decades after Katrina, community leaders offer lessons for nonprofits on how to support local organizations navigating climate disasters in an era of democratic erosion. nonprofitquarterly.org/twenty-years... @deepaiyer.bsky.social

Twenty Years After Katrina: Lessons in Climate, Justice, and Solidarity - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Two decades after Katrina, community leaders offer lessons for nonprofits on supporting local organizations navigating climate disasters.

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Sep 4

Calling all nonprofit executive leaders! Please complete this survey on race and leadership in the nonprofit sector! #racetolead #BMP #10years #protectthenonprofitsector #nonprofitleadership #raceandleadership

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗣️Your perspective as a nonprofit leader isn’t optional—it’s essential.

#RaceToLead captures what’s working, what’s not, and what leaders like you need next.

Take the survey today and shape the future:
bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The background shows a black-and-white photo of people with their laptops around a table. In the foreground, bold text reads: "EXECUTIVE NONPROFIT LEADERS TO THE FRONT!" A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Sep 4

🗣️Your perspective as a nonprofit leader isn’t optional—it’s essential.

#RaceToLead captures what’s working, what’s not, and what leaders like you need next.

Take the survey today and shape the future:
bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢 Tired of glass ceilings, glass cliffs and performative equity? This is your moment. The Race to Lead survey uplifts BIPOC voices to confront what’s real in nonprofit workplaces and push for change.

Take it. Share it. Lead it.

🔗 bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

The background shows a black-and-white photo of people raising their fists in the air. In the foreground, bold text reads: "BIPOC Nonprofit Staff to the Front! We Want To Hear From You!" A megaphone icon is centered between the lines of text. The top features logos for the Race to Lead Survey and the Building Movement Project. The bottom corner includes the hashtag #RaceToLead2025 and three arrow icons in green, purple, and gold.

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 21

Before the conversation on Sept 9, check out the Solidarity Stances resource here: www.solidarityis.org/stances

Solidarity Stances — Solidarity Is

Solidarity Stances, a new resource from BMP, offers seven strategic stances that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solid...

www.solidarityis.org

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 21

Join Adaku Utah and @deepaiyer.bsky.social from BMP on September 9 for this LinkedIn Live, where we’ll explore how movements can use Solidarity Stances to build deeper, more aligned forms of solidarity — even under authoritarian conditions: www.linkedin.com/events/solid...

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 15

Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or listen and find the transcript + show notes here: www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

Racial Justice During Black August and Beyond — Solidarity Is

This episode features a conversation between BMP’s Executive Director, Janis Rosheuvel, and Charles Long, the Deputy Director of Fund Strategy at the Movement for Black Lives, on the importance of tru...

www.solidarityis.org

Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎧 NEW episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast! Our ED @janishazel77.bsky.social talks with Charles Long at @movment4blcklives.bsky.social on the importance of trusting Black leadership, the role of philanthropy, and the necessity of community and rest at this time.

A graphic showing a Q&A between Janis Rosheuvel from the Building Movement Project and Charles Long from the Movement for Black Lives. This is an excerpt from the August 2025 episode of the Solidarity Is This podcast. Janis asks: "What are some tools for how we need to be doing solidarity right now, particularly given just the threats and also the real division that's being sown across our movements?" Charles responds: 'Trust Black leadership.
When Black people win power, win change in our society, that change will benefit all other folks who find themselves vulnerable to that system."

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share this conversation on the @buildingmovement.bsky.social / SolidarityIS podcast with my comrade, Charles Long, Deputy Director of Fund Strategy at @mvmnt4blklives.bsky.social! #blackaugust #M4BL #tenyears www.solidarityis.org/podcast-epis...

Racial Justice During Black August and Beyond — Solidarity Is

This episode features a conversation between BMP’s Executive Director, Janis Rosheuvel, and Charles Long, the Deputy Director of Fund Strategy at the Movement for Black Lives, on the importance of tru...

www.solidarityis.org

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Janis @janishazel77.bsky.social · Aug 4

Hey all, please join @buildingmovement.bsky.social in our 10-year study on race and leadership in the nonprofit sector! Complete the survey and if you’d like your organization or network to be a distribution partner let us know by filling out this form: nrnk4.share.hsforms.com/2_TK9pJalTNS...!

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Onibaba Studio @onibaba-studio.bsky.social · Aug 5

Over the past three years we partnered with @buildingmovement.bsky.social to create graphic notes for their State of Solidarity series of panels. The panels were stacked with powerful organizers and community leaders sharing about their work and wisdoms.
Read more: onibaba.studio/2025/07/24/b...

Building Movement Project (2023-2025)

Graphic Recording // Illustrated Notes for Building Movement Project’s Solidarity series from 2023-2025

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · Aug 13

RESOURCE: How should your organization navigate rising authoritarianism? Solidarity must be our foundation but it might look different depending on your org's role or positioning. This guide from @buildingmovement.bsky.social offers 7 different strategic stances to helps us all stand together.

Solidarity Stances — Solidarity Is

Solidarity Stances, a new resource from BMP, offers seven strategic stances that organizations and networks can use in times of heightened chaos and crisis to build deeper, more aligned forms of solid...

www.solidarityis.org

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Building Movement Project @buildingmovement.bsky.social · Aug 6

In these turbulent political times, you know what nonprofit work looks like on the ground.

If you work at a nonprofit, Building Movement Project’s Race to Lead survey turns your lived experience into data that drives change.

📊 Share your story. Shape what comes
next. bit.ly/RaceToLead2025

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you have real insight into what nonprofit
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Shape what comes next.” The image
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