Working for change year-in and year-out
MBP meets organizations where they are in the progressive movement cycle—whether developing an advocacy plan, building grassroots support, or mobilizing voters. We focus on this particular area of work and also engage organizations in a broader approach that helps them to build stronger infrastructure, impact, and power.     

Movement Building Project work with organizations to effectively pivot last year's voter engagement efforts into strong policy development, issue advocacy, and candidate accountability in 2009 and beyond. Nonprofits are at the core of the progressive movement, playing a key role in advancing a policy agenda and engaging in grassroots base-building in their constituencies. Unfortunately, we in the progressive movement often work for change along only one dimension-such as electoral mobilization or legislative advocacy-and fail to take full advantage of our full movement-building power.

MBP partners with nonprofits to build greater power and impact by designing tailored training programs that focus on their specific goals and work plans. We equip organizations with the skills they need to move a progressive issue agenda forward by integrating their policy work with electoral engagement and grassroots base-building on an ongoing basis, rather than the more typical boom-bust cycles of electoral and legislative activity.

By building a critical mass of highly-skilled and engaged organizations, MBP helps to strengthen the progressive voice in all levels of public life, build power in underrepresented communities, move a national policy agenda that represents the needs of all Americans, and increase the number of people who are engaged and effective in addressing global climate change, immigration rights, green jobs, health care, education access, racial justice, domestic violence, and other critical issues.