Organizational
Model
Unlike traditional non-profits, Resist operates as a worker self-directed organization.
In philanthropy, we don’t often think about organizational structure as a critical part of meeting our mission, living into our values, and ensuring our staff harness their full potential. The truth is structure matters. How you do your work is equally as important as the work itself.
Resist as a Worker Self-Directed Nonprofit.
In January of 2018, the Resist Board unanimously approved a board resolution that helped us forge our path towards worker self-direction. The board resolution legally allowed us to implement a new dynamic organizational structure, one that moves us closer to our vision and ensures we’re living into our values. In this model, we honor the experiences and gifts offered by the staff collective members and are in greater alignment with the work happening on the ground. The level of trust and support afforded to us by our Board emboldens us to continue pushing the organization towards more transformative work.
Our Model
Staff Empowerment
Our collective governance model delegates the majority of decision-making power over to the staff collective instead of an ED or Board of Directors.
Collaboration Over Siloes
We work collaboratively in interconnected circles to carry out the foundation’s work. In this model, we honor the experiences and gifts offered by the staff collective members and are in greater alignment with the work happening on the ground.
Adaptive and Transformative
We encourage our team to show up as their whole selves and adapt to the emerging needs of liberation movements. Through our embodied values, we challenge foundations and institutions to take on more just organizational systems.
OUR WORK
We fund small and mighty, radical organizations that do not have access to traditional philanthropic dollars.
Historically, Resist has supported thousands of groups working on the frontlines for racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ+ freedom, immigrants’ rights, abolition, anti-war movements, and economic and environmental justice.
Today, we fund small and mighty, radical organizations that do not have access to traditional philanthropic dollars and are experimenting in ways that bring us all closer to a liberated world.
Small and mighty
We fund small and mighty, radical organizations with budgets less than $150k that do not have access to traditional philanthropic dollars.
Making the Impossible Possible
In spite of compounding crises caused by systems of oppression and extraction, our grantees are resisting, re-imagining, healing, and transforming their communities for the more liberated world we want to see.
Deepening our Impact
With the help of our grantees and donors, we continue to deepen our impact by making our resources increasingly more accessible, distributing larger award amounts, and experimenting with emergent special grant-making projects.
