GIVE

The best way for us is for you to submit an online donation at https://resist.networkforgood.com/projects/39305-resist. You can also mail us a check made out to “Resist” and mail it to: Resist, Inc., P.O. Box 301240, Boston, MA 02130

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In the same link to donate, you can choose to give monthly. Once you select monthly giving – no matter the amount – you are considered a Resist Sustainer! 

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Our Sustainers will have early access to our archives project, where we will highlight all of the grantees we have supported in Resist history, as well as updates Resist has made as an institution.

Please email donors@resist.org to update your physical address or email address.

This depends on how you donate to Resist.  

If you donate online, you can go here: https://resist.networkforgood.com/projects/39305-resist and click login on the top right to manage your donations or credit card info. You can also call Network for Good: (888) 284-7978 and choose option 3.

If you have mailed or phoned in your credit card info in response to one of our appeals, please email donors@resist.org with your updated information, or if you prefer a call from us, let us know in your email, and we can collect the information.

Please email donors@resist.org to update your communication preferences.

Thank you so much for supporting Resist! We have been working diligently to improve the reply time in which you get your tax-language based thank you postcards and emails. We plan to get replies to people within one to two months of the donation. 

If it takes longer than that, or if you want a custom thank you sent in advance of that, please email donors@resist.org with your request.

Please contact donors@resist.org to receive our banking information. We work with Eastern Bank in Boston, MA 02130. 

We also take ACH through Bill.com and can provide our Payment Network ID.

Prior to 2024, our average grant size was $4,000 and we provided grants to between 150 -200 grantees in our general support cycle. In 2024, we decided to increase our grants to $10,000 and awarded 30 grantees. 

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Our rapid response grant size has increased from $2,000 to $5,000

Our general support grants are decided on by a panel of former grantees who are paid and trained to make grants decisions. The Resist staff does not decide where the grants go, instead the frontline communities decide where the resources are most needed.

Grant panelists undergo a retreat where they form relationships, learn about Resist’s history and work, and discuss resource redistribution. They are provided with a training manual that comes with suggested metrics to determine eligibility and allow for deeper information gathering. 

Our manual can be found here: Resist 2022 Grant-Making Panel Booklet Manual.pdf

For 2024, our grant-making shifted from redistributing $4,000 grants to 100+ groups in four funding cycles to experimenting with one round of $10,000 funding for 30 frontline groups. Here is the list of grantees.

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Our Holiday Giving Guide, which gets sent out annually to our listserv, includes all of the grantees from that year. Here is our 2023 Holiday Giving Guide.

At Resist, we know that frontline leaders and groups that work for justice and liberation have the heart, knowledge, and tools needed to reimagine and co-create a better world for us all. Justice is Essential provides the community a space to learn from grantees, organizers, and thought leaders on how to address oppression systemically.

• Resist understands that the current way foundations and funders provide resources are often coupled with expectations of measurable outcomes, reporting, and require extensive application processes. Resist also knows that most of the money philanthropy invests goes into the stock market to uphold foundations, instead of distributing those resources to our frontline communities dismantling systems of oppression. We also see how only 7 percent of all foundation money goes to organizations led by people of color. We know this all needs to change.
• Resist not only shifts our own practices to address these issues of inequity, but we organize with others to shift the field of philanthropy in leaning into abundance and recognizing the need to flip power dynamics. We do this through writing, panels, workshops, conversations, framework support, and other support in the field. 
• You can email Jasmine@resist.org to learn more about our radical philanthropy work.

Founded by the Center for Economic Democracy and Resist and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Movement Sustainability Commons nourishes and sustains people and groups working for justice, economic democracy, and liberation.  We do this by offering affordable and high quality services, practices, spaces, and pathways that support both interdependence and self-reliance for community self-determination.  We aspire to co-create an off-ramp to the non-profit industrial complex that frees people and groups to work cooperatively with emergence, imagination and a focus on living their purpose and sharing their gifts.  We seek to co-create an ecosystem rooted in the following principles:

• Interdependence and Cooperation, the sharing of resources, systems and gifts so that people can focus their time and energy on the frontline mission work.
• Self-Reliance, the development of skills, knowledge and relationships within local organizational and community leadership.  
• Mutual Support and Accountability, the offering of best practices and systems to nourish trust and health within and between people and organizations.
• Community Self-Determination, experimentation with shared governance structures that strengthen both the organizations and the larger movement ecosystem.

If you’re looking for information regard the Movement Sustainability Commons (MSC) or Fiscal Sponsorship offerings, click here.

One important Resist project is the building of a movement and birthing center for our community and grantees in the Boston area (where Resist was originally formed). You can learn more about this project and how to support it here: https://movementcommons.co/