Solidaire

26/11/2025

10/11/2025

This holiday season, we’re saying NO to exploitation – and YES to empowerment. No to , , 🚫🚫🚫 and corporations that back regressive policies, cave to anti-DEI pressure, let ICE terrorize our communities, and chase tax breaks while people go hungry. 🚫🚫🚫

21/03/2025

Our partners and comrades welcomed our team in Puerto Rico last week with open arms, laughter, dancing, delicious food, and solidarity.

We were honored to witness the spiritual and political fortitude of Puerto Rican communities who carry a long legacy of resistance.

reminded us so beautifully that our movements for self determination and democracy must be truly rooted in care and trusting relationships. We were deeply moved by the stories they shared about their violence intervention work and the communities they are transforming through service and mutual aid.

reflected to us how intertwined organizing across Puerto Rico is. Maria Fund is truly serving an aligned intermediary role with a clear political purpose - and doing it with much care and love. The infrastructure role they play is so critical to building power on the island.

Shout out to our incredible Executive Assistant and Governance Coordinator Dali Ortiz for welcoming us in Puerto Rico so graciously and ensuring that we moved with intention, care, and political context for the land and community.

11/03/2025

Solidarity and survival for our liberation ✊ Thank you for sharing a powerful, immersive experience with our team this morning - a 170 ft scroll illustrating the history of struggle, mutual aid, and liberatory organizing in Puerto Rico, passed in a circle as we sang. We take with us a felt sense of the realities of this land and of the importance of our work together. May the mass movement building that Puerto Ricans show us to be possible bless us now and always.

26/02/2025

In nature, a caterpillar completely dissolves into a gooey, magical state before emerging as a butterfly. We believe the same kind of transformation happens when private foundations spend-out. In other words, we believe a shift from wealth accumulation to wealth redistribution gets us closer to a just and regenerative economy. 🦋

Join Solidaire and Justice Funders on March 18 to hear firsthand spend-out stories from foundation leaders and a powerful, transformational conversation on reimagining philanthropy and moving money and resources in service of justice.

We can't wait to hear from this incredible line-up of speakers, including our own Philanthropic Transformation Strategist Farhad Ebrahimi!

Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/NUS5ZDjjSNCwNkxldnT7tA #/registration

27/01/2025

Disaster capitalism is already emerging in Los Angeles, threatening to exploit tragedy for profit. We cannot allow this moment to become a breeding ground for predatory development, deregulation or the rollback of our progressive wins.

Philanthropy must meet this moment in a way that strengthens our movements, defends hard-won gains, and builds a future rooted in justice and solidarity!

Visit to the link in our bio to learn more about how we organize.

23/01/2025

Vanessa Priya Daniel has announced a 10 city book tour with a powerful lineup of conversation partners to launch Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Random House, 2025).

Drawing on interviews with 45 women of color leaders across U.S. social justice movements, including our own Rajasvini Bhansali, and her own insights from 15 years in leadership, she shares what makes so many women of color powerful leaders, what is blocking and weathering them (at great cost to movements), and what we can all do about it.

Book Tour Events

Unrig the Game: What Women of Color Can Teach Everyone About Winning (Random House, March 4, 2025). RSVP today, space is limited.

It has never been more critical to flank our best and brightest movement leaders – so many of whom are women of color – than it is as we head into the fight of our lives against fascism. The future is feminist, decolonized, sustainable, fair and kind. We are undeterred in seeking it, and we will need our full strength.

In Unrig the Game, I share wisdom from 45+ women of color social justice leaders on how movements win, and what we can all do to make leadership positions less treacherous for themDolores Huerta calls Unrig the Game “A treasure! Amazing, instructive, and inspirational.” LaTosha Brown says it’s, “Essential reading for everyone who wants progressive movements to win,” and Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson calls it, “a road map for being a strong WOC leader, and how to flank WOC who answer the call.
For an evening of lively discussion, join me in

Oakland with Rajasvini Bhansali
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110764339039?aff=oddtdtcreator

New York with Linda Sarsour
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1110797026809?aff=oddtdtcreator

Philadelphia with Aleyamma Mathew:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111677771139?aff=oddtdtcreator

Washington DC with Gloria Walton:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111682465179?aff=oddtdtcreator

Atlanta with LaTosha Brown:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111734209949?aff=oddtdtcreator

Chicago with Ai-jen Poo:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111735192889?aff=oddtdtcreator

Seattle with Naomi Ishisaka:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111872042209?aff=oddtdtcreator

Tacoma:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111886304869?aff=oddtdtcreator

Portland with Se-ah-dom Edmo:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1111887859519?aff=oddtdtcreator

Los Angeles with Bamby Salcedo: Info TBD.

You can find information for all the events and links to RSVP at www.vanessapriyadaniel.com/events

Amplify 📢 If you or your institution would like to receive the link to a toolkit with all the information you need to help spread the word about the Unrig the Game book tour, leave a comment below or email me at contact@vanessapriyadaniel. com

Let me know in the comments where I’ll see you during the tour!

A huge thanks to all the tour sponsors.

14/01/2025

The stakes are high right now for many family foundations and progressive donors with inherited wealth. Our members are showing what’s possible in this moment when donors own their lane, challenge family norms and take on the brave work of reshaping complex legacies of wealth and power into something they’re proud of.

It’s philanthropy’s job right now to figure out how to keep supporting grassroots social justice movements. Read the full article - link in bio - to learn how members of and Solidaire are doing just that.

13/01/2025

Solidaire member Garrett Neiman co-authored a beautiful New Year's invitation to wealth holders in The Chronicle of Philanthropy featuring the inspiring ways our members are meeting the new year.

Opinion: By donating any wealth accumulated after Jan.1, people of means can help others and enrich their own lives, writes Garrett Neiman and Otis Pitney.
https://phlnthrp.com/3DLij8E

Neiman and Pitney are co-founders of the Perennial Sunflower Project, which supports the emerging movement of white men working to advance equity and justice. Neiman is also the author of “Rich White Men.”

10/01/2025

As we continue to check in with our community affected by the wildfires, our members and staff across the country are filling needs with the following organizations:

LA Fire Foundation - https://supportlafd.org/
CORE - http://coreresponse.org/
Pasadena Humane Society - https://give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/ #!/donation/checkout
Best Friends Animal Rescue - https://bestfriends.org/
California Community Foundation - https://www.pledge.to/ccfwildfirerelieffund
Pasadena’s Community Foundation - https://pasadenacf.org/
Project Camp - https://projectcamp.co/
Mutual Aid LA - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KMk34XY5dsvVJjAoD2mQUVHYU_Ib6COz6jcGH5uJWDY/htmlview?usp=sharing&urp=gmail_link
World Central Kitchen - https://wck.org/
United Way - https://unitedwayla.org/wildfire-response-resources/
Baby2Baby - http://www.baby2baby.org/
CD11 Foundation - https://cd11foundation.org/
LAUSD fund - https://lausdedfoundation.org/
Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation - https://www.glaef.org/lacounty-education-wildfire-fund
Airbnb.org
Sharing Excess Inc. - https://www.sharingexcess.com/
EIF Defy Disaster - https://www.eifoundation.org/eif-programs/defy-disaster/?form=FUNLDDMZGLN
CIELO - https://mycielo.org/
Inclusive Action for the City - https://www.inclusiveaction.org/workeraid

Feel free to pass along our list or add. We are sending thoughts and prayers/meditations for safety to all those affected.

During the ongoing wildfire emergency in Los Angeles County, Inclusive Action has launched a new emergency fund to help outdoor workers – street vendors, landscapers, and recyclers – impacted by the fires.

08/01/2025

Shout out to members Tema Okun, Leah Hunt-Hendrix, David Roswell, Becky Silverstein and Naomi Sobel alongside our Organizing Director Isaac Lev Szmonko who voiced powerful messages for this feature by Sara Herschander for The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

It is our great privilege to organize donors who are doing the healing work of reshaping complex legacies of wealth and power into something they are proud of.

A growing number of progressive young donors — and heirs to mining, oil, and other fortunes — are reshaping their family’s philanthropy. They are finding support through organizations like Resource Generation and Solidaire.

04/12/2024

TODAY! We Got Us: Resourcing Trans/Queer Communities featuring our own Malachi Garza --

RSVP for We Got Us: Resourcing BIPOC Trans/Queer Communities, a funder briefing co-sponsored by Emergent Fund, Funders for Justice, and Funders for LGBTQ Issues.

Right now, philanthropy has the opportunity to invest in trans and q***r communities of color who are transforming pain into power. As we continue to process the results of the elections, we invite you to join trans and q***r resource mobilizers for this conversation with movement funders in public and private foundations who are committed to building trans power.

Learn more about the Action for Transformation Fund and how philanthropy can be in alignment with trans/q***r communities of color for the long-haul.

RSVP here: bit.ly/ef-wegotus