Upcoming Funder Briefing

Community-Centered Redistricting:

How Far We've Come and Where We Go From Here

March 22, 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm ET

On behalf of Fair Representation in Redistricting and Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation, you are invited to this event that will bring together funders and philanthropy serving organizations from across the country to learn how funders and community-based organizations partnered to build the capacity of underrepresented communities of color to participate fully in the redistricting process and what that means for where we go from here.

The briefing will feature the experiences of both funders and frontline advocates from different parts of the country in advancing nonpartisan engagement in redistricting to strengthen community power and secure fair representation. Through interactive discussion, we will explore successes and challenges, urgent ongoing needs, and lessons for the future.

Funders will learn about the future plans for Fair Representation in Redistricting, the funder collaborative working on community-centered redistricting – and highlight opportunities for deeper funder collaboration moving forward.

Increasingly, fair and equitable redistricting is a core part of achieving progress on a host of important philanthropic issues and building a participatory, multiracial democracy. Civic engagement coalitions built unprecedented infrastructure to engage historically underrepresented communities in the 2021-22 redistricting cycle. With this briefing, the team is excited to continue the conversation about ways to build on this critical work to continue advancing equity and justice for communities of color and get more funders engaged.

Registration for this virtual event is now open and

FREE to invited participants.

An agenda, background materials, and log-in details

will be shared with registrants in advance of the convening.

RSVP HERE

Grantee Spotlight

Advocacy Leadership Accelerator

Meet the 2022-2023 Cohort

In 2022, Engage New York's Racial Equity Pooled Fund provided a grant to The Advocacy Institute to support its first-ever statewide cohort in its newly launched Advocacy Leadership Accelerator program. This program aims to develop the leadership skills of advocates from different regions of the state focused on BIPOC leaders. The new training series combines the Advocacy Institute’s trainings, strategic consulting, and peer coaching. The goal is to build a multi-racial cross-regional ecosystem of organizers.

This new leadership series builds off the 2020 pilot that Engage New York supported during the COVID pandemic which helped AI pivot to an online training model that brought leaders from different regions, which differed from their original regional training model.

The Advocacy Institute remains a vital organization in New York’s social justice movement and is a unique organization in the nonprofit ecosystem. They are the technical assistance provider to ensure movement leaders have the tools, expertise, and coaching to build power and leverage information to challenge and ultimately systems and policies that continue to impact individuals negatively. This type of technical assistance and capacity-building support is critical as the cost-of-living skyrockets, housing shortages remain, food insecurity increases, and the ability to access quality healthcare, education, and childcare remains constant. New York advocates need the tools and resources to uplift community solutions and dismantle systemic racism that exists in nearly every social system.

Meet the Cohort

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