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We’re a New England regional movement infrastructure project working to align fundraising practice with movement values and build stronger movements.

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We’re a New England regional movement infrastructure project working to align fundraising practice with movement values and build stronger movements.

Become a "Seed Sustainer" with a Monthly Donation to ROP

We also accept contributions via check (mail to Resist, P.O. Box 301240, Boston, MA, 02130 (put “ROP” in the memo line), and email Liza to give by bank or stock transfer.

With Valentines Day falling less than a month into Trump’s second term, let’s renew our love for social movements: the networks of organizations fighting for justice and liberation, led by people directly targeted by oppression.
  • When fascist states go after their latest scapegoats, movements rise up to protect the most vulnerable.
  • Movements shine light on the deep injustices in our society and win campaigns to empower our people.
  • Movements make room for everyone - whether you’re an organizer, educator, caretaker, or donor, there is a role for you in working to transform society.
We founded Resource Organizing Project in 2021 because we know that social movements need to grow and thrive if we’re ever going to win the world we need, but movement organizations don’t get enough love within the nonprofit system.


ROP was founded to ask: How can those of us who want to transform society raise the resources it will actually take to win?


Our evolving response is a New England-wide infrastructure project with a three-part strategy:
  1. Gather those responsible for raising resources for movement organizations
  2. Strengthen fundraising capacity through cohorts and peer-learning
  3. Execute collective fundraising experiments to expand the pie of resources for building movements
We’re now entering our 5th year! 80 visionary organizations in our region have come together and strengthened their fundraising practice. With a growing staff and many collaborators, ROP has run dozens of training cohorts and collective fundraising projects and welcomed thousands of new donors and funders into connection with movement groups. And our collaborative fundraising projects in Boston and NH have moved over $1 million directly to the frontlines. Check out our year-end report for an overview of our work in 2024.


That work has been powered by the Seed Sustainers: a cross-class community of recutting donors giving anywhere from $5 to $100 a month. Their recurring support allows us to grow sustainably and to focus on fundraising support for our partners, knowing that our core monthly donors have our back.


And if 50 new Seed Sustainers join this week (by Valentine's Day), we unlock $5,000 in matching gifts! Will you join us with a monthly donation?


Sustainer programs are some of the strongest tools to increase a small organization’s resources, independence and sustainability. “Seed Sustainers,” or community members making a monthly donation of any dollar amount to ROP, are an integral piece of ROP’s community and receive opportunities to deepen their donor activism, including:

  • Access to virtual gatherings and insider updates on ROP's work
  • Special access to ROP events
  • Resources for developing your donor activism
  • Emerging opportunities to support movement building in New England

Questions? Contact Liza@ResourceOrganizingProject.org.