Dear Grantees,
RESIST believes in the power of frontline communities who make the impossible possible. Because of this, we are having an open call for current and former grantees to join our Board of Directors.
55 years ago the first RESIST board came together and was comprised of academics, writers, and activists who came together during the Vietnam War, wrote our founding documents, gave out our first grants to draft resistance groups, and guided us through our first years of being a radical funder of grassroots activism. We are proud of this history, and at the same time our movements have changed and grown since the 1960s, and so have we.
Today we support visionary frontline communities who organize at the intersection of a multitude of issues, including prisoner’s rights/ prison abolition, Trans and LGBTQ+ liberation, Indigenous rights, economic justice/worker’s rights, environmental justice, racial justice, immigrant rights, and reproductive justice. And we look to our grantees for leadership and to, hopefully, expand our Board of Directors.
RESIST has always aspired to have our Board of Directors reflect those whom we support. Our board members come from our movements, and expanding our Board of Directors to include even more grantees is a step towards continuing to hold ourselves more accountable to those we support.
