Dear Resisters,

After four years at Resist, I am transitioning out of my role as Director of Emergent Grant-making. 

I am grateful for you, our community of Resisters. You play a vital role in making our work possible. And, I am grateful for all I have been able to learn and give as a staff collective member. I am forever changed. Our movements are powerful, abundant, and growing.

Over the past four years we have:

• Nearly doubled our annual giving and awarded over $2,000,000  to hundreds of local, grassroots groups across the United States and Puerto Rico working for justice and liberation.

• Created a participatory funding structure made up of Resist grantees, joining a growing movement to democratize the field of philanthropy. 

• Re-affirmed and re-articulated our mission and theory of change clarifying our role in the global movement of justice and liberation for all people.

• Expanded our framework from Resist to “Resist, Re-imagine, Re-build“, which brought arts, culture, and healing-based groups into our funding guidelines.

• Shifted into a worker self-directed non-profit structure, which allowed for the incorporation of best practices from worker-owned cooperative models into ours.

• Published “Transforming Resist: A Series on Radical Philanthropy”, placing Resist into a global movement to decolonize wealth and humanize the work of philanthropic giving.  

• And more!

Working with the hundreds of grassroots groups across the country made me aware of how much beautiful, hard work our movements are doing. I am moving on to a role at Howlround Theatre Commons that will best leverage all of my gifts and soul callings. There I’ll be the new Communications Manager, working to strengthen networks that can support a solidarity economy in the fields of theater and performance.

Moving forward, for questions about grants, you can reach out to Kendra at Kendra@resist.org and for questions related to communications, you can reach out to Kathy at Kathy@resist.org.

To continued work for justice and liberation,

Jax

Co-director, Resist