Movement Strategy Center
Movement Strategy Center is based in Oakland, California. It is close to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization.
Purpose
For over a decade, Movement Strategy Center has "helped large and small grantmakers and organizations design and implement successful strategy and programs. MSC is a leader in the art and science of collective impact.
MSC consultants can guide every phase of a grantmaker’s work, from developing a strategy to designing strategic components to putting the strategy into action. Our services include:
- Mapping the field
- Understanding the terrain
- Shaping a strategy
- Designing a grantmaking program
- Creating a capacity building program
- Providing facilitation, workshops, and training[1]
Team
Board
- Tomas Garduno - Board Member
- Taj James - Board Member
- Arif Mamdani - Board Member
- Jodeen Olguín-Tayler - Board Member
- Brenda Salgado - Board Member
- Alvin Starks - Board Member
Director & Senior Fellows
- Nwamaka Agbo - Innovation Fellow
- Taj James - Executive Director and Founder
- Liz Butler - Senior Fellow
- Mimi Ho - Senior Fellow
- Carmen Iniguez - Senior Strategist
- Navina Khanna - Innovation Fellow
- Julie Quiroz - Senior Fellow
- Jovida Ross - Senior Fellow
- Luis Antonio Sanchez - Senior Fellow
- Kristen Zimmerman - Senior Fellow
Associates
- Ibrahim Abdul-Matin - Associate
- Raquel Armenta - Associate
- Ingrid Benedict -Associate
- Adrienne Bloch - Associate
- Viveka Chen - Associate
- Jung Hee Choi - Associate
- Ellen Choy - Associate
- B. Cole - Associate
- Dana Ginn Paredes - Associate
- Rosa Gonzales - Associate
- Janelle Ishida - Associate
- Jeremy Lahoud - Senior Associate
- Kimi Lee - Associate
- Sujin Lee - Associate
- Genaro Lopez-Rendon - Senior Associate
- Vera Miao - Associate
- Reggie Moore - Associate
- Sheryl Petty - Associate
- Supriya Lopez-Pillai - Senior Associate
- Lisa Russ - Associate
- Brenda Salgado - Associate
- Levana Saxon - Associate
- Robert Sherman - Associate
- Jidan Terry-Koon - Associate
- Anasa Troutman - Associate
- Calvin Williams - Senior Associate
- Billy Wimsatt - Associate
Finance & Operations
- Rita Anderson - Bookkeeper
- Jesse Bachrach - Finance & Administration Coordinator
- Rachel Burrows - Managing Director
- Sihle Dinani - MSC Finance Director & Director of the MSC Innovation Center
- Phillip Drummond - Finance Assistant
- Lily Hayes-Wong - Project Coordinator
- Alyson Jessee - Administrative Assistant
- Masako Kalbach - Finance & Human Resources Manager
- Lisa McCalla - Finance & Administrative Coordinator
- Lynette Pagan - Finance & Administrative Coordinator
- Shiva Patel - Program Coordinator
- Sarah Quiroga - Program Assistant[2]
Ear to the Ground Project
Ear to the Ground Project was financially supported by the Center for Third World Organizing, the Movement Strategy Center, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, the Common Counsel Foundation, the Solidago Foundation, Steve Phillips and Susan Sandler, Quinn Delaney, and Connie Cagampang Heller & Jonathan Cagampang Heller.[3]
Deep Democracy Lab
Movement Strategy Center May 19, 2017;
- The beloved community of this week's Deep Democracy lab! #connection #courage #commitment <3 <3 <3 — with Jodeen Olguin-Tayler, Ana Cecilia Perez, Tammy Johnson, Nwamaka Agbo, Alexis Flanagan, Rosie Abriam, Michael Scott Nine, Vanessa Nisperos, Tomas Garduno, Yalini Dream, Gerardo Marin, Calvin Williams, Miya Yoshitani, Judith LeBlanc, Anthony Giancatarino, Taj James, Byron Gudiel, Julie Quiroz, Victoria Benson, Kristen Zimmerman, Beth Glenn, Ariel Jacobson, Rosa Esperanza Gonzalez, Rachel Humphrey, Nanci Lee, Mimi Ho, Supriya Lopez Pillai, Dana Ginn Paredes, Kelly Miller, Marc Mascarenhas-Swan, Helen S. Kim, Jovida Ross, Aparna Shah, Aisha Shillingford, Sarah Quiroga and Jacqui Patterson.