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Grassroots Fundraiser for Community Movement Builders

Community Movement Builders is a member collective of community residents/activists based in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh neighborhood creating sustainable Black communities via cooperative economic advancement and community organizing rooted in Black love and equity. 

Community Movement Builders has received a Community Organizing Grant from the Peace Development Fund and all of the money raised from this fundraiser will be added to that grant to help support their organizing in 2020.  Please consider making a contribution today to support them and read more about their work below.

"CMB seeks support for an innovative multi-tiered strategy to force the City of Atlanta, banking institutions, real estate developers, tax commissioner, and other so-called community-based organizations to challenge how housing development happens in south-west Atlanta. Including policy challenges, land trust development, and property tax relief. Our work organizes the neighborhood to shift power by shining a light on the destabilizing impact of gentrification on both long-term renters and homeowners. 

This anti-gentrification campaign emerged from a CMB sponsored Peoples’ Assembly in the Pittsburgh community where 50+ residents agreed that gentrification and lack of community control over resources are the neighborhood’s central issues. 

Our organizing campaign is pressuring the city, county, developers, and community organizations to ensure investment is for the benefit of the people currently living there and that the community has a decision-making role in how development takes place. Our campaign work will engage in direct action, rallies and civil disobedience toward policy changes (property tax caps); creating new institutions (Peoples’ Assemblies); and shifting resources (developing land trusts and community stabilization funds)."

Community Movement Builders COVID-19 Response: 

"In response to Covid-19 our organization has begun doing mutual aid work in the community we are doing our grassroots organizing in. We have been safely going door to door and have a website where people can sign up to have food/toiletries delivered directly to their doorsteps or they can come to our community house and pick up a food package. The items we give cost us about $45 per box, we have so far as of this writing delivered over 2 dozen packages. We hope to create this infrastructure and use it to start a food coop/buying group in the neighborhood."

Website: http://www.communitymovementbuilders.org/ 

Community Movement Builders is a participant in Grassroots Funding Week, a week-long crowdfunding campaign that supports several social justice organizations from across the country. 

Monday: Economic Justice Rising 

Transit Riders Union 

Arriba Las Vegas Workers Center 

Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights 

#GivingTuesday: Invest in Community Organizing 

As part of #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving in response to COVID-19, all the money raised on Tuesday, May 5th will be distributed evenly to all participating groups. 

Click here to give to all participating groups.

Wednesday: Celebrating Culture, Building Solidarity

API Equality - LA 

Spencer Pride, INC 

International Traditional Games Society 

Taller GiRASOL 

Thursday: Taking Back Our Cities

Downwinders at Risk 

Community Movement Builders

Phoenix Local Organizing Committee 

Friday: Beyond Incarceration 

Women Against Mass Incarceration

American Indian Prison Project Working Group 

Unchained

For more information, visit: www.peacedevelopmentfund.org 

The Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.