Welcome to the Base Power Learning Community Library!
The Base Power Learning Community* invites you to access webinars, resources, and tools designed to support bold leaders working to build a base across 501(c)(3)s and (c)(4)s. Base building is hard work. It touches every department and aspect of an organization’s operations—from fundraising, to organizing, to campaigns, to data, to operations. Things get even more complex when organizations are developing strategies to effectively integrate their base across the multiple legal entities they use to build power.
Multi-entity organizations are those bold, strategic visionaries who have chosen to take on the tough challenge of using a mix of legal entities—often 501(c)(3)s, (c)(4)s—to build power with their communities.
Multi-entity base-building organizations face unique and complex challenges figuring out how to engage members, share data, run campaigns, and raise money all in a strategic, bold, and legally compliant way. Our movement needs resources, tools, and support to address these huge challenges.
The Base Power Learning Community was a pilot—an experiment to bring together a diverse interdisciplinary group of trainers and intermediaries to take head on the unique and complex challenges engaging and managing members across legal entities.
These resources are for you! Come in, explore them, share them, and let us know what works, what doesn't, and what else you might need.
Get started below by clicking on one of the webinar sessions below to view the videos, slide decks, and additional Base Power resources!
*The Base Power Learning Community is jointly sponsored by The Capacity Shop and NLA and brings together progressive intermediaries and leaders to learn, document innovation, and create resources for multi-entity organizations building membership across their legal entities. Learning Community partners include Progressive Multiplier, The Center for Empowered Politics, The Capacity Shop, Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy program, The Movement Tech Help Desk, U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Information Ecology, New Left Accelerator, and various progressive power-building organizations and independent consultants.
