AMP presenting this weekend at “Money for Our Movements” conference

Allied Media Projects will present at this weekend’s “Money for Our Movements” conference in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference, presented by the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training offers grassroots fundraising trainings for social justice organizers.

Opening Plenary: “Strategies for Funding Revolutionary Work”

Saturday, August 2, 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Plenary Speakers

Jenny Lee is the executive director of Allied Media Projects. In 2009 she led the process of founding the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition and securing $1.8 million in federal funding for Detroit through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This led to the creation of the Detroit Future programs, which have trained several thousand Detroiters to use media and technology for creative community transformation efforts in schools and neighborhoods across the city.

Shira Hassan has lived and worked in Chicago and NYC helping young people start their own nonprofits and lead social justice work. Formerly with Young Women’s Empowerment Project, Shira now offers program development & design, grassroots fundraising, participatory evaluation/action research & creating sustainable, healing centered and trauma-informed environments
for staff through intensive partnering with organizational leaders.

Adrienne Maree Brown was the executive director of The Ruckus Society from 2006-2010, and sat on their board through 2012. She was also a National Co-Coordinator for the 2010 US Social Forum. She facilitates the development of organizations throughout the movement (most recently Chorus Foundation, Correctional Association of NY, Young Women United, Positive Women’s Network, Black Mesa Water Coalition, INCITE!, the Young Women’s Empowerment Project in Chicago, New Orleans Parents Organizing Network, ColorofChange.org and Detroit Summer).

Workshop: “Allied Media Projects: Shared Services & Network Building”

Sunday, August 3, 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Presenters: Jenny Lee, Morgan Willis, Mike Medow

Allied Media Projects has developed a “Sponsored Projects” model that offers fiscal management, project planning, fundraising support, communications strategy, and other shared services to media projects working for a just, creative, and collaborative world. These “allied media projects” are autonomous and interdependent, working to grow their own capacity and the capacity of our network as a whole. We will share AMP’s “Sponsored Projects” model and welcome dialogue with others who are interested in this model.

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