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1 Chris Allan November 2010 Supporting Movements with Grantmaking:

2 Chris Allan November 2010

3  Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land Chris Allan November 2010

4  Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land Chris Allan November 2010  Increased pollution

5  Displacement of people, destruction of productive farm land Chris Allan November 2010  Increased pollution  Social disruption

6  Host communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits Chris Allan November 2010

7  Host communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits Chris Allan November 2010  Government and Industry allied against communities allied against communities

8  Host communities pay the price - but don’t reap the benefits Chris Allan November 2010  Indifference or hostility of the general public to the movement  Government and Industry allied against communities allied against communities

9  Divisions within host communities Chris Allan November 2010

10  Divisions within host communities Chris Allan November 2010  Increased violence – surveillance of activists, surveillance of activists, beatings, beatings, murders murders

11  Divisions within host communities Chris Allan November 2010  Criminalization of resistance  Increased violence – surveillance of activists surveillance of activists beatings beatings murders murders

12 Chris Allan November 2010

13 Small grants are useful for defensive struggles for defensive struggles Complementary Funding Chris Allan November 2010

14 Small grants are useful for defensive struggles for defensive struggles Large grants are better for offensive strategies Complementary Funding Chris Allan November 2010

15 Community Based Organizations Local NGOs National NGOs, Academics, Media, Legal Help National Networks International NGOs, Academics, Media International Networks Or know who Is

16  Community organizing  Organization building  Networking  Technical review  Advocacy  Legal action  Media  Other Chris Allan November 2010

17  Strategize with activists  Respect movement values participation participation trust trust openness openness  Live with messiness  Build bridges to other movements Chris Allan November 2010

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19  Diversity of movement organizations and the Big Picture  Producers of monitoring information were not consumers  Asked everything we wanted to know  Varying skills across the movement make information uneven Chris Allan November 2010

20  Think instead of what successful movements do – a digestible framework  Ask what we need to know  Prescriptive role of monitoring  Does social change occur logically? Chris Allan November 2010

21  Build movement infrastructure and mobilize resources  Reframe the debate  Political Opportunities Chris Allan November 2010

22 Chris Allan chris.allan49@gmail.com 720-841-8277 www.chrisallan.info


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