About

Join social justice fundraisers and organizers from across the country to build and strengthen our collective resources, grassroots fundraising skills, and vision for our movements.

Keynote Speakers Saru Jayaraman and Attica Woodson Scott will share more about their work and vision for how we continue to successfully build and sustain our movements in this particular political moment.

We will be offering a new workshop track this year dedicated to social media and online fundraising strategies in addition to a variety of participatory and interactive skills building and political development workshops, facilitated discussions, and one-on-one consulting sessions. You don’t want to miss our signature debate with some great debaters (names and topic to be announced soon!) or our closing plenary with Grassroots Fundraising Journal founder Kim Klein!

Saru Jayaraman is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC-United) and an Assistant Professor at Brooklyn College. Founded by Saru and displaced 9/11 workers, ROC now 8000 members in eight affiliates nationwide. Saru co-edited The New Urban Immigrant Workforce, (ME Sharpe, 2005). Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was profiled in the New York Times “Public Lives” section in 2005, and was named one of Crain’s “40 Under 40” in 2008, 1010 Wins’ “Newsmaker of the Year,” and one of New York Magazine’s “Influentials” of New York.

Attica Woodson Scott was appointed as the District 1 representative to Louisville Metro Council in October 2011. District 1 spans the west and southwest areas of Jefferson County. She served as Coordinator of Kentucky Jobs with Justice from 2004-2012. Attica previously served as an Adjunct Faculty member at Bellarmine University from 2009-2011 having recently taught a course on “Social Networking for Social Justice.” In 2005, she was selected to serve as a Forum Fellow for the Courier-Journal and featured in “People to Watch” in Louisville Magazine, and was awarded the 2011 national “Woman of Vision” honor by the Ms. Foundation for Women.

Questions? Contact T. Ayoka Turner, Conference Coordinator: conference@grassrootsfundraising.org

Conference Co-Chairs: Ryan Li Dahlstrom & Nisha Anand

Organizing Committee Volunteers 

Alia Trindle, Causa Justa: Just Cause

Anouska Cheddie, Environmental Defense Fund

Chad Jones, Community Investment Network

Jose Dominguez, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

Laurene Francois, Causa Justa: Just Cause

Margie Fine, Consultant

Meredith Gray, RoadMap Consulting

Russell Roybal, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force

Sophia Kizilbash, Native Youth Leadership Alliance

Yee Won Chong, GIFT Board Member

Program Advisory Committee Volunteers

Abel Valladares, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste

Bianca Escalante, Level Playing Field Institute

Chauniqua Young, GIFT Internship Alumna

Dara Silverman, Consultant

Dolores Garay, California Rural Legal Assistance

Jackie Kaplan, Consultant

Jessica de Jesus, Ella Baker Center

Jordan T Garcia, GIFT Board Member

Mario Lugay, Mitchell Kapor Foundation

Natalia Lopez, Consultant

Pam Pompey, Ujaama

Stephanie Roth, Consultant

Uma Rao, Pride Foundation