Bread & Roses Community Fund’s board co-chair Patrice Green was quoted in this story in The Chronicle of Philanthropy about protest and social justice funders! Here is an excerpt from the story:
For the Bread & Roses Community Fund, protest is a key method of pushing for social change. Grantees of the $14 million fund have taken to the streets, held signs, chanted slogans, and rallied for various causes since it was created five decades ago.
Putting feet on the ground has helped pave the way for notable policy developments, according to Patrice Green, Bread & Roses’s co-chair, including the creation of Philadelphia’s housing trust fund and stopping the expansion of a large oil refinery in the city.
Protesting, she said, is an essential tool that organizers can use to enact change.
“The reality is: We require both the inside work of policy change and the outside pressure of people having their voices heard,” she said.
