A Moment of Gratitude

To our GSP community – Every day, we are in awe of the work you all are doing to ensure that our communities are thriving, safe, and whole. The list …

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RFP: Event Planner for GSP’s 2023 Biennial Convening

  *UPDATE (Feb 1, 2023): This position has been filled.  RFP: Event Planner for GSP’s 2023 Biennial Convening RFP Summary: Grantmakers for Southern Progress (GSP) is seeking an experienced event …

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Investing in the Visionary Leadership of Black Migrants through the Black Migrant Power Fund

Dear friends and colleagues, In early 2022, 13 Black migrant organizations in partnership with Four Freedoms Fund launched the Black Migrant Power Fund (BMPF) in response to Border Patrol’s horrifying …

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RFP: Mississippi Funders Table Coordinator/Strategic Planning Consultant

Mississippi Funders Table Coordinator/Strategic Planning Consultant RFP Summary: GSP is seeking an experienced consultant to work with identified funders to organize and support the development of a Mississippi Funders table …

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RFP: Georgia Criminal Justice Funder Table Coordinator/Strategic Planning Consultant

Georgia Criminal Justice Funder Table Coordinator/Strategic Planning Consultant RFP Summary: GSP is seeking an experienced consultant to work with identified funders to organize and support the development of a Criminal …

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Funding Work That Will Transform Everything

This October marks the 60th year since the state of Tennessee forcibly removed Highlander from our first home in Grundy County, TN. After almost three decades of serving as a school …

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Turning Challenges into Opportunities

2020 was not the year we were expecting, and so far, 2021 isn’t much different. When COVID-19 forced many of us to abandon our offices, we figured working from home …

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Building a World Defined by Our Shared Humanity

I never imagined myself in philanthropy.  When my family immigrated to the US, my mother fled and escaped a domestically violent marriage and took me and my siblings on a …

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Radical Change Rooted in Love

“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed… …

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