For over 15 years, Movement Alliance Project has been bringing organizations in Philadelphia together around a shared vision of change. In 2005, when our cofounders created the Media Mobilizing Project, that vision was shaped by a need for independent media and we convened a network of community media makers and community organizers to use new media tools aligned on the importance of documenting and telling untold stories. From this foundation our work expanded into shifting the structural inequities in corporate communications and media systems taking on giants like Comcast.
Our role has evolved over the years as we built relationships with organizations across the city and taken on new fights in other arenas. We also started
providing fiscal sponsorship to new and growing organizations in the movement ecosystem and mobilizing resources to ensure philanthropy invests in the most powerful and needed projects and strategies. Throughout it all, we’ve always worked hard to convene organizations into coalitions and strategic alliances that have made powerful impacts in the city.
After nearly two decades of wearing many hats, we decided in 2020 to make our core strengths more central to our work by changing our name to Movement Alliance Project. After a pivotal restructuring in 2021, we are scaling up those efforts with a clearer purpose and multi-faceted strategy to support and build movement infrastructure in Philadelphia.
