Here are five practices that set up efficient, effective consensus decision-making: 1. Creating Teams 2. Creating a Decision-Making Chart 3. Practicing Proposal-Making 4. Practicing Meeting Facilitation 5. Welcoming New People

Toward this end, law enforcement sought out alliances with the emerging anti–domestic violence movement, supporting new laws that increased punishment for genderbased violence and providing money for groups willing to cooperate with police. This drastically changed the anti–domestic violence movement. It shifted from centering volunteer-based,

Someone then calls for consensus and checks to see if there are any “stand asides”—those who want to signify disagreement but don’t want to block the proposal from moving forward—or “blocks”—those with disagreements significant enough that they feel the proposal cannot be passed without modification.

Chart 5. Basic Steps to Consensus Decision-Making

Solidarity across issues and populations is what makes movements big and powerful. Without that connection, we end up with disconnected groups, working in their issue silos, undermining each other, competing for attention and funding, not backing each other up and not building power. Mutual aid projects, by creating spaces where people come

Elite solutions to poverty are always about managing poor people and never about redistributing wealth.

to paraphrase Toni Cade Bambara, make resistance irresistible.

This is typical of the kind of “innovation” that the social justice entrepreneurship model celebrates—it embraces ideas of paternalism central to the charity model, focuses aid on making donors “feel good,” and has no connection to work that aims to get to the root causes of the problem.

Rich people’s control of nonprofit funding keeps nonprofits from doing work that is threatening to the status quo, or from admitting the limits of their strategies.