WHY THIS MOMENT MATTERS
The For the People campaign is a response to a need for strengthening movement infrastructure for Indigenous peoples across Turtle Island and the Hawaiian Kingdom. As we see the growing tyranny of authoritarianism we know what we have believed to always be true, that we need a strong multi faceted infrastructure to ensure that Indigenous peoples have the resources and tools to defend, develop, and decolonize their communities. We know that a multi racial democracy does not exist without Indigenous peoples and our leadership. No one is illegal on stolen land and it is our continued fight for all people and mother earth that continues to be the road ahead.
Over the next year we invite our accomplices and partners to learn how we define movement infrastructure and support four different facets of movement infrastructure.
DEFEND
COMMUNITIES
Protect our people from repression and injustice.
BUILD
INFRASTRUCTURE
Invest in the systems that sustain long-term movement power.
ADVANCE
LANDBACK
Uplift Indigenous leadership and the path to collective liberation.
LANDBACK IS
THE FRAMEWORK
The infrastructure we have built supports the Landback Movement. LANDBACK is the meta political, organizing, and narrative framework for which we work toward collective liberation. All of our issue areas tie to LANDBACK.
WHAT IS MOVEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE?
Movement infrastructure it is the resources, skills, and people that serve the whole movement ecosystem, which includes organizations, networks, and leaders. Read More.
We agree with the team at Building Movement Project and Muslims for Just Futures that movement infrastructure includes:
MOBILIZATION &
DIRECT ACTION
BASE-BUILDING &
COMMUNITY
ORGANIZING
LEGAL DEFENSE
& ADVOCACY
CROSS-MOVEMENT
PARTICIPATORY
COMMUNITY
DEFENSE
COORDINATION AND CONVENING
ORGANIZATIONAL
OPERATIONS
ROBUST RAPID RESPONSE
SKILLS-BUILDING &
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
SAFETY & SECURITY
COMMUNITY CARE
& MUTUAL AID
& HEALING
COMMS & NARRATIVE
DEVELOPMENT
SOLIDARITY
& PARTNERSHIPS
We also believe that movement infrastructure includes a robust network of partners across the movement that are connected and in strong solidarity with each other. For us this is the Landback Action Network. We also believe that there needs to be a strong grantmaking component. We know that Indigenous peoples receive less than .5% of philanthropic funding.
NDN has distributed over $100 million to over 1400 grantees.
Strengthening organizations who are defending, developing, and decolonizing their communities.
SUPPORT THE FIGHT AHEAD
Increased repression in 2026 means increased need for legal defense. With support from accomplices we can bring in lawyers, provide bail funds, and support for legal observers among other needs that will emerge.
OUR GOAL
$75,000
Every dollar helps protect our people, our leaders, and our future.
NDN Collective
NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, we are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.
