Grassroots sustainability. To develop more financial power for community-based work, we propose developing a grassroots fundraising model for the Brigade program which is tied to member registration. Members would be encouraged to contribute annually based on their ability. Contributing is voluntary and on a sliding scale ($5 - $100). Half those resources will go directly to the “home Brigade” of the individual, and the other half goes to the national network, which 1) help cover shared costs (e.g. events, tech stack) and 2) help resource under-resourced projects, Brigades, and people. This would be a shift from the current reality, in which individual small-dollar donations are either nonexistent or do not represent a significant amount of funding for most Brigades or for the program as a whole. There are fundraising models from similar justice-oriented organizations, like the above, that we could learn from and adapt. To start, we would pilot this with a small number of interested brigades.