In this episode, Sha Grogan-Brown talks with guest Le Tim Ly, Chief Operating Officer of Center for Empowered Politics about how building “multi-entity infrastructure” can improve the resilience of organizations. While the Left faces many crises in these times, underpinning everything is the vulnerability of the operations and infrastructure of our organizations. So many groups have chosen to establish non-profit organizations as the entity for their organizing, and now this administration is targeting the tax status of two primary forms of non-profit organizations – known as 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4). Our movement has had critiques of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex for decades. We know this is not the ideal structure for our long term work. Yet the majority of Left organizations are currently dependent on non-profit structure and on philanthropy for the operations of their projects. We’re in a time which calls on us to be nimble and pivot many aspects of our operations.  With this context in mind, Dear Rad Ops received this question: My organization is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and we are worried about being attacked by the current administration. What other options do we have for our organizational structure in case we lose our c3 tax status? Resources from this episode Organizations providing support for exploring multi-entity infrastructure: Definition List of organizational entities • Organizations providing support for exploring multi-entity infrastructure: Center for Empowered Politics Movement Politics Accelerator Power & Protect Operations Network New Left Accelerator Want to go deeper on the difference between 501c3, 501c4 and PAC? Listen to this episode of Rules of the Game podcast, comparing tax-exempt organizations. What to do if your organization loses 501c3 tax status Discussion questions to take to your team What entities currently make up your organization’s infrastructure? Is everyone on staff aware of the reason or purpose for each of those entities? If you have a 501c3 organization, what is your back up plan in the case of losing your tax status? (Be sure to check out the next episode on risk assessment vs fear assessments, and be mindful of of reacting to this question primarily based on fear…) Which parts of your work could happen via a different entity? Subscribe & Support Rad Ops and Convergence Magazine Subscribe to Rad Ops substack to get notified when we post new content Explore the Rad Ops Resources page Follow RadOps on Instagram...

In a time where social justice organizations are under attack, we bring you Dear Rad Ops, a mini series advice vlog about live questions on the minds of movement operations workers. In this introductory episode, co-hosts Yashna Maya Padamsee and Sha Grogan-Brown discuss their own Rad Ops movement operations experience, and the lineages they draw from in their work to run liberatory organizations in an unjust world.  Resources from this episode Explore the Rad Ops Resources page Discussion questions to take to your team What lineages do you draw from in your operations work? Who is a figure who you see as a political and/or operations ancestor?  What is an event in history that you see as a pivotal moment of movement operations? Feel free to reach for the well-known figures and events, or (even better) the lesser known!  How has your identity and your relationship to Operations work changed over time? When and where did you get politicized? What political formations have you been a part of? How have they shaped what you think about operations right now? The definition we have for Rad Ops is: Rad Ops is short for Radical Operations, and it’s about running liberatory organizations in an unjust world. Finding the ways that we can be liberatory with each other while we navigate the constraints of racialized gendered capitalism, heteropatriarchy and rising fascism. Do you practice Rad Ops at your org? Where are you already doing this? Where are places at your org that you want to bring a Rad Ops approach?  Subscribe & Support Rad Ops and Convergence Magazine Subscribe to Rad Ops substack to get notified when we post new content Follow RadOps on Instagram Donate to Rad Ops Support Convergence Magazine producing this show and movement media like it

In a time where social justice organizations are under attack, we bring you Rad Ops (that stands for Radical Operations), a dialogue-based tool that supports organizations assessing and discussing the possibilities and limitations of putting liberatory values into practice.  Many organizations are in turmoil as they pivot to meet this moment. Rad Ops is a multimedia series offering principles, guiding questions, and tools that organizations can use to identify ways they can and cannot practice liberatory values in this unjust world. The Rad Ops podcast is one component of a project designed for social justice organizations looking to strengthen their resilience. This project seeks to inspire people in Left movement organizations to get real with each other about what their organization can and can’t do, and make collective agreements about how they will act together when unable to fully practice their liberatory values. If people in movement organizations regularly dialogue with each other in courageous, creative, and collaborative ways, then their relationships and political visions will strengthen existing organizations and outlast both internal conflict and external opposition. Podcast co-hosts Yashna Maya Padamsee and Sha Grogan-Brown together bring over 40 years of movement operations experience they draw from to facilitate these conversations. Connect with Rad Ops Subscribe to Rad Ops substack to get notified when we post new content Explore the Rad Ops Resources page Follow Rad Ops on Instagram Donate to Rad Ops Support Convergence Magazine producing this show and movement media like it Cover art by Kimmie Dearest