"Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement-building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create networks across issues...

Carol Chetkovich is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Public Policy Program at Mills College. She is the author of Real Heat: Gender and Race in the Urban Fire Service. Frances Kunreuther is Director of the Building Movement Project at Demos, a senior Fellow at New York University's Research Center for Leadership and Action, and a former Fellow of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University.