About CBS
Community Building Strategies supports organizations working to strengthen democracy, advance social, racial, and economic justice, and build healthy communities.
Our work focuses at the state level where community, faith, and worker organizations work with everyday people to bring about change.
Our Work
Donor & Philanthropic Advising
CBS works with local, regional, and national foundations and private donors to accelerate organizing and support direct investments into the development of grassroots leaders.
Project Development & Support
CBS incubates and manages a wide range of projects including Win the Midwest, the State Power Training & Capacity Hub, and the State Power Accelerator.
Research & Analysis
CBS thought leaders provide in-depth analysis on paths to progressive governance, the means of production of politics, and approaches to state-based power building.
Operations Consulting
CBS pioneers multi-entity approaches to social change and is a national leader in the development of back-end operations for state-level social change ecosystems.
