“.. the more important question is not whether one should ever get nonprofit status, but what is the most strategic way to use nonprofits so they support movements rather than being thought of as the movement.” - INCITE, The Revolution Will Not  Be Funded

2024 marks ten years of fiscal sponsorship for Allied Media Projects. In light of this milestone, we are demystifying what fiscal sponsorship is and how we do it at AMP. Essentially, as quoted by Jenny Lee, former Executive Director of AMP, “We became a nonprofit so others didn't have to.” We strive to nourish, protect, connect, balance, and cultivate the ecosystem of media for liberation.

We facilitate the flow of resources, bolster our projects’ capacity to uproot oppressive systems, and plant new liberatory ways of being through our radical shared infrastructure. We aim to use our nonprofit status to minimize and humanize the impacts of navigating the nonprofit industrial complex.

This work is vital in the face of state repression and backlash with congressional efforts to equate Palestinian liberation efforts to illegal activity including legislative bills H.R. 6408 | S.4136. This legislation authorizes the Treasury Department to unilaterally designate US nonprofits as terrorist-supporting organizations. With this authority, the Secretary of Treasury could strip certain nonprofits of tax-exempt status and constructively shut them down. For more information regarding this legislation, check out this one-pager about H.R. 6408 | S.413 created by Muslims for Just Futures.

We are committed to continuing the work of radical fiscal sponsorship and you can help us by supporting us by donating, sharing our work, or supporting one of our projects directly.

Last Call to Apply for Fiscal Sponsorship for 2024

Interested in being fiscally sponsored by AMP? We are accepting applications through May 31 for new projects with a revenue of $500,000 and above based in Detroit or nationally. Detroit based projects at $100,000 and above are eligible to apply.

To apply and review frequently asked questions, head over to our website.

News from our Networks

• People’s Conference for Palestine | May 24-26, 2024 in Detroit. Register for the conference here.

  
  

• Bulk Space | BULK Space is pleased to announce the opening of BULK MEDIA LAB in Detroit! “Media lab is a space for community to play with tech! Not only does the media lab mean the launch of new programming but it also means BULK will soon have open hours and a membership program for folks to check out equipment and have free access to workshops!” Grand opening on June 1, 2pm-5pm.

  
  

• Respair Media at LOVE Building | Join One Million Experiments co-hosts Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger for a performance, screening, and interactive conversation about the new liberatory possibilities already in the making all around us. Saturday, June 29 ·from 4 - 6pm EDT at the LOVE Building in Detroit. RSVP here.

  
  

• Motor City Dance Street Academy | New summer schedule started May 13!

  
  

• Detroit Narrative Agency | Meet Detroit Agency’s new 2024 Emerging Filmmaker Fellows and stay tuned for Intro to Filmmaking Workshop dropping June 2024.

  
  

• Comfrey Films | Black Trans Short Film Competition Screening + Awards Ceremony: Wednesday May 29th, Durham, North Carolina.

  
  

• Disability Visibility | Check out Alice Wong’s column in Teen Vogue, Disability Visibility, on being disabled in a nondisabled world.

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