Latest Publications
2024 IMPACT REPORT: BUILDING A RESILIENT ECOSYSTEM: EXPERIENCED. TRUSTED. READY.
Take a look at how NLA scaled up our offerings to help on-the-ground organizations in 2024 to help them strengthen their strategy, compliance, and infrastructure.
2022 - 2023 IMPACT REPORT: THE FUTURE OF PROGRESSIVE POWER IS MULTI-ENTITY
Read our new impact report, The Future of Progressive Power Is Multi-Entity, to learn about our work to help organizations build power while staying true to their values and compliant with the law!
UNLOCKING PROGRESSIVE POWER-BUILDING
Our report, Unlocking Progressive Power-Building, provides 10 new strategies for funders to resource a bolder, more effective civic engagement ecosystem.
Read more our on Resources page.
Upcoming Trainings
NLA specializes in developing training and resources for social justice organizations using multiple legal entities to build power and increase their impact. Click on the calendar items below to register for our trainings. Together we can ensure that social justice work is both bold and compliant!
Have you been seeking to build a document retention policy to manage risk in today’s high-threat environment? Document retention policies are part of good data stewardship and security for organizations and networks. In this training, participants will walk away with an overview of how to assess if you have the capacity to adopt a document retention policy as well as with practical tools you can immediately apply to your organizations.
Has data security been a concern for your organization? This session addresses the unique challenges faced by mission-driven groups by exploring essential concepts of data privacy, security, and ethical handling of information. Participants will leave equipped with an understanding of threat modeling and what tools to use to secure their organizational data. Join Kate Bertash of Digital Defense Fund and NLA and TCS to learn how to keep your data protected.
Are you clear on what your 501(c)(3) can do this election season? Join New Left Accelerator and The Capacity Shop to learn how to maintain your entity's 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status while engaging in nonpartisan voter registration, GOTV, community education, issue advocacy, and lobbying.
Are you clear and confident on how to track election-related activity in a compliant way? This session aims to increase organizational leaders’ confidence in compliantly tracking and reporting activity related to election season. Participants will explore their organizations’ compliance readiness and take a deep dive into the specifics of how to track contributions, independent expenditures, in-kinds, staff time, field scripts, and more. We will also discuss when firewalls are needed. Join Andrew Madras of Rising Blue Consulting, as well as NLA and TCS, to get your new, election-year hires off to a great start! Reserve your spot today!
Our Work
New Left Accelerator empowers social justice leaders to transform their ideas into impact. We accomplish this by running an accelerator program, providing technical assistance, and serving as a resource clearinghouse for promising new organizations.
MEET THE first wave of the 2022 - 2024 accelerator COHORT
New Left Accelerator is excited to announce the first class of the 2022 cohort for our flagship Accelerator Program! These organizations are doing vital movement building work across impacted communities. By participating in our Accelerator Program, they will learn how to build multi-entity structures to unleash even more of their power to do bold, legally safe advocacy. NLA offers each organization coaching, strategic planning and organizational development assistance, and counsel on financial and legal compliance from some of the most experienced experts in the field. Learn more >>
Planned Parenthood Texas Votes is the nonpartisan policy, advocacy and political arm of the three Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas.
They work to ensure that Planned Parenthood patients in Texas can access quality, affordable reproductive health care and education they need, free from political attacks, legislative barriers and with the support of state and local governments.
Avow is a c4 non-profit that works to secure unrestricted abortion access for every Texan. Avow Foundation for Abortion Access is a c3 non-profit that works to educate Texans on the importance of abortion access. Avow PAC is a political action committee that works to elect champions for abortion access.
Deeds not words is an intersectional community that stands for women’s social and economic opportunity, access to reproductive health, freedom from sexual assault, and equal representation in every space and at every level. Led by YOUth, they are uniting women to push progress forward — not through talk. Through deeds.
Mothering Justice Action Fund is a Michigan-wide project dedicated to returning decision-making power to those most impacted, mothers of color. By empowering these mothers to champion policies and endorse candidates that reflect their values, Mothering Justice Action Fund hopes to shape the future of families in Michigan for the better.
Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization founded in 2012 that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. Their mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist movement rooted in community power towards the goal of achieving transformative justice and healing justice for all incarcerated people, their families, and communities.
OC Action was founded in 2017 to build an AAPI-Latinx-Labor-Environmental Justice Alliance and to develop progressive political power. This has been the result of decades of community organizing and integrated voter engagement in the region. Underrepresented communities across Orange County have undergone significant shifts in local empowerment in recent years.
OC Action is committed to a long-term progressive transformation of the electorate and will continue to move towards the change that our people deserve.
The Carolina Federation is a statewide organization that brings local people together across race and the rural-urban divide to build political and electoral power in their own communities and across North Carolina.
Equality New Mexico’s mission is to be a trusted partner, and to uplift the voices and leadership of our community in creating a reality of equity, full access, and sustainable wellness for LGBTQ New Mexicans.
For nearly 30 years, Young Women’s Freedom Center has provided support, mentorship, training, employment, and advocacy to young women and trans youth of all genders in California who have grown up in poverty, experienced the juvenile legal and foster care systems, have had to survive living and working on the streets, and who have experienced significant violence in their lives.
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A true citizen of the world, Philippa (Phil) Wood has lived, studied, and formed community with people all over the globe.
The Program Manager is a full-time position reporting to the Program Director of Accelerator.
“Working with a team that understands the complexity of managing work, money, and staff across multiple organizations was a blessing. This work requires specialized know how. NLA was a valued thought-partner that connected us with resources and consultants who really understood our needs and challenges.”
–Emily Timm, Co-Executive Director
“NLA was instrumental in helping our organization grow and strengthen our new (c)(4) during this historic year. The support they provided this year will continue to benefit us long into the future as we advance reproductive justice.”
–Nourbese Flint, Executive Director
“I feel so grateful that every time we had a question we knew we could turn to NLA’s team. Building power means navigating complex legal and reporting requirements, and NLA has been there for us at every turn.”
–Chris Gilfillan, Development Director
“NLA’s coaching, consultants, and expertise have been essential to our ability to scale and build our organization. Their two-year program provides exactly the kind of in-depth support we need to take our (c)(4) work to the next level.”
–Dusti Gurule, Executive Director
“New Left Accelerator has connected us to resources and talent that are bringing us to the next level. The support has been invaluable.”
–Rita Bosworth, Founder & Executive Director
“NLA and RoadMap have focused on bringing voices that have been marginalized in the working class into the center––and ensuring that they have the partnerships, resources, and legal entities they need to build power. This is the behind the scenes work that’s needed to build a powerful movement.”
–Nijmie Dzurinko, Strategic Communications Consultant, Co-leader, New American Majority Cohort
“NLA has been there all along. They fill a glaring hole in support for new founders and are a go-to resource for organizations like ours that need to scale quickly. And their approach is grounded in values of equity and inclusion, which is invaluable.”
–Josh Nussbaum, Founder & CEO
“The resources and consulting that New Left Accelerator provides make it possible for mission-driven startups like ours to really hit the ground running.”
–Brady Kriss, Founder & Executive Director
“NLA is an Angel of the movement. They play behind the scenes to help the rest of us not only thrive, but shine.”
–Amelia Miazad, Co-Founder, Wall-of-Us
“NLA’s commitment to supporting new leaders in the social justice space is unrivaled. The resources and connections they provide have been critical to our growth as an organization.”
–Traci Feit Love, Founder, President & Executive Director
“NLA helped us define our needs and find the right experts and attorneys to meet them. Having a trusted adviser that vets, selects, and recommends top-notch people is a valuable service to organizations like ours. I wish NLA had existed as a resource when I started Vote.org”
–Debra Cleaver, Founder & CEO
“We are not usually able to talk about all the work we do in one place. The real value was creating space to think about all our work and what we need to execute it. It sounds simple but it's completely different than how support usually comes in.”
—Anonymous Leader, AZ 501(c)(4)
“The NLA people reduced my anxiety level greatly. They listened to our concerns, then just helped us to solve problems in a very matter-of-fact way. Instead of panicking about all the things we might not know, we were able to put more energy into the work itself—which went very well!”
—David Liners, State Coordinator, WISDOM (WI)

