Which are the ten best activist organizations in the world?
By: Altruist League
Tags: Philanthropy

How to measure the impact of an activist movement?

Out of the thousands of organizations whose evolution and track record the Altruist League follows, we keep 1–2% in what we call the Altruist Index. So, when members come to us and say, “Which organizations should I support if I have no topical or geographic preference?,” we answer, “Those!”

But a question often follows: “Yes, but which ones are the very best?” To answer this, we have put in place a metric we call Velocity. Its formula is relatively complex. Our methodology captures dozens of parameters for each organization. Some of them come from analysts’ manual research. Others come from our machine learning model and various environment scanning tools.

Here are some of the organizations with the highest Velocities as measured by the Altruist League for the month of September 2020, globally:

Black Lives Matter — Velocity 84.4

Unsurprisingly, Black Lives Matter (BLM) tops our list. Racial injustice, along with the pandemic, is the dominant theme of 2020, and not just in the United States. BLM has seen its visibility and funding increase exponentially. A movement often criticised for lack of clear leadership and direction has gained in coherence as articulate, inspiring voices have emerged to represent it. Its operations on the ground are becoming formidable. It has become progressive America’s conscience and your neighborhood company’s cause of choice.

The coming period will be more difficult for the movement than it would seem at the first glance. It is now firmly in the crosshairs of right wing media, ready to pounce on its messaging (“defund the police”) and the looting that comes with the protesting; indeed, BLM’s popularity has taken a hit recently. The corporate world will be looking to co-opt its message and water it down. BLM still needs to define a strategy that influences the opinions of the more conservative people in the middle of the political spectrum. Still, given its ability to lead change and the moment in which we live, Black Lives Matter is in a unique position among grassroots movements to make a difference in the coming period.

LUCHA Congo — 79.1

If there ever was a movement that operated in difficult conditions and by the power of grassroots organizing alone then LUCHA is one. The youth-led group, active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the past ten years or so, wants peace, democracy, and an end to corruption in its country. They have spoken truth to power with grave consequences, and have been persecuted, arrested and killed with alarming regularity.

And yet they continue, shaping a new generation of Congolese people, urging the youth to vote, to take action, to refuse to accept the status quo as normal and inevitable. LUCHA operates with remarkable tactical awareness and operational competence in circumstances that make challenges faced by Western activist movements seem laughable in comparison. They are not unique in the region by any means — the tradition runs from Y’en a marre through Bour li deor and beyond — but are certainly the most notable of late.

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