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Doran Schrantz

Executive Director
ISAIAH

Doran is the Executive Director of ISAIAH and Faith in Minnesota, state-wide, multi-racial, membership organization comprised of community-based institutions such as mosques, churches, childcare centers and barbershops/beautyshops. Ms. Schrantz has been at the center of ISAIAH’s development from a small, more locally focused organization to an organization considered one of the most powerful voices in the state around issues of racial and economic justice. Faith in Minnesota is a c4 and, in a few short years, has become a force for political organizing. In 2020, FiMN led a predominantly volunteer that reached out to over 1 million Minnesotans and expanded Muslim/Black participation in some regions of the state by 11-15%. Doran is also a leader, with other state-based colleagues, of various initiatives to promote and build people-powered organizing, state power and multi-racial democracy across the Midwest region. Doran co-led the Midwest Race-Class Narrative project to ground narrative and political messaging in state-based organizing organizations and to develop communications, digital and messaging capacity in states, a training and development program to build a pipeline of skilled organizers and senior organizers in Midwestern states and hosting a Midwest partnership with DPI and P3 Labs to build the practices and methodologies for tracking and evaluating power-building through organizing. Doran is also a co-founder of the State Revenue Alliance, a partnership of 80 state-based policy, organizing and labor unions to ground a multi-state strategy for a break-through on progressive revenue and the emergent care economy.

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Power in Practice
On this panel from the 2023 Annual DPI Convening, leading practitioners and funders discussed what they have learned from the work that base-building organizing groups undertake to build the power they need to achieve policy, electoral, and ideological impact.
What is Winning?
Recent Supreme Court decisions, coupled with the January 6th hearings, have made it clearer than ever that we are operating in a politically charged, high stakes, power arena. How should organizers think about “winning” in this context? What is our role in this power arena?
Past Speaking Events
Oct 4, 2023
Plenary
Power in Practice
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For over three years the DPI Organizing Lab has studied the work that base-building organizing groups undertake to build the power they need to achieve policy, electoral, and ideological impact. On this panel, leading practitioners and funders discussed what we have learned so far and what it will take to shift our sector to a clearer focus on building power.

Jul 20, 2022
Plenary
What is Winning?
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Recent Supreme Court decisions, coupled with the January 6th hearings, have made it clearer than ever that we are operating in a politically charged, high stakes, power arena. How should organizers think about “winning” in this context? What is our role in this power arena?

REsource Report
Oct 22, 2021
Welcome Back
Organizing and Operatives: Building the Political Culture Shift We Need to Win Real Change
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MODERATOR: Andrea Mercado (Co Executive Director, Florida Rising) SPEAKERS: Doran Schrantz (Director, ISAIAH), Mike Podhorzer (Advisor, AFL-CIO)

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