The mission of the ACLU-SDIC Philanthropy Department is to raise the money necessary to fund our organizational efforts. We are committed to integrating an understanding of the intersections of race, class, power and privilege in our development work, and we strive to address the tensions that exist between philanthropy and the struggle for social, economic and racial justice. We bring major donors closer to the affiliate’s work, building long-term, transformational relationships with them. We share the what, why and how we do our work and we ask them to give us their full financial support.