Monday, January 18th at 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT  

Join the Democratic Socialists of America Fund, DSA’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus (AFROSOC), and Dissent magazine for a discussion of the film Sixteen Thousand Dollars: A Comedy Short on Reparations with filmmaker Symone Baptiste; creative team members Brodie Reed and Ellington Wells; and moderator Bianca Cunningham.

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Our Purpose

The Democratic Socialists of America Fund is a 501(c)3 fund devoted to public education and outreach about democratic socialism. The DSA Fund endeavors to demonstrate how an awareness of social democratic and democratic socialist values and policies would strengthen the quality of policy debates in the U.S. The Fund also works to introduce young activists to the history and traditions of democratic socialism.

Fund Activities

  • Promotes greater public understanding and appreciation of the history and traditions of democratic socialism in the United States and the world and greater public understanding of the achievements of individual democratic socialists and institutions with a democratic socialist tradition
  • Makes foreign democratic socialists aware of the history and traditions of democratic socialism in the United States
  • Provides a forum for democratic socialists to meet and exchange ideas on the nature of democratic socialism
  • Encourages democratic socialists to study and analyze American society and its institutions and to make the results of such studies known to the public
  • Makes grants to the national organization of Democratic Socialists of America for its educational work, especially among young people
  • Publishes educational material and develops video and audio material about democratic socialism
  • Solicits tax-deductible donations for the work of the Fund
  • Conducts training programs both to educate participants about democratic socialism and to enable participants to educate others

History

The Democratic Socialists of America Fund was originally established in 1978 as the Institute for Democratic Socialism (IDS). Michael Harrington, who became famous for his 1962 work The Other America, was a founder of IDS as well as its sister organization, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (now merged into Democratic Socialists of America/DSA). IDS’s mission, like that of the DSA Fund today, was to help spread democratic socialist ideals through educational materials and activist training.

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