Core to Income Movement's work is bringing together people and organizations from across the three pillars of the basic income movement and developing a long term roadmap for our collective work that can inform program and initiative design at the organizational level. By helping everyone stay informed of each other's work and finding opportunities to support and amplify action, we can increase impact. Ultimately, this is how we compress timelines and help us reach our goal of getting to a federal basic income by 2030.
Political and economic change requires an activated and coordinated base of grassroots organizers, pilot participants, and community advocates. It also requires a vast array of tools, resources, campaigns and opportunities for the masses to take direct action. With growing AI job disruption and deep cuts to state and local budgets and a gutting of our social safetly net via the Big Bad Bill, we are in the midst of a significant economic shift for millions who are no longer able to cover their basic needs. Providing spaces for people to learn about new, transformative policies like basic income and providing actions they can take to advocate with their representatives is critical in this moment.
Income Movement continues to bring grassroots advocates together to co-design and build relevant, timely, and meaningful campaigns and direct actions to educate and engage community. Check .
Income Movement has led the redesigning of the annual Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) conference, celebrating its 24th year in 2026. Just like the movement for basic income, this conference has grown to include a diverse range of community members: grassroots organizers, researchers and educators, political figures, social and economic justice organizations, basic income advocates, pilot participants and more. This is an exciting event where experts from across the movement come together to share their most recent and immediate work and chart the course for the upcoming year. Learn more about The BIG Conference and RSVP for the next event set for Philadelphia, PA in late July, 2026.
Income Movement is supporting Pilot Participants as they organize themselves into a collective group of lived- experience advocates. Too often lived-experienced experts in our movement take their cues from their pilot administrators, researchers, funders or policy organizations. This creates an inherent power imbalance that mirrors the traditional top-down model for policy design where constituents respond to proposals laid out by “experts”. At the heart of this work is a space for participants to share their experiences, needs, hopes and goals for the movement and advocacy work and to collectively build power to play a role across all pillars of the movement. By creating an organizing entity by-and-for pilot participants, Income Movement aims to center power in the hands of the community that basic income programs and policies are intended to serve. Hear from Pilot Participants the power of their collective organizing.
In our continued effort to put people at the center of the basic income movement, we created an interactive map that hosts the stories of direct cash and basic income recipients from across the country. This is an effort to have everyday people rebuild the narrative around poverty and help design direct cash policy. Building advocates and supporters for basic income is rooted in shifting our understanding of negative stereotypes about the impact of our current economic system on those living in our country. The internalization of unworthiness and deserving in our economic situation gets in the way of feeling empowered to change our society. Individuals sharing stories and rooting the conversation in our realities is an important step in establishing an economic system that works for the many, not just the few.
Are you a parent who received the monthly Child Tax Credit checks or are the recipient in a basic income pilot? Share your story with us and help inform the conversation about the important changes needed to create a dignity economy.
At Income Movement, we know the power of taking direct action. To increase the impact of actions our community takes, Income Movement creates dual approach campaigns, pushing across multiple channels of influence. If we have a petition gathering signatures, we have a Day of Action associated to deliver these to elected officials while targeting them in a social media campaign. Whether supporting grassroots community members to urge their mayors to support basic income, connecting constituents to their elected officials during key policy debates, or getting into the streets to protest, we know the best approach is one that is coordinated and direct.
In our work supporting a wide range of direct cash legislation at state and national levels, we know the importance of a tool that supports long-term coalition building that can grow over time. This is why we created the I Support Basic Income Open Letter.
The goal of this open letter is to accumulate millions of individual signers and thousands of organizations, businesses, and local, state and national elected officials to show that our movement isn't going away - it's getting stronger by the day. Add your name to the letter. Urge elected officials to join you in supporting basic income for a more just and equitable society.