The Funding Exchange is a national membership organization of publicly supported, regionally-based community foundations. We are a unique partnership of activists and donors dedicated to building a permanent institutional and financial base for progressive social change by fundraising for local, national and international grantmaking programs. We believe that the great disparity of wealth and power which exists in the United States is based in large part on an ongoing history of exploiting human and natural resources. Our current political, economic and social systems create, perpetuate and strengthen this destructive dynamic within the United States, and between this country and the rest of the world. We believe that these conditions must be radically changed in order to have true democracy, economic justice and lasting peace.