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You got the money.
Now let's get the power.
A national community of people who have been through a guaranteed income pilot, organizing together for a federal guaranteed income.
The Basic Income Solidarity Community is a people-powered movement to reclaim our collective right to economic security and dignity.
We believe that lasting change comes from organized communities.
Our mission is to win a basic income for every person in America by turning curiosity into courage, solidarity into power, and isolation into belonging.
Share the community
Point a camera at this to open the app. Show it to someone who was in a pilot — there's nothing to install.
Who this is for
Right now we're starting with people who took part in a guaranteed income or basic income pilot — current or past. That's roughly 40,000 people across the country.
We're starting there, not stopping there. BISC opens wider as we grow.
Why join?
This movement already stands on three strong legs
Practitioners who have designed and run pilots. Researchers who have measured what happened. Policy people who know how a bill becomes a program. That is real expertise, and it has carried guaranteed income a long way.
We are the fourth leg
A three-legged stool stands. A four-legged platform holds weight. The fourth leg is people power — participants, organized nationally — and building it is exactly what BISC is for.
You are not the only one
Most participants have never met another participant. People are already organizing in their own cities, quietly and well. This is where those efforts find each other.
Getting everybody synchronized
We are not starting anything from scratch. The work is connecting what already exists across the country, so a federal guaranteed income has a national constituency behind it rather than a scattering of local wins.
You get an actual vote
Not an advisory seat, not a feedback survey. Active members hold binding voting rights on what this community does and where it goes.
Skills that stay yours
Training in advocacy, facilitation, running events, and building resources. Whatever else happens, you keep what you learn.
It costs nothing, and it never will
Show up for what you can, step back when life demands it, and you are still a member.
Ways to take part
Storytelling
Your experience, in your words, aimed at people who make decisions.
Advocacy
Meeting with elected officials and pushing for guaranteed income policy.
Tools and policy tracking
Following what's happening with basic income across all fifty states.
Co-design
Learning to shape public policy and programs alongside the people who run them, rather than being consulted after the fact.
Training
Learning to host events, build resources, and organize — skills you keep.
Join
About two minutes.
What happens after you join
- Straight away
A welcome from us
An email confirming you're a member, and what happens from here.
- Next
The next group
We welcome new members in small groups, so everyone gets a real welcome rather than a form letter. You'll be in the next group we bring in.
- While you wait
Start learning
Twenty-seven short modules, free, on your phone — what lived expertise means, the case for basic income, how power actually works. Ten minutes at a time, whenever you have them. No need to wait for your group.
Sign in with the email you just used and you'll find them under Learning.
- When your group comes up
Your BISC Buddy
When your group comes up, a member gets in touch the way you asked — call, text, or email. A real person. They walk you in and stay with you.
- Ongoing
Work you pick
Storytelling, advocacy, building tools, training. You choose, when you're ready. Nothing is required.
Join us
Everything below stays with the community. We won't share it, sell it, or hand it to anyone.
Working together
Organizations work alongside members. Members set the direction and decide what BISC takes on; you bring what you're good at.
When members share their experience, it's because they chose to and on terms they set.
We make introductions rather than hand over lists, so you'll always have a member alongside you.
How partnership works
We connect. A conversation with us and a member. Nothing agreed in advance, and no application to get through first.
We work out how we can support each other. Hosting an assembly, providing space, translation, training, introductions, connecting participants — whatever fits what you actually do.
We write it down. Whatever we land on gets recorded, so nobody is guessing later and you have someone here to call.
There are no tiers and nothing to sign up to. If it turns out there is nothing obvious to do together yet, that is a fine outcome too.
Say hello
Tell us who you are and roughly what you're thinking. We'll take it from there.
You're in
Welcome to the community.
You're a member as of today. Here's what happens next — nothing needed from you right now.
One thing that helps
Watch for our email. When your group comes up, your Buddy will bring you to a new member meeting and sit with you through it.
Need something now?
Calendar
Our own meetings, plus what other organizations are doing. Some online, some in person.
Two sessions, same meeting
All meetings run once a month, in two sessions on the same day. Same content — come to whichever works.
The early session is 6:00 PM Eastern. The late session is 6:00 PM Pacific, three hours later. The national gathering and the Organizing Committee meeting each run once, not twice.
Past meeting notes
You're in the next group
You're a member. Meetings, agendas and notes open up once your group comes round and your BISC Buddy has walked you in.
Nothing to do — we'll be in touch.
Members only
Notes from past meetings are for members of the community. Sign in with the email you joined with — it takes about a minute.
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The rhythm
Most Wednesdays — Organizing Committee · 4:00–6:00 PM PT / 7:00–9:00 PM ET · two hours. No meeting on community meeting week.
2nd Wednesday — New member meeting, both sessions · 6:00 PM ET and 6:00 PM PT · one hour
Last Wednesday — Community meeting, both sessions · 6:00 PM ET and 6:00 PM PT · two hours
2nd Saturday — National gathering, one session · 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET
Access
If you need something to take part — a different time, materials in another language, a quieter format — tell your BISC Buddy or write to us. It's not a favor; it's how the community is supposed to work.
Agenda
Agenda
What we're deciding
This part is the members' call
You can see the agenda. Voting is how members steer the community, so that piece stays with them.
If there's something you'd like raised, your liaison can bring it to the table for you.
You're in the next group
You're a member. Meetings, agendas and notes open up once your group comes round and your BISC Buddy has walked you in.
Nothing to do — we'll be in touch.
Members only
Voting is for members of the community. Sign in with the email you joined with.
What the community is putting to a vote — things members have asked to take on, and requests for time on the next agenda.
Decided
How the community voted, once results were shown.
Ask for time on an agenda
You're in the next group
You're a member. Meetings, agendas and notes open up once your group comes round and your BISC Buddy has walked you in.
Nothing to do — we'll be in touch.
Members only
Requesting time on an agenda is for members of the community. Sign in with the email you joined with.
It goes to whoever is preparing that agenda. They decide what goes on and in what order — you will hear back either way.
A slot in the running order for the meeting you pick.
A short title, the way it would read on the agenda.
Usually you. Leave it as is if so.
A sentence or two. Line breaks and lines starting with a dash both work.
Nothing appears on the agenda until the person preparing it says so.
Meeting notes
You're in the next group
You're a member. Meetings, agendas and notes open up once your group comes round and your BISC Buddy has walked you in.
Nothing to do — we'll be in touch.
Members only
Taking notes is for members of the community. Sign in with the email you joined with.
The agenda item and who is leading it fill in on their own. Write only what matters — saves on this phone straight away, sends when you have signal.
One per line. Only things actually settled.
One per line, each with a name and a date.
One per line. Anything raised and not resolved.
Anything that doesn't belong to this item — the mood of the room, who arrived late, something to pick up another time.
Saved notes stay on this phone until you send them.
Learning
Short trainings for your phone. Ten minutes at a time, whenever you have them.
How this works
Nothing here is a course you have to finish. Take any module, in any order, as many times as you want. Nothing is graded and nobody is watching.
Every module ends with one thing to try, not something to memorize. Most are under ten minutes and work on a phone without much data.
Start here
If you only ever do one track, do the first one. Someone who can speak about their own experience on their own terms is already an advocate — the rest is amplification.
Your story as evidence Ready 5 modules
Everything else builds on this one. Start here even if you have been organizing for years.
What lived expertise means
The difference between telling your story and being an expert on it.
What you share, what you keep
Deciding your own limits before anyone asks you to cross them.
From experience to argument
Turning what happened to you into a case about what should change.
Hard and hostile questions
What to do when someone asks something extractive, and how to end it.
Knowing what your time is worth
Rates, scope, and how to say no to unpaid asks.
The case for basic income Ready 5 modules
What the movement is asking for, what the pilots showed, and how to answer the pushback.
Guaranteed income and UBI
The same family, different arguments. Where BISC sits.
What the pilots found
Stockton, Magnolia, Compton and others, in plain numbers.
The four objections
Work, cost, jobs instead, and who deserves it. Answers to each.
The federal picture
Where a national basic income would actually come from.
Changing the pitch
The same case for a neighbor, a council member, and a reporter.
How power actually works Ready 4 modules
Who decides what, and where the money already sits.
Who decides what
City, county, state, federal — which one to aim at.
How a bill really moves
Committees, markups, and where things quietly die.
Reading a budget
Enough to find the money and name it out loud.
Mapping your own area
Finding the people who can actually say yes where you live.
Advocacy in practice Ready 4 modules
The specific things you will be asked to do, broken into steps.
Two minutes of public comment
The most common ask, and the one most people are nervous about.
Meeting an elected official
What happens in the room, and what to do with the staffer.
Writing something that gets read
Emails and letters that do not go in the pile.
Building a coalition
Working with people who are not in this movement yet.
Running the community Ready 6 modules
The work of keeping this thing going. Take these when you are ready to take something on.
How we decide things
The seven-day cycle, and how a vote works in the companion.
Facilitating a meeting
Holding time, handling interruptions, making room for quiet people.
Planning an event
Budget, access, logistics, and what always goes wrong.
Notes people actually use
Using the note form, and what members read afterwards.
Becoming a BISC Buddy
Welcoming new members and staying with them through the first months.
Conflict and repair
What to do when it goes wrong between members.
Getting it out there Ready 4 modules
Reaching people beyond the room, without putting yourself at risk.
Using what comms makes
Graphics and posts ready to share, and how to add your voice.
Making your own
Filming and writing something short that sounds like you.
Talking to press
On the record, off the record, and how to prepare for it.
Staying safe online
Protecting yourself once you are publicly political.
Something missing?
This list came from the onboarding team, not from a curriculum consultant. If there is something you need that is not here, or something here you could teach, tell us — members are building this.
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About the community
Our story
In June of 2025, more than 80 pilot participants came together at the Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) Conference in Washington DC. We took part in a closed session designed by and for pilot participants to share their experiences and talk about their collective power.
From these conversations, in partnership with Income Movement, an Organizing Committee made exclusively of pilot participants came together in September to envision our future. Coming together weekly, we brainstormed what this group most needed, and documented a bit of what we didn't want to experience, too. Pillars evolved during the visioning process, laying the groundwork for our current work and ethos.
Where members assemble
Pilots happened in particular places, and what worked in Jackson is not what worked in Stockton. Assemblies are how that stays true in a national community — four regions to start, each meeting on its own rhythm, each carrying what its members actually know.
Pacific
California · Oregon · Washington · Nevada · Alaska · Hawaii
The longest pilot history in the country — Stockton, Compton, Los Angeles, Sonoma. More members here have organized before than anywhere else.
South
Texas · Louisiana · Mississippi · Alabama · Arkansas · Tennessee · Kentucky · Georgia · Florida · the Carolinas · Virginia
Home to some of the most significant participant-led work anywhere, and to states where the politics of cash assistance are hardest. Both things are true at once.
Midwest & Mountain
Illinois · Michigan · Ohio · Minnesota · Missouri · Colorado · Utah · Montana · and across the plains
Big distances, county-level fights, and a lot of members who are the only person from their pilot still organizing. Being findable matters more here than anywhere.
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic
New York · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · New England · Maryland · Delaware · Washington DC
Close to where national policy gets written, which makes introductions easy and travel cheap. A lot of the federal work will run through here.
Four is a starting point, not a settled map. Where enough members organize, a region can become its own assembly — California and the Gulf Coast will likely need to before the others do.
Alongside these, assemblies form around shared experience rather than geography: caregivers, young members, rural members, returning citizens. You can belong to more than one.
Our values
Tap any value to read what we mean by it.
Solidarity
BISC stands together with a unified voice as we explore how basic income can support our diversity of lived experience. Through this, BISC empowers members to redefine how our society and government supports community. We approach this through kindness and a belief in the importance of being in service to others.
Inclusion
BISC is a welcoming space where all people can connect with one another and feel like they belong. BISC embraces full and unconditional acceptance with the understanding that all members need to uphold the value of mutual respect.
Growth
BISC is built by a small but mighty group dedicated to growing a movement that advocates for basic income. Through continuous supportive collaboration, members grow in their knowledge and collectively gain the capacity to strengthen a movement.
Transparency
BISC operates by providing clear and continuous communication through our community centered process. Giving members several opportunities to provide feedback, collaborate, and stay informed.
Safety
BISC strives to create a safe space that is judgement free and respectful of each other's experience. We want all members to feel good when they share their thoughts, ideas, opinions, and feelings with the larger group.
Dignity
BISC upholds a culture of mutual respect between members and approaches member's shared ideas in a thoughtful, unbiased, and open manner.
Inclusion means everyone. Religion, age, race, gender, economic status — everyone is welcomed here.
Common questions
Does this cost anything?
No. Membership is free.
Will joining affect my benefits?
Draft answer — needs review before launch. Joining is free and no money changes hands, so there's nothing to report as income. If you have a question about your own situation, ask your BISC Buddy and we'll help you find someone who can answer it properly.
Do I have to prove I was in a pilot?
No. You tell us your pilot and we take your word for it. You've been asked to prove enough.
What does membership ask of me?
Nothing required. Come to what you can, take on what interests you, step back when life demands it. You stay a member either way.
What's an Active Member?
Draft — pending confirmation from the structures team. Members who take part in three meetings, events, or volunteer tasks within six months become Active Members, which carries binding voting rights in community decisions.
What is a BISC Buddy?
A member who's been around a while and checks in with you over your first months. They answer questions, point you toward work that fits, and make sure you're not navigating a new organization alone.
Who can join right now?
People who took part in a guaranteed income or basic income pilot, current or past. We're starting there and opening wider as the community grows.
Questions before you join?
Ask anything — whether it costs money, whether it affects your benefits, what you'd actually be signing up for. A person answers.