Power building needs continuity of resources, including retention of leaders, organizers, campaign leaders, etc. to generate financial resources.
Power building invites reflection on which forms of resources are valued, invested in, and maintained to ensure long term mutual development within movements.
Part of power building is to analyze how power is held and the link between power and wealth. Community power building includes efforts to decolonize wealth and shift power.
Sustaining power building might not look like financing and resourcing through conventional funding methods, but rather includes community resourcing through mutual aid, dues, and other solidarity mechanisms, with a consistent focus on equity.
Asks the questions: How do we do this work while existing within systems we do not patronize? How do we concurrently transform these systems and redefine sustainability?