About US
Piece by Piece is a movement-building organization created by veteran strategists Jessica Pierce and Bryan Perlmutter. After over 15 years each on the front lines at organizations like the NAACP, Black Youth Project 100, Movement Voter Project and Southern Vision Alliance, we launched PxP to solve the critical gaps undermining the social justice ecosystem.
Our work begins with a simple premise: Wholeness is power.
Cultivating it is an act of resistance and renewal.
The Problem
The current political climate demands massive scale, but the sector starves the behind-the-scenes infrastructure required to sustain it. Capital gets trapped in short-term expenditures, forcing grassroots organizations into cycles of extraction and competition for survival.
These challenges are symptoms of systemic fragmentation: Organizers operating in isolation, pulled beyond their capacity and disconnected from shared purpose, with brilliant strategies collapsing because their teams are exhausted.
The ecosystem has the raw material to shift power but bleeds out because the machinery is broken.
Our Solution
Piece by Piece was built to reverse this toxic dynamic, moving us from scarcity to abundance. We operate on a framework we call the Infinity Theorem, which makes wholeness real – generating durable infrastructure by combining four operational tracks that constantly feed into each other:
Networking
We assemble large gatherings and build trusting networks to forge whole ecosystems. Leaders coordinate, troubleshoot, and collectively raise operational standards, transforming fragmented alliances into living systems capable of sustained power.
Training
We teach organizers the mechanics of organizational building. Through collaborative communities, convenings, one-on-one coaching, and group trainings on the nuts-and-bolts of organizing, we show organizers how to grow capacity while protecting their teams from burnout, cultivating whole people who reconnect with their core purpose and drive real change.
Grantmaking
We move capital directly into grassroots operations, funding projects that build lasting infrastructure. We pull organizers off the survival treadmill so they can build whole organizations that align structure, strategy, and culture.
Tactical Incubation
We spot the tactical holes in the field and find new ways to patch them, engineering and stress-testing new programs across these ecosystems before anyone sends them to the front lines. We ensure the machinery survives contact with the real world.
These components feed into each other seamlessly and make wholeness manifest. That is why we represent our formula with the infinity symbol.
Who We Serve
Our resources are deployed directly to the communities closest to the work and most impacted by systemic disenfranchisement.
The U.S. South
Our work is grounded in the U.S South. We deploy capital and build organizing infrastructure here because of the historic and systemic inequities. It is the region that can develop the most innovative, resilient movement power in the country.
Youth & Student Leaders
We equip youth-led organizations with the strategic education and direct capital required to build their own movements. We coach them on how to build organizations, run issue and civic engagement campaigns, and create real impact .
Movement Elders
We integrate the organizers who built the movements we inherit directly into our training design, ensuring their institutional memory anchors our current strategy and guides the next generation.
Our Values
We believe that the “how” of the work is as important as the “what.” That the body matters as much as the head. That strategy without sustainability is short-lived, and culture without care cannot transform systems. Cultivating whole, resilient organizers creates resilient networks that drive lasting change.
We treat equity as a structural requirement and justice as our benchmark, with adaptive frameworks that center race and gender as the tools to drive us forward. We prioritize grassroots leadership, empowering marginalized communities to become change agents by identifying their own gaps and needs while reducing the scarcity that creates competition.
We believe the art and science of building plans and campaigns are teachable, but require more than one training. That’s why we create long-term relationships, acting as co-conspirators with activists, organizations, and donors. We tie together the capacity, base, and infrastructure behind the scenes so these movements can actually sustain the change they create.
Let’s get to work.