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What is Forward Movement?
Forward Movement is a digital app designed to educate, engage, and mobilize individuals to be actively anti-racist while working to disrupt systemic racism.
Through interactive learning, meaningful dialogue, and opportunities for real-world action, Forward Movement helps you deepen your understanding, strengthen your voice, and join others committed to building lasting change.
Together, we’re creating a community—and a nation—known for being inclusive, equitable, and boldly anti-racist.
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MVMT10K was a digital platform advancing racial equity through learning, behavior change, action and engagement. MVMT10K was created by the Indianapolis Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable foundation with a mission to mobilize people, ideas and investments to make Indianapolis a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential—no matter place, race or identity. The foundation's goal was to collectively recruit and engage at least 10,000 people across the community over a three-year-period.The vision was for participants to engage in racial equity work, commit to anti-racist actions, and make works of equity a life’s practice.
Forward Movement, the 2.0 version of MVMT10K, is a digital app designed to educate, engage, and mobilize individuals to be actively anti-racist while working to disrupt systemic racism.
Through interactive learning, meaningful dialogue, and opportunities for real-world action, Forward Movement helps you deepen your understanding, strengthen your voice, and join others committed to building lasting change.
Together, we’re creating a community—and a nation—known for being inclusive, equitable, and boldly anti-racist.
Forward Movement is for anyone who’s ready to learn, grow, and take action toward racial equity—whether you’re just starting your journey or already deeply engaged in anti-racism work. Individuals, community groups, organizations, and educators can all use the app to deepen understanding, spark conversations, and inspire meaningful change.
Our goal is to educate, engage, and mobilize people to address systemic racism in practical, sustainable ways. Through bite-sized historical lessons, guided reflections, and real-world action steps, the app helps users build knowledge, challenge harmful systems, and contribute to a more just community.
Racial inequity has deep historical roots that continue to shape our daily lives. Many people want to be part of the solution but don’t know where to start or how to keep going. Forward Movement provides an accessible, guided path—grounded in history, community voices, and actionable steps—so that change doesn’t just remain a conversation, but becomes a collective movement.
Our content was developed through a rigorous, collaborative process led by equity and anti-racism experts, historians, educators, and community leaders. The Indianapolis Foundation convened a multidisciplinary team to design learning journeys grounded in credible, well-researched sources, with input from local organizers, nonprofit partners, and scholars.
We draw from peer-reviewed research, historical archives, journalist investigations, and open-source educational materials, carefully vetting each source to ensure accuracy, relevance, and cultural sensitivity. All materials are used for educational and nonprofit purposes under fair use, with a full source list available upon request.
User testing, accessibility reviews, and ongoing evaluation ensure our content is not only factually sound but also meaningful, actionable, and inclusive—acknowledging that all sources carry perspectives while striving to minimize bias and present a balanced view.
