Our Mission

Across the United States, nearly 40,000 people have participated in guaranteed income pilots. These pilots have proven that direct cash improves stability, health, and opportunity. What’s been missing is the infrastructure that connects participants across pilots, supports their leadership, and enables them to shape what comes next. The Basic Income Solidarity Community (BISC) exists to fill that gap.

BISC is a national, member-led union of guaranteed income pilot participants and allies. Dalbert Design is co-designing the shared solidarity infrastructure needed to organize, connect, and synchronize people across pilots, regions, and income levels—without placing that burden on pilot administrators. Created by participants, not institutions, BISC turns lived experience into collective power.

Guaranteed income pilots are more than programs. They are policy prototypes. Each pilot generates evidence, credibility, and a cohort of people with direct lived expertise. Without durable power-building infrastructure, that expertise stays fragmented and time-bound. BISC turns participation into long-term civic capacity—so learning travels forward into policy and practice.

BISC organizes participant leadership across four connected pillars:

• Policy: bringing real-world implementation insight into decision-making
• Narrative Change: shifting how we talk about work, worth, and security
• Grassroots Organizing: connecting participants across pilots and states
• Political Champions: engaging leaders and holding them accountable

Put simply, BISC is the biscuits and gravy of the basic income movement—bringing together the pieces that already exist into something sustaining and hard to ignore.