Our trainings ignite the power of Black, brown, and Indigenous leaders to successfully organize for racial, social, and economic justice.
Grow your leadership and build power in community through our summer training series.
Introduction to Community Organizing
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Grow your understanding of the fundamentals of mobilizing people, building power, and creating sustainable, systemic change through relationship-building and strategic action.
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July 28, 2026
Learn about the practical applications and practices of community empowerment, strategic action, and power building. Conduct a power analysis and select effective targets for change, design campaign plans, develop community leadership, and practice strategic evaluation.
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August 1, 2026
Deepen your applied skills in campaign execution and practice integrating cultural competence to achieve long-term sustainability in your organizing campaigns. You will leave this training with completed campaign plans and the practical skills, knowledge, and relationships to apply your learnings to real-life movements for justice.
We are offering three training modules on the basics of community organizing, designed for emergent BIPOC leaders who want to strengthen their organizing skills to make change in their communities. Taken together, they will equip you with the practical skills, knowledge, and relationships to plan and execute organizing campaigns in movements for justice.
Policymaking for Community Organizers
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Participants will explore how policies and policymaking shape racial injustice, and how community organizers can use policy to make change in their communities.
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Working in policymaking spaces in coalition is a powerful way to advance community-led solutions to racial injustice. This work calls on us to strategically navigate complex systems and work relationally across diverse identities and ideologies.
Through this two-part training series, your racial justice policy coalition will grow your strategic and relational skills, strengthen your collective work, and deepen your policy’s effectiveness and impact.
From renters’ rights, to budgets for schools and parks, to accessible public transportation, state and local policies shape our daily lives. For as long as policies have been made, they have deepened - and sometimes disrupted - racial injustice.
This two-part training series will support emergent community organizers and advocates in understanding how policy can be used as a tool to advance racial justice, and equip policy coalitions to grow their strategic and relational skills, strengthen their collective work, and deepen their policy’s effectiveness and impact.
Understanding Race & Racial Justice
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August 21, 2026
Deepen your understanding of the history, construction, and function of race and racialization, and dispel myths of white supremacy.
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August 29, 2026
Apply frameworks for distinguishing and defining different levels of racism, practice identifying different presentations of racism, and underscore the importance of focusing on institutional racism in campaigns for justice.
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September 5, 2026
Co-create approaches and practices to reorient movements for justice away from white supremacist practices, and create spaces for healing in movements for justice.
We are excited to host three shared learning spaces for BIPOC leaders, organizers, and advocates who are working to identify and disrupt racist systems and build shared power and understanding for racial justice.
