Deep relationship to our partners through movement purpose

Our working relationships with our partners are the cornerstone of everything we do.

Movement purpose. When we choose our partners, we ask, How will working with this partner enable us to make the best contribution we can to the movement in this historical moment? How can our work together help the movement make a strategic advance toward transformative change, both inside the US and internationally?

Learning goes both ways – and back to the movement. Learning must go both ways because we–no less than our partners–are constantly seeking deeper, more radical grounding in our work.We are each grappling with how to advance our movement traditions in the present. The goal is to develop learning that can be shared to build the movement as a whole.

Shared commitment to organizing & basebuilding among the most oppressed. We center organizing and basebuilding among women, gender-expansive people, the working classes, the undocumented, and those disposed by society, including people who have been incarcerated, structurally unemployed, discarded.

Declining consulting-type work. Generally, we are not built for one-off products and pinch-hitting (backfilling or covering for missing staff or gaps in supervision or leadership).

Our Modes of Work

Accompaniment:

• Embedding – in an area of work, a campaign, a team structure/process

• Coaching / mentoring (1:1 and in teams)

• Research / data support

Project Incubation & Organizational Transitions:

• Incubating new ideas/projects that will open new terrain for organizing or movement building

• Organizational development & operational needs (esp for startup’s & leadership transitions)

Political Education & Field Development (practice-based):

• Curriculum design

• Peer-to-peer learning & exchange

• Movement spaces for long-range learning around political gaps & opportunities and for rebuilding connections to radical traditions

Codification & Knowledge Production:

• Documenting “gifts to the movement that should not be lost” (organization models, organizing methodologies)

• Analysis & theory for the movement