Spaces to Grow, Connect, and Transform
Our Approach
Our learning communities center the voices and leadership of people at the margins, especially Black, Indigenous, and people of color. Through dialogue, storytelling, and shared exploration, participants deepen their leadership in service of collective liberation. Whether you’re building power in your community or reimagining systems at work, our learning communities are a place to rise together.
We design and deliver programs for our learning community participants that range in length from several weeks to multiple years, depending on the project. To work at this depth, we often partner with foundations that share our commitment to social change and leadership development.
In order to develop the most impactful learning experiences for our participants, we combine a set of core methodologies, including teaching, peer learning, coaching, and practice.
Explore Leadership Development Programs:
Active Programs:
Building Equitable & Just Organizations Through Individual & Relational Practices
A learning series for folks in any role within nonprofit organizations who have a desire to contribute to workplace equity and justice, and seek baseline knowledge and skills-building to support their efforts.
Conflict Resolution Practice Pods: Building Skills for Generative Conflict
A learning community for folks in any leadership role who are interested in practicing tools and strategies for navigating conflict in ways that are collaborative and liberatory.
'How You Be?' Radical Visioning as Black Leaders
A learning series for Black folks in leadership that focuses on tapping into creativity and vision in order to reground in one's purpose, and cultivating a self-care practice in support of personal sustainability.
Recent Programs:
Resource Mobilizer Practice Pods
A learning community for nonprofit and social justice organizations who are actively working to shift our fundraising practices and organizational culture in ways that are more aligned with social and racial justice values and goals.
Self-Care for Black Folks Learning Series
A learning series for Black leaders focused on individual self-care, self-care within an organizational context, and the importance of community care and mutual aid.
Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership Train the Trainers >
In 2022, the Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership Program expanded through a Train the Trainers retreat. 11 participants joined a cohort to learn to facilitiate our Self-Care for Black Women in Leadership content.
Next Generation Black Leaders >
A space for Black leaders to focus on cultivating their own Black leadership, to connect with other Black leaders in order to build a strong Movement, to learn and teach in order to navigate current organizational and societal conditions, and to practice praxis—which is critical ideation, action, and reflection.
B.L.A.C.K. Equity Intensive >
Building Love, Agency, Community, and Knowledge for Equity
A team intensive for Black Leaders and Organizations
HIVE Leadership Development Program >
Healing, inspiration, voice, and equity for reproductive justice leaders in Louisiana.
Self- Care for
Black Women in Leadership >
A cohort program for Black women in leadership that centers self-care as a necessary, radical, and political act.
Fundraising Bright Spots Learning Series >
Monthly sessions focused on fundraising approaches that are based on values of social justice and help us mobilize resources amidst the many challenges we're facing in 2020 and beyond.