Visions & Values

Photo courtesy of our fiscal sponsees, CT Black and Brown Student Union, holding a peaceful protest at Eastern Connecticut State University on October 15th, 2020.

We believe there is a better way.

Our Beliefs

• We are founded on the pillars of racial justice, equity, anti-racism, and economic justice. 

• We are visionary leaders committed to each other’s humanity and to manifesting our shared liberation. 

• We honor transparency, honesty, and collaboration. 

• We value community organizing as a tool to shift the material conditions of our communities.

• We see the vast space and great power of long-term relationships, treating them with care and deliberation.

Photo courtesy of our fiscal sponsee, Hearing Youth Voices, during a Black Lives Matter Protest.

Photo courtesy of our fiscal sponsee, Step Up New London, for a workshop where 16 parents and community members completed a 12-week training where folks dove into various topics critical to community organizing and civic engagement, such as racism, sexism, capitalism and more.

We Center

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• The experience of our people most impacted by racism and capitalism.

• Accountability to each other.

• Those directly affected by the issue as their own best representatives. 

• A community-based vision and mission.    

• Collaborating and organizing strategically.    

• Campaigns with clear demands and targets.

• Development of new leadership to support and guide the work. 

• Movement building to foster trust and intentional connection.

• Base-building to agitate, mobilize, and engage our constituents in our work.

• The anti-racism and anti-bias principles for organizing and building relationships from the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond:  https://pisab.org/our-principles/ 

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Our Commitments

• Support emerging groups.

• Build an organization thoughtfully.

• Incubate ideas and bring them into existence, from workshop facilitation to institution building.

• Acknowledge we have a lot to learn.

• Ensure that fiscally-sponsored groups have real decision-making power within the organizational structure.

• Intelligently design organizational practices that reflect our commitment to each other through transformative personnel and HR policies.

• Center open and candid communications.

• Share knowledge and maintain an informed community of groups, allies, and supporters.

• Move through conflict in healthy ways, regarding it as a normal element of our interconnectedness and humanity. 

Photo courtesy of our fiscal sponsee, CT Black and Brown Student Union, during the Care Not Cops Campaign with Community First Coalition.