In our solidarity economy and social justice movement left organizations, we hold ambitious visions for building a more liberatory future.  Many of us are also experimenting with creative organizational structures that allow us to live those liberatory visions more fully.

Join our friends at Harmonize in the opening module of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025 to ask ourselves: what structure will best serve us to achieve our vision in the world?  

Learn why organizational change fits into our bigger purpose of building the more beautiful world we dream of, and explore ways to maintain equal focus on the goals of internal change and external change, without falling into the key pitfalls of overemphasis on one or the other.

This offering is essential for:

• Changemakers building the case for more liberatory organizational structures within their home organizations
• Organizations committed to creating values-aligned structures in a way that doesn’t compromise their external work in the world
• Organizations committed to a purpose-driven change journey, in order to establish a solid grounding in the core purpose of building liberatory structures

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

When thinking about governance in our movement homes, what can we learn from principles of ecology?  How can we build movements that can govern not just within our organizations, but at the appropriate scales necessary for truly transformative change. 

Join Gopal Dayaneni, co-founder of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project and movement comrade in many formations (including Climate Justice Alliance, ETCgroup, the Center for Story-based Strategy and People’s Solar Energy Fund) for an exploration of core ecological principles that can inform how we build our organizations.  We’ll explore how the ecological principles of “form follows function”, “resilience, diversity and redundancy”, and others can help us think about how to build the deep democracy we need to win.  We’ll also draw on examples from global social movements, informed by eco-feminism, indigenous sovereignty, food sovereignty, land reform and peasant rights models of organizing, to see these principles in practice.

This offering is essential for organizers, activists, and movement practitioners (new and seasoned) hoping to:

• Build a sharper, more developed understanding of how to build resilient, effective governance into our movement homes
• Orient strategically toward governing at different scales in our liberatory movements
• Draw key lessons from global social  movements
• Agitate and politicize your movement spaces to build movement organizations that are less captured by the nonprofit sector in the US

This is part two of our opening module of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025.

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

Organizational change is hard.  Anyone who has tried to usher in changes in an organization knows that a successful change process requires more than just a new idea for how to do things differently.  

What skills and approaches are needed to successfully steward a group of people through complex change?  How do you anticipate and navigate resistance to change?  Cna you welcome the wisdom inherent in that resistance without losing sight of the purpose for your change?

Join our friends at Harmonize for Module 2 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025: Holding Change.  Harmonize will offer concrete tools to steward organizational change processes, as well as strategies for relating to, integrating, and transforming resistance.

This offering is essential for:

• Changemakers looking for new, more effective ways to guide change processes in your movement homes
• Participants in our Collaborate to Co-Liberate learning journey, who will use these tools, along with your coach, to guide change processes through the duration of C2C
• Organizers and movement practitioners interested in learning new ways to relate to resistance to change in your movement homes

Included is a Follow up Q&A: March 5th, 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

From campaign meetings to town halls, student encampments to board retreats, gatherings are crucial spaces across the Left in the U.S. where discourse happens and decisions are made. What happens in our meetings has a direct impact on our material wins because we rely on the conversation to shape the group’s priorities, analysis, and planning. How can we facilitate skillfully to support full and broad participation in our meetings, guide groups to resist compromising with each other out of avoidance, and make transparent and agile decisions?

Join our friends from AORTA for Module 3 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate, to learn concrete skills for people-centered facilitation in organizations practicing liberatory governance.

This offering is essential for:

• Activists, organizers and changemakers who want to build skills to attune to the way power and identity operate in group processes in your movement homes
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who want to enhance their facilitation toolbox in order to hold group processes with more ease

Includes a Follow up Q&A April 2, 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

Few things diminish our ability to distribute power within our movement homes and organizations more than unclear decision making protocols and practices.  Creating clarity on how decisions are made and implemented, and therefore how people can impact important decisions in our movement spaces, can open a wealth of creative energy, democratize participation, and help groups overcome stuckness or stagnation.

So how do we decide the right way to make decisions in our liberatory spaces, including movement homes and social justice organizations?

Join Hope Ghazala from NYC Network Of Worker Cooperatives for Module 4 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Decision Making.  Hope will share concrete tools for choosing and implementing some of the most common and effective decision making methods in organizations practicing democratic leadership.  Together we’ll explore how to determine which decision making method is most appropriate given the context, and how to navigate power in decision making.

This offering is essential for:

• Organizers, activists and changemakers who want to sharpen their toolbox of decision making practices in order to democratize movement spaces and intervene on misuses of power in our movement homes
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who want to hone, refine, and clarify their internal decision making protocols to support greater ease, democracy, and participation in collective decision making
• Movement comrades and process nerds who want to build new skills around decision making in their movement homes

Includes a Follow up Q&A April 30, 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

Every group practicing liberatory, collective governance faces many challenges deciding how to divide and share work equitably and effectively.  What structures and processes can we create to avoid the common pitfalls of everyone doing everything (too many meetings!), or work falling through the cracks (not enough clarity!)?  How do our structures need to shift and grow as our organizations shift and grow?  How can we create clarity about what each group, circle, or body within our organization is empowered to do autonomously, and what must be brought to other individuals, groups, or bodies for collaborative input?

Join Andrew Stachiw from the TESA Collective (Toolbox for Education and Social Action) for Module 5 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Democratically Distribute Work.  Andrew will share examples of organizational structures that support shared leadership, and tools to clarify domains of authority and decision making within different organizational bodies.

This offering is essential for:

• Activists, organizers and changemakers who want to bring concrete tools to their movement homes to help improve how work gets shared and done
• Organizations practicing collective leadership who want  to share their work more equitably and effectively
• Anyone interested in addressing the common challenges of everyone doing everything, or work falling through the cracks

Includes a Follow up Q&A, June 4th 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

Systems of domination have taught us that “accountability” is a set of standards or expectations that we hold others to.  But what would it look like in our movement homes and liberatory organizations if we shifted our lens of accountability from a power-over framework to a power-with framework, and instead saw accountability as a vital aspect of participating in an interdependent community?

Join Ananda Valenzuela for Module 6 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025: Loving Accountability.  In this webinar, Ananda will offer frameworks for developing self, interpersonal and organizational agreements and processes for loving accountability, as well as share tools and approaches for giving and receiving feedback effectively.

This offering is essential for:

• Activists, organizers and changemakers who want to build a more liberatory relationship to accountability in their movement homes
• Organizations practicing liberatory collective governance who want new tools and approaches to build a culture of accountability grounded in a more values-aligned relationship to power
• Anyone who has seen how accountability has been weaponized or misused in our movement homes and who wants new tools for doing accountability differently

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

How can we pay ourselves equitably in our nonprofits practicing liberatory governance and in our movement homes?  What skills and practices can we use to navigate difficult conflicts around money, especially when it gets personal - our livelihoods?  How can we hold with care how all of our conditioning (class, race, gender, education, ability, and so much more) informs our relationship to money, worth, and value?

We must confront these questions, along with many others, when we work in our liberatory organizations to set our own salary structures.

Join us for Collaborate to Co-Liberate Module 7: Paying Ourselves Equitably, in which we will explore facilitation tools for talking about money skillfully in our organizations, and how to navigate some of the tensions and contradictions that arise when quantifying our needs.  We’ll share examples of equitable pay structures and how they were developed, how they evolve, and what factors to consider when defining your compensation structures.  And we’ll explore how to achieve our compensation visions legally under our current legal constraints.

This offering is essential for:

• Changemakers within organizations who want to introduce new approaches to how compensation is determined
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who want examples, support, and guidance for paying yourselves equitably
• Organizations who have experimented with alternative pay structures and are looking for new ways to be even more values and vision aligned at the level of compensation

Includes a Follow up Q&A Aug 6, 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

A budget is much more than a spreadsheet with numbers.  At best, it can be a guiding document that helps a group align around its mission and strategic priorities.  

Yet, without intentional processes for democratizing decisions about money, a small group of people tasked with creating organizational budgets often hold disproportionate power over how an organization operates.

Join Ananda Valenzuela for Module 8 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025: Participatory Budgeting.  Ananda will share concrete tools to support groups to share power in budgeting processes, create clarity about how decisions about money are made in an organization or group, and create a realistic budgeting timeline and process.

This offering is essential for:

• Organizers and changemakers who want tools or resources to distribute the often unspoken power that comes with holding and making decision about money in a group
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who want to create right-sized pathways for more meaningful engagement and shared power in decisions about money
• Organizations looking for concrete tools and timelines for creating more participatory budgeting processes in their home organizations

Includes a Follow up Q&A Sep 3, 10-11:30 PT 1-2:30 ET

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.

Often, fundraising roles in our movement homes and nonprofit organizations can be a site of unspoken power accumulation. As we lean into practicing more liberatory collective governance, how do ensure our fundraising practices align with our governance practices?  How can we acknowledge how power is concentrated by those who are closer to money in an organization , and what ways can we consider to share or distribute that power when possible?  How do we talk to funders about our shared leadership structures?  And how can we share the work of fundraising collectively?

Join our friends from Justice Funders for Collaborate to Co-Liberate Module 9: Fundraising.  Together we’ll explore models for fundraising within collectively managed organizations, and how to think about distributing power and responsibility as it relates to fundraising without compromising our ability to resource our critical work.

This offering is essential for:

• Activists and changemakers with organizations who want to demonstrate new ways of fundraising that align more closely with aspirations for collective governance
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who want to align their fundraising strategy and practices with their shared leadership goals
• Resource mobilizers and folks in fundraising/resourcing roles within liberatory organizations who want to more meaningfully share and distribute power in these roles when possible

Includes a Follow up Q&A Oct 1 10-11:30 PT

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.