Are the tools we commonly use in nonprofit strategic planning processes – inherited directly from the corporate sector and military – serving us?  How often have you experienced lengthy or time intensive strategic planning processes that  produce plans that quickly become outdated or irrelevant, or are rarely referenced after completion?  Or, alternatively, have you been part of a movement that eschews strategy more broadly, abandoning visioning and planning in response to the urgent immediate needs of our movements?

In this final module of Collaborate to Co-Liberate, join Gopal Dayaneni, co-founder of Movement Generation and movement comrade in many formations (including Climate Justice Alliance, ETCgroup, the Center for Story-based Strategy and People’s Solar Energy Fund) to explore how can we learn to think differently about strategy and strategic visioning in our movements.  Learn new frameworks and metrics, informed and guided by liberatory politics rather than military strategy, to consider and measure key strategic concepts like goal setting, capacity assessments, and how to relate strategically as a movement to false promises, real solutions, and what’s politically realistic in our current movement moment.

This offering is essential for:

• Visionaries and strategic thinkers who want more liberatory models for planning and visioning
• Liberatory organizations who have struggled to create impactful, effective strategies to guide their movement work
• Organizers, activists, and movement changemakers who want to sharpen their understanding of strategy in their movement spaces

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.

Spreading leadership and responsibility across our organizations through the practice of democratic governance is one key way to break down hierarchies and counter the historical concentration of power in a few hands.  At the same time, leadership is a capacity that must be intentionally nurtured and developed - and intentional leadership development often requires clearly defined developmental hierarchies.  How do we navigate these tensions in our movements and organizations committed to liberatory practices and democratic governance?  What tools and approaches can we practice to ensure that everyone in our movement organizations receives support and accountability to support their own growth, without relying on old models that equate “leadership” with an outdated hierarchical “power over” model?  

Join members of the Momentum Community of practice, bringing their learnings from work in the IfNotNow Movement and Movimiento Cosecha, for Collaborate to Co-Liberate Module 11: Leadership Growth and Development. Together we’ll explore tools and frameworks you can use to nurture an explicit set of  leadership development practices throughout your organization and movement, in both 1:1 and group contexts. We’ll explore how to get explicit about what leadership means in your context, grounded in your people and values  - in particular, we’ll discuss how to identify the skills that are needed for success in your workplace or movement, and how to articulate plans for ensuring your members develop these skills effectively. We’ll also explore  the broader conditions and culture that we believe is  needed in your movement and/or organization to support ongoing and robust leadership development. 

This module is essential for:

• Activists, organizers, and changemakers within organizations who want to democratize leadership while ensuring clear, meaningful pathways for leadership development
• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who have experienced the tensions of dismantling hierarchies in ways that created leadership gaps
• Movement practitioners who want to strengthen their understandings of how to build leaderful movements

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.

We’ve all experienced it - conflict in our movement homes that drains collective resources, overwhelms our ability to serve our collective purpose, and at times tears us apart.  For many movement organizations practicing liberatory self-governance, lack of conflict resilience is one of the biggest barriers to organizational health, striving, and impact.

What is conflict resilience, and how can our solidarity economy and movement organizations build a comprehensive conflict resilience strategy that can hold many different kinds of conflicts?  How can create right-sized conflict processes for different conflict needs?  And how can we prepare ourselves to hold escalated conflicts - those conflicts that often require immense organizational and interpersonal resources - without losing our resilience?

Join our friends at Harmonize for Module 10 of Collaborate to Co-Liberate 2025: Conflict Resilience.  Harmonize will overview their well developed comprehensive conflict resilience approach, and then focus on offering skills, approaches, and resources for holding escalated conflict in our movement homes.

This offering is essential for:

• Organizations practicing liberatory governance who have struggled with internal conflicts and are looking for new, clear, and effective approaches for holding conflict well
• Conflict workers, changemakers, organizers and activists who want new frameworks and tools to steward movement groups through conflict
• Movement practitioners committed to building organizational resilience in the movement left, so our movement homes can be strong, effective and impactful

Includes a follow up Q&A Oct 29, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.