Our Work

What We Do

• Develop individual leadership

• Strengthen the capacity of organizations and communities

• Serve as a catalyst to bring together individuals, organizations and communities to build a strong movement

How We Do It

Training:  we expand the skills of grassroots community organizers and leaders, and help sustain their work.

Consultation and Support: we offer strategic planning, organizational development and other capacity building expertise to community-based organizations.

Research and Analysis: we offer information and analysis that allow groups to advance progressive policies and defeat regressive ones.

Tools and Resources: we develop training curricula for organizations to adapt to their needs in an ever changing political landscape.

Convene and Incubate: we bring groups and leaders together to strategize and organize collectively, incubate new organizations and coalitions to fill in gaps in the region.

Our Programs

• Leadership Development and Community Organizing

• CSTI - Community Strategic Training Institute

• WILD - Western Institute for Organizing and Leadership Development

• Building Political Power

• Gender Justice

• RACE - Research and Action for Change and Equity

Watch our Gender Justice and RACE Program Director, Kalpana Krishnamurthy, talk about organizing cross communities in the west. This speech was recorded at the Alliance Building Conference organized by the Public Interest Project in March 2009.