PhillyRoots is VietLead’s youth organizing project focused on healing systemic trauma and reclaiming stories, resisting structures harming working class communities, and growing readiness to win significant victories in solidarity with other communities of color. VietLead teaches young people the skills and take action together to forge relationships and organize their communities to build intergenerational people […]
Topic: Systems Improvement
Accompaniment and Immigrant Leadership Development
New Sanctuary Movement’s Accompaniment and Immigrant Leadership Development Programs support immigrants of color to meet their holistic needs while creating systems of healing, resiliency, and resistance. NSM’s Accompaniment Program recognizes that immigrants of color face interlocking systems of oppression and require an antiracist casework model that is culturally sensitive, all-encompassing, and empowers immigrants to collectively […]
Technical Assistance for Anti-Violence Community Expansion Grantees
The RISE Partnership continues its work by providing capacity building support and technical assistance to 31 organizations that were recipients of City of Philadelphia anti-violence community expansion grants (CEG). Adapted from RISE Partnership’s implementation cohort model, the technical assistance is tailored to best fit the needs of the CEG cohort. Grantees have the opportunity to: […]
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