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Category: Community Organizing

Directly Impacted People Won Funding for the Nation’s First County-Level Permanent Guaranteed Income Program – Now They Fight to Design What it Looks Like

November 25, 2025

By Nateya Taylor

“It’s a matter of us as a guaranteed income union making sure that our voices, perspectives, and needs are heard.”

100-Day Check-In: Stressful Times for Those in Safety Net Programs 

May 1, 2025

By Bobbi Dempsey

People who rely on programs like SNAP and Medicaid share how they feel about this presidential administration so far – and what they worry about most now

Want to Fight Modern Authoritarianism? Look to Black History

February 14, 2025

By Brandon Sutton

Winning Black-led movements followed three steps: Resist, coalition-build, and do it with joy.

These Mutual Aid Organizations in Central Florida Show Us a Model for Community-Building We Could All Use Right Now

November 6, 2024

By Deborah Coffy

The stories and work of Blue Trunk Community, Las Semillas, and the Neighborhood Fridge might inspire you to build something of your own. Mutual aid work teaches us how to have a better world that fulfills our needs and changes the status quo.

Poem Helps Us Recognize Ways Oppression Shows Up

April 15, 2024

By Pamela M. Covington

The way to fight back is to keep calling it out.

Advice from Gen Z Organizers on the Art of Love and Empowerment in Organizing

February 14, 2024

By Deborah Coffy

My generation is often overlooked by those in power. I interviewed four organizers who show up to fight every day.

Singing His Way to Freedom: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Hollis Watkins

November 21, 2023

By Emily Withnall

Watkins left behind a legacy of service, organizing, and civil disobedience for racial and economic justice.

Researchers Launch First of Its Kind Analysis of Parent Organizing

April 3, 2023

By Domenica Ghanem

Amid all of the buzz about parents’ rights, this report unveils a landscape of mother of color-led organizing and leadership development that’s happening in every pocket of the country.

Women’s History Month Spotlight: Afua Atta-Mensah on the Black Immigrant Experience

March 28, 2023

By Jasmine Nazarett

From Ghana to New York, Community Change’s Chief of Programs talks about the international movement for Black liberation.

“It all starts with being fed up and talking to other people.”

March 27, 2023

By Topacio Marrero

We spotlight Akron-based Rev. Raymond Greene Jr. who used his direct sales skills and lessons from being incarcerated at a young age to become an organizer – ultimately heading Freedom BLOC’s fight to build Black political power.

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