Principles & Practices

Dismantling oppression and anti-Blackness

• Prioritizing organizations and partners with public-facing racial justice or anti-racist values
• Reduced cost services to working-class Black people, with an emphasis on African Americans
• Reduced cost services to organizations led by Indigenous people and people of color focused on movement-building, environmental justice, or community organizing

Radical transparency

• Salary transparency
• Clear decision-making tree
• Processes to establish information sharing
• Commitment to kind inter-personal confrontation

Reparation, abolition, accountability 

• Strategic planning acknowledges historical power imbalances and plans to redistribute power or resources
• Internal processes for conflict resolution that start with the premise that we have all caused harm at some point
• Impact statements a part of strategic planning

Re-envisioning work and power-sharing

• Realistic work plans and timelines
• Measuring process goals
• Rotating leadership
• People who are affected by decisions must be involved in decision-making

Collaborative creation  

• Community is included in decision making
• Partnership foster learning and shift perspectives
• Partnerships begin with mutually established values and intent

Collective work and responsibility 

• All projects start with information gathering, sharing, and transfer
• Each project has opportunities for meaningful contributions
• Cost-benefit analysis expand beyond the financial cost
• Impact statements

Equitable and reparative compensation

• Reduced cost programming and opportunity for people with intersecting oppressed or marginalized background, with an emphasis on African Americans
• Additional compensation for those utilizing their lived experiences of oppression to inform their work

Radical Practical Application

• Research pulls from resources outside of the academic-industrial complex to create content
• Knowledge base centers the scholarship of marginalized and radicalized people
• Generated knowledge is returned to the community, knowledge is developed into a recommendation, and saved for the communities future use