How do you know if Allyship in Action is the right fit for you and your organization? Please take a few minutes to learn our approach to consulting, what it might be like to work with us, and what we don’t do. If your organization is interested in working with us, after you review this page, please:
- Review our Sliding Scale — We believe in economic justice based on care for all – understanding that profit is not the answer – in our goals for collective liberation. In an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably, we use a sliding scale for all our services.
- Fill out our Request for Services Form — Our current wait time for new clients and projects is about six months while we focus on the work we currently have committed to.
We also have a limited number of Community Learning Opportunities that are open to the public.
WHO WE WORK WITH AND OUR APPROACH TO THE WORK
- We seek and prioritize opportunities to partner with movement organizations and culturally specific organizations led by and for their own communities in Central Oregon and Oregon.
- We approach our work from a collective liberation framework — we believe that none of us are free unless we are all free. Recognizing that at the core of our work is the need for our community to heal and repair from oppression, we strive to embed restorative justice practices and healing justice practices in all that we do.
- We believe in generative conflict, leaning into discomfort, and hard conversations are necessary for our work. And we embrace radical transparency, mistakes, messiness, and imperfect nature of this work with self-love and self-forgiveness and we strive to meet you and your team where you are with grace in understanding that we are all in different places in our journeys.
- We draw our inspiration from many teachers, including adrienne maree brown, Vu Le, and AORTA.
WHAT WE DO WITH OUR CLIENTS
It can be hard to summarize all the things we do to support our clients. A few things we do well are:
- Decolonized non-profit board governance and board governance plans
- Participatory needs assessments and strategic planning processes
- Developing and facilitating custom curriculum and workshops
- Contract project management and capacity building for grassroots and movement organizations
- Impact storytelling grounded in the history of Central Oregon
- Holding together and moving forward right-sized collaborative partnerships
Your roadmap will not be the same as the next organization. However, in all that we do, we strive to:
- Create space to get to know you and your organization on a deeper level and build relationships to foster trust.
- Model accessible, inclusive, and deeply participatory processes.
- Cultivate learning opportunities to provide shared language and understanding around your work.
- Create a long range workflow that is iterative and meets the organization at the right place in its journey and support leadership, change makers, and workgroups in creating sustainable and accountable processes for ongoing work.
- Support deep rethinking around policies and practices and institutionalizing organizational values while providing space and agency for each organization or leader to decide what to do next.
We also recognize that organizations may have different access points to resources to engage in this work. We are always open to conversations about how to scale the journey in phases and welcome opportunities that provide collective learning opportunities or access points for those who may not otherwise be able to hire us.
ACTIVE ALLYSHIP FOR COLLECTIVE LIBERATION 