Build Our Collective Capacity

To replace top-down planning models that replicate the power dynamics that resulted in the problems our communities are facing.

Create a National Referral Network of Facilitators

To help localities connect with and contract "credentialed" facilitators who are accountable to frontline communities in their region, experienced in community-driven planning, and evaluated by a frontline organization and a fellow community-based facilitator.

Cultivate Local Facilitation

To ensure rootedness and community accountability to frontline communities, as opposed to bringing in outside facilitators or corporate firms.  

A Community of Practice for Facilitators

To support community-based facilitators  growing our shared practice.

Prepare Experienced Community-based Facilitators

Who can implement the principles and practices of community-driven planning (as described in the VISION | POWER | SOLUTIONS series and in the Framework on Community-Driven Climate Resilience Planning).

Address the Need for Community-driven Planning

To repair institutionalized harm exacerbated by the pandemic, economic crises, ecological crises, climate impacts, over-policing, and other persistent threats to community health and well-being.

Share Stories of Impact

To inspire our own solutions with examples of communities cultivating deep democracy