Values, Beliefs
& Strategies
CPC’s vision is
collective liberation,
la liberación del pueblo.
“nobody’s free until
everybody’s free”
-Fannie Lou Hamer
Values
Our work is rooted in Black feminist principles and values. We support people to show up as their full selves, across multiple identities, including class, gender, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, language, education, or ability.
We embody these principles by offering a vessel for BIPOC people and directly impacted communities to come together to reflect on our lived experiences, analyze our shared challenges, and develop collective strategies towards liberation.
Core
Beliefs
Education and Engagement
Popular education and participatory engagement are powerful tools to facilitate collective learning processes where communities identify shared truths and generate solutions for policy and systems change.
Language Justice
Creating multilingual and language justice spaces are essential to reclaiming language, promoting cultural survival, and bringing in the wisdom of all voices in community organizing efforts.
Love and Liberation
The unequivocal, simple,
and bold notion of a world centered on liberation and love.
Healing for Black Communities
It is vital that Black communities, as survivors of anti-blackness, white supremacy, and state-sanctioned violence, claim space to heal.
Collective Liberation
Our collective liberation will be rooted in collaboration and solidarity building across diverse identities. As Fannie Lou Hamer famously said, “nobody’s free until everybody’s free.”
Centering Youth Voice
The voices of our youth leaders are critical to energizing, shaping, and realizing the dreams and future visions of our movement-centered work.
Challenge White Supremacy
Nonprofits, funders, and institutions must challenge their culture of white supremacy and decentralize focuses on perfectionism, urgency, the right to white comfort, conflict avoidance, paternalism, hierarchy, individualism, and defensiveness.
Strategies
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Facilitate brave spaces for racial healing and solidarity building to strengthen our movements for systemic change.
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Organize regional partnerships to address economic, health, and racial inequities, igniting collective power.
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Advocate for the redistribution of resources and large-scale investments for BIPOC-led initiatives from policymakers, funders, nonprofits, and institutions.
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Facilitate reflective conversations with traditional leaders to help them collaborate with integrity alongside movement leaders.
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Disrupt the nonprofit starvation system by creating and sharing new models for workplace cultures that have healthy, accountable, and equitable operations and structures.
CPC’s vision is collective liberation, la liberación del pueblo.
Racial equity, language justice, and popular education are at the heart of each of our strategies.
CPC builds skills and structural analysis to
lead and sustain movements for collective liberation.
We draw on our wisdom, the wisdom of our communities and movements, and the
wisdom of those who have come before us.
Structures of oppression are intentional,
and transforming these structures requires resources, heart, and resilience.
We believe building collective analysis peels away layers to expose systems of oppression.
TO IGNITE COLLECTIVE POWER:
CPC supports and leads collective action.
We take actions that target systems of oppression.
We believe that when actions are defined guided and led by the people most affected by oppression, we have the power to transform our communities.
TO TRANSFORM OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS:
CPC creates intersectional spaces for healing.
We welcome multiple healing practices from our communities.
We believe in reclaiming, preserving, and passing on the cultural legacies of our ancestors.
We believe that our healing practices must include a deep analysis of racism, internalized oppression and internalized superiority, and all of the systems that oppress us.
We believe that our collective healing work is a continuous practice that requires patience, authenticity, and courage.