Focus Areas
Youth Leadership
We define youth as ages 15–24. We locate “opportunity youth,” youth who are neither in school nor working, and those directly affected by Staten Island’s systemic issues, to lead community projects and campaigns.
How we work: youth participatory action research and developmental coaching, and guidance
Reparative Planning
We acknowledge and confront the legacies of historical harms and atrocities committed against and in communities and facilitate processes of amending, repairing, healing, and world-making with communities harmed.
How we work: story circles, decolonial archival research, and radical imagination and mapping
Leadership Development
We educate, train, and grow leaders who can organize, govern, and build alternative systems and spaces in their neighborhoods.
How we work: paid fellowships and internships, coaching and supervision training, and skill-building workshops
Community Organizing
We build neighborhood power with the people most affected by issues to lead campaigns and neighborhood projects.
How we work: participatory community-based research, grassroots community outreach and engagement, coalition-building, and political education
Food & Land Sovereignty
We protect, grow, and govern our food systems and lands.
How we work: community gardens, neighbor-led markets, community fridges, community land trusts
Systemic Injustices
We address root causes across food, land, economy, and the environment, not just symptoms.
How we work: narrative change, policy analysis, and campaign development
Community Development
We partner with communities to improve, re-design, and re-structure spaces and places in their neighborhood that reflect community values, identities, and interests
How we work: participatory planning, placekeeping and placemaking, asset-mapping, and community engagement
