Accountability
Accessible to all who are serious about racial equity
Our sliding scale allows us to partner with organizations of various sizes and monetary means that are serious about race/gender+ equity, while consistently providing high quality and high rigor services and support. We invest pro-bono work in clients with whom we have established long standing partnerships, when their ambitious equity goals and financial circumstances call for it.
By working in collective, our global interracial collective of practitioners can ensure no client who is serious about racial equity is turned away, even when demand is high.
We are better together
We always work in interracial co-leadership and co-facilitation, believing it makes the work better, ensures learning engagements support and challenge all participants while failing to center the needs of any one race/gender group, and ensures organizational interventions and solutions are designed by all for all.
Supporting an Antiracist Ecosystem
Because much has been invested in us by other practitioners, researchers, mentors, and teachers, we continuously invest in emerging or returning antiracist practitioners.
We believe there must be more ways to live and practice antiracism in economically viable ways. As such, we commit to building greater economic viability for people committed to practicing their trade through the lens of antiracism, and believe all those who agree can play a role in getting free, together.
As a collective of practitioners, we refuse to bid against each other for work. We share common fee and rate schedules, and respond collectively when our services are requested.
Reparations
White staff members donate 15% of our earnings in cash and pro bono services to Black-led and Black-accountable organizations working for racial justice. Organizations we are supporting in 2023 include: Measure Austin, The Black Fund (Austin Community Foundation), and Communities in Partnership. Organizations we donated to in 2022 included Measure Austin, Communities in Partnership, The Peoples' Institute for Survival and Beyond, and The Mission Continues. Organizations we donated to in 2021 included Austin Justice Coalition, Measure Austin, Communities in Partnership, and The Mission Continues. Organizations we donated to in 2020 included Austin Justice Coalition, Measure Austin, LifeWorks Austin, The Peoples' Institute for Survival and Beyond, and The Mission Continues.
White staff members provide the 5-Part Disarming Whiteness™ series twice a year, to advance white accountability and action, and raise funds for Black and Indigenous-led organizations with a racial justice mission.
White staff members commit to bearing the majority of unpaid work that comes with consulting, including business administration, proposal writing, and operations.
