Beloved community – we need your help.
Help us Continue to Thrive
We are committed to creating a future where we are all liberated from the systems of oppression that do not serve us, and where healthy whole communities can be built upon accountability and vitality, by our communities, for our communities. We have been quiet arbiters of change since our inception, and today we are struggling to fund the capacity we need to carry out this important work. We have responded to the national racial reckoning by deeply engaging with organizations and communities seeking to transform, and the demand is so much greater than our current capacity. We want to meet this moment, with joy and energy – healthy and strong – and we can’t do that alone.
Please consider making a one time or recurring donation today!
For 20 years, CWC has been transforming and leading change work, helping organizations and people grow towards a more inclusive, vibrant and just future.
Over time, we have experienced how our own non-profit organizational structure perpetuated some of the inequities we sought to address in ourselves and through our work.
We are taking the next step in dismantling what is no longer working by embracing a new form as the Center for Whole Communities Collective! We remain rooted in our commitment to bringing love, joy, rigor and collaboration to all that we do. We are excited to take our work in new directions like health equity, wilderness experiences, writing retreats, embodiment workshops and more.
Please help support our work to cultivate transformative leadership that weaves together and strengthens movements for justice and the environment. Trust, reimagine, transform, dream into, begin again with us.
We have accomplished so much together! Since March 2020 we have:
- Convened over 60 freely available Virtual Series offerings online, including a 6-month series on Black/Indigenous Solidarity, multiple practice series for embodied practice and spoon carving, and stand alone events with community partners.
- Launched Seasons 1 and 2 of the Dive-In-Justice Podcast, “real talk” with Delma Jackson and Dr. Shadiin Garcia on building ideal communities with our less-than-ideal selves.
- Launched a partnership with Pie Ranch, UC Berkeley Cooperative Extension, Stanford University, 50+1 Strategies, and the Santa Clara County Planning Department. CWC’s role is to support a deep, community-driven engagement process to inform the development of a “People’s Food and Farm Bill” to create a more just food system in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Launched the Vermont Conservation Leaders In Solidarity (VCLS), an equity learning journey for the predominantly white leadership of Vermont conservation and environmental organizations. As part of that solidarity work, CWC’s involvement was contingent upon raising equal or greater resources for a parallel initiative to fund the activities of the Vermont Renews BIPOC Council, led by a cohort of BIPOC leaders working to center Environmental Justice in state policy and climate action.
- Collaborated with farmers and conservationists to interview and produce the Farmers Voices Report, which shares the economic, quality of life, and water quality challenges faced by farmers and farmworkers across the state.
- Partnered with more than 10 organizations and foundations to introduce day-to-day practices and strategies that center justice and equity, and disrupt dominant cultural norms, creating conditions for systemic change.
With your help, we can accomplish so much more!
To donate by check, please mail to:
Center for Whole Communities
PO Box 5483
Burlington, VT 05402
To donate stock or make a electronic funds transfer, please contact:
Kris Butler, at info[at]wholecommunities.org
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