The Center for Nonprofit Leadership, The Fund for Santa Barbara and the McCune Foundation are undertaking an ambitious DEI summer institute that aims to create a dedicated space for understanding allyship and moving towards co-conspiratorship for different marginalized groups on an individual and organizational level, and perhaps most importantly – how we as individuals and organizations can be a part of the larger movement for justice for these marginalized groups.

This program will feature a dedicated learning community on the unique experiences and struggles of a focused marginalized identity through the summer months of June, July, and August. Making Movements: Changemakers, Nonprofits, and Action will be an intentional dual County movement towards building the capacities of our individual advocates and organizations in our collective fight for equity and social justice in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Systemic change starts from within and cannot be done alone.

Join us and build:

• A dedicated network for collective advocacy and collaboration in issue areas affecting some of the most targeted marginalized groups right now

• Awareness of the unique experiences and structural barriers affecting your session’s identity group of focus

• Shared language and better practices for inclusion and belonging for your session’s identity group of focus

• Movement towards more active allyship (moving from ally to co-conspirator) in your own individual practice and in the workplace

In order to build a safe and intentional learning community, participants must attend the orientation hour and all three sessions of their registered week(s).