Praxis reports and resources focus on centering community and advancing health justice and racial equity. Our reports and resources are developed in close partnership with basebuilding organizations and honors their lived experiences and wisdom. These reports and resources aim to spread their valuable insight to peers and cross-sector partners.
Through interviews with leaders from grantee organizations and campaign participants, along with storytelling sessions involving Berkeley youth and adults engaged in Measure D-funded work, the evaluation team identified significant system and community impacts from the initiative. They also highlighted examples of how the efforts focused on racial equity and community power building contributed to creating a healthier community overall.
This brief summarizes community power, features of community power, how groups are building community power, what are the challenges and opportunities they face in their work, and how they think The Praxis Project can be relevant in supporting their efforts.
In this brief, we define popular education, discuss its merits, provide examples of popular education in action, and share recommendations and resources for incorporating popular education into your programming to better support dialogues and liberation.
The purpose of this brief is to present the findings from a series of surveys, Learning Circles, and media analyses designed by The Praxis Project and Berkeley Media Studies Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, to examine the extent to which community basebuilding organizations played a role in declarations of racism as a public health crisis and how the declarations were covered in the media.
Developed in partnership with ChangeLab Solutions, Advancing Racial Equity in Rural Communities: Legal & Policy Strategies to Support Opportunity, Health & Justice aims to deepen understanding among state and local policymakers seeking to address the systemic and structural barriers that perpetuate inequities in rural communities. This brief will aid changemakers in exploring strategies to advance equity, opportunity, and health for rural residents.
Developed by ChangeLab Solutions in partnership with The Praxis Project, Advancing Rural Prosperity: Policy Strategies to Support Equitable Development in Rural Communities will guide leaders in promoting equitable economic development in rural places across the country and offers strategies that have the highest potential to meaningfully affect rural BIPOC communities experiencing persistent poverty.
From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The purpose of this brief is to understand how urban farms and community gardens stewarded by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) power-building and base-building organizations help raise community consciousness about healthy food systems, create opportunities for resident leadership and skill development, promote local economic development, and provide healthy alternatives to the typical commodified foods that are available in marginalized communities.
The Role of Culture in Basebuilding Community Organizing for Health, Justice, & Racial Equity is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
The purpose of this brief is to inform institutions and institutional allies of the critical role culture plays in community-led movements, and how to positively and respectfully honor and uplift culture in advancing health justice.
Moving from Disaster Preparedness to Disaster Justice: Centering Community & Racial Justice for a Transformed Future is a resource from the Centering Community in Public Health - Learning Circle Brief Series.
This brief, developed in partnership with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives (USFWC), Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), and participating organizations, describes worker-owned cooperatives, democratic workplace practices, and other forms of collective governance for grassroots organizations to more effectively transform the systems, structures, policies, and environments that underlie inequity and injustice.
