Making Movements: Changemakers, Nonprofits, and Action - Week 2: Celebrating Difference

Please Note: This Workshop Registration Page is intended for active CNL Members seeking to use their Member Benefits to access this partner program. If you are NOT a CNL Member, please follow this link to register.

In partnership with the Fund for Santa Barbara and McCune Foundation, the CNL is 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. Each month will have 1 week dedicated to a selected identity of focus. The identities of focus will be: race, ethnicity, and gender & sexuality. Each week of Making Movements: Changemakers, Nonprofits, and Action will be dedicated to a single marginalized group and the ways you can develop your allyship and get involved in the larger movements affecting this group as an individual and organization. Weeks will be structured as three, 3 hour sessions via Zoom on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of the same week. Participants must attend all three sessions of their registered week.

Participants will gain access to a digital learning space (Slack), to discuss and digest workshop learning materials and continue the conversation after sessions. Additionally, participants will gain a bank of digital resources (including powerpoint slides) on allyship for the identity group of focus. 

Making Movements: Changemakers, Nonprofits, and Action will be the first 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

One session ticket is good for one seat in a full focus week. Looking to spend your whole summer with us? Contact Jennelyn Tumalad at jtumalad@callutheran.edu about getting a 50 dollar discount code for a full bundle of all 3 weeks.

This Event page and Ticket is for Week 2: Celebrating Difference. Info below:

Week 2: Celebrating Difference (July 18, 20, 22), 2 pm - 5 pm pst via Zoom

Orientation: July 15, 2022, 9 - 10 am via Zoom

Xenophobia can be described as the fear or hatred of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. What role has xenophobia played in creating the systemic inequities we as advocates and nonprofits try and change both in society and in our own organizations? Join us for Week 2 of Making Movements for a dedicated space to critically understand how Xenophobia is operationalized and incorporated in the United States and what that means for us as advocates and organizations serving and empowering immigrant communities. Participants will engage with complex critical questions related to difference and what it means to truly celebrate and cultivate allyship and environments that celebrate diversity and allow it to thrive. Participants will also be connected to local Ventura and Santa Barbara based organizations and grassroots organizers doing work affecting immigrant communities.

Interested in the full summer of programs of Making Movements: Changemakers, Nonprofits, and Action ? 

Check out the other focus weeks in thie summer series by following the links below.

Week 1: Showing up for Racial Justice (June 27, 29, July 1)

Week 3: Breaking Binaries (August 15, 17, 19)