The Action Lab provides literal space and a broad set of resources, support, and expertise to allow frontline organizers and other movement leaders to take a step back. Granted this all too rare space and time to reflect, The Action Lab helps our partners to gain a new perspective on our shared work and then […]
2022 was a remarkable inaugural year for The Action Lab. We built a powerful and inspiring Advisory Board and Board of Directors. Our staff team grew stronger than ever. Most importantly, we continued building a dynamic community of learning and action and we have catalyzed a wide range of high impact projects in each of […]
Apply here by the deadline corresponding to your Cohort as shown below. The Gathering Strength Initiative of The Action Lab creates vital space for rest, reflection, and respite—for organizers, leaders, movement artists, and communities to cultivate individual and collective wellbeing. Rooted in the traditions of healing justice which have nourished and sustained resistance and social […]
by Jessica Bauman On a Sunday evening in October, I found myself on a plane to Vienna to join a delegation of people I did not know, spending a week in a city I had never been to, learning about social housing, something I knew almost nothing about. What was I thinking? I am a […]
A few days after the midterms, close to 50 organizers, policy advocates, lawyers, journalists, scholars and funders joined us at The Action Lab to discuss and debate ways to use policy & rules changes to build mass-membership organizations that are able to prevail against growing oligarchic power in the US. What’s a simple way to […]