Our Model
Evaluation - Program, Community, Organization
We recognize that evaluation has been historically used by the privileged to concentrate power and exploit targeted community for the advancement of white supremacy. Our purpose is to use community based models of evaluation and modify them for the community we are invited into. This may look like reviewing community driven development and programming, gaps in services, opportunities for growth, and identifying pathways to evolve practice. This also includes reawakening traditional knowledge and frameworks and packaging them for financial viability and community sustainability.
Coaching and Consulting
We understand that in order to be sustainable, organizations often have to uphold the wishes of funders, evaluators, and accrediting bodies to get their needs met, which can create barriers to decolonizing our work. Our purpose of coaching and consulting is embedded in the evaluation process. Incorporating the ideas and perspectives of our diverse stakeholders allows us to re-imagine our work, by incorporating multiple ways of being and knowing rather than relying on models that privilege western European frameworks. This may include building skills in policy, advocacy, group consensus modeling, leadership, civic engagement, developing new frameworks and evaluation models, historical preservation, subverting bureaucratic limitations, and teaching a history of resistance.
Training
We are part of a strong group of organizations in the Portland area that support communities by providing training. What makes The UPRISE Collective different is our focus on both history and community-driven, evidence-based change strategy. In an UPRISE Training, expect to hear about how we as a community have arrived to where we are, expect to develop shared language around oppression and liberation, expect to caucus along lines of identity and organizational power, and expect to share feedback in a space that upholds both bravery and vulnerability. Click on the title to this section to view some of our available trainings. As always, we design our work in community with you, based on your community's needs.
Programming and Community Education
We acknowledge programming typically develops outside of the community it is intended for which often re-traumatizes communities who are relying on that support system after having their own skills, experiences, and expertise systematically disregarded by those in positions of power. In addition, we are part of a system that is complex, confusing, and often nearly incomprehensible. Therefore, in order to support the interruption of these systems, The UPRISE Collective creates programming to demystify and make accessible both civic engagement and resistance work. We support community members in understanding how the current system is constructed, while calling upon our histories of resistance to imagine together how our lives could be different. The development of programming can and often does originate from our membership or from the communities themselves.
Policy Development and Civic Engagement
Largely we know policy and civic engagement were developed with stolen ideas from targeted communities, modified from their intended purposes and are still used to perpetuate systemic oppression. We feel called to expose harmful power relationships, demystify the process of policy change, and challenge narratives of powerlessness. This may include development of new or changing policy, community education, and the training and support of communities engaging in policy creation or change and the identification and/or creation of pathways to make a new reality.
We recognize that evaluation has been historically used by the privileged to concentrate power and exploit targeted community for the advancement of white supremacy. Our purpose is to use community based models of evaluation and modify them for the community we are invited into. This may look like reviewing community driven development and programming, gaps in services, opportunities for growth, and identifying pathways to evolve practice. This also includes reawakening traditional knowledge and frameworks and packaging them for financial viability and community sustainability.
Coaching and Consulting
We understand that in order to be sustainable, organizations often have to uphold the wishes of funders, evaluators, and accrediting bodies to get their needs met, which can create barriers to decolonizing our work. Our purpose of coaching and consulting is embedded in the evaluation process. Incorporating the ideas and perspectives of our diverse stakeholders allows us to re-imagine our work, by incorporating multiple ways of being and knowing rather than relying on models that privilege western European frameworks. This may include building skills in policy, advocacy, group consensus modeling, leadership, civic engagement, developing new frameworks and evaluation models, historical preservation, subverting bureaucratic limitations, and teaching a history of resistance.
Training
We are part of a strong group of organizations in the Portland area that support communities by providing training. What makes The UPRISE Collective different is our focus on both history and community-driven, evidence-based change strategy. In an UPRISE Training, expect to hear about how we as a community have arrived to where we are, expect to develop shared language around oppression and liberation, expect to caucus along lines of identity and organizational power, and expect to share feedback in a space that upholds both bravery and vulnerability. Click on the title to this section to view some of our available trainings. As always, we design our work in community with you, based on your community's needs.
Programming and Community Education
We acknowledge programming typically develops outside of the community it is intended for which often re-traumatizes communities who are relying on that support system after having their own skills, experiences, and expertise systematically disregarded by those in positions of power. In addition, we are part of a system that is complex, confusing, and often nearly incomprehensible. Therefore, in order to support the interruption of these systems, The UPRISE Collective creates programming to demystify and make accessible both civic engagement and resistance work. We support community members in understanding how the current system is constructed, while calling upon our histories of resistance to imagine together how our lives could be different. The development of programming can and often does originate from our membership or from the communities themselves.
Policy Development and Civic Engagement
Largely we know policy and civic engagement were developed with stolen ideas from targeted communities, modified from their intended purposes and are still used to perpetuate systemic oppression. We feel called to expose harmful power relationships, demystify the process of policy change, and challenge narratives of powerlessness. This may include development of new or changing policy, community education, and the training and support of communities engaging in policy creation or change and the identification and/or creation of pathways to make a new reality.