Community Education

COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Community education is the heartbeat and driving philosophy behind the organization’s work. Information is power—the more information people know about an issue the more informed their decisions will be.

Building a movement starts with knowledge about an issue that has its roots in a common ground. Community-based coalitions arise at the grassroots level and center around common ground. Social change often starts at the kitchen table, moving out into the community and then onto the greater masses.

You can often hear the most political conversations in the Resource Center’s kitchen or at the table during a community feed. In the Resource Center’s kitchen you can always find a group of Indigenous women sharing a story about their family’s history, planning some kind of social change, or discussing current events related to the business of women, environmental issues, Federal Indian policy, and Supreme Court decisions. And it doesn’t stop there–such conversations are often just the beginning of groundbreaking community education work that happens at the Resource Center.