re:power Fund

We’re a team of organizers, strategists, and technologists dedicated to building a liberated multi-racial democracy, free from the oppressive systems of white supremacy and patriarchy.

re:power exists to build a critical mass of social justice movements and their leaders who embody the ideology and practice of liberatory organizing, an organizing practice that is pro-Black and grounded in community, collective action, and abundance.

Our vision upholds the idea that a multiracial democracy is the “north star” towards which the coalition we call our Progressive Movement should be striving, and it names our conviction that such a democracy is premised on liberation from white supremacy and patriarchy.

We work towards our vision by offering training and strategic support to leaders and organizations across the progressive ecosystem with base building as the cornerstone of sustainable organizing and power building.

Our work is meant to help individuals and organizations strengthen strategy, develop skills in a community of practice, and foster the resilience required to view our work with the lens of a long-arc of progress.

Our program areas include:

Grassroots Organizing

Supporting grassroots, issue-based organizers and organizations through trainings on story, structure, and strategy.

Movement Technology

Democratizing the use of digital and data strategies, practices, and tools to organize and build power online and offline.

Electoral Justice

Skilling up organizers, policymakers, and candidates to utilize civic engagement to build political power during and beyond election cycles.

Governance

Supporting newly elected officials through the Progressive Governance Academy to build power with peers and local movement actors, while also strengthening their skills in governance.

Women of Color Leadership

Creating a robust pipeline of our future leaders by covering skills development, relationship building, and fostering resilience.

Since 2003, we’re proud to have supported over 100,000 candidates, elected officials, campaign managers, and community organizers from across the country through training, coaching, facilitation, campaigning, and capacity building.

We started off as Wellstone Action and now—as re:power, we’ve transformed into what we believe the movement needs: a Pro-Black organization centering women of color and trans and gender-expansive people of color that is focused on fortifying our organizations and leaders for the big battles that lie ahead of us.

Since 2019, Karundi Williams, our first Black woman Executive Director, has been leading our small but powerful organization to success. Over the last four years, we have deepened our commitment to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) organizers through an intentional focus on BIPOC, especially women of color and trans and gender expansive people of color. In 2022, we finalized a new strategic vision and direction which we are now actively working to implement over the next five years.