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Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program
MAAP '07 Highlights
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| Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) class of 2007 on the front steps of the Retreat Center during MAAP Orientation Week |
CTWO's theory of change guides our strategies and actions. It provides a framework for understanding how our work fits into a larger perspective about social change. We believe that race permeates every aspect of our social existence, and that race has major influence on the way that identities, institutions, and society as a whole are shaped. Racial inequality is a fundamental characteristic of our social order--often interlocked with other systems of oppression like class, patriarchy, and xenophobia--that affects the organization and distribution of social resources, including power, privilege, and wealth.
Change occurs when perceptions of injustice in the racial order, an order structured and enforced by the state, precipitate the development of social movements and organizations that represent racially defined groups, that articulate these groups' perspectives, and that politically mobilize for their interests. For 25 years, CTWO has worked diligently with organizations and communities of color to advance a racial-justice analysis and to secure significant changes in policies, practices and the distribution of resources for communities of color.
CTWO's organizing strategy prioritizes the role of organizations in engaging our communities to develop and assert a more equitable vision of society through concerted action and reflection. It is through the work of these organizations, in alignment with other key players in the social-change community (i.e. legal, media, academic, policy and research, religious, and cultural), that ideas gain traction and allow more radical transformation to take place.
Mission Statement
The Center for Third World Organizing is a racial-justice organization led by people of color whose mission is to achieve social and economic justice.
