The hub
In 2020, Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) entered a strategic partnership with The Ruckus Society and The BlackOUT Collective, establishing all three projects under a central HUB– deepening its commitment to consolidating and streamlining training for communities of color. CTWO creates spaces for education, innovation, and experimentation while supporting three training organizations through shared infrastructure. By combining and streamlining our back-end operations, each project can focus more deeply on its mission and programs. Together, we amplify impact, extend our reach, and build lasting sustainability.
The CTWO Ecosystem
Center for Third World Organizing
The Ruckus Society
The Black Out Collective
Why a Hub
The CTWO Hub is a cross pollinating space for training, deep political thought, and strategy development. The Hub models the spaciousness we seek to create in the world, a place where new ideas thrive and creativity brings forth audacious ideas that challenge existing systems and the ways we relate to each other. Within this space, new ways of organizing and being in relationship with philanthropy are explored, refined, implemented, and evaluated.
As a Hub, CTWO is uniquely positioned to build grassroots power and infrastructure for social justice movements that includes multiple tactics (leadership development and organizing campaigns) and strategies (local organizing, coalition building, and land-based reparations). The Hub is invested in challenging the narrative that social justice issues exist in silos - we know that all social justice issues are connected at the root of white supremacy and capitalism.
Our Core Elements
Our work is guided by a framework that strengthens movements through learning, creativity, and collective growth.
Education
We utilize popular education and other pedagogies to train, educate, and build grassroots leadership in organizing, political education, and other modalities needed to get us closer to liberation.
Experimentation
We are a think and do shop. We create vehicles, programs, and spaces (externally and internally) for people to fully nurture new ideas and strategies for collective liberation.
Incubation
We allow people to bring their whole selves and new ideas. We work with new, growing or struggling organizations. We create programs and utilize trainings and staff to support the growth and infrastructure of grassroots social movements.