Centered Power Incubator:A Strategic Partnership Program

The Centered Power Incubator is a six-month organizational capacity-building program designed to cultivate intentional partnerships between social justice and advocacy organizations and arts and culture organizations. Rooted in the belief that lasting social transformation requires intentional and enduring connections between arts and culture institutions and social justice institutions, the incubator equips organizations to co-design collaborative programs that advance our collective liberation ( a world where all people have equitable access to the resources, care, and connection needed to shape ourselves and our world) while strengthening organizational sustainability.

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The incubator exists to address a growing gap between the arts and movement sectors. As organizations in both sectors navigate increasing censorship, shifting funding priorities, and limited organizational capacity, many seek meaningful partnerships but lack the structural support, resources, and processes to build them successfully. This program serves emerging and unincorporated projects, established nonprofits, grassroots organizations, and cultural institutions interested in developing values-aligned collaborations that leverage the unique expertise of each nonprofit sub-sector and create sustainable revenue streams not reliant on grant funding.

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Over six months, participating organizations will work together through facilitated learning, a discovery process, relationship-building, guided program development, and technical assistance to develop a shared vision, establish partnership agreements, and design a collaborative program from concept to implementation. To move these collaborations from planning to action, each organizational partnership will receive a shared experimentation grant and a shared implementation grant upon successful completion of the incubator.

This investment will provide the resources needed to launch the first iteration of their collaborative initiative and build a foundation for long-term partnership. By the conclusion of the program, each partnership will leave with a fully developed program model, a signed memorandum of understanding (MOU), implementation work plans, evaluation metrics, dedicated launch funding, and a roadmap for sustaining their collaboration beyond the incubator.