OUR INITIATIVES
Resources designed to spread the insight of community advocates, organizers and partners to other fields, such as public health, philanthropy, and allied professions.
A call-to-action; a commitment to ongoing shared learning; and supporting cross sector reflection and practice to change the structural conditions that disproportionately impact opportunities and well-being among marginalized communities.
In the effort to build power, we offer comprehensive fiscal sponsorship, including work in need of time-limited incubation as well as more established grassroots projects that prefer to keep focused on programmatic work.
Roots & Remedies gathering unites social justice activists and progressive networks to learn about best practices and explore opportunities for shared work to make our communities healthier and safer.
Learning Circles invites grassroots organizations to an intimate learning space to share expertise, build relationships, encourage collaboration, discuss tools and experiences, and engage in capacity building opportunities.
Investments from soda tax revenues have the potential to transform the systems and structures that lead to inequity through harnessing community agency as the foundation for norms change.
WHO WE ARE
“Praxis knows the futility of working to secure social justice in the wider world if we cannot secure health justice within our own organizations”
- Laura Emiko Soltis, PhD Executive Director,
Freedom University
The Praxis Project is a national movement support intermediary committed to capacity building for social change. Our emphasis is on developing fields of work in ways that encourage multi-level, trans-disciplinary learning and collaboration across issues, across the country, and across the globe.
NEWS & UPDATES
In this episode of In Praxis, Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Denisa Livingston from Dine Community Advocacy Alliance and the Slow Food International Indigenous Council discusses how the fight to reduce sugary drink and other unhealthy food consumption is a matter of reclaiming indigenous lifeways and foodways.
As we celebrate another Lunar New Year, The Praxis Project is heartbroken over the recent violent attacks on our Asian American community in the San Francisco Bay Area and across the country.
Artwork Credit: Katie Quan
Praxis, Lamar, Coates withdraws complaint filed in the DC Superior Court in 2017 against Coca Cola and the American Beverage Association…
In this episode of In Praxis, Season 2: Sugar Sweetened Beverage Taxes, Xavier Morales, Executive Director of the Praxis Project, makes the case for a transformative systems approach to health inequities caused by sugar sweetened beverages…
Take action: our demands to advance justice and equity are more pertinent than ever.