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Key to equitable collaboration, negotiating power requires groups to identify power imbalances and commit to engaging in ways that center the voices and needs of those most affected.
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Power Mapping
This slide deck is from a session conducted by Human Impact Partners at one of our IRL Leadership Convenings. The title of the session was “Power Analysis and Mapping as Tools for Equity and Transformation.” This slide deck can be adapted for classroom conversations on similar topics.
IRL Power Mapping Worksheet
This worksheet was used as a supplement to the Human Impact Partners presentation titled “Power Analysis and Mapping as Tools for Equity and Transformation.” This worksheet can be used to facilitate classroom conversations on similar topics.
Building Community Power to Combat Structural Racism
This discussion guide can be used and/or adapted to facilitate classroom conversations on building community power.
Research and Community Building—A Power Analysis
This illustration, created by Rio Holladay for the 2020 IRL Virtual Leadership Meeting, captures the main points of the conversation among fellows and presenters about building community power. It can be used as a starting point for classroom discussions on this topic.
Research and Community Building—A Power Analysis
This slide deck was used as a supplement to the presentation titled “Research and Community Building—A Power Analysis.” It can be used and/or adapted to facilitate classroom conversations on similar topics.
Illustration
This illustration, created by Rio Holladay for the 2020 IRL Virtual Leadership Meeting, captures the main points of the conversation on the question “What does this moment need from its leaders?” (Context: It is important to note that this conversion took place just months after the murder of George Floyd and in the wake of the resulting Black Lives Matter protests in Minneapolis, where the IRL national program center was located.) This illustration can be used as a starting point for classroom discussions on this topic.
Preparing for Effective Collaboration
This illustration, created by Rio Holladay for the 2020 IRL Virtual Leadership Meeting, captures main points of the conversation among fellows and presenters about preparing for effective collaboration. This illustration can be used as a starting point for classroom discussions on this topic.
Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World
Based on interviews with leading organizers, this groundbreaking book describes seven strategies to bring about transformative change.
Developing a Participatory Action Research Analytic Network to Advance a More Inclusive Process to Housing Research
This brief describes the HNRC’s process for developing a “PAR Analytic Network” — a program focused on building community residents’ power to create new academic partnerships.
