GSP increases grassroots power through BOLD Action – Building, Organizing, Leadership Development. We provide effective organizing strategies, tools, training, and support to build grassroots power and win on issues that achieve and implement our progressive values. We support organizing in underrepresented and marginalized communities on issues that directly impact their communities.

GSP helps local organizations use an intersectional racial equity lens through training and support. The GSP Racial Equity Committee coordinates our Racial Equity Trainers’ Cohort to lead the racial equity training Why Race Matters: History, Systems, and Strategies to develop a collective understanding and common language around institutional and structural racism, and why addressing race matters. Using the acclaimed documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion,” the workshop addresses how racial inequities have been build into institutions and structures throughout our country, why it is important to use a racial equity lens, and what we can do to advance racial equity in our organizations and in our community. If your organization is interested in hosting a Why Race Matters Workshop, please contact Anne Martin at anne@spokaneprogress.org.

Spokane is increasingly diverse, and GSP’s programs are here to support communities of color, the LGBTQ community, the formerly incarcerated, and people living in poverty, with disabilities, and with mental illness to build grassroots power and increase equity. While people of color make up approximately 14% of Spokane County’s population, 31% of Spokane County student youth identify as multi-racial. People of color in Spokane are disproportionately impacted by high rates of law enforcement misuses of force, arrest, incarceration, poverty, and barriers to employment, housing, and other services. GSP organizes using a racial equity lens to address the root causes of racial disparities so that, ultimately, these disparities will not impact future generations.

GSP supports on-the-ground campaigns by providing organizing tools and strategies, and engaging organizations in campaigns. GSP builds diverse campaign coalitions and develops action plans that use an intersectional racial equity analysis and prioritize the leadership of communities of color and other impacted communities.

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