PLATFORMS 4
CHANGE
We believe in systems change as the pathway forward to reshaping society and we create platforms that build the power and leadership of the Black community to achieve the unrealized dreams of democracy. Our Platforms 4 Change are the Sankofa projects that reclaim the lessons of the past to ReImagine and build a world of equity and justice for tomorrow.
Forsyth Family Power
Forsyth Family Power (FFP), a Think and Do Tank, is building a strong house for systems change that can weather storms and create a space for connection among organizastions and families. FFP see parents and families as the foundation of the house and the architects of its design and the changes they want to see. Our community organizations, schools, and stakeholders bring the resources, supplies, and capacity to build the house–to implement the changes family leaders seek.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
System Change Think and Do Tank
DEMAND
Demand #3: Family Engagement
Eversley Little Village
Named after the late Dr. Carlton Eversley and Winston-salem’s living legend, Dr. Larry Little, Eversley Little Village provides a culturally responsive and self-reliant learning village where Black boys are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged within their own community. The village offers our youth an opportunity to critically examine, explore, and analyze the unique experiences of African-descended people in order to better understand the past and present conditions of their communities so that they will have the tools needed to become agents of change in East Winston.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Network of Black Organizations Serving Youth
DEMAND
Demand #7: End Exclusionary Discipline
Our Kijiji
Kijiji means Village in Swahili and is a platform that is hosted for Black people, by Black people to showcase our holistic selves. We discuss things such as business, community resources, education, but most of all, we talk about Black lives, because they really do matter.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Advocacy | Communications and Media
DEMAND
- Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
- Demand #2: Hire a Diverse Staff
- Demand #3: Family Engagement
- Demand #4: Eliminate The Achievement Gap
- Demand #5: Equitable Funding Districtwide
- Demand #6: Enhance Air Quality Across District
- Demand #7: End Exclusionary Discipline
Jump At the Sun
Reading Rainbow is how it started, and Jump at the Sun is how it’s going; except you will see yourself in the curriculum. While the community may continue to argue over the importance of African-American history being taught in K-12 schools, Jump At The Sun is no longer waiting to make education equitable.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Advocacy Campaign
DEMAND
- Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
Winston-Salem Freedom Schools
Culturally Affirming Summer Programming
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
A4E System Change Partner Organization
DEMAND
- Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
- Demand #3: Family Engagement
- Demand #4: Eliminate The Achievement Gap
Nourishing Forsyth
Nourishing Forsyth (NF) is a system change community driven-trauma informed & social and emotional learning (SEL) campaign designed to produce a healthier, trauma-informed, and emotionally intelligent Forsyth County. Through a grassroots and grasstops coalition effort designed to help families navigate systems, Nourishing Forsyth emerged as a system change SEL intervention from the Think-And-Do Tank called Forsyth Family Power. NF fosters an understanding of the root cause of systemic inequities and implements system change strategies that create the conditions for all sections to thrive using community-based system design, programs, and practices that reflect community values and strengths.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Community SEL Campaign for a More Trauma-Informed and Healthier Forsyth County
DEMAND
Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
Demand #3: Family Engagement
Demand #8: Ensure Educator
Personal Support and Learning
Equity Forsyth
Anchored by Action4Equity, Love Out Loud and Faith in the City, Equity Forsyth is a multiracial coalition of community partners organized to advance equity in education in Forsyth County.
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Community Coalition
DEMAND
- Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
- Demand #2: Hire a Diverse Staff
- Demand #3: Family Engagement
- Demand #4: Eliminate The Achievement Gap
- Demand #5: Equitable Funding Districtwide
- Demand #6: Enhance Air Quality Across District
- Demand #7: End Exclusionary Discipline
Our Opportunity 2 Love + Heal (OO2L+H)
Advocacy Platform
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Community Coalition
DEMAND
- Demand #1: Culturally Affirming Curriculum & School Learning Environments
- Demand #3: Family Engagement
- Demand #4: Eliminate The Achievement Gap
- Demand #7: End Exclusionary Discipline
Forsyth Leandro
Advocacy Platform
PLATFORM
PLATFORM TYPE
Local effort for the implementation of the Leandro Plan guaranteeing a sound, basic education for all students
DEMAND
- Demand #4: Eliminate The Achievement Gap
- Demand #5: Equitable Funding Districtwide
