Coalition of Asian American Leaders on behalf of the LinkingLeaders Partnership

The following project outcomes provide guidance for the group. It is our hope that these serve only as a starting point and that the group will identify and achieve additional outcomes as part of the process. Throughout implementing the Practicing Solidarity Framework the group will reflect on the processes, projects, and activities to inform the groups’ learning as well as assist in creating and refining by asking: What happened?, How did it feel?, What options become apparent? And What will we do more of, less of, start, stop as a result?

• Share resources, learning, and training modules that enhance our focus on solidarity and enrich our programs
  • Create a shared resource library with the potential to share beyond our Partners
  • This work will be the collective effort of the group. They will decide what type of information is needed to expand and deepen learning as well as formats that will work well for their leadership programs as well as translate well for external programs to adapt.
• Commit to a practice of unlearning and learning the histories.
  • Develop a process, generate ideas for how to practice and determine accountability measures.
  • Document the process to inform the creation of a tool or module that can be used by others.
  • Document pre/post learning to demonstrate shifts in learning and understanding.
• Create space to teach one another those histories.
  • Track the ways that this occurs as a way to document and share as examples for both internal and external application. We will have multiple approaches integrated to honor the different ways of learning – readings, articles, websites, videos, in-person, virtual, interactive, individual, large and small group.
• Create an artifact that demonstrates the context of each Partner’s organizational, cultural and local histories and the peoples.
  • Each Partner will create a minimum of one artifact with the potential for more depending on how each team approaches the activity.
• Implement a process for integrating learning and sharing the artifacts.
  • Each CoP member is the director of their leadership program and will work with their team of staff, volunteers, and trainers to implement a plan and practice for embedding tools and resources into their training curriculum. We will have four different plans/processes that exhibit different and culturally relevant ways to integrate learning and practice solidarity. These plans will include evaluation elements to track and understand how the process works as well as learning of the organization and program participants.
  • The CoP will partner with the Solidarity team to create similar processes.
• Understand how power is organized and where our communities are advantaged and disadvantaged by system designs.
  • We will create specific learning modules that highlight this area as well as reflection and discussion questions that will facilitate understanding for participants.
  • This can also be integrated into program evaluations to gauge depth of understanding and implications for systems change.
• Leverage alignment to target oppressive systems and strengthen solidarity.
  • Leadership program participants will identify 2-3 pressing issues to inform the Partnership on shared efforts.
  • This can also be integrated into program evaluation and/or through facilitated discussion.