Growing a Beloved Community, One Harvest at a Time How one neighbor turned her property into a vibrant hub for community care and connection When Leila McCabe of Oakland, Calif. wanted to find a way to connect more closely with her neighbors, she didn’t have to look far for a …
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Coming Together: The 2026 Beloved Community Cohort Retreat After months of gathering, learning, and building relationships virtually, participants in the 2026 Beloved Community Cohort had an opportunity to do something especially meaningful this July: come together in person. From July 20–23, cohort participants, mentors, advisors, and facilitators gathered at Westerbeke …
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Growing Community: Beloved Community Garden Welcomes the 2026 Victory Garden Bus Tour On August 2, the Beloved Community Garden opened its gates to fellow growers, neighbors, organizers, and community members as a stop on Tandi Family Farms’ 2026 Victory Garden Bus Tour. The annual tour brought people together to experience …
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Camp Bruce Lee Brings Bruce Lee’s Legacy to Life Through Movement, Creativity, and Community For one inspiring week in July, Camp Bruce Lee brought together teenagers from across Alameda County, with a special focus on engaging and supporting systems-impacted youth. Through movement, creativity, reflection, and community, this collaborative experience invited …
Beloved Communities Network (BCN) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation through its Exploring Equitable Futures initiative in support of the Oakland Horizon Story Project.
Facing In is an organizational community that supports people and group impacted by trauma, conflict and harm to move from separation and isolation to facing in – toward ourselves, towards each other, and towards our communities – with more dignity, authenticity, and accountability and in service of collective liberation. …
Visionary Organizing Lab exists to teach Visionary Organizing, an approach to change that equally emphasizes our material needs and non-material needs. We believe that when we learn to equally emphasize our material and non-material needs, we begin to exist in ways that allow us to create communities, organizations, and institutions …
The Strategic Nonviolence Academy is a vital initiative designed to empower leaders in building and executing effective movements. In an era where massive protests often occur but sustainable victories are elusive, the Academy offers a comprehensive approach that integrates strategic thinking (Head), community connection (Heart), and organizing skills (Feet). It …
Founded in 2022 by Director Malkia Devich-Cyril, Radical Loss is a Black-led change lab transforming how movements face loss and catalyze grief into powerful leadership and action. Black, Indigenous and Arab changemakers, as well as other communities on the frontlines of bereavement are the central practitioners in this lab. Radical …
How the first Beloved Community Cohort—a transformative 9-month journey rooted in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of Beloved Community—is reshaping movement building, community building and leadership, and healing justice, for a more resilient world.
