Collaborate with HAL’s coalition of 1,000+ students, educators, and other community partners and use HAL’s national platforms to share your community’s stories and the action they demand. Recognizing that your local experiences are both unique and linked to large issues of shared national and global concern – like mass incarceration or climate injustice – you’ll work with higher ed students to co-create a local contribution to one of our national, collaborative public memory projects.
Through the HAL coalition, you’ll have a chance to partner with a local university or college in ways that you define as useful. In addition, you’ll develop or deepen relationships with peer organizations across the country doing parallel work, collaborating to confront our pasts to imagine a more just future.
- Use HAL’s platforms to share your organization’s and community’s stories with a national audience
- Connect your local organization with peers doing parallel work in 40+ cities
- Create new opportunities to work with students at your local university or college, or receive support to continue an existing partnership
- Share your skills and assets to support others around the country
- Funds to support staff time, community participants’ time, and project media production
- Support with media-making to convey your organization’s advocacy work
- A wide-reaching platform to share your organization’s local stories, through one of HAL’s national projects and exhibits
- Resources for creating equitable partnerships and facilitating dialogue with university or college partners and students
- You can engage community members who have been directly impacted by the issue of the project you’re participating in (e.g., climate injustice, mass incarceration, university-driven urban renewal) to collaborate with a class of university or college students. Using HAL’s facilitation resources as desired, you’ll work with the faculty and students to co-create a project sharing your stories. Your local project will contribute one chapter to one of HAL’s national, collective projects and will work in concert with other contributors in 40+ cities.
- All stories are told and controlled by those directly impacted by the issues represented, and shared as desired through HAL’s widely disseminated public media platforms and traveling exhibits,
- You’ll have the opportunity to participate in HAL’s virtual and in person convenings to exchange knowledge and collaborate with other partners. Travel funds and stipends are available.
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape collective frameworks (to the extent you would like) through virtual meetings, to ensure they work for you locally.
- You already have a partnership with a higher ed course at a local institution, or you are willing to work with one. If you don’t already have a relationship with a university partner, let us know and HAL will work to connect you!
- You’re willing and able to engage members of your community or organization in co-creating a local story and other project activities
- You share a commitment to HAL’s values and Theory of Change
- Among your proposed participants, the majority of your active voices are individuals who have been directly impacted by the issue of the project you’re dealing with (e.g., climate injustice, the criminal legal system, university-driven urban renewal).
- You are committed to being an active participant in the HAL coalition as a learner and teacher, by attending 3-4 meetings per year, and sharing ideas and knowledge with peers. Honoraria are provided to compensate you for your time and expertise.