The Elbow Grease Writer’s Guild invites participants to join a workshop series aimed at amplifying the voices of femme and nonbinary artists in the Boston area. This series will provide a unique opportunity for writers to explore arts writing and create a collaborative zine featuring their work, inspired by direct connections with artists. Throughout the series, participants will engage in creative writing exercises, discussions, and collaborative activities designed to deepen their understanding of arts writing. The series will culminate in a zine project that reflects the collective stories and perspectives of the artists participants connect with.

The Coalitions, Policy & Grassroots Organizing (CPGO) member team is a collaborative initiative committed to actively participating in existing coalitions, prioritizing issues such as community safety, economic and environmental justice, and adopting a multigenerational approach. Open to various matters brought forth by coalition members, the team serves as a bridge for collaboration within the coalition pillar, emphasizing principles rooted in community and liberation. The policy pillar supports ongoing policy efforts aligned with the mission, membership, and community base, while the grassroots pillar strives to build political alignment within our organizations and communities.

The Boston Ujima Project is excited to launch Night School, a program aimed at enhancing members' knowledge in donorship, resourcing, and philanthropy with a focus on Black giving. This initiative will cover topics such as relationship management, equity-based fundraising, and philanthropy history, and will actively engage the resourcing team. Sessions will include institutional giving, time banking, trust-based philanthropy, resource organizing, asset mapping, and capacity building, exploring their impacts and benefits. We are committed to creating a dynamic curriculum, recruiting experienced facilitators, and engaging members, with feedback guiding ongoing improvements and continuous support from the Resource Organizing Fellow.

Using Zadie Smith’s essay on photography, Through the Portal, as a point of departure, this three-session workshop series explores the relationship between contemporary art-making and the sacred in everyday life. Through a range of multimedia practices—including video, literature, and photography—the series examines how artists use these mediums to document the present, engaging with it as a site of both artistic and spiritual inquiry. Over the series, participants will develop their own individual or collective digital exhibition. This exhibition will reframe participants' works within the theme of transformation and transcendence, inspired by the ritualistic qualities found in daily experiences. The series draws upon online exhibitions such as Art in a Time Like This by Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen, Queer.Archive.Work by Paul Soulellis, Home Alone Survival Guide by Max Siedentopf, and The Free Black Woman’s Library by OlaRonke Akinmowo, which all emphasize the act of preserving the ordinary while transforming it into a space of reflection.

The Anchor Institution team consists of Ujima members and solidarity members with the primary objective of supporting the Ujima ecosystem by organizing institutions in Greater Boston, focusing on universities, hospitals, and faith-based organizations, to actively support Ujima’s mission. Key strategies include focusing on procurement, involving purchases from Ujima Good Business Alliance members' businesses; and engagement in values-aligned campaigns through Ujima’s grassroots partners, such as the PILOT Action Group.