Initiatives

  • Black Love

    Black Love is a Black autonomous space. As Black people, we need places in which we can gather and be free from the mainstream stereotypes and marginalization that permeate every other societal space we occupy. We need spaces where we can be our full authentic selves without white people’s judgment and insecurity muzzling that expression. We need spaces where we can simply be—where we can get off the treadmill of making white people comfortable and finally realize just how tired we are.

  • exCHANGE/ interCAMBIO

    InterCAMBIO is an opportunity for adults and youth to gather and share personal stories in a cultural language exchange between English and Spanish speakers. During the six-week series, we will cover self, history & race, spirituality, food, sexuality & gender, and family & home. 

    InterCAMBIO, Jr. is a program for youth participants that focuses on literature written by BIPOC authors. It combines literacy and art to explore the same topics as the adults, in an age-friendly manner as a way to encourage parents and children to have meaningful conversations. 

  • Language Justice Resources

    CPC believes it’s essential to create multilingual spaces where everyone can participate in community organizing. CPC’s Language Justice Circle provides interpretation training through a social justice lens. LJC also provides gathering spaces for Spanish speakers, youth interpreters, and speakers of native languages to discuss language loss and reclamation, build relationships, and heal together.

  • ED Talks

    Aims to gather social justice nonprofit leaders spaces to provide mutual support while navigating a predominantly white system and city. Our collective success & failure is intricately intertwined, together we can amplifying our impact dramatically improving the health and well-being of all people and communities of Western North Carolina.

  • Opposition Book Club

    The Opposition Book Club is dedicated to uniting Social Justice Leaders with the purpose of fostering education, organization, and lessons drawn from historical movement failures. Our mission revolves around the chance to not only scrutinize our core values but also to engage in critical thinking and problem-solving. We aspire to bolster our readiness in addressing civil unrest triggered by government actions and opposing ideologies that threaten the freedom and rights of the people.

  • New Gen

    Focusing on Youth Leadership: Our program is tailored to empower students by enhancing their skills in civic engagement, public speaking, and teambuilding. It is strategically crafted to nurture leadership and critical thinking abilities while imparting the guiding principles for a collective liberated world. Our core emphasis centers around healing, bolstering BIPOC visibility to uplift and support our students.

Future Projects

  • Power to the Parents Leadership Program

    This initiative is derived from the nationally recognized parent engagement model, implemented by  the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. This model builds capacity by creating effective partnerships between parents, teachers, and students to help close the achievement gap, build parent leadership and improve our schools.

  • Think Tank

    Our “Think Tank is centered around the theme “A place we all call home”. Our goal is to provide space for envisioning what liberation and reparations look like for communities historically and currently marginalized by oppressive systems. We cannot envision until we have healed and we cannot heal until we have acknowledged our history.

  • 2025 Social Justice Gathering

    This initiative is derived from the nationally recognized parent engagement model, implemented by  the Logan Square Neighborhood Association. This model builds capacity by creating effective partnerships between parents, teachers, and students to help close the achievement gap, build parent leadership and improve our schools.