GenUnity

Housing-through facilitated whole-cohort meetings and small group discussions with community partners, members gain understanding of community needs, how service provision meets or fails to meet those needs, how policy and funding shape the status quo, and how they can use their own individual positionality and collective power to take action for change. 32 members

Lifetime- through the facilitated, inquiry-based conversations that members engage in throughout the program connect people's lived experiences to the systems and power structures that shape them. In the process, folks uncover "why" issues persist in their community and "how" they can use their power to drive change. Upon completing the program, members join our lifetime community of practice (lcop), where they continue to build deep peer-to-peer connections and collaborate on the execution of their action plans.

Health equity- Genunity issue-focused community leadership programs (e.g., health equity in boston) center lived experience and connection, bringing together proximate experts who have experienced the issue firsthand and siloed experts working in institutions to address them. Over 10 weeks, 3 hours/week, 45-50 residents engage in facilitated sessions and small-group discussions with local partners, going through successive modules that build up their understanding of the issue: people: members meet with patients, providers, and community leaders to hear about their experiences in the healthcare system, which in turn makes space for members to share about their own identities and lived experiences. System: members engage with organizations in public, nonprofit, and private sectors to understand how the services they provide meet, or fail to meet, people's needs. Power: members talk to people in advocacy and political spaces to understand how decisions around funding and policy-making work. Change: members reflect on their learnings and map out avenues for change.

General program-train others around how to build connections accrross difference by participating on panels and conducting workshops. 96 members

New program #1: environmental justice