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  • contact us
  • donate

Projects and Partnerships

"STOKE has helped us realize our true potential. As an organization that’s constantly in campaign mode, they’ve taught us to hit the pause button, allowing us to reflect on our obstacles, challenges, and successes. STOKE’s approach has always been to build us up in a sustaining way, using the structures that are there, and not foisting on us structures that are not ours."

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- Brendan Sexton, Executive Director of the Independent Drivers Guild

"I deeply appreciate the ways in which STOKE practiced a relational, dialogic approach in their work with us. I came out of the process with a clearer understanding of my role as a supervisor and team coordinator, and have become a more reflective, responsible facilitator."

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- Alana Kumbier, Associate Librarian for Humanities & Knowledge Commons at Hampshire College

"One of the valuable aftermaths of our work with STOKE was the personal effect it had on me. I am braver. Seeing the STOKE facilitators consistently and calmly stand up for their processes and values gave me an example to follow in my own way."

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- Ann Munson, volunteer leader with 350 Mass for a Better Future

"STOKE has helped us realize our true potential. As an organization that’s constantly in campaign mode, they’ve taught us to hit the pause button, allowing us to reflect on our obstacles, challenges, and successes. STOKE’s approach has always been to build us up in a sustaining way, using the structures that are there, and not foisting on us structures that are not ours."

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- Brendan Sexton, Executive Director of the Independent Drivers Guild

"I deeply appreciate the ways in which STOKE practiced a relational, dialogic approach in their work with us. I came out of the process with a clearer understanding of my role as a supervisor and team coordinator, and have become a more reflective, responsible facilitator."

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- Alana Kumbier, Associate Librarian for Humanities & Knowledge Commons at Hampshire College

"One of the valuable aftermaths of our work with STOKE was the personal effect it had on me. I am braver. Seeing the STOKE facilitators consistently and calmly stand up for their processes and values gave me an example to follow in my own way."

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- Ann Munson, volunteer leader with 350 Mass for a Better Future

"STOKE has helped us realize our true potential. As an organization that’s constantly in campaign mode, they’ve taught us to hit the pause button, allowing us to reflect on our obstacles, challenges, and successes. STOKE’s approach has always been to build us up in a sustaining way, using the structures that are there, and not foisting on us structures that are not ours."

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- Brendan Sexton, Executive Director of the Independent Drivers Guild


STOKE is grateful for the opportunities to work with a wide array of groups and organizations in deepening their commitment to doing the relational work of change-making. No matter the length or content of a partnership, our work is always deeply rooted in shifting culture. Whether it’s running visioning sessions or trainings, designing a retreat, or accompanying an organization as they refocus their organizational purpose, STOKE trainers always have an eye towards a relational, liberated future. Our past work has ranged from ‘all-encompassing’ multi-year projects to working with organizations in a specific area over the course of a month. We have worked with a range of group sizes across focus issues, age, race, gender, and other lines of difference.

Learn more about the work of our partners below:

  • 350 Mass for a Better Future

  • 508BikeLife

  • Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania

  • Berkshire Hills Regional School District

  • Catalyst Cooperative Healing

  • Center for Innovation in Worker Organization

  • Collaborative Resolutions Group

  • College Visions

  • Connecticut Fair Housing Center

  • Decarcerate Western Mass

  • Gamma Alpha Co-op

  • Green New Deal Network

  • Human Rights Watch

  • Independent Drivers Guild

  • Just the Pill

  • The Knowledge Commons & Library at Hampshire College

  • LightHouse Holyoke

  • Line 3 Pipeline Resistance Legal Support Network

  • Massachusetts Abortion Funds Coalition

  • New Jersey Birth Equity Funders Alliance

  • New Jersey Citizen Action

  • New Jersey Time to Care Coalition

  • New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives

  • Pa'lante Transformative Justice

  • Provide

  • Raise the Floor Alliance

  • The Recyclery Collective

  • Senior & Disability Action

  • Transformative Leadership for Change

  • Urban Homesteading Assistance Board's Tenant Organizing & Policy Department

  • The Village Worcester

  • Western Mass Showing Up for Racial Justice

  • We the People Michigan

  • Youth in Action

 

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