POLICIES
We believe lasting change comes not only from directing resources to good causes, but from shifting the systems that undermine our values. Our values — justice, loving care, and solidarity — need to become the norms that guide everyday practice.
Policies, such as compensation structures or reporting lines, shape the culture of any organization. But too often they are defined by what is legal or efficient, rather than by what is just.
By testing policies through the lens of justice, we expose how existing systems pressure us to compromise and notice both the injustices and the acts of resistance that challenge them.
Living by new is not about demanding moral purity. For example, most of our collective members donate thousands of hours out of love, and justice calls on us to pay for labor. That's why we treat our policies as the core of our mission and set up the venture studio to test them.
The wisest big change starts out small, and lived experience makes all the difference. We hope to learn through practice what it takes to build a system differently and hope that our lessons can seed broader systems change.