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The JOC-Allies Project supports BIPOC, Jews of Color and Allies in deepening intersectional relationships as a foundational element for engaging in racial justice and equity work. Over 8 years and three consecutive cohorts, the JOC -Allies project has resourced hundreds of leaders with tools for galvanizing antiracism work in multiracial, multicultural and multifaith environments. The JOC-Allies Project continues to provide two annual cohorts through BLAC and WDR where leaders attend Race Forward’s Facing Race conference and engage in six months of post-conference skill building within intentional communities of practice.
BLAC is a nine-month cohort experience that brings together Black and brown women professionals to deepen their capacity for Liberatory Practice within a diverse and dynamic network of other Black and brown women leaders. Meeting for monthly online sessions, leaders prioritize rest and uplift their existence, what we call our BEING, which is facilitated by expert liberatory practitioners. In addition, there is in-person experience at the Facing Race conference in November 2024. Participants will leave with new or refreshed tools for their liberatory practice work to apply to their professional and personal lives.
BLAC is a community of Black and brown executives, philanthropic leaders, and senior professionals who are engaged in liberatory practice looking to connect with others like them.
Liberatory Practice is prioritizing the awareness of and dismantling the inevitable ways systems of domination live in us.
The program will run on Sunday afternoons from 4-6 PM ET, once a month. The final dates will be scheduled and shared once the cohort is confirmed.
Dimensions heavily subsidizes the cost of participation in BLAC, which includes the Facing Race experience (travel, lodging, and registration) We ask that participants contribute $500 toward their cohort experience, due upon acceptance. Support and payment plans are available. We hope that if you work for an organization that invests in your professional development, they can support your participation! Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
The deadline to apply for the next BLAC cohort is July 19th, 2024. If you apply before that, we will review your application on a rolling basis. Once we’ve reviewed your application, we may invite you to a 30-minute interview with Tikvah Womack, BLAC Project Director, to learn more about you and your potential participation in the cohort. All applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by August 1st.
Facing Race is a bi-annual convening that brings together community organizers, activists, and movement makers to advance racial justice. This year the conference takes place in St. Louis, Missouri from November 20-22, 2024. Attendance at Facing Race is heavily subsidized by Dimensions, and is a crucial part of BLAC program participation. If you are accepted to the program, we will provide you with information about travel and lodging.
BLAC will create a space for Black women executives and philanthropy leaders to rest and give shape to what leadership BEing holds for Black women leaders beyond their leadership DOing. BLAC will provide Black Women and Women of Color in executive roles with a restful space to explore leadership development, empowerment and community building within a dynamic, warm and welcoming community of WOC professionals. BLAC will convene with experts in the field of racial equity to consider resources that center the necessity of Black women’s joy, peace, wholeness and wellbeing as measurable outcomes for successful racial equity work.
WDR is a nine-month cohort experience that brings together white women+ professionals who have committed to the work of moving their allyship to accompliceship. Through monthly online sessions with leaders in white anti-racist work, an in-person experience at the Facing Race conference in November 2024, participants will leave with new and refreshed tools for their accomplice work to Black Women and Women of Color in their lives.
WDR is a community of white women+ who are engaged in anti-racist work, and are looking to connect with others like them. WDR participants may be leaders in their organizations, communities, or independent DEI practitioners.
Dimensions uses women+ to indicate our expansiveness in the understanding of what it means to be a woman–assigned female at birth, as well as non-binary, genderqueer, and gender-questioning folks who want to explore the identity “woman” in all its complexity.
The program will run on Sunday afternoons from 4-6 PM ET, once a month. The final dates will be scheduled and shared once the cohort is confirmed. The first session will be longer to get us oriented, and spend time building relationships.
Dimensions heavily subsidizes the cost of participation in WDR, which includes the Facing Race experience (lodging and registration.) We ask that participants contribute $450 toward their cohort experience, half due upon acceptance. Support for travel to/from Facing Race and payment plans are available. We hope that if you work for an organization that invests in your professional development, they can support your participation! Please reach out to [email protected] with any questions or concerns.
The deadline to apply for the next WDR cohort is July 19th. If you apply before that, we will review your application on a rolling basis. Once we’ve reviewed your application, we may invite you to a 30-minute interview with Emilia Diamant, WDR Project Director, to learn more about you and your potential participation in the cohort. All applicants will be notified of acceptance decisions by August 1, 2024.
Facing Race is a bi-annual convening that brings together community organizers, activists, and movement makers to advance racial justice. This year the conference takes place in St. Louis, Missouri from November 20-22, 2024. Attendance at Facing Race is heavily subsidized by Dimensions, and is a crucial part of WDR program participation. If you are accepted to the program, we will provide you with information about travel and lodging.
WDR provides a space for white women executives and philanthropy leaders to explore the impacts of race, class and gender identity on building intentional relationships as allies and accomplices to BIPOC women leaders. Through training, relational skill building and networking, white women will be prepared to shift power dynamics and deepen partnership with Black Women and Women of Color who are leading for racial equity. WDR participants are invited to join a dynamic, warm and welcoming community of white women professionals who have committed to the work of moving their allyship to accompliceship in the transformational work of moving our current prospects for realizing racial equity forward together.
