Dear Valued Community,

We’d like to share a bit of our organizational history with you all along with an honest message about our current state of affairs. OF/BY/FOR ALL was founded in the months immediately preceding the pandemic and the murder of George Floyd. OF/BY/FOR ALL launched the Change Network in 2018 and held its first in-person retreat in February of 2020. In some ways, it's challenging to remember what our world was like then since our collective existence shifted in ways that we’re still navigating and responding to. 

In 2022, 62 organizations participated in the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network program over 3 cohorts; in 2023, only 23 organizations participated; in 2024, we hosted 6 organizations in 1 cohort. It’s impossible to pinpoint one factor that contributed to this decline. Recovering from a global pandemic, facing hostile opposition to DEI practices, funding challenges, and organizational apathy toward building better workplaces greatly impacted OF/BY/FOR ALL’s ability to gain traction and build its audience. 

The good news is that, since our founding, OF/BY/FOR ALL has built a community that wants to create healthy connections and do thoughtful, meaningful work with kindness, care, and integrity. 

The bad news is that without your direct support, OF/BY/FOR ALL will be unable to continue its work in 2025.

In an effort to truly live our values of interdependence and practice transparency, we are coming to you, our community, to ask for your support.

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