GenUnity

Our mission is to bring together everyday residents across difference, to build community and drive change on local issues. At GenUnity, we envision a community by everyone for everyone, because when we are co-creators in building the systems that impact us, we are all better off. Our issue-focused community leadership programs bring residents together to tackle the issues critical to their communities. Each cohort convenes up to 50 residentsfrom proximate experts experiencing the issue to the siloed experts working in institutions to address themfor 10 weeks, 3 hours/week. Through facilitated sessions and small-group discussions with local partners, members go through successive modules that build up their understanding of the issue, connecting peoples lived experiences to the systems and power structures that shape them. In the process, they develop leadership skillsfrom active listening, to systems thinking, to action planningand the inquiry-based conversations that members ...