UPRISE opens spaces and provides support for those with targeted identities to engage in social uplift within our own communities. We are embedded in the communities we seek to support which means we are also dealing with the same impacts as our community members.

Our work focuses on supporting Black, Indigenous People of Color, poor folks, folks who are Disabled/chronically ill, and the Queer/Trans Community. UPRISE does a lot of work through in person storytelling and belonging events, community organizing, training and civic engagement education. Our communities have encountered many obstacles in getting our basic needs met, but as our ancestors before us, we are survivors and so we adapt. We offer online and hybrid events to decrease isolation, develop mutual aid networks, and build coalitions. Our work centers on the concept that we are stronger together, building coalition and community power with those most impacted.