Opportunities to Get Involved After The Ways of Knowing Symposium:

For Grantmakers: Join the grant maker engagement group to collaborate on creating more inclusive and effective funding strategies through a co-created space involving the Racialized and Resilient Collective and our new Changemaker Network. Sign-up here.
Racialized and Resilient Collective: Originally an advocacy group and peer learning space for Executive Directors that were identified as BIPOC. This collective remains active as a peer learning space and an advocacy group, working with grantmakers to participate in co-created discussions and workgroups fused on systemic change as it relates to equitable funding and closing the funding disparity gap between white and non-white led organizations. Sign-up here.
CBO (Community Based Organization) Network: Join this new initiative designed to foster systemic change and facilitate peer learning among its members. By joining, you’ll have the opportunity to engage in discussions and workgroups aimed at addressing various issues and driving impactful change. Sign-up here.
Academics: Anyone who is working within a higher education institution and would like to continue conversations around how to foster community-led research that centers the community. This includes sharing your strategies that work when you partner with communities, as well as learning from your peers. Sign-up here.
Other Institutions: This includes hospitals, academic journals, and others. Please join the conversation and action that we are mobilizing. Sign-up here.

Who are we?

Hope to Thrive is a non-profit inspiring hope for individuals, families, and communities to thrive in complete health and wellbeing in North Carolina.

moving people through poverty and out of poverty

Hope to Thrive is a non-profit inspiring hope for individuals, families, and communities to thrive in complete health and wellbeing in North Carolina. We do this by strengthening and coordinating faith networks, food chain pathways, health care systems, and offering innovative opportunities for positive creativity and transformation.

Hope to Thrive engages people within these networks individually beginning with their own process of understanding, but not without considering the larger context, such as the oppressive systematic barriers imposed in our rural and urban communities. Through engaging individuals as part of systems, Hope to Thrive acknowledges that there are cultural behaviors based out of trauma (related to the different systems such as access to healthcare and healthy food) that manifests in poor health outcomes from diabetes to depression to the contraction of sexually transmitted diseases/infections.

Hope to Thrive addresses the outcomes with a focus on meaningful activities, such as community dialogues. These dialogues allow people to explore their own beliefs, learn from others, and gain clarity over topics that are hard to discuss or taboo and creates opportunities for people to enter into spaces in which open and honest engagement is allowed.

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