2023
Biennial Grantee
Stakeholder Convening
Theme | Action For ALICE: The Relentless Pursuit of Equity for ALICE
REFLECT
IMAGINE
ACT
Welcome & Opening Session
Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury
Chief Executive Officer, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
We hope you walk away from this knowing that we have voice and power in this room.
Christine Reeves Strigaro
Facillitator
The fight for 15 is far from radical. It’s woefully inadequate to meet the required $30/hr to afford basic household expenses in Arkansas.
Untitled Poem by Beth Strano
There is no such thing as a “safe space” —
We exist in the real world.
We all carry scars and have caused wounds.
This space
seeks to turn down the volume of the world outside,
and amplify voices that have to fight to be heard elsewhere,
This space will not be perfect.
It will not always be what we wish it to be
But
It will be our space together,
and we will work on it side by side.
Poem Reading By:
Rev. Cory Anderson
Chief Innovation Officer, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
#WRFBiennial
GUIDING QUESTIONS
Strategy Studio One: Reflect
Where have we been? What have we achieved? What did you learn?
Coach Clark
Executive Director, Life Skills for Youth (LSY)
I love that people are stepping up and saying ‘you shouldn’t have to struggle’.
Joyce Elliott
Leader, Get Loud Arkansas
I am one of the leaders of Get Loud AR and ALICE is among the population we are especially focused on for voter engagement.
Magaly Licolli
Cofounder & Executive Director, Venceremos
We need funders to keep amplifying the importance of workers rights, to help us normalize the conversation, so that workers feel safer and more comfortable speaking up because right now it’s not safe for them.
Arlo Washington
Founder & CEO, People Trust Community Loan Fund
We need a handup, not a handout.
Ryan Davis
Executive Director, UA Little Rock Children International
Churches are an integral institution to speak to the immediate needs of ALICE while also advocating for systems change on Alice’s behalf.
Sharon Toomer
Board Member, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Sometimes we think narrative change is in individual stories but it can also be rooted in policy.
Strategy Studio Two: Imagine
GUIDING QUESTION
What resonates from conversations about a bolder & brighter future for ALICE in AR?
Sanci Richardson
Founder, The Bridge Consulting
We need to shape a narrative around the way the individuals we serve see their communities.
Keesa Smith
Executive Director, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
There’s too much at stake for only one or two people saying this is what needs to be done. It’s too easy to brush it off. We need a coalition of folks moving forward on a few key issues.
Abby Hughes Holsclaw
Founder & CEO, Proper Southern Strategies
We all relied on ALICE to get us through the pandemic and we continue to rely on ALICE every single day. This fact cannot be dismissed.
Vicki Saviers
Board Secretary, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
I feel like sometimes we have the wrong people at the table and need to be more intentional to hear the right voices.
Sarah Moore
Executive Director, Arkansas Justice Reform Coalition
There are best practices that we can move the needle on in certain localities. But how do we scale that up, with more funds and support, to train and teach more people on those data-proven strategies?
Mario DeColores
Arco Iris Earth Care Project
The projects that are the most successful are the ones that have the most momentum. The ones with the most momentum are the ones that receive continuous funding at different stages, with different levels of technical assistance and capacity building to get over all the walls that emerge.
Strategy Studio Three: Act
GUIDING QUESTION
How can we co-create a collective action strategy to mobilize ideas and action plans for ALICE?
Alejandro Avilés Rodríguez
Board Member, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
We found out that we were all in the same boat but we often had blinders on.
Kiisha Morrow
Board Member, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
WRF has convening power and a platform. We’re committed to putting that to good use.
TAKE
ACTION
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