What The Organizing Center does

The Organizing Center is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit training organization founded in 2020 that delivers coaching, workshops, peer cohorts, and retreat facilitation to base-building organizers — primarily those working with Black and Brown, poor and working class, and women and gender-oppressed communities across the United States. Its core portfolio spans Skill Building Workshops (pre-scheduled and custom, covering organizing conversations, leadership development, coalition practices, and campaign strategies), one-on-one Coaching & Campaign Support, multi-month Peer Cohorts and Learning Labs (including Resilient Futures for Black, Brown, and Asian organizers; Leading the Way for women and gender-oppressed organizers; and Organizer Apprenticeship), and custom Retreat Facilitation for organizations, coalitions, and movement funders.

Delivery is human-led, supported by a lightweight technology stack consisting of a Wix-hosted website, OurPowerBase.net for registration, CRM, and donations, Asana for meeting request forms, and Zoom for virtual workshops and coaching. Reach extends to organizers in 27 states, with both virtual and in-person programming. The team is small (4 core staff plus a network of 16+ trainers and coaches) and the organization is affiliated with Movement Alliance Project.

Revenue is assembled from tiered, sliding-scale workshop fees ($75-$375 per person based on organizational budget), hourly coaching ($100-$300/hour with discounts for 3+ month commitments), peer cohort tuition (some programs free for qualifying participants), negotiated retreat facilitation contracts, individual and recurring community donations (including a Solidarity Fund for cost-barrier participants), and merchandise proceeds through a partnership with Philly Printworks. Go-to-market combines direct website sales, community-led referrals within the organizing ecosystem, and targeted engagement with movement funders and funder collaboratives.

Name

The Organizing Center

Legal name

The Organizing Center

Website

https://theorganizingcenter.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Organizing Center is a Philadelphia nonprofit, founded in 2020, that provides training, coaching, peer cohorts, and retreat facilitation to base-building organizers working with Black and Brown, poor and working class, women and gender-oppressed communities across 27 U.S. states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Nonprofit Training and Coaching Services

NAICS

Business, Professional, Labor, Political, and Similar Organizations (8139), Professional Organizations (81392)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Community Center Education Programs (EDAAAFAB)

Keywords

• Community organizing training
• Nonprofit coaching services
• Base building workshops
• Movement leadership development
• Organizer peer cohorts

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Workshop Fees: Tiered pricing for workshops based on organization budget size. Movement Organizer tier ($75-$125/person) for organizations under $300K budget; Movement Supporter ($150-$200/person) for $300K-$1M budget; Movement Sustainer ($300-$375/person) for over $1M budget.
2. Coaching Services: Hourly coaching rates ranging from $100-$300/hour with discounts available for 3-month+ commitments. One-on-one mentorship and campaign support sessions.
3. Peer Cohort Programs: Multi-month cohort programs (Resilient Futures, Leading the Way, Organizer Apprenticeship) with varying structures. Some cohorts are free for qualifying participants while others may have associated costs.
4. Retreat Facilitation: Custom retreat facilitation services for movement funders, funder collaboratives, and organizations. Pricing negotiated based on scope and duration.
5. Donations and Solidarity Fund: Community donations support low-cost coaching and scholarships for organizers and organizations lacking resources. One-time and monthly donation options available. Solidarity Fund provides financial assistance to those with cost barriers.
6. Merchandise Sales: The OC Swag - partnership with Philly Printworks selling t-shirts with proceeds supporting programs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The Organizing Center provides training, coaching, and peer learning programs for social-justice base-building organizers and the organizations they work with. Its core offerings include one-on-one coaching and campaign support, skill-building workshops (pre-scheduled and customized), multi-month peer cohort programs such as Resilient Futures, Leading the Way, and the Organizer Apprenticeship, plus retreat facilitation for organizations, coalitions, and movement funders.

Product overview

The Organizing Center is a training organization offering a portfolio of interconnected services for base-building organizers. The core offerings consist of Coaching & Campaign Support (one-on-one mentorship), Skill Building Workshops (pre-scheduled and custom), Peer Cohorts/Peer Learning Labs (multi-month programs), and Retreat Facilitation. Specific workshop products include Building a Bigger 'We' (organizing conversations), Making Absorption Real (leadership development), Stronger Together (coalition practices), and Power Jenga (campaign strategies). Peer cohort programs include Resilient Futures, Organizer Apprenticeship, and Leading the Way. The organization serves Black and Brown, poor and working class, women and gender-oppressed people, with a sliding scale pricing model based on organizational budget size.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Coaching & Campaign Support One-on-one mentorship with experienced organizers tailored to each organizer's or director's current level, supporting work-plan development, campaign planning, and supervisory skill-building for individuals and organizations.
• Skill Building Workshops Pre-scheduled and custom workshops covering organizing conversations, leadership development, coalition practices, and campaign strategies, delivered in-person or virtually with self-paced and live practice components.
• Peer Cohorts (Peer Learning Labs) Multi-month cohort programs (3-12 months) that level up organizing practice through deep dives into challenges of developing and maintaining resilient base-building practices. Includes Resilient Futures, Leading the Way, and the Organizer Apprenticeship.
• Retreat Facilitation Skilled facilitation of team retreats including campaign planning, conditions assessments, re-grounding retreats, and skill-building retreats, offered in-person and virtually for organizations, coalitions, and movement funders.
• Resilient Futures Peer cohort program supporting Black, Brown, and Asian base-building organizers and directors to explore culture, agency, connection, emotional resilience, and leadership roles for building resilient organizational cultures.
• Organizer Apprenticeship Fellowship program for new or aspiring organizers and their supervisors that builds clarity about what it means to be an organizer, developing fundamental organizing and supervisory skills through an in-person retreat and virtual sessions.
• Leading the Way Free 6-week virtual program for women and gender-oppressed base-building organizers with at least 2 years of experience, designed to develop organizing and resilience skills and build relationships with other gender-oppressed organizers.
• Building a Bigger 'We': Organizing Conversations That Grow Our Movements Workshop offering an outline and tools for having organizing conversations that move people to collective action, including templates for transformative conversations and practice with probing questions and deep listening.
• Making Absorption Real: Structures & Practices That Bring People In and Keep Them Workshop teaching fundamentals of creating leadership development structures and roles that support members to lead in organizations and stay in movements for the long-haul.
• Stronger Together: Coalition Practices for Navigating Tension and Disagreement Workshop supporting participants to explore questions of purpose, strategy, and decision-making to navigate disagreement in coalitions, with tools to disagree well and build cultures of shared responsibility.
• Power Jenga: Campaign Strategies to Shake the System Virtual recording workshop exploring campaign strategies targeting multiple pillars of support to force decision-makers to rethink policies, developed in collaboration with Training for Change.

Quantifiable outcome

• Organizers develop skills to build campaigns that contest for power and bring new members into organizations
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

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Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Philly PrintworksminorGTM or Marketing PartnerPartnership with independent clothing brand Philly Printworks to offer fundraising t-shirts. T-shirt designed by trainer Sara Yukimoto-Saltman, printed on 100% cotton, with all proceeds going directly to The Organizing Center's programs.
• Training for ChangecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative partnership with Training for Change on the Power Jenga workshop series. Training for Change is a longtime movement training organization. Jointly developed and delivered campaign strategy training exploring pillars of support and principles for stronger local campaigning.
• Organizing Skills InstituteminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-branded training partner for the Power Jenga workshop, listed as 'In Collaboration With' on the recording page.
• Kendra CommunicationsminorOthersBranding and communications partner helping The Organizing Center with brand identity and communications. Logo featured on team page under 'We don't work alone' section.
• Rose Hill ConsultingminorOthersConsulting partner providing professional services. Logo featured on team page under 'We don't work alone' section.
• Two Minds PressminorOthersCommunications partner. Logo featured on team page under 'We don't work alone' section.
• Rachel Warriner PhotographyminorOthersPhotography partner providing professional photography services. Logo and Instagram link featured on team page under 'We don't work alone' section.
• Movement Alliance ProjectcoreOthersAffiliated organization shown with 'Movement Alliance Project' badge on website. The Organizing Center appears to be a project/organization within the Movement Alliance Project ecosystem, possibly housed under their nonprofit infrastructure.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Marshall Ganz / Harvard Kennedy School Programs: Marshall Ganz's People, Power, Change curriculum (originating at Harvard) is foundational to organizer training worldwide and is widely adopted by movement schools and academies. A broad incumbent whose framework The Organizing Center builds on and adapts for base-building contexts.
• People's Action Institute: National progressive organizing network that runs leadership development, campaign training, and coalition programs for member organizations. A larger incumbent with overlapping training programming but broader political and electoral scope.

Direct peers

• Center for Story-Based Strategy: Provides training and tools for narrative, messaging, and strategic storytelling in social movements. Overlaps with The Organizing Center in workshop-format organizer education and movement-aligned methodology.
• Training for Change: Long-established movement training organization that delivers skill-building workshops for activists and organizers. The Organizing Center already has a core co-development partnership with Training for Change on the Power Jenga workshop, making it the most directly comparable peer.
• Movement Strategy Center: Provides strategy, training, and campaign support for movement-building organizations. Directly comparable in delivering coaching, retreats, and capacity-building programming for social justice base-building groups.
• Ayni Institute: Movement-building organization offering trainings and resources on leadership development, campaign strategy, and movement ecosystem health. Closely comparable in its integrated approach to organizer development and ecosystem support.
• Midwest Academy: One of the oldest progressive organizing training organizations in the U.S., running multi-day workshops on campaign strategy, fundraising, and constituent organizing. Overlaps directly with The Organizing Center's workshop and coaching offerings for base-building groups.
• Re:Power: Formerly Wellstone Action, Re:Power provides political and organizing training programs for candidates, campaign staff, and movement leaders. Directly comparable in offering cohort-based training, coaching, and customized programs for progressive organizations.
• Organizing Skills Institute: Already listed as a co-development partner on the Power Jenga workshop. Delivers organizing training for grassroots campaigns and is a directly comparable peer in the same training niche.

Emerging players

• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: Alliance of base-building organizations working on climate, racial, and economic justice. Provides convenings, training, and cohort programs for organizers in member groups — comparable as a peer training/cohort provider, though operating as a membership alliance rather than a standalone training shop.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/theorganizingcenter
• Instagraminstagram.com/theorganizingcenter
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-organizing-center

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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