Re Power

What Re Power does

re:power is a national nonprofit movement-building organization founded under the leadership of Executive Director Karundi Williams in 2019, operating through two legal entities—re:power (a 501(c)(4)) and re:power Fund (a 501(c)(3))—headquartered implicitly in Minnesota (phone area code 651). Its core function is delivering cohort-based training in liberatory organizing to women of color and trans/gender-expansive people of color who work as organizers, strategists, creatives, campaigners, technologists, and elected officials. The organization runs roughly two dozen programs across a platform-plus-modules architecture: foundational cohorts include the 18-week Grassroots Organizing School (GRO School), Storytelling Academy, Strategy Academy, and the Women of Color Leadership Cohort; specialty programs include the Data x Power Fellowship, Data Analytics Camp, Digital Organizer School, Campaign School for Issue Organizers, Collaborative Governance Academy (in partnership with Local Progress), State Courts on the Power Map, and the annual Camp re:power retreat. The proprietary Liberatory Organizing Framework organizes all curricula around head-work (strategy), heart-work (values and resilience), and hands-work (tactics).

Revenue flows from three streams: foundation grants (Ford Foundation, Collaborative on Gender & Reproductive Equity, Groundswell Fund, Rise Together Fund, Four Freedoms Fund), individual donations solicited at $25–$500 tiers via EveryAction, and training fees from both public cohorts and customized organizational partnerships. The annual budget grew from $3.1M to $6M under current leadership, staff expanded from 11 to 25, and the alumni network reached 14,939 across 34 states over the most recent three years. Customers are diversified across non-profit social-justice organizations (Future Coalition, 9to5, State Voices, SEIU, AFT), progressive funders, and individual elected officials (Nashville Metro Council, Baltimore City Council), with no single anchor customer dominating revenue. A sliding-scale pricing model for public programming is being introduced in 2025 to broaden access among lower-budget organizers.

Name

Re Power

Legal name

re:power

Website

https://repower.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

re:power is a national 501(c)(4)/c3 nonprofit that delivers cohort-based liberatory organizing training to women of color and trans/gender-expansive people of color, serving organizers, strategists, and elected officials through 20+ programs, 28+ organizational partnerships annually, and a 14,939-person alumni network.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Movement-Building Training Services

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Leadership, Civic Education & Service-Learning Nonprofits (BPAGADAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Civic Participation & Leadership Development (Voting, Advocacy, Community Leadership) (EDAAADAL), Change Management & Transformation Leadership (EDABAAAD)

Keywords

• Organizing training programs
• Movement building services
• Nonprofit capacity building
• Liberatory organizing education
• Social justice leadership training

Headquarters

HQ city

Saint Paul Island

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Grant Funding: re:power receives grants from foundations including Ford Foundation, Collaborative on Gender & Reproductive Equity, and others. They partner with funders like Groundswell Fund, Rise Together Fund, and Four Freedoms Fund for specific programs.
2. Individual Donations: The organization solicits donations from individuals through their website with suggested donation amounts ($25, $35, $50, $100, $500).
3. Training Fees: re:power charges fees for training programs. They have announced plans to introduce a sliding scale pricing model in 2025 to support organizers across the country.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

re:power is a national movement-building organization that delivers cohort-based training programs, fellowships, and customized organizational partnerships to develop women of color and trans/gender-expansive people of color as organizers and movement leaders. Core deliverables include the Grassroots Organizing School, Women of Color Leadership Cohort, Storytelling Academy, Strategy Academy, Data Analytics Camp, Campaign School for Issue Organizers, Digital Organizer School, Data x Power Fellowship, Collaborative Governance Academy, State Courts on the Power Map, and the annual Camp re:power retreat, all anchored in a liberatory organizing framework.

Product overview

re:power is a training and movement-building organization offering a comprehensive portfolio of training programs, fellowships, and cohort experiences for social justice organizers. The organization operates as a platform-plus-modules architecture with core training programs including Grassroots Organizing School (GRO School), Storytelling Academy, Strategy Academy, and Digital Organizer School, complemented by specialized cohorts like the Women of Color Leadership Cohort and Data x Power Fellowship. Additional offerings include Camp re:power (annual retreat), the Collaborative Governance Academy (in partnership with Local Progress), and State Courts on the Power Map program. The organization also delivers customized partnership trainings to external organizations. All programs incorporate head-work (strategy and analysis), heart-work (values, motivations, and resilience), and hands-work (tactics and skills), with a focus on centering BIPOC organizers and liberatory organizing practices.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Grassroots Organizing School (GRO School) 18-week course providing BIPOC grassroots organizers sustained training and support to develop baseline relational organizing skills, including public narrative, leadership team building, and strategic campaign planning. Audience: BIPOC grassroots organizers.
• Storytelling Academy Training program teaching organizers to use personal and collective stories to build power, inspire action, and engage communities through narrative strategy. Audience: movement organizers and leaders.
• Strategy Academy Training focused on developing strategic thinking, campaign planning, and tactical sequencing for organizers to create effective power-building campaigns. Audience: organizers and campaign strategists.
• Women of Color Leadership Cohort Heart-centered 12-week cohort bringing women of color leaders together to explore root cause analysis, organizing & leadership, management & strategy, deconstructing white dominant practices, and visions of liberation. Audience: women of color leaders.
• Data x Power (DxP) Fellowship Fellowship program teaching data literacy, data visualization, and data management skills to movement organizers, enabling them to use data effectively for organizing and advocacy. Audience: movement organizers and strategists.
• Collaborative Governance Academy (CGA) Partnership with Local Progress training local and state elected officials, their staff, and movement leaders with skills, strategy, and shared language to govern in alignment with progressive values. Audience: elected officials and senior movement leaders.
• Camp re:power Annual gathering that serves as a nurturing and resilient space for BIPOC organizers to recharge, connect with peers, and engage in movement building activities. In 2025, the Charlotte, NC event gathered ~200 BIPOC organizers from 34 states. Audience: BIPOC organizers.
• State Courts on the Power Map Cohort program training organizers to understand state court structures, track key cases, and build strategies for organizing and advocacy around judicial systems. Audience: organizers working on courts and judicial power.
• Data Analytics Camp 5-day intensive training for data practitioners focusing on best practices in data, analytics, and engineering to support online and offline campaigns. Audience: data practitioners supporting organizing work.
• Campaign School for Issue Organizers (CSIO) In-person training covering fundamentals of campaign strategy, building volunteer programs, developing fundraising plans, targeting voters through VAN, script-building, and year-round base-building. Audience: issue organizers and campaign staff.
• Digital Organizer School Comprehensive training program covering digital organizing fundamentals, analytics, email writing, growing online communities, and mobile campaigning. Audience: digital organizers and campaign staff.
• Movement Building Partnerships (Custom Organizational Training) Customized training programs delivered to partner organizations, with tailored curriculum design, trauma-informed approaches, and ongoing coaching support. Audience: social justice organizations, coalitions, and foundations commissioning training.

Quantifiable outcome

• Trained 2,615 people in 2024 through 26 public trainings
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• 9to5coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Partnership to deliver a three-day Grassroots Organizing Training at 9to5's Annual Organizer Training in New Orleans. Sessions covered public narrative & storytelling, leadership team building, and strategic organizing with power mapping, campaign planning, and tactical sequencing.
• South Asian SOARcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Custom 5-week Storytelling Academy serving 15 leaders from over 30 organizations representing South Asian survivors of gender-based violence. The training was trauma-informed and supported leaders in sharing their stories publicly as a leadership practice.
• Latinas RepresentcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Launched an 8-week Latina Electeds Academy bringing together 33 Latina leaders. Combined elements from Women of Color Leadership Cohort and Progressive Governance Academy with focus on power mapping, relational organizing, coalition building, and preventing burnout.
• Boston Mayor's Office for Immigrant AdvancementminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Trained 15 immigrant residents in grassroots organizing as part of the 'Immigrants Lead Boston' program. Focused on storytelling, relationship building, team building, and strategy.
• Inatai FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Two-day candidate training for 29 staff members focused on enhancing understanding of power for strategic grantmaking to support electoral power-building.
• State VoicescoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 20239-week Women of Color Leadership Development Cohort for 20 staff members across State Voices network, ranging from Communications Associate to Organizing Director to Development Manager.
• American Federation of TeachersminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2023Trained 25 staff members from National Political Department on developing a national volunteer activists program. Curriculum included field planning, campaign strategy, base building, volunteer programs, and digital organizing.
• Four Freedoms FundcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Launched a twelve-week integrated voter engagement cohort training immigrant-rights based grantees on campaign management. 20-25 BIPOC participants from organizations like Mi Familia Vota, LCF Georgia, Nebraska Appleseed, NCAAT, and LUPE.
• Run for Something ActionminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022County Clerk candidate campaign management program for 8 candidates in Denver and Texas. Training on effective campaign management, digital security, VAN, and fundraising with four weekly sessions and coaching hours.
• Future CoalitioncoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Trained nearly 1,000 participants across 7 unique training series for youth climate justice organizers. Developed programs including Grassroots Organizing, Facilitators' Training, Action Design, Recruitment, and Political Education Series to support Youth Climate Finance Alliance.
• New Pennsylvania ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 20213-month strategic planning process culminating in a Board retreat for the New Pennsylvania Project and New PA Fund, laying groundwork for launching the New Pennsylvania Project Fund.
• Planned Parenthood Federation of AmericacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Collaborative grant with Center for Working Families Fund to support BIPOC Women, Femmes, and GNC folks. Conducted 16 trainings for 235+ participants in 15 states, covering organizing, campaign planning, digital/data strategies, and online facilitation.
• Center for Working Families FundcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Partnership supporting Black Women, Femmes, and GNC folks through the Bet On Us project. Monthly trainings on organizing principles, power-building, one-to-one meetings, and police reform vs. defunding. 76% of attendees attended more than 3 trainings.
• State Infrastructure FundminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Trained 88 grantees across 30 states on digital organizing and civic engagement. 187+ participants representing BIPOC communities (70%) and women (71%), focusing on election protection and voter turnout.
• Mayors Innovation ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2019Two-day training 'High Road Governance: A Workshop for New Mayors' for 9 mayors from cities ranging from 8,000 to under 1 million population. Focused on leadership styles, governing as a progressive, messaging, and power mapping.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Center for Popular Democracy: National progressive network of community organizing groups with a leadership development arm and direct alignment to re:power's grassroots organizer training and power-building focus.
• Community Change: Large progressive nonprofit (formerly Center for Community Change) supporting grassroots organizing, leadership development, and policy advocacy. A broader-incumbent operator that often receives similar foundation dollars and serves overlapping organizer populations.
• People's Action: Large national progressive organizing network with 40+ member organizations running leadership development and civic engagement programs. Comparable mission at significantly larger scale and a potential partner or competitor for the same funder dollars.

Direct peers

• Movement Cooperative: Provides technology, training, and organizing infrastructure for progressive movements. Directly comparable as a capacity-building organization serving social justice nonprofits with training programs and shared infrastructure.
• Local Progress: National network of progressive local elected officials that partners with re:power on the Collaborative Governance Academy. Directly comparable mission of training progressive leaders in power-building and governance, serving a similarly aligned constituency.
• State Voices: National civic engagement coalition that contracted re:power to deliver a 9-week Women of Color Leadership Cohort for 20 staff members. Operates in the same progressive movement infrastructure space with overlapping funder base and partners.
• Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD): Black-led leadership development and organizing training organization for BIPOC social justice leaders. Closest mission-aligned peer in cohort-based leadership development for Black organizers and aligns with re:power's pro-Black, liberatory framework.

Emerging players

• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: Alliance of US-based grassroots organizations working on climate, racial justice, and economic issues. Overlaps with re:power's training programs for movement organizers and partnership-based capacity building.
• Race Forward: Racial equity organization producing training, research, and movement-building resources (including the Racial Equity Here program). Comparable as a training-and-capacity-building entity but with more policy/research orientation and less organizer cohort focus.
• National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund: Bipartisan nonprofit that develops Latino leaders through civic engagement, leadership training, and policy programs. Overlaps with re:power's Progressive Governance Academy and Latinas Represent partnership as a peer in leadership development for elected officials of color.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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