ABOUT ALLTHRIVE EDUCATION
AllThrive Education was born out of a deep-seated belief that the way we approach burnout and stress within social justice and community organizations needs to fundamentally change.
Our Journey
AllThrive is co-founded by individuals who experienced burnout firsthand. After years of supporting organizations grappling with these issues, we quickly realized that organizational work culture was a significant contributing factor.
This insight led to a pivotal realization: internal transformation is just as crucial as external work. This mirror, reflecting the need for organizations to examine their own practices, sets AllThrive apart:
It’s not just about offering solutions, it’s about fostering a deeper understanding of the systemic issues that contribute to burnout.
Our Mission
We believe that resilience alone is not enough.
AllThrive’s mission is to cultivate sustainable social change by addressing the root causes of burnout. By creating spaces for embodied introspection and collective connection, we foster culturally responsive and proactive organizational cultures that prioritize health, joy and sustainability, empowering individuals and organizations to thrive, rather than simply survive.
Our Values
The following values serve as the foundation of our culture, fostering an environment that is capable of holding us through change, harm, and growth.
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Centering Our
Humanity
At AllThrive, we recognize that our staff are humans before workers. We believe no one has to leave behind parts of who they are or their experience in order to do work. We encourage each other to show up authentically and experience the power of human connection in the workplace.
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Collective Care as Accountability
For AllThrive, “collective care”, is a proactive and intentional practice of cultivating awareness and fostering responses honoring our interconnectedness and responsibility to each other. While self-care is vital, collective care demands accountability from individuals within their various positions of power and privilege.
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Equity as a
Love Language
At our core, we believe that equity isn’t just a policy or a program, it’s a love language. It’s the active and unwavering commitment to assess power dynamics and actively restore power back to individuals and communities who have been historically marginalized and excluded.
Our Organizational Evolution
AllThrive is a social enterprise in the process of becoming a cooperative owned by its workers. The profit and the direction of our work is designed with community impact in mind. Through the years we have evolved from offering retreat services and “Healing Burnout” training programs to focusing on COVID19 vaccine equity efforts.
During 2020 our organization saw a gap in the services and support available to emergency responders working within nonprofits, call centers and public health departments. We transitioned our work to focus on identifying needs and strengths in the field of health equity work in historically excluded communities. This led us to conduct research for philanthropy, design cohort-based programs for community based organizations (CBOs) and produce a documentary film for San Francisco’s Department of Public Health.
See our organizational evolution below!
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
DECEMBER
JUNE
FEBRUARY
2016
Our co-founders enrolled in Uptima Entrepreneur Cooperative to bring to life their idea of starting an organization that placed healing at the center of social justice and racial equity work.
Launched AllThrive Retreats to share and test the healing-centered spaces and services.
MAY
2017
Began to offer pro-bono retreats and capacity strengthening programs to community-based organizations in the Bay Area and Mexico City.
Formally established ourselves as a social enterprise and became AllThrive Education, LLC.
2018
The Association of California School Administration and Centro Legal de la Raza became our first clients.
Through a partnership with Innerstellar Yoga & Pilates Studio we began working with small business owners to dismantle white supremacy culture in their Yoga studios.
2019
Began working with funders to support grantee sustainability and burnout prevention.
MAY
NOVEMBER
Closed our work with Yoga studios to focus on addressing burnout in the non-profit sector.
2020
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, we partnered with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to offer resilience building and burnout prevention services to over 100 community-based organizations serving historically excluded communities across the country.
MARCH
Survived the COVID-19 pandemic and the transition to becoming a virtual organization.
2021
Partnered with housing and tenant rights advocacy organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide capacity strengthening training to hotline crisis counselors responding to the housing crisis in California.
Began to lead research activities to understand how engaging in COVID vaccine equity work has impacted the wellbeing and sustainability of community-based organizations leading this work.
Vanessa and Jasmine Leonard, MPH join the project team.
FEBRUARY
DECEMBER
MAY
SEPTEMBER
Fatima joins our team as Manager of Training and Curriculum, spearheading the organization’s offering of Heart, Mind, Body, Spirit: Weekly Somatic Practice.
Partnered with the Sierra Health Foundation to develop a robust capacity strengthening program in healing and proactive responses to burnout to community-based organizations leading COVID vaccine equity work across California.
JUNE
Our Impact
"The somatic practices and meditation allowed me to reconnect with an inner resilience that I didn't even know I had. This retreat has been a profound personal awakening."
RETREAT ATTENDEE