ABOUT ALLTHRIVE EDUCATION
We are a multigenerational and multicultural community of healers, organizers, artists, researchers, storytellers, educators, and students rooted in profound LOVE for the people who dedicate their time to respond to the human crises of our time.
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 — creating spaces for embodied healing and collective connection, so that the people doing justice work can sustain themselves and each other for the long haul.
Our vision is a social change sector that doesn't consume the people fueling it. One where the care extended to communities is also extended to the workers inside them. Where healing and justice are not separate pursuits but the same work, expressed together.
Our Organizational Evolution
2016 - 2019
Chapter One — The Founding Belief
AllThrive was built on a conviction that arrived before the crises did.
We are organizers. Frontline workers. People who came to this work because we love our communities and believe in what we are building together. We built AllThrive because we burned out doing this work ourselves — and we understood, from the inside, that what was coming would ask even more of the people doing it.
The communities doing the most critical work would be called into emergency response. Again and again, with less and less time to recover between waves. What they needed was not more tools or frameworks imported from outside. What they needed was an organization that centers spirituality, healing, and collective care as the foundation — not the afterthought — of the work.
That is what AllThrive was built to be. Not a service provider. A community of practice, rooted in love.
2020 - 2024
Chapter Two — What the Pandemic Taught Us
When the crisis came, it came fast and it came everywhere at once.
We moved with it. What had been direct work with individual organizations became systems-level work — alongside funders, alongside cohorts of grantees responding in real time to the worst public health emergency in a generation. Over four years, working with more than 100 organizations across the country, we were in rooms where the scale of what was being asked of community workers was impossible to ignore. The exhaustion. The sacrifice. The innovation happening under pressure that no one was documenting.
From that vantage point, we understood burnout differently. Not as a personal failing. As a structural wound — predictable, systemic, and rooted in the same power imbalances that made the crisis so much worse for historically excluded communities in the first place.
We conducted research. We made films. We bore witness.
2025 - now
Chapter Three — We are coming back to our roots
After years at the systems level — we are returning to the individual and the organization. To the worker who is quietly burning out. To the team that knows something has to change but doesn't know how to begin.
We are carrying everything that chapter taught us. The research. The relationships. The understanding of burnout as a structural wound, not a personal one. And a new discovery: that storytelling, when done with care and accountability, is not documentation. It is healing.
The Course. The films. The organizational consulting. These are not three separate services. They are one methodology — expressed at three different scales — in service of the same conviction that has guided this work from the beginning.
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.
Manifesto for Community-Based Organizations:
A Tribute to Unsung Heroes
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When the world came to a standstill, when fear and uncertainty gripped our communities, it was you, the unsung heroes of community-based organizations, who stood tall, unwavering in your commitment to serve. While others retreated to the safety of their homes, you ran towards the fire, driven by an unyielding sense of compassion and duty.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the deep-rooted inequities that plague our society, leaving historically excluded communities particularly vulnerable. Yet, amidst the chaos and despair, you emerged as beacons of hope, transforming your offices, community centers, and homes into centers of resilience.
You defied the 'shelter in place' orders, recognizing that your communities needed you more than ever before.
You transformed into first responders, providing essential services that government bureaucracies couldn't reach.
You distributed food, organized testing and vaccination drives, and fought tirelessly to ensure that your communities had access to life-saving information.
You worked tirelessly, often without proper compensation or rest, driven by an unwavering belief that no one should be left behind.
You sacrificed your own personal safety, your own families, to safeguard the well-being of those you serve.
And as the world grapples with the complexities of a post-pandemic reality, you continue to fight, advocating for the needs of your communities, ensuring that their voices are heard.
We, the members of your communities, stand in solidarity with you. We will never forget the sacrifices you made, the risks you took, and the unwavering dedication you demonstrated. We will continue to fight alongside you, ensuring that your contributions are recognized, valued, and compensated.
We will gather your stories, preserving your experiences as lessons for future generations. We will amplify your voices, ensuring that the world never forgets the power of community-based organizations, the unsung heroes who saved us during our darkest hour.
We will not let your sacrifices be in vain. We will continue to fight for a world where equity and justice prevail, where every individual has the opportunity to thrive, regardless of their background or circumstances.
With Gratitude and Unwavering Support,
The Communities You Serve
One Methodology. Three Expressions.
Embodied Narrative Change for Healing, Restoration, and Justice.
Sustainable social change requires healing and systems transformation to happen simultaneously. Neither is possible without embodied truth — the kind of knowing that cannot be reached through training or strategy alone, but only through story, through somatic practice, through the restoration of right relationship between people, communities, and the systems that have harmed them.
The films document community truth and make it permanent. The Course gives workers the map they were never given. The organizational consulting builds the collective container where individual healing becomes shared practice.
The Work
Since 2017, AllThrive has served more than 100 organizations — from individual nonprofits to the funders and agencies whose grantees do the hardest work in the hardest conditions. Everything we've built comes from that experience, and from what we needed ourselves.
Mission-Driven Burnout 101
A self-paced course for nonprofit workers, organizers, and frontline staff — built from four years of primary research on the front lines of crisis response. Finally, a map for the hazardous conditions this sector sends people into without preparation. Learn more →
Collective Care for Organizations
For organizations that know something has to change. A four-month engagement where individual healing becomes collective practice, and leadership enters the process alongside staff, not above it.
Documentary Film
In partnership with OLU8 Films, we make documentaries for foundations and public agencies whose communities are doing work that needs to be documented — non-extractively, in a way that makes the process itself an act of healing.
Two films. Two festivals. One methodology.
★ The Heart of Access — Nominated, Best Documentary Short, Golden Gate International Film Festival 2024
★ The Heart of Access — Official Selection, APHA Public Health Film Festival
★ I AM HOPE — Winner, Best Feature-Length Documentary Film, The International Black Film Festival, Nashville 2024
★ I AM HOPE — Official Selection, Mill Valley Film Festival
Our Impact
Working with AllThrive revamped our entire way of structuring convenings and made us more mindful of our partners’ capacity — and our own. I’m finally taking days off and caring for myself differently. You’ve given me a new perspective on life.
SENIOR PROGRAM OFFICER, REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION