Almost a year before I helped start Palante in 2010, I attended my first Fighting Burnout Retreat, a yearly event held by the Audre Lorde Project to help people involved in movement organizing identify how our work might be leading to burnout and how we might be able to counter that, both for our own individual health and for the collective health of our movements. I remember discussing our levels of burnout and describing myself as "crispy."
That was eleven long and eventful years ago.
Palante Technology Cooperative
Web, Database, and Technology Consulting for Building Movements
Supporting progressive nonprofit, social justice, activist & community organizations for over a decade
Our Services
We provide technology consulting services to nonprofit progressive, social justice, & community organizations. Our tight focus allows us to specialize in tools specific to the needs of the movements we serve.
We come to this work with technical expertise, a deep understanding of the needs of community organizations, & a long-standing commitment to working for social justice.
Read more about us, our work and our clients. Contact us to find out more and to inquire about possible collaboration.
Latest Updates
04.15.2020
At our most recent retreat we had a generative discussion on our shared values as an organization. We've been working to develop a more formal statement of our principles, which we're excited to share here and on our new Values page!
Palante Technology Cooperative and its members uphold and demonstrate the following values and principles in our work:
04.10.2020
Palante has published a new technical guide to Zoombombing self-defense! This detailed guide describes steps to take and settings to adjust before, during and after a Zoom event to protect our communities from Zoombombing and other intrusions or disruptions. The guide accompanies our recent post about how Zoombombing works and how we can use existing community safety principles and practices to defend our work and our people in virtual spaces.