Building a community
of trusted facilitators
Brave Sis Project is growing beyond a solopreneur effort. We are actively building a community of practitioners, educators, and community leaders to train in the SAIN et SAUF methodology and bring this work into organizations, classrooms, and coalitions. If you are a facilitator interested in bringing Brave Sis Project methodology into your work, reach out.
The Solidarity Lab Facilitator's Academy
A Nautilus Book Award winner. More than 40 organizations served. Readers in over a dozen countries. This methodology is not theoretical. It has been built and field-tested in real contexts since 2019.
Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab is moving from a single-founder methodology into a network of certified facilitators and partner organizations. The Academy is a recasting of equity praxis for a post-DEI age—not the performative, checkbox-driven model, and not the harsher “you’ve done wrong” approach that left so many people burned out on anti-racist work. It’s a deeper practice of equity, solidarity, and unity: historical, relational, embodied, and accountable.
At the center of the Academy is SAIN et SAUF—a Sustainable, Authentic, Inclusive, Nurturing Solidarity and Unity Framework built across 11 lessons, from the Allyship Continuum and the Privilege Staircase which covers human response, power, privilege, monoculture and whiteness, microaggressions, embodied trauma, white saviorism, repair, accountability, history and a lot more. Facilitators will be certified to bring this material in real client and community spaces, not just to instruct around concepts.
The Inaugural Cohort
Planned for 2027, our inaugural cohort will convene 5-7 experienced practitioners (including our founder) from across the equity and movement-building landscape to co-create, stress-test, and refine the curriculum in real time. We’ve already identified three of our seven initial cohort participants, and we’re eager to welcome the rest.
This isn’t a passive training. Cohort members lead teach-backs, give feedback on clarity, pacing, and safety, and contribute the examples, language, and lived experience that make the curriculum usable across communities and contexts.
Each member will receive a $5,000 stipend for roughly 40–50 hours of work across 10 weeks, and will become certified as a Brave Sis Project Solidarity Lab Facilitator — equipped and licensed to carry this history-anchored, practice-oriented model into their own organizations, consulting practices, and communities.
Help us launch the Academy
We are currently raising $100,000 to launch the Initial Design Cohort, refine the full 11-lesson framework, and bring on operational support. This round underwrites the design, testing and launch of the Academy, and consolidates our brand, community platforms, and amplification efforts.
What the $100,000 will fund
- Practitioner stipends (6 × $5,000) — $30,000
- Curriculum refinement and instructional design — $15,000
- Program direction — $15,000
- Marketing and enrollment* — $10,000
- Evaluation and documentation — $10,000
- Fractional operational support — $8,000
- Legal: contributor agreements and license templates — $4,000
- Fiscal sponsor administration (8%) — $8,000
Seventy percent of the round is direct program cost.
*The marketing and enrollment line breaks down as $3,500 for the sponsor and partner campaign through December, $2,500 for cohort practitioner recruitment, and $4,000 for the Academy launch campaign that fills our second cohort in late 2027. The first $15,000 is already committed.
Founding Seat sponsorships close December 1, 2026 for the Q2 2027 cohort.
As we close this first round and assemble the cohort, we’re welcoming values-aligned funders, advisors, and early partner organizations who see the need for a post-DEI, solidarity-centered approach and are ready to help seed what comes next. Thank you!
Brave Sis Project is a fiscally sponsored project of The Funding Studio, an Arizona-based nonprofit fiscal sponsor. EIN 93-1576968. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.