Communiversity

Communiversity uplifts the tremendous knowledge that exists in communities and invites community members to build and share their own courses on things they care about, things they’re interested, and things that make their lives and the lives of communities better. We also provide courses taught by leading activists, organizers, academics, researchers, and public intellectuals that community members otherwise wouldn’t be able to access.

The goal of Communiversity is to open access to vital information about history, politics, organizing, and power. We are shifting mindsets from rugged individualism to community cooperation. With basic needs/Human Rights met through guaranteed income, housing, and healthcare, participation in Communiversity has been rich, full, engaging, and extremely successful.

From the school-to-prison pipeline to divestment from public education in poor, criminalized neighborhoods to the race and class based tracking of students of color, to the invalidation of truthful history, the relationship between the education system and communities decimated by mass incarceration has been adversarial. Communiversity is community-led, community-created, and community-curated to meet our wants and needs.

Impact

After the course on Community Land Trust, community members created and executed a campaign in Bed-Stuy to provide door-to-door education and information about building a Bed-Stuy community land trust.

After the course on soul-writing, gang leaders in Brooklyn organized meditation circles for members.

After the course on cooperative business, 2 community food establishments partnered with Green Workers Cooperative to begin the transition from sole-proprietorship to co-op.

After the course on financial empowerment, community members applied for and secured a grant from Prospect Hill Foundation to open investment accounts for people using recycled bail funds.

Past and Present courses:

All Art is Political: Sharing Complex Ideas Graphically
Build your own Cooperative Business
Building Community Generational Wealth: From Guaranteed Income to Guaranteed Investment
Comparative systems: Capitalism vs socialism vs communism
Estate and end-of-life planning
Financial Empowerment and Independence
Gangs: Myths, Truths
Graphic Design: From Canva to Indesign
Ideation to Execution: Community Improvement Projects
Indigenous Land-Based Healing Practices
Local to Global: Pan African Community Organizing
People’s History: Local and Global
Professionalism vs. Leadership
Reparations Now: Examples and Applications
Soul-Writing: Writing As Medicine
Understanding the Inequitable Distribution of Wealth
What is a Community Land Trust
What is Mutual Aid
Understanding Local Governance Structures

TP360

TP360 stands for Total Package 360. This project is Communiversity’s special partnership with Future Allies specifically for young people that engages with traditional educational institutions and pathways, but with a long-term, care-centered approach.

We ensure that young people from economically marginalized and historically underserved communities have access to the full spectrum of academic, relational, and practical support needed to succeed from elementary school through college.

We do this by accompanying youth and their families to ensure that students build the academic skills, confidence, stability, and practical knowledge required to access opportunity and sustain long-term success.

TP360 transforms the idea that “it takes a village” into a structured, living ecosystem of care, preparation, and opportunity—one that doesn’t leave anyone alone to navigate challenges or to plan for each next step of the educational journey. We provide tutoring and academic support for students 10 years old and beyond. We have a high school preparation pipeline for middle schoolers and a college preparation pipeline for high schoolers. Once in college, we provide students with stabilizing support as they enter and career support as they leave.

To learn ore about TP360, our structure, and our partners, click here.