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Past participants have described the Intensive Workshop as an intense, transformative, and inspiring experience; an opportunity to develop a strong community of peers who can uniquely understand, support, and challenge them; and an infusion of knowledge, courage, clarity, and empowerment in their journeys of growth and justice.

Intensive workshop participants will:

The 9 Intensive Workshop sessions are divided into three parts with 3 sessions each:

Sessions 1-3: Basics and Background
Part 1 serves to create a shared foundation of knowledge, reflection, and connection among all participants, covering topics such as: bias, white supremacy, caste, and intersectionality, as well as the frameworks that CLTV uses to guide our discussions and actions going forward.

Sessions 4-6: The Financial System Part 2 narrows the focus of our learning, reflection, and action on the racial wealth gap, covering topics such as: the inherent problems within the financial system, the importance of access to capital, the wealth management ecosystem, the role of philanthropy, potential solutions, and ways to align our wealth with our values.

Sessions 7-9: Action Planning
Part 3 activates our knowledge, courage, community, and accountability—both as individuals and as a group—to plan to take concrete action to reduce the racial wealth gap.

Each session has related assignments:

Action Assignments serve as our calls to action. They help us reflect on, integrate, and activate the learnings and discussions from the most recent session. They usually consist of logistical preparation actions, accountability partnership actions, and independent actions.

Knowledge Assignments are external and CLTV-created resources to help us strengthen and expand our knowledge. They usually consist of books, articles, videos, podcasts, and interviews.

Reflection Questions are created to deepen focus, engagement, and personal reflection on Knowledge Assignments and serve as prompts for entries in a CLTV Journal.

In between each session, participants meet with their Accountability Trio to build community and support one another in their action and reflection assignments.

We believe gender should be self-defined and welcome all who identify as women, including trans women and gender-fluid people, to participate in CLTV programming targeted toward women.

While wealth is often a controversial or taboo topic, in the Impact Collective we speak openly about it. In the service of reducing the racial wealth gap, we encourage participants to think and speak strategically about all their assets.

Wealth is frequently defined as the total value of all physical and intangible assets held by an individual or family minus any debt. At the Impact Collective, we define wealth in any of the following ways:

The Intensive Workshop currently requires a time commitment of approximately 12-16 hours a month for 4 months. To get the most out of the experience during the workshop, we expect participants to:

Attend every Zoom session: Nine 2-hour Zoom sessions that are structured with a break halfway through (18 hours total);
Complete independent work between each session: Knowledge, action, planning, surveys and reflection assignments (2-4 hours/session);
Meet with a small group of other participants to complete work between every session: Action planning and reflection assignments (1 hours/session);
Collaboratively craft a cohort action commitment and participate in their cohort action commitment to move money as a cohort to reduce the racial wealth gap (3 hours during the workshop).

To get the most out of the experience after the workshop, we invite participants to:

In addition to collectively setting their group agreements, all participants are expected to:

We invite you to contemplate the following questions as you consider which tier is right for you.

Are you and your family homeowners or landowners?
Have you attended private education institutions or do you have an advanced degree?
Have you not had difficulty accessing and affording healthcare or health insurance for you or your family members?
Do you have zero to no debt and/or do you have disposable income?Do you have a safety net composed of “financially stable” or wealthy family and friends?
Does your income only support you, and not other loved ones?
Have you or do you expect to inherit money or property?
How much discretion do you have over how your family’s money is spent, invested and donated?
Do you know which class bracket you are in?
Do you have to carefully budget your annual spending in relation to your family’s annual income/net-wealth?

We hope so! We have a strong network of alumni who continue to meet regularly. Individual cohort groups regularly meet to plan and implement cohort action commitments, as well as to support and learn from each other. Alumni also enjoy getting to know women from other cohorts, as well as our incredible, and quickly growing, community of partners .

After the workshop, we urge participants to:

Yes! The Impact Collective creates a range of programming for alumni to further their learning experience and make progress toward achieving their action commitments. After the workshop, we urge participants to:

Yes! We strive to make our resources broadly available and are continually adding new content and opportunities.

Subscribe to CLTV’s monthly newsletter to get new ideas, suggested actions, and learning opportunities;
Explore and utilize the various resources and worksheets we share on our website;
Participate in opportunities to collectively move money to reduce the racial wealth gap;
Financially support the Impact Collective as it grows and builds a new movement to reduce the racial wealth gap;
Spread the word to others you think might be interested in participating in our programs or partnering with us

Yes, as opportunities arise. While the Intensive Workshop for wealthy, white women is our flagship program, we have conducted events and workshops for people of all genders, races, and wealth profiles. This programming is most often created in partnership with other individuals and organizations who have audiences we can serve with integrity. As a small start-up with limited staff and resources, we try to stay focused on our mission and programming. Subscribe to our newsletter to learn about new programs and events.

CLTV is an abbreviation of the word “collective” and a short-hand we use to refer to the Impact Collective organization.

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