Collaboration
New Moon turns community visions and ideas into reality. We bring an ecosystem lens to thought partnership, design and facilitation, narrative and storytelling, and tool and framework generation.
New Moon is based in the practices of embodied wisdom, collective creativity, aspirational courage, relational commitment, and ecosystem strategic navigation.
New Moon centers the experience and leadership of communities who are least served by crumbling current systems, most advanced in creating human centered systems of care, most clear on harms that must not be replicated, and most practiced in creativity and joy as resistance and resilience.
New Moon Impact 2023-2024
Collaboration with RAPA (Regenerating Ancestral Puerto Rican Agriculture/ Regeneración de la Agricultura Puertorriqueña Ancestral). New Moon helped found RAPA, grounded in the leadership, experience, knowledge, and relationships of Puerto Rican ancestral methods farmers. RAPA's local leadership provided hands on training and convenings to grow local farmers' capacity and skill with ancestral farming methods.
Collaboration with Birth Center Equity, where we are part of bringing forth a world where all communities have access to midwives in a birth center designed in response to their dreams, hopes, and needs. In 2022, New Moon’s narrative and story work (including videos such as this) contributed to an unprecedented infusion of resources into community birth centers and the growth of a nationwide network of people of color-led birth centers. In 2023, New Moon sponsored a listening and learning tour of midwife-led work in Puerto Rico, resulting in new connections and resources for Puerto Rican led midwifery.
New Moon is also proud of our work in the community wealth ecosystem (captured in our own videos), in partnership with Full Spectrum Labs, where we are spreading learnings and inspiration across the country through stories and tools of innovations in local economic self-determination.
New Moon Impact 2020-2022
New Moon told revolutionary stories that strengthened community power in tangible ways. We're proud of the 2021 video stories we produced in collaboration with Jason Walker like Lead With Us: Birth Detroit and Return To The Heart: Our Amazing First Year, and our animated work with Renée Campbell on Community Blueprint, and how this work helped to generate resources for communities leading us into the future.
New Moon gathered and strengthened networked relationships and ideas that are changing the world. We're honored to have worked with partners such as Full Spectrum Labs and Facilitating Power to facilitate community and ecosystem stewards who are growing economic, cultural, and political power; and Birth Center Equity in creating powerful peer learning in the birth ecosystem; and StoryLine Partners (and TMJ Universe) in shaping strategy for narrative change.
New Moon led strategic narrative thinking to guide wise and informed decision making. We're humbled to have listened to the visions and questions of initiative leaders and woven them into reflection and strategy pieces shaping the direction of initiatives in birthing justice, climate justice, food sovereignty, and other sectors.
