The left is fractured, and it’s time to change that.

At Social Good Collective, we know that if we want to win long-term—not just momentarily—we need to unite the progressive left with care, clarity, and accountability.

We’re designing this space to mitigate common progressive pitfalls that often fracture our movements, stall our momentum, and weaken our collective power.

Some common progressive pitfalls that make uniting the left difficult

🧠 The left still centers intellect over embodiment.

We debate, critique, and posture—but we don’t know how to feel, listen, or be in our bodies. Strategy without emotional clarity just recreates harm with fancier language.

🫥 We confuse safety with comfort.

We design for what feels good to the middle, not what’s liberating for the margins. We silence what’s disruptive in the name of inclusion, and call it care.

⚖️ We pit harm reduction against transformation.

We treat reform and abolition like they’re enemies. They’re not. They’re roles. But without coordination and trust, we tear each other apart trying to be right.

🏛 The left exists within the very system of oppression that needs to be dismantled

We’re not immune to control, hierarchy, or dominance—we’re reproducing them. You see it in who gets heard, how decisions get made, and who gets discarded. If we don’t name it and build differently, we just recreate the harm with better branding.

🤝 We don’t know how to share.

Whether it’s decision-making, funding, space, or credit—we default to control, not collaboration. We don’t practice interdependence. We compete instead of coordinating. We don’t trust each other’s genius enough to build side by side.

🛑 We punish the process.

We ask people to show up perfect, politicized, and fluent from day one. But growth takes time. We exile people for being in-process instead of supporting them through it.

🧩 We confuse alignment with assimilation.

We say we want unity, but only if it looks, sounds, and moves one way. We flatten difference instead of building capacity to hold it.

🧨 We don't design for the most impacted.

Our movements still cater to the educated, the resourced, the socially fluent. If our spaces don’t hold disabled, poor, racialized, queer, undocumented, neurodivergent folks with care and dignity, they are not liberatory. Full stop.

🚨 We over-use urgency and underbuild trust.

Everything is framed as a crisis. But without relationships, urgency turns into pressure, control, and fragility. People burn out or shut down.

🧍🏾 Too many spaces are led by people who haven’t done the work.

People with platforms, funding, and influence often have no real understanding of power, privilege, or systemic violence. So they default to what feels safe. And the most impacted get left out—again.

Our approach

  • Relational infrastructure is mission critical

    We enter with cohorts to build the skills required to be in community with one another.

  • Alignment over agreement.

    We don’t expect everyone to say the same thing the same way. We expect principled, values-rooted commitment to humanity—even when our strategies differ.

  • Accountability without collapse.

    We’re practicing how to call each other in, hold disagreement, and stay in community when it gets messy—because that’s the only way anything lasting gets built.

  • Sword & Shield Approach

    There are initiatives and organizations that are around the same issue but approach it two different ways – one is a shield, focused on harm reduction -, the other is a sword, challenging the very existence of these systems of harm. These initiatives work best together, hand in hand - and this space creates the opportunity to connect and coordinate and understand both are necessary.

  • Collectivist Approach

    We don’t own the people or projects in our space—and we don’t want to.

    The Social Good Collective is built like a village: decentralized, interdependent, and held together by shared values, not strict control. Whether you're a solo creator, grassroots org, or just figuring out your role, you’re invited to move in your own way—but never alone.

  • Grace for Growth

    Nobody shows up perfect. And in this space, you don’t have to.

    We understand that learning, unlearning, and healing are lifelong processes—especially when we’re trying to undo generations of systemic harm and disinformation.  We practice grace with ourselves and each other as

  • Practicing Mindfulness

    Growth can bring up strong reactions—especially when we’re challenged or uncomfortable. That’s why we build a culture of mindfulness: to help us respond with intention instead of reacting on autopilot. Mindfulness keeps us anchored in our values, helps us center the collective over individual discomfort, and allows us to navigate hard moments with care instead of defensiveness. It’s not about being calm all the time—it’s about staying rooted when things get tough.

  • A Culture of Re-Humanization

    The system has dehumanized so many of us—by race, class, gender, disability, and more.

    SGC works to undo that. We build a culture where everyone is seen as fully human—worthy of care, safety, joy, and dignity. And we know that starts with how we treat one another inside this space.

  • We Amplify—Not Replace—Movements

    We don’t reinvent the wheel. We elevate the people already pushing it -- especially when they are from systemically dehumanized communities. 

    Our Solidarity Care stream amplifies calls to actions from initaities across the country doing the damn thing -- and sharing it with people who are able to not just take action, but amplify it in their own lives too. 

  • Everything Is Connected

    You might join us because you care about climate change.

    But stay long enough, and you’ll start to see how it’s all connected—colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy, gender injustice. Our programs and content are built to help you connect those dots and deepen your impact.

  • We Build in Joy, Rest, and Nourishment

    Movements aren’t meant to be miserable. We bake joy, laughter, music, rest, and celebration into how we organize—because the world we’re fighting for should feel good to build. That’s how we keep going, and how we keep each other going.

  • Troll & bot free digital space

    Our own  space—quiet from the noise, free from the algorithms—where we can reconnect, reimagine, and rebuild together. A third space made for movement: not a battleground, not a classroom, but a home for organizing, healing, and growing side by side. This is where a united left can practice what it preaches.