🖇️ Spitfire Shares: Violence-Free Civic Spaces, Dragging Democracy and More!💡

This month marks Spitfire's 22nd anniversary. Since 2002, we've supported thousands of organizations, leaders and communities working fearlessly to make this world a better place, not just in words, but in reality. A place of not only peace, but justice; inclusive, multiracial democracy with full representation and power for all the people; safe and open public and political spaces, full of community and free of violence. A world where we can all be who we are and love whom we love; where fascism and apartheid are defeated, not accommodated; where our rights and freedoms are not contingent on where we were born, where we live or how much money we have.

For more than two decades, we've trained countless organizers, advocates and allies to communicate with clarity and courage, inclusivity and intention, empathy and equity. And we've created tools to build capacity and confidence across the field of public interest communications, and share these resources freely, driven by our conviction that budgets should never dictate access to knowledge and information.

_{Reflections From Our Founder}

To mark the anniversary, Spitfire founder Kristen Grimm reflected on her four-step practice of taking inventory at milestone moments, noting:

Kristen reminds herself - and, by extension, all of us - to (1) have the courage to really look, (2) see where the world is calling me to focus, (3) face what might be holding me back, and (4) set off once more, not with trepidation, but wholeheartedly in a direction filled with uncertainty and possibility.

                                                 Read Kristen's post here