Durable transformative
people power is cultivated
CT-OG supports organizations focused on immigrant rights, justice transformation, and indigenous justice to build lasting power.
Our mission
CT-OG supports organizations focused on immigrant rights, justice transformation, and indigenous justice to build lasting power. Through landscape assessments, power mapping, healing narrative tactics and strategies, and through transformative organizing capacity building support, we help organizations strengthen movements capable of building and cultivating power across generations.
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We produce landscape assessments, political economy assessments, power maps, data profiles, narrative research tools, and public data resources. We also provide transformative strategic accompaniment directly to organizations and coalitions as they put that analysis to work, designing the transformative organizing and transformative governance tactics and strategies that carry movements across generations.
Our current body of work spans three California transformative organizing ecosystems: youth justice transformation, immigrant rights, and adult justice transformation.
Explore the archiveWorking Definition of Transformative Organizing
Transformative organizing is an inter-generational and multi-generational praxis of cultivating durable collective power that simultaneously dismantles systems of exploitation and oppression while transforming the individuals, communities, and relationships engaged in that struggle. Rooted in the recognition that dominant conceptions of power AND political economies must be reimagined and redefined, transformative organizing develops new patterns of relating across differences (Audre Lorde), grounded in healing justice, embodied leadership, and generative movement culture, in such a way that cultivates the conditions for authentic liberation and liberatory cultures of practice, that can also sustain emerging liberatory political economies, not just for some, but for all.
California JJ Data
Every year, California’s counties report how they spend state youth justice funds and what happened to the young people in their systems. This project aims to bring them into one place, extracted, verified, and linked back to each county’s own document, so communities can read what their county told the state.
California JJ Data Community Oversight Project
County reports on California’s youth justice system, made public, comparable, and checkable. It starts with the 2025 JJCPA-YOBG reports: a county-by-county data repository, dashboard, and highlights, with every figure linked to its official source PDF.
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To work together or learn how you can donate to CT-OG, please email:
Email contact@transformativeorganizinglineages.org