Imagine you are a social justice leader challenged by funding cuts, mounting legal threats to the nonprofit sector, and community safety concerns. You are on the front-lines of crises impacting the most vulnerable individuals and families, while rollbacks on rights and freedoms affect everyone in the state. Caring for both staff and communities through it all is exhausting, and navigating tensions and conflicts with peers or other organizations in the ecosystem further depletes you.
Having a place to pause, intentionally, and connect authentically with other movement peers who are sharing these experiences is rare. Yet accessing a healing-centric, liberatory container where you can build deeper trust, transform conflict, and be nurtured and elevated as a leader is incredibly urgent.
A donation of any size ensures that movement leaders of color have these opportunities with Transformative Leadership for Change.
Your contribution ensures that change makers are resourced and their leadership can be sustainable.
For Colorado Gives Day (Nov. 1st through Dec. 8th, 2026) help us reach our $15,000 fundraising goal.
Leaders within the TLC Alumni Network – 104 leaders and 82 social justice groups – are transforming the Colorado ecosystem in powerful ways. Your donation helps create these new realities.
See what some of our TLC leaders have to say about the impact of the TLC experience:
“The TLC Fellowship has strengthened how I lead both internally and externally. I have brought practices of deeper listening, shared leadership, and trust-based decision-making into my organization by creating more space for community members, volunteers, and partners to shape our programs. Rather than feeling like I need to have every answer, I now approach challenges with greater curiosity and collaboration.” – TLC Fellow
“I have come to appreciate the importance of open communication, repair, and restorative practices in building healthy relationships and strong teams. I have learned that addressing conflict with honesty, curiosity, and compassion helps build trust, strengthen relationships, and create a more supportive and collaborative organizational culture.” – TLC Fellow
“I have already started bringing in self care practices to our work space. I am planning on bringing in more workshops around why this is important and the connection of our work and well-being to everything.” – TLC Fellow
TLC (Transformative Leadership for Change) was built by and for Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) leaders to transform ourselves, our organizations and the larger movement ecosystem so we can thrive in our leadership, build real power for our communities and see our visions of liberation come to life.
Transformative Leadership for Change (TLC) was called into existence in 2017 by women of color leaders in the progressive community organizing ecosystem in Colorado. We came together to support each other around issues of burn-out, sustainability, unaddressed trauma, conflict and competition, underfunding, and internalized/systemic oppression. Tired of leadership programs that reinforced dominant culture “hard skills” to navigate the non-profit industrial complex, we yearned for a space that centered BIPOC experiences, collective healing, transformative relationships, abundance, creativity, and proactive vision. We embarked on a two year-long design process, which included in-depth surveys and interviews with leaders across the ecosystem, a thorough assessment of gaps in existing leadership programs, and a pilot leadership retreat. The TLC Fellowship emerged as an offering of “tender loving care” to our peers in the movement.
TLC was incorporated in October 2022 and received 501c3 status from the IRS on November 1, 2022. We transitioned from a fiscally sponsored project and launched our own independent nonprofit in January 2024.
Organization name
Transformative Leadership for Change
2017
Tax id (EIN)
88-3569824
Category
Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Public & Societal Benefit, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
PO BOX 9038CO, US