About Us

Mission

The mission of the Harriet Tubman Center is to be a recruitment and training center for new organizers.

Our Vision

Organized individuals can collectively improve the quality of life in their community. Through their work in faith communities, neighborhoods, on college campuses and in workplaces, intern organizers of the Harriet Tubman Center recruit leaders to build the power of communities to create positive change.

We offer paid internships to individuals with a desire and capacity to work in diverse communities as prepared and competent organizers. We believe in mentorship and a broad range of organizing experiences for young organizers. We believe that community organizing can be a fulfilling career, and our goal is to help open doors to this critical profession. By bringing together young and experienced organizers and leaders for solidarity and continuing education events, we also seek to create a supportive network developing and achieving personal and professional goals.

Where We are Going

Tubman is on a path to become a statewide collective focused on building statewide power to change the rules in Michigan in favor of low and moderate-income people. Over the next 3-5 years, Tubman will become a firm of organizers of all levels; recruiting, training and placing organizers; creating new local organizations and building the organizing capacity of existing agencies and community organizations; and creating statewide issue campaigns and coalitions of partner organizations and allies.