Partnerships
Academic
RISE4EJ recognizes the importance of university-based & health institutions research and/or projects to grassroots community organizing. When aligned with community leadership and rooted in environmental justice. Academic partnerships can significantly advance the achievement of environmental justice.
RISE4EJ also recognizes that academic research projects may not be planned, funded nor conducted with community guidance and without a commitment to environmental justice principles.
RISE4EJ acknowledges that absent the community control of research initiatives, the production of knowledge could be harmful to the community and our organizational partners. It also replicates the cultures of colonial mentality, exploitation, and extraction that RISE4Ej fully resists.
RISE4EJ has guidelines to ensure that academic researchers wishing to partner with us on community-based research projects are accountable to environmental justice leadership and principles, RISE4EJ requests that researchers who are interested in partnering with RISE4EJ reflect upon their training to conduct de-colonial research projects to create transformative research partnerships. For more clarity please send an email to info@rise4ej.org.
Internships
Rise4EJ also recognizes that student internships, if not planned and coordinated, can be challenging and might also perpetuate cultures of colonial mentality, exploitation, and extraction that Rise4EJ resists.
Rise4EJ recognizes the importance of student interns in grassroots community organizing. When aligned with community leadership and rooted in our organization’s purpose and principles, student interns can help advance the achievement of environmental justice.
For more clarity please send an email to info@rise4ej.org and will email you the guidelines.
External Requests
Rise4EJ remains committed to the well-being of the people who make up our organization. Part of this means that we set boundaries on an organizational level such that the team is respected, appreciated, and not subject to externally-determined urgency.
While we appreciate the generous opportunities extended to us by outside affiliates and or partners, we remain best positioned to evaluate whether or not a new opportunity aligns and take into consideration our organizing priorities. Rise4EJ has several policies in place around external requests. First, please expect a turn around time of three weeks or more for a response to a new inquiry.
Emailing the same request to all of our staff members will not produce a faster internal process on our end. All external requests must be submitted to info@rise4ej.org who will reply with screening questions. For scheduling related to speaking engagements, long meetings, and grant prospects.