Project Pilgrimage

“No review was or will be conducted.”

“The executive director negotiated salary with former leadership of project pilgrimage, based on previous salary at the university of washington. Initially, project pilgrimage was housed at the university of washington in the dept of communication. It was run by a professor and chair of the department. The executive director was employed by the uw. Moving forward, project pilgrimage will use benchmark data gathered and assessed based on eds at similarly sized organizations, focused on a similar mission statements to determine the executive director's salary.”

“Governing documents are made available to the public upon request.”

“Pilgrimage to the south (our signature program) - a journey in three phases: a. Community building: we begin our pilgrimage to the south with learning and community building at home. We come together for a series of mandatory sessions where we learn from each other and about ourselves through respectful dialogue, reading and video assignments, and participatory exercises. We believe in the popular education model, in which every person in our community has the capacity to teach and to learn. We believe these sessions are vital to a successful experience in the american south. B. Impactful places & spaces:then we embark on our pilgrimage to the south where we visit key places in the black-american freedom struggle and spend time with foot soldiers who lived history then and leaders of movements making history today. Some of the places we visit include: montgomery and selma, al; money and philadelphia, ms; nashville and memphis, tn. Along the way, we process together, support black-owned business and restaurants, and ultimately bond closer as a group. C. Reflection & integration:this experience impacts in both expected and surprising ways. As we evolve through the journey, it provokes us to examine our own lives and why we act, where we disrupt, and how we resist. The pilgrimage to the south does not end when we arrive back home. Sankofa impact hosts post-travel community conversations and facilitated exercises for each cohort to enrich and support the work of reflection and integration. We contemplate, process, and create plans of action.”