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What to do on JANUARY 20TH?? Join us ! So happy to have State Rep Leigh Davis join us at Macedonia to open MLK Day 2025! Looking forward to working with you all tomorrow! We will host a full day of reflections, service, beloved community and action! This is our MLK Day of service AND an intentional day of resistance in honor of Rev Dr King! Free lunch from Momma Los BBQ! Also, Our banners of Du Bois are up right on time in his hometown of Great Barrington. #MLKDay #newpathways2020 #solidarityecomomy#bridge413 #belovedcommunity #mutualaid #catalyst @followers Register here— https://forms.gle/cT5VVNSAH5RFVxsQ6
By the Way Berkshires Captures Gala
We are celebrating 17 years of BRIDGE building our beloved community, fostering integration and celebrating our collective joy.
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2024 BRIDGE lays foundation for its Solidarity Economy projects rooted in the 2020-2022 mutual aid efforts stemming from our core programs. We have a Solidarity Farm and Garden for farming and gardening projects working towards food sovereignty hosted on the Great Barrington Fairgrounds;. Our Solidarity Kitchen Pantry is open for food and food preservation and production education, mutual aid & building community. The Solidarity Meeting House hosts monthly culturally specific trauma-informed wellness and healing programs for our BIPOGM communities; Hamsa Home, a temporary supported housing offering for BIOGM community members, leaders, families, staff for 3-30 days for houselessness, displacement and/or respite; and a Solidarity Library in a time where our country reckons with banning books and blocking truth, reconciliation and reparation. Also in our library are seeds for food sovereignty. Stay tuned for more details!
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QUICK LINKS
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Two SJIA events

NONVIOLENT TACTICS FOR COMMUNITY DEFENSE: a training with Andre Henry
more info
Strategies For Food Justice and Food Sovereignty: Conversation With Dr. Leeja Carter
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Forging Justice and Liberation Pathways in Community
BLACK FEMINIST BOOK CLUB: Register for the Black Feminist Book Club
Online Trainings: Inclusive Leadership Cohort: The IDEA Institute's Inclusive Leadership Cohort for Social Change is a powerful year-long, peer-led program at BRIDGE for leaders committed to equity and inclusion. Next Cohort Gathering in Oct 2024!

Train-the-Trainer in Cultural Competence. Race, Gender Equity, Bias Awareness & Belonging. Running Spring & Summer '24
Please make your annual pledge! Monthly sustaining donations welcome! Contact us at [email protected] with your pledge or to ask to speak to a member of our development committee, or donate directly online.

Catalyst. Love. Impact '23!  Celebrate our collective BRIDGE story within the themes of Catalyst. Love. Impact. Visit the gala webpage to see our documentary, timelines, archived articles, testimonials and future vision! 
Our Virtual Learning Hub: New Pathways is our new learning hub and social media platform. Find our events, communities, coalitions, learning groups, book clubs, affinity groups for racial justice, resources and more! Our Foundations training in cultural competence is now available for a self-paced courses in a new virtual learning experience! Stay tuned! 

Email [email protected] for your unique link, or you can buy directly online.

Ways to Give: For over a decade, BRIDGE has been a catalyst for justice, social change and building community--and we can't do it without you! We welcome, time, talent AND treasure and work, wisdom and wealth. See how you can support our work.
Women to Women/Sister to Sistern: Women of color support networks of mentors, leaders and peers. Trauma-informred programs include professional development, positive psychology, meetups, excursions, mutual aid & more
Towards Racial Justice & Equity: Step into accountable action for justice with BRIDGE’s anti-racism community organizing 
Youth Education & Empowerment: Education, training, service learning and mentoring programs for youth, rooted in positive education, diversity leadership & parent/mentor engagement! See our '24 pictures here
Thought Leadership & IDEA Consulting and Coaching: Insights from BRIDGE Co-Founder & CEO Gwendolyn VanSant on cultural competence training design, strategic equity & inclusion work, capacity-building consulting & more. Other associates for coaching and consultants include Aseante Renee, Carmen Baker, Tuti Scott and Dr. Maria Sirois. Contact us for details on how to connect.

OUR core values

Empowerment | Collaboration | Learning | Celebration | Integration | Safety | Justice
BRIDGE is a grassroots organization dedicated to catalyzing change and integration through promoting mutual respect and understanding with a gender and race equity lens that is trauma-informed and rooted in positive psychology and power analysis practices.

Since 2007, our BRIDGE mission has been “promoting mutual understanding and respect among diverse groups serving as a resource to both local institutions and the community at large. We serve as catalysts for change and integration through collaboration, education, training, dialogue, fellowship and advocacy with the creative economy and many other sectors."

Services include cultural​ literacy and cultural competence ​training; consulting, facilitation; youth leadership; multicultural education; parent engagement and education; civil rights and social justice forums and advocacy with diverse groups. 
We facilitate cultural competence programming in schools and institutions to promote equity and to educate on systemic racism and cultural barriers, and are designated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a vendor in the Supplier Diversity Program in the spirit of the Affirmative Market Campaign. 

Through a 360 degree perspective on community and civic participation, BRIDGE has designed a holistic approach to community and public health. BRIDGE's goal is to impact hearts, minds and behaviors that result in positive cultural shifts and systemic changes in policy, law and practice towards a more just, safe and equitable society.

In 2024, BRIDGE Digital Strategist and LGTBQIA+ Advocate wins Berkshire 25! Celebrated on September 30th, 2025!

2023, BRIDGE CEO Gwendolyn VanSant alongside Wray Gunn received the international Torch Bearer Peace Award at the International Peace Run in recognition of the leadership in the Du Bois legacy work and the impact of BRIDGE stewarding  justice, equity and transformation in a solidarity economy promoting love and well-being in our shared communities. 
The Peace Run  is a global relay which promotes international friendship and understanding, founded by Sri Chinmoy 

2023 Former Lead Engagement Coordinator Florence Afanukoe receives award Samya Rose Stumo for Youth Leadership from Non-profit Center of the Berkshires. Florence leads Public Health and Youth Development at BRIDGE as Youth Corps Alumna, Staff and Board Member! Florence also serves on Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Equity Initiative Leadership Advisory Council. 

2023 Mosaic Film featuring our public health model and an intergenerational conversation on health equity is featured in Twin Cities Film festival!

In 2021, BRIDGE CEO Gwendolyn VanSant received the National Community Action Partnership Drum Major for Justice for New Pathways programs and the Food Sovereignty and Empowerment mutual aid programs.

In 2020, BRIDGE CEO Gwendolyn VanSant received MCLA President’s medallion for its 125th year anniversary celebration in recognition of BRIDGE’s work and mission.

​In 2019, BRIDGE was recognized as a national finalist by Everyday Democracy for the Paul J. Aicher Award. 

BRIDGE was also recognized in 2015 as a Berkshire Trendsetter for Non-Profit Impact and as a statewide finalist for Massachusetts Non-Profit Network for Small Non-Profits in 2016.
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    • Community Education >
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      • Real Talk On Race
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      • Happiness Toolbox >
        • Happiness Toolbox Blog
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        • Happiness Toolbox Photos
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    • Towards Racial Justice And Equity In the Berkshires >
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      • Race Task Force
      • Great Barrington Trust Policy
      • Honoring Du Bois's Life & Legacy >
        • Du Bois Legacy Participants 2022
      • Not In Our County - Berkshires
    • Women To Women >
      • Immigrant Women's Group
      • Professional Support/Community Integration
      • Mindfulness and Movement
    • New Pathways >
      • New Pathways Social Justice Conference 2020 >
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        • New Pathways Conference Videos
        • New Pathways 2020 Conference Bios
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