Community Partnerships - What do we want? When do we want it? Access, Impact, Sustainability, and Equity

Community Partnerships - What do we want? When do we want it? Access, Impact, Sustainability, and Equity

There is a lot of great work being done in changing community partnership practices to guide organizations toward fair and equitable collaboration, particularly where there is an imbalance of resources. In addition to the work archives and libraries are doing, many funding agencies are also focused on equity in community project planning. Some existing strategies include radical collaboration, equal distribution of funding, and post custodial community archiving. As community partnership practices are evolving and pushing the boundaries toward decolonization of the archives, how do we ensure fair and equitable collaborations? We would like to explore these concepts and engage the audience in brainstorming additional strategies that promote tenants of Access, Impact, Sustainability, and Equity with particular thought to our South Florida community.