Our History

CEPEF was formed in 2019 in response to the local and regional needs of organizers of color growing a dynamic political infrastructure. Our DNA carries a century of radical traditions in people-powered movements and grassroots organizing.

CEPEF intrinsically understands the need for organizations to undergo institutional iterations to advance a broader vision for change. After launching a number of critical movement interventions in organizing training, movement operations, and electoral work, CPA formed our sister organization CEPEF to grow and expand our movement capacity-building work.

Home to grounded practitioners, CEPEF staff have decades of organizing experience and are committed to interventions that have changed the landscape of our movements. Our continued involvement in the field has taught us that strategy is only as powerful as the humans who will vision it and carry it forward. This is why we center strategy, trust, wisdom and praxis in our movement work.