Boston Ujima Project

Join us at next week for Truth and Wellness with Renée Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

Join us in a discussion on wellness as a currency. Reflecting on what people are going through right now. The day to day attacks on people's physical wellness (environmental factors). Disaster relief that's often withheld (or misplaced), which are tax payer funded. Who actually ends up on the scene? The holistic healers.

📆 Wednesday 10.14
📍Coop Social Club | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust

Fall at Ujima Wednesdays: In Us We Trust We’ve been taught to count our wealth in dollars while forgetting the currencies that first made us human. Perhaps democracy is not only lost through stolen votes, but through forgotten values. Join us for our fall Ujima Wednesday Workshop series, In Us We Trust, to remember and rediscover the har...

🧘🏽‍♀️ Join Education for Racial Equity and Bent Birch for Black Soil: Tending Our Roots & Ancestral Gardens

Three days of deep rest, ancestral connection, and spirit-guided community for Black Womyn & Femmes, co-stewarded by MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo and Erika Lyla. An invitation to lay down what was never ours to carry and remember the power, beauty, and grace that lives at our Core.

This retreat has been postponed from October 2026 to May 20–24, 2027. Registration remains open!

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Black Soil: Tending Our Roots & Ancestral Gardens @ Bent Birch | May 20–24 Postponed from October 2026: this retreat now takes place May 20–24, 2027. Registration remains open. Three days of deep rest, ancestral connection, and spirit-guided community for Black Womyn & Femmes, co-stewarded by MawuLisa Thomas-Adeyemo and Erika Lyla. An invitation to lay down what was neve...

The Boston Business Journal highlights Segun Idowu's new role as Ujima's 2026-27 Solidarity Institutions Fellow.

Former Boston economic development chief Idowu will work on formalizing Boston Ujima Project's democratic investment infrastructure. The organization handles a $5 million fund invested in small business and community projects.

>> Read full article https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2026/09/15/segun-idowu-joins-boston-ujima-project.html?csrc=6398&link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=6aaa07a4d6bf3f0001710474&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawUnd-pleHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMWs3aGlzQXR1cmxybU1VcFFzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBpukA5LS3ulTRWBzPg9PiJwFmBVACoU1rw_g7ZMMWnE9QcIasSKgbNOOsg0_aem_GdPuG-87uxVtqSM6oJRoQQ

🥳 Join us in welcoming Segun Idowu to the Ujima team as our 2026-27 Solidarity Institutions Fellow!

Idowu will be working with Ujima on the critical questions of institution-building and translating proven models within the solidarity economy to permanent institutional infrastructure. His economy-building work as a Ujima member, President and CEO of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA), and as Chief of Economic Opportunity and Inclusion with the City of Boston, will inform his work with us in building institutional relationships and new power.

💙 Welcoming Segun to the Ujima team 🧡

Read more at

Boston Ujima Project, Inc. Welcomes 2026-27 Solidarity Institutions Fellow, Segun Idowu The Boston Ujima Project, Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Segun Idowu as our 2026-27 Solidarity Institutions Fellow.Idowu will be working with Ujima on the critical questions of institution-building and translating proven models within the solidarity economy to permanent institutional...

🍁 Join us for Ujima Cafe at Dorchester Food Co-op tonight!

🍴Bring your appetite and good vibes for a day of free delicious food from , cooperative spirit, and great company!

🛒 Don't forget your grocery list, and reusable bottle for some laundry detergent 🫧

🗓️ October 8 & 22 | 5-7 PM
📍 Dorchester Food Co-op | 195 Bowdoin St, Dorchester, MA 02122
💫 RSVP now: www.ujimaboston.com/events

🎊 Join Fortunately Magazine for excellent sounds, drinks, + reads, as we launch our much-awaited Issue 01!

What would a lifestyle magazine look like in a post-capitalist world? Fortunately Magazine is a lifestyle magazine centering cooperation, economics, and alternative ways of living.

Our second publication, Un/Making, meditates on possibility through clearing the board, making anew, and turning back to go forward. We welcome you to grab your copy and celebrate the launch of our print magazine at Foxglove Terrace in Allston!

🎟️ Each purchased ticket will get you two drink tickets for the bar, and a copy of the magazine.

🗓️ October 19 | 9 PM - 1 AM
📍 Foxglove Terrace | 40 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134
💫 RSVP:

Fortunately Magazine Issue 01: Un/Making Launch Join Fortunately Magazine for excellent sounds, drinks, + reads, as we launch our much-awaited Issue 01! Celebrate with us.

Ujima Restaurant Fellow Biplaw Rai is featured in our Summer 2026 Investor Report, in a conversation with Jazz Urbane Cafe founder Bill Banfield and CEO Charles Hunter.

Rai is the co-founder of Pearl and Law Hospitality, which owns and operates Comfort Kitchen, Ama at the Atlas, and Foxglove Terrace. As Ujima's Restaurant Fellow for more than a year, he has supported Jazz urbane Cafe, assisting Bill and the team to help get things started. In this conversation, Rai reflects on food as a form of storytelling and care.

🍴 Read the full conversation in our Summer 2026 Investor Report. https://report.necessary.systems/

👨🏽‍🍳 Learn more about restaurant industry at Biplaw Mondays next this October! In these sessions Rai will provide advice and insights into the realities of operating food businesses.
💡 Learn more at www.ujimaboston.com/post/biplaw-mondays

Justice Roe Williams (he/him) is a highly experienced intersectionality consultant with a sharp focus on dismantling patriarchal masculinity as it is defined by bell hooks. He has been a facilitator for over twenty years and in that time has worked with colleges, universities, non-profits, businesses, gyms and movement spaces to move "beyond inclusion," creating environments that are socially equitable for all. During this time he has facilitated hundreds of trainings that build a sense of belonging, contribute to leadership development, and highlight the importance of justice and equity within work culture.

As a black man of transgender experience, he interweaves his personal narrative while helping individuals to think critically about how intersectionality is a part of their personal experience and the importance of making social justice a daily ritual within all of our lives. His work has been featured in Men's Fitness, African Voices, NPR, Refinery29, Good Housekeeping, PinkNews, Boston Neighborhood Network News, and more.

Join Justice Roe Williams & Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano at tonight for The Currency of Relationships and Gracious Leadership.

Using the four I's of Relationships and Oppression, we will explore how our personal, generational, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural experiences have shaped what we believe about money and our own worth.

📆 Wednesday 10/7
📍Coop Social Club | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust

⏰ Lat day to apply to our 2026-27 Resource Organizing Fellowship, a yearlong, part-time opportunity (15 hrs/week, virtual) to join our resourcing team in shaping the future of community-centered fundraising and economic justice.

This Fellowship is designed for folks who are passionate about resourcing movements, developing strategy, and making operations sing. Working closely with our Deputy Director and resourcing team, the Fellow will help co-lead donor engagement efforts, proposal development, and internal fundraising campaigns that prioritize cultural and community-rooted approaches.

Applications close on October 8, 2026.

https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/ujima-is-hiring-resource-organizing-fellowship-1

Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano is a proud father of three children, an emcee, circle keeper, artist, cultural organizer, educator, curandero and aspiring elder. He is a q***r Boricua raised in Boston, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the radical, award-winning Hip Hop group, Foundation Movement, with whom he has been blessed to facilitate workshops and perform around the globe.

Healing justice, arts & activism, and popular education remain Eroc's passions, purpose and priorities in his community liberation movement work, all of which he is able to develop, practice and facilitate in his current role as UFE's Director of Cultural Organizing. He is often a lead facilitator at UFE's trainings and gatherings, a circle keeper for UFE- and partner group-led events, and he guides groups to address conflicts generatively.

Join Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano & Justice Roe Williams at for The Currency of Relationships and Gracious Leadership.

Using the four I's of Relationships and Oppression, we will explore how our personal, generational, interpersonal, institutional, and cultural experiences have shaped what we believe about money and our own worth.

📆 Wednesday 10/7
📍Coop Social Club | 98A Green St, Jamaica Plain, MA
⏰ 6 - 7:15PM EST
🌏 Hybrid
📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events

💡 Learn more at https://www.ujimaboston.com/post/in-us-we-trust