By signing below, our center, office, organization, or institution commits to working in good faith toward Fair Trade Learning principles as strategic areas of effort that advance this broader mission. As a program, office, center, or organization working within larger structures, we recognize that several of these commitments are challenging. But we see the importance  of them and commit to working with other network members to achieve them in our context and beyond. These principles require us, our institution, and our network to work toward partnerships that exhibit:

• Common purposes: Partners including un-affiliated community members, community organizations, and educational institutions share common vision(s) at the intersection of education and community-building.

• Leadership from those who are most affected: Through teaching, research, and project development, systematic efforts are made to amplify the voices, questions, insights, and leadership of individuals most affected by dominant discourses and project interventions.

• Protections for members of vulnerable populations: We are doing all that we can to ensure our organization will not engage in short-term volunteering in orphanages or residential care centers for vulnerable children, nor in any form of medical or professional volunteering that program participants are not qualified to do in their home countries. Across settings, we do all we can to advance our commitment to ensuring systematic protections for individuals in vulnerable populations.

• Participation opportunities among those who are most affected: Particularly in respect to educational programs designed to teach about a place or issue in a specific place, clear efforts are made to ensure that individuals from that place have opportunities to participate, through invitation, credentialing opportunities, scholarships, or some combination thereof.

• Consciousness and evaluation efforts regarding theories of change: Recognizing that community-based global learning often simultaneously seeks goals regarding both participant learning and external community outcomes, my organization takes steps to clarify our theories of change and to evaluate the efficacy of our efforts in light of those theories.

• Ethical representation: We regularly review our materials to ensure that efforts to represent our programming serve an educative function, avoiding reliance on simplistic stereotypes that reproduce dichotomies and hero narratives.

• Intentional environmental and economic impacts and transparency: Through program purchasing, contracting, and arrangement of housing, learning spaces, transportation, or other necessary program components, my institution works to ensure just remuneration, consciously distributed across networks, and with consideration of the environmental impacts of purchasing decisions. Throughout, we work to maximize transparency.

• Critical visioning of how we move toward more just, inclusive, sustainable communities and global community: Through informal and formal educational environments, we work with others to systematically analyze the world(s) we inhabit today, building our capacities to address our greatest challenges, while also envisioning and enacting the steps we need to build more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities nearby and as members of an interdependent planet.

By joining the Collaborative, or re-affirming participation, we commit to partnership-building that exhibits these characteristics.