About Us

Mission

The Center for Organizing, Renewal & Leadership (CORAL)

The Center for Organizing, Renewal & Leadership (CORAL) is a place of resting, reigniting and reimagining. Based in Antipolo, Rizal Province, The Philippines. CORAL intentionally welcomes feminist, anti-racist and environmental justice movement builders, youth organizers, Unitarian Universalists and religious liberals for retreat, radical imagination and resource sharing.

Balai Diwata

The Center for Organizing, Renewal & Leadership (CORAL) runs a small retreat, ceremonial and organizing space in the foothills of the Sierra Madre of Luzon, The Philippines.

Contact

We welcome your inquiries at info@coralph.org or via our Facebook Page. We are a volunteer collective so please forgive us for any delays.

Resources

Learn more about social justice organizations, resource websites and art that have inspired CORAL here . We also invite you to checkout our Free Library featuring feminist, Unitarian Universalist, progressive Christian, social justice and decolonizing literature. We welcome book donations.

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Revenue in 2017 (Million)

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Collaegues & Counting

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Successfully Project

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Year of experience

Joseph Santos-Lyons

Joseph Santos-Lyons is an ordained minister in the Unitarian Universalist tradition, and has served calls with regional, national and international community based organizations and faith groups. He has a background as an Executive Director, Co-Director, a range of board governance roles. Joseph was raised in Oregon, and is based in Antipolo City outside Metro Manila, The Philippines. He completed his masters at Harvard University and currently working on a doctorate at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. View Joseph’s LinkedIn page.

Rachel Ebora

Rachel Ebora is an award-winning multi-disciplinary artist and activist with over 26 years of experience in non-profit management and administration, community, labor and cultural organizing work with a wide variety of social and economic justice organizations in Oregon and Northern California. A Philippine native, Rachel currently is based in their hometown of Batangas City, where they continue to provide non-profit consulting and executive coaching services while managing the family’s real estate property business. Rachel holds Associate and Bachelor’s of Science degrees in Business Administration, and is in the process of completing an MBA. View Rachel’s LinkedIn page.

Shared living community

Shared living community We live with people we love bound by friendship

Sharing our human and financials resources, and forming a permanent relationship of family together from this day forward.

We Follow Best Practices

The principles and values that we want to practice and make visible in the world as we live together are: