 |
What's Happening at Headwaters
 Summer is here, but don't think for a minute that we are slowing down. We just approved $245,000 in grants to 27 outstanding organizations, including the Trans Youth Support Network featured below. The full grant list and press release can be found here. Thank you to everyone who contributed financially to making these grants possible and to those who volunteered on this year's Social Change Fund Committee.
As the end of our fiscal year approaches on June 30, we invite you to help us meet our fundraising goals for the year by making a gift to Headwaters today. You can be proud of your contribution to creating change locally, strengthening community-based nonprofits, and building the social justice movement in Minnesota.
Along with the end of the fiscal year comes the end of Board terms for several individuals. I want to thank outgoing members of our Board of Directors, Claire Chang, Amalia Deloney, Amy Lange, Penelope Snipper and Laura Waterman Wittstock for their incredible contributions and service. Headwaters has benefitted enormously from your leadership and wisdom. Though we will miss your presence at meetings, I know we will stay in touch.
I am pleased to share the news with you that Monica Bryand, who has been with the organization for over 10 years, has been promoted to Senior Program Officer, reflecting the increased role she is playing within Headwaters. Congratulations to Monica!
I also want to welcome intern Brittani Nichols to the staff. As a recent Yale graduate interested in public relations and marketing, Brittani is participating in the school's Bulldogs Across America summer internship program. In addition, I want to thank outgoing interns Maggie Brunk and Jenna Perkins, and Advancement Fellow Jessica Schaeppi,who helped us with all manner of outreach and communications projects over the past several months.
Last, but not least, we are still riding high on the good time we had at the Allies for Justice Celebration last month. Thank you to everyone who contributed the success of this year's event, helping us raise over $50,000 for social justice organizations in Minnesota. Allies award videos and additional photos can now be viewed on our website.
I hope you have an excellent summer. We have several exciting events on the calendar. Read on and please--join us!
--Trista Harris
Executive Director |
|
Monday, June 14th / 5:00 - 7:00pm
June 15th, 11:30am - 1:15pm
(Two dates, same program)
If you are concerned about the state of our vital public institutions and services- whether quality public education for children, transportation infrastructure, green energy projects, unemployment compensation, affordable health care, effective public health services, or a high functioning judiciary--join us next week for a conversation with Ann Manning, Outreach Director for Wealth for the Common Good. Ann will lead a discussion on economic inequality and roles that business leaders and wealthy individuals can play in advocating for shared prosperity. Click here for details!
Grab a snack (or a glass of wine) at the Sea Salt Eatery and join cutting edge organizers, next generation donors, inquiring minds and emerging leaders of all kinds for a lively discussion about the social justice lay of the land in our state with Headwaters executive director Trista Harris. See you at Minnehaha Falls--the ice cream is on us! This event is free and open to the public. Reserve your seat by contacting Jodi@HeadwatersFoundation.org.
|
|
|
Grantee Spotlight:
How do you confront the issue that many of us live in a gender binary society? (It's a good term-hold on, here comes the definition.) A society that is gender binary classifies sex and gender into two distinct and disconnected forms of masculine and feminine. It can create social boundaries that discourage people from crossing or mixing gender roles, or from creating a third form of gender expression altogether. It can also manifest prejudices that stigmatize intersex and transgendered people.
The Trans Youth Support Network (TYSN) challenges misconceptions about transgender and non-conforming youth in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. TYSN's mission is to promote racial, social, and economic justice for trans youth, with the freedom to self-define gender identity and expression. Through training, educating, and connecting youth-serving organizations, TYSN creates broader knowledge and understanding of the issues transgender youth face, while improving access to services for transgender youth in the community.
Read the full article here. |
Donor Spotlight: Jamie Schweser
I grew up in the punk rock scene. Our slogan was D.I.Y. - Do It Yourself. Since I was young, I've known that if we want the world to be a fairer place with justice for everybody, we have to do it ourselves.
When I lived in New Orleans, I tutored kids in my neighborhood. Every kid I knew had at least one family member in prison, and going by the statistics for Black males in our neighborhood, most would end up in prison by the age that kids from my Midwestern home-town would go to college. One of the kids I tutored got busted when he was 15 - maybe for having drugs, or maybe for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was a good kid who was facing 6 years in prison. I went to court with his mom 8 times, and because a white person who could read showed up, the judge let him out on a probationary program.
When my parents sold a business they started, I got a million dollars, giving me opportunities they never had. It was more than I needed, which didn't make me any happier... Read the rest of Jamie's story here.
Originally published in Bolder Giving. |
|
|
|
|
|
$27,000
left to meet our goal!
Our fiscal year
ends June 30
and we are asking all Headwaters supporters to help us raise the last $27,000 to meet our fundraising goals for the year.
*****
If you have yet to make your gift, please do so today and keep the momentum going!
If you have been thinking about making your first gift to Headwaters--now is the time to support social change in the community!
If you made a gift earlier this year and are able to make an additional gift at this time, well, you are a super star!
*****
We are almost there and with your help, we can make it!
|
June 17, 2010
Ice Cream Social Justice:
July 13, 2010
|
Thank you to all who are moving justice forward by contributing to our work!
|
Stay connected.  Friend us on
 Follow us on
|
|
