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What's Happening at Headwaters!
Spring at last! One more thing to celebrate at next week's Allies for Justice Celebration. Just a few days remain to get your tickets, so I hope you will act today, because we want to see you there!
Allies for Justice and some other really incredible events are the focus of this quarter's newsletter-- including a Social Justice Scavenger Hunt and the start of a Social Justice Leadership Institute this fall. Read on for more details.
We are also in the final countdown to the end of our fiscal year (June 30), which coincides with our Social Change Fund grant round. If ever there was a time when your dollars went right to work, this is it. Every dollar we raise between now and the middle of June goes right back out the door to an amazing group of grassroots organizations. Please consider making a gift this month to support social change year-round. We need your help to make sure the organizations we support have the resources they need to do their work .
Finally, I want to share an important article with you on diversity in philanthropy. Published by the MN Council of Foundations, it features the perspective of our own David Nicholson. You can read the article here.
--Trista Harris
Executive Director |
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Celebrating the good work we do together and honoring:
Crossing Barriers
Organizing Apprenticeship Project
Henry Bromelkamp
With Master of Ceremonies: T. Mychael Rambo
Register here today! |
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Events:
Spirituality and Activism
Monday, June 6 / 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. / location tbd
What sense of meaning and purpose undergirds your activism? What spiritual practices, traditions, and communities support and sustain your work? How does your activism inform and expand your spirituality or faith? Join with other activists exploring the intersections of spirituality and social action and the personal and professional aspects of spirituality and public life. This is not a presentation but an opportunity to dialogue with other progressives to deepen our understanding and insights into the role of spirituality in our call for justice in the world.
This gathering is being hosted in collaboration with the Center for Public Ministry at United Theological Seminary. The Center was launched in October 2010 by Steven Newcom, past Headwaters ED, and is an outgrowth of his Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship which focused on the intersection of theological education and social justice ministry. The mission of the Center is to Advance the theory and practice of social justice ministry as a practical theological discipline and a core ministerial competency.
Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together to Create a Just and Sustainable World
Thursday, June 9 / 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. /
True Colors Bookstore / 4755 Chicago Ave S, Mpls
All of us want a future that's promising and a way to get there. For decades, activists and community groups have worked to create equitable solutions. Why then are so many of us disappointed at the results? Organizers often fall short in creating groups in which people of all backgrounds feel comfortable speaking up. And while progressives are good at articulating what they're against, they have a tougher time getting specific about what they're for-creating a positive, energizing vision.
Join Linda Stout, a lifelong agent of social justice, in discussing her book Collective Visioning, which introduces a process designed to ensure that all voices are heard, an inspiring vision of the future is agreed on, and an action plan is developed that leverages everyone's diverse talents and abilities. Used successfully by over 120 organizations, it creates hope for change among those who've stopped believing change is possible. Click here for further information.
Ice Cream Social Justice
Thursday, July 14 / 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Minnehaha Falls - Wabun Picnic Shelter A, Mpls
A popular event last year, Ice Cream Social Justice provides an opportunity to join cutting edge organizers, next generation donors, inquiring minds and emerging leaders of all kinds for a lively discussion about the social justice. The ice cream is on us! Rsvp to: Jodi@HeadwatersFoundation.org.
P.S. In case of rain no worries--we'll stay dry under the picnic shelter! |
Future Events:
Social Justice Scavenger Hunt
This fun and fast-paced event is for fans and newcomers to Headwaters and social justice. Learn about the organizations we support through challenges and check-points incorporating various feats of skill and creativity! Sign-up begins this summer. Contact Ady Olson ady@headwatersfoundation.org for additional information.
Social Justice Leadership Institute
Enrollment begins this summer for 2011-12 institute!
Your families give you your hopes and hang-ups
Your faith gives you your moral code
Your schooling gives you your facts and figures
Your friends give you your insights and insecurities
Your tee-shirts give you your cynicism and slogans
Your surfing gives you your world's problems and options
Where do you go to transform all that you "are" into something more?
Join the Social Justice Leadership Institute --a place to integrate your passion and purpose by connecting personal, professional and civic selves with opportunities for resource sharing and community engagement. The nine-month Institute is open to all who are interested in community building, leadership development and funding social change. For further information contact: David Nicholson david@headwatersfoundation.org. |
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With a donation to Headwaters Foundation for Justice
you can create change in the community today.
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Every $1 donated for social justice leverages $138 in benefit for the community.
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Grow your dollar.
Grow your community. |
THANK YOU ALLIES FOR JUSTICE SPONSORS!
Meg Anderson & David Washburn
Mikkel Beckmen
Monica Bryand & Tess Rizzardi
Claire Chang & David Kippen
Trisha Lee Cook
Peter Dross
Barbara Forster & Larry
Hendrickson
Charlotte Forsythe
Shalini Gupta & Jim Kleinschmit
Ron Hanft
Trista & Mark Harris
Dan Hawkins & Michael Welter
Sally & Chuck Jorgensen
Dodie & John Kostishack
Brad Kruse
Amy Lange & Jane Newman
Boa Lee
Bob Lyman & Kaia Svien
Ron McKinley
Jim Rustad
Jim Sauder & Paul Hogrefe
Mark Sherman & Shelley Sherman
Tiana Toso
Ruth & David Waterbury
Jodi Williams & Mark Gemmell
Michael Wilson & Amy Lokensgard
Perry Wilson
Advocating Change Together
African & American
Friendship Association for
Cooperation &
Development
Bremer Bank
Center for Public Ministry at
United Theological Seminary
Community Action Partnership
Community Consulting Group
Community Shares of MN
CrossingBarriers
Environmental Justice
Advocates of MN
Fox Consulting, LLC
Growth & Justice / Wealth for
the Common Good
Harrison Neighborhood
Association
ISAIAH
Main Street Project
Mental Health Consumer
Survivor Network
Native Americans in
Philanthropy
Northwest Area Foundation
Peace Coffee
PFund Foundation
Project 515
Seven Corners Printing
Anthony Shane Florist
Triangle Park Creative
Trillium Asset Management
Corporation
West Side Citizens
Organization
Wellington Management, Inc.
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