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• Give to the Max Day/Year End Giving
• NEW: Equality for All Families Fund
• Fund of the Sacred Circle Grants Announced
• Social Change Fund Deadline
• Join Our Street Team!
• Voices for Justice
Headwaters Foundation for Justice announced grants awarded this month through the Fund of the Sacred Circle, a Native-led grantmaking program focused on social justice issues in Native-American communities.
The Larry Olds Popular Education Fund is a donor advised fund at Headwaters Foundation for Justice, which aims to advance and support quality and quantity of educational opportunities using methodology incorporated in popular education (education for raising the critical consciousness of participants).
The African American Leadership Forum has released a white paper on the five (5) critical areas (The "5 Gaps") that contribute to the achievement gap for African American children in Minnesota.
We are proud, and humbled, to announce that Headwaters Foundation for Justice has been awarded the 2011 Responsive Philanthropy Award through the Minnesota Nonprofit Excellence and Mission Awards.
The Headwaters Foundation for Justice is proud to announce the launch of its Social Justice Leadership Institute, a nine-month program open to individuals interested in becoming the next generation of leaders creating and supporting social change locally.
The Headwaters Foundation for Justice is proud to announce that it has joined with more than 60 Foundations from across the country in signing Philanthropy's Promise, a pledge to channel a majority of foundation grant money to communities with the greatest need and to advocacy efforts and projects that encourage citizens to get involved in their communities.
We dig in to these frustrating times and amazingly, find new hope for the future. Because each of us is a resource and a leader. We are the ones we have been waiting for. And together, we see what an incredible difference we can make.
The Center has been able to focus on increasing civic engagement in the community and educating local Anishanaabe about tribal politics, elections and democracy.
I like to see measurable change not through a survey per se, but through personal accounts where it is trickling down so it is actually measurable in people's lives and you can see it in their lived experience.
