Today we are excited to announce that the 2024-25 Giving Project cohort moved half a million dollars for BIPOC-led organizations fighting for gender justice in our region.  

Thanks to the dedication of the 20 community members in this year’s cohort, Headwaters is resourcing 12 organizations across the region building power to end patriarchy, transphobia, and homophobia, and to create a world free from misogyny. 

“In choosing gender justice as a theme for this year’s Giving Project, we were doubling down on what we already knew to be true: that there is no collective liberation without gender justice,” says Headwaters’ Giving Project Program Manager, Sierra Judy. 

This year, cohort participants raised over $250,000 from their communities through grassroots donor organizing. Combined with a matching contribution from Headwaters, the 2025 Giving Project will provide each organization with a two-year, unrestricted grant totaling $40,000 – totaling $500,000 in grants. 

“At a time when the right is positioning gender self-determination as a political wedge issue and many supposedly progressive institutions are shying away from full-throated support of gender justice, this cohort stepped up” says  Headwaters’ Co-Executive Director Bilal Alkatout, “Headwaters is proud to reinforce organizing throughout Minnesota that advances gender-justice, thanks to this cohort’s fierce donor organizing.” 

The 2025 Giving Project Grantees are: 

For more information about the work these powerful organizations are doing to advance gender justice throughout the state, read the full announcement.

In celebration and solidarity, 

Headwaters Foundation for Justice