| From | Headwaters Foundation for Justice <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Celebrating community, resilience, and gender justice |
| Date | April 9, 2025 2:00 PM |
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A slightly blurred collage of community photos. A march with yellow signs, two people hugging, a meeting, and a person talking on a megaphone are visible. There is a transparent blue overlay and a semi-transparent lighter blue box with the words "Headwaters Foundation for Justice e-newsletter" in black.<[link removed]>
What's New this Month?
You're invited to our Annual Community Celebration!
Meet Ricardo, April's Featured Artist
Fighting for Gender Justice Across Minnesota
April community events
Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
<[link removed]>
You're invited to our Annual Community Celebration!
Thursday, May 15, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
It’s time to reunite with fellow values-aligned donors, organizers, and volunteers to celebrate all the powerful organizing happening across Minnesota. Every year the Headwaters development team hosts a dinner to acknowledge the important work of our grantee partners and to thank donors for their participation.
This year our program<[link removed]> will feature artists who will bring performances guided by themes of resilience and power building. A multitude of food options will be available to accommodate all diets; children welcome. Vendors will be on site selling books and art.
🔗 RSVP Here<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Meet Ricardo, April's Featured Artist
The Headwaters artist calendar
features Ricardo Levins Morales<[link removed]> this month. Ricardo is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967.
Curated by
Sati Varghese Mac<[link removed]>, our 2025 artist calendar features 12 visionary and revolutionary BIPOC artists from Minnesota. Each artist connects their works to the fight for collective liberation, responding to the prompt, "What is your vision for your community in the next 40 years?"
🔗 Learn more about Ricardo<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Fighting for Gender Justice Across Minnesota
Last week, we announced the
12 grantee partners<[link removed]> thoughtfully and intentionally selected by the 2024-25 Giving Project cohort. Headwaters is honored to welcome these organizations into our grantee community, thanks to the cohort's incredible mobilization and stewardship. From Minneapolis to Moorhead, recently founded to long-standing, cultural organizing to systems change work, each of these organizations embodies a deep care for their communities, a commitment to the sustainability of our movements, and a vision of collective liberation rooted in ending gender-based oppression. We invite you to take the time to learn more about each of these impressive organizations.
Giving Project Minnesota Alums: We're excited to see you this Saturday to celebrate Cohort 9 at Eat Street Crossing! Haven't RSVP-ed yet? Send Chris an email at
chris@headwater​sfoundation.org​<mailto:[email protected]>!
🔗 Read the full Grant Announcement<[link removed]>
Community Events
🌷 MIWRC Warming Center Resource Connect<[link removed]>
Every Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) hosts weekly drop-in hours to provide a safe space for relatives with meals, resources, and service navigation. Community members can help by
contributing financially<[link removed]> (note that your gift is for the warming shelter) or by bringing warm clothing, toiletries, socks, new underwear, snacks, and bottled water to MIWRC. Located at 2300 15th Ave S, Minneapolis.
🦋 Political Pedagogy: Land Healing<[link removed]>
Wednesday, April 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Join Healthcare Reparations Cooperative in our second Political Pedagogy workshop of 2025! This session is on Land Healing: Environmental Justice and Healthcare. Facilitated by Hadija Steen Mills MPH with support from Kene Orakwue MPH. This session will be hybrid, with masks required for in person attendees. Hosted at UROC 2001 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis. Dinner and a participation stipend provided.
🌾 Earth Day Celebration at Pilgrim Community Garden and Peace Sanctuary Garden<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 19 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Cultivate good relations, with one another and the Earth, as we say good-bye to winter's trash and renew our stewardship of two Rondo community gardens. Hosted by the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance. Stop by one or both family-friendly events—they are a short walk from one another. There will be refreshments and friendly faces at both locations.
🎥 Taking Root: Fundraiser and Screening<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 19 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Join MN8 for a day full of reclamation, community empowerment, and healing through Southeast Asian storytelling. Together, we’ll be showing the first two episodes of the new docuseries, hearing from a panel of community advocates and impacted individuals, and sharing resources to keep each other safe. As we navigate the extremely anti-immigrant political landscape and resist the racist systems at play, our antidote is building community and people power.
🎙️ The Price of Truth: The Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 26 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Join AMP-MN for a powerful evening uncovering the truth about Gaza — and the growing effort to silence those who speak up. This powerful event includes dinner, dynamic panels, a chance to engage directly with global human rights leaders, and real stories from those on the ground in Palestine. Enjoy a full dinner, powerful speaker panels, firsthand stories from Gaza, Q&A sessions, networking opportunities, and a chance to connect with people fighting for justice.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
Native Governance Center
🔸 Director of Advancement and Strategy<[link removed]>
Salary: $105,000 - $120,000
Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit dedicated to assisting Native nations in strengthening their governance systems and capacity to exercise sovereignty. While originally founded to support the 23 Native nations sharing geography with MN, ND, and SD, we have strategically piloted growth beyond this region and hope to continue to expand offerings with thoughtfulness toward needs identified by communities.
Transforming Generations
🔸 50th Anniversary Project Coordinator (Contractor)<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $23 - $25 / hour
Transforming Generations is a gender justice organization founded in 2015 providing support services to victims and survivors of gender-based violence in Hmong and Southeast Asian communities. Our mission is to organize, educate, and transform cultural and power dynamics to end gender-based violence. Our vision is to create a world where gender equity is the norm and violence is not accepted.
Greater Minnesota Worker Center
🔸 Bilingual English/Spanish Organizing Director<[link removed]>
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000
The Greater Minnesota Worker Center (GMWC) is a community-based organization dedicated to empowering low-wage workers in the Greater St. Cloud area in Central Minnesota through organizing, education, advocacy, and leadership development. We work to unite workers across ethnic and cultural backgrounds to advocate for systemic changes that improve workplace conditions and strengthen communities.
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL)
🔸 Construction Lead Organizer<[link removed]>
Salary: $67,980
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) is a worker-led organization where workers organize, educate, and empower each other to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities. We partner with other organizations and leaders to build a movement to win racial, gender, and economic justice. We identify the root causes of injustice and work to shift the balance of power between those who have it and those who don’t to improve the lives of our communities for present and future generations.
Dream of Wild Health
🔸 Youth Internship Program Coordinator<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $21 - $22 / hour
Dream of Wild Health (DWH) is celebrating 26 years of working within the Twin Cities Native American community and has recently grown to a 30-acre farm in Hugo with an office in Minneapolis. DWH is a Native-led organization committed to promoting the health and well-being of Native American communities through traditional and sustainable agriculture, cultural recovery, and youth development.
Share your events and jobs in our newsletter
Submitting your event or job posting is easy! Use the link below to fill out our 60-second form. Our newsletters go out on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This link (
bit.ly/HFJnews<[link removed]>) will be active for all future newsletters - so keep it handy!
🔗 Submission Form<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
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Donate<[link removed]>
Unsubscribe<[link removed]>
Headwaters Foundation for Justice<[link removed]>
2801 21st Ave S, Ste 132B | Minneapolis, MN 55407
<[link removed]>
What's New this Month?
You're invited to our Annual Community Celebration!
Meet Ricardo, April's Featured Artist
Fighting for Gender Justice Across Minnesota
April community events
Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
<[link removed]>
You're invited to our Annual Community Celebration!
Thursday, May 15, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
It’s time to reunite with fellow values-aligned donors, organizers, and volunteers to celebrate all the powerful organizing happening across Minnesota. Every year the Headwaters development team hosts a dinner to acknowledge the important work of our grantee partners and to thank donors for their participation.
This year our program<[link removed]> will feature artists who will bring performances guided by themes of resilience and power building. A multitude of food options will be available to accommodate all diets; children welcome. Vendors will be on site selling books and art.
🔗 RSVP Here<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Meet Ricardo, April's Featured Artist
The Headwaters artist calendar
features Ricardo Levins Morales<[link removed]> this month. Ricardo is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967.
Curated by
Sati Varghese Mac<[link removed]>, our 2025 artist calendar features 12 visionary and revolutionary BIPOC artists from Minnesota. Each artist connects their works to the fight for collective liberation, responding to the prompt, "What is your vision for your community in the next 40 years?"
🔗 Learn more about Ricardo<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Fighting for Gender Justice Across Minnesota
Last week, we announced the
12 grantee partners<[link removed]> thoughtfully and intentionally selected by the 2024-25 Giving Project cohort. Headwaters is honored to welcome these organizations into our grantee community, thanks to the cohort's incredible mobilization and stewardship. From Minneapolis to Moorhead, recently founded to long-standing, cultural organizing to systems change work, each of these organizations embodies a deep care for their communities, a commitment to the sustainability of our movements, and a vision of collective liberation rooted in ending gender-based oppression. We invite you to take the time to learn more about each of these impressive organizations.
Giving Project Minnesota Alums: We're excited to see you this Saturday to celebrate Cohort 9 at Eat Street Crossing! Haven't RSVP-ed yet? Send Chris an email at
chris@headwater​sfoundation.org​<mailto:[email protected]>!
🔗 Read the full Grant Announcement<[link removed]>
Community Events
🌷 MIWRC Warming Center Resource Connect<[link removed]>
Every Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) hosts weekly drop-in hours to provide a safe space for relatives with meals, resources, and service navigation. Community members can help by
contributing financially<[link removed]> (note that your gift is for the warming shelter) or by bringing warm clothing, toiletries, socks, new underwear, snacks, and bottled water to MIWRC. Located at 2300 15th Ave S, Minneapolis.
🦋 Political Pedagogy: Land Healing<[link removed]>
Wednesday, April 16 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Join Healthcare Reparations Cooperative in our second Political Pedagogy workshop of 2025! This session is on Land Healing: Environmental Justice and Healthcare. Facilitated by Hadija Steen Mills MPH with support from Kene Orakwue MPH. This session will be hybrid, with masks required for in person attendees. Hosted at UROC 2001 Plymouth Ave N, Minneapolis. Dinner and a participation stipend provided.
🌾 Earth Day Celebration at Pilgrim Community Garden and Peace Sanctuary Garden<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 19 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Cultivate good relations, with one another and the Earth, as we say good-bye to winter's trash and renew our stewardship of two Rondo community gardens. Hosted by the Urban Farm and Garden Alliance. Stop by one or both family-friendly events—they are a short walk from one another. There will be refreshments and friendly faces at both locations.
🎥 Taking Root: Fundraiser and Screening<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 19 from 12 to 3 p.m.
Join MN8 for a day full of reclamation, community empowerment, and healing through Southeast Asian storytelling. Together, we’ll be showing the first two episodes of the new docuseries, hearing from a panel of community advocates and impacted individuals, and sharing resources to keep each other safe. As we navigate the extremely anti-immigrant political landscape and resist the racist systems at play, our antidote is building community and people power.
🎙️ The Price of Truth: The Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing<[link removed]>
Saturday, April 26 from 5 to 9 p.m.
Join AMP-MN for a powerful evening uncovering the truth about Gaza — and the growing effort to silence those who speak up. This powerful event includes dinner, dynamic panels, a chance to engage directly with global human rights leaders, and real stories from those on the ground in Palestine. Enjoy a full dinner, powerful speaker panels, firsthand stories from Gaza, Q&A sessions, networking opportunities, and a chance to connect with people fighting for justice.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
Native Governance Center
🔸 Director of Advancement and Strategy<[link removed]>
Salary: $105,000 - $120,000
Native Governance Center is a Native-led nonprofit dedicated to assisting Native nations in strengthening their governance systems and capacity to exercise sovereignty. While originally founded to support the 23 Native nations sharing geography with MN, ND, and SD, we have strategically piloted growth beyond this region and hope to continue to expand offerings with thoughtfulness toward needs identified by communities.
Transforming Generations
🔸 50th Anniversary Project Coordinator (Contractor)<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $23 - $25 / hour
Transforming Generations is a gender justice organization founded in 2015 providing support services to victims and survivors of gender-based violence in Hmong and Southeast Asian communities. Our mission is to organize, educate, and transform cultural and power dynamics to end gender-based violence. Our vision is to create a world where gender equity is the norm and violence is not accepted.
Greater Minnesota Worker Center
🔸 Bilingual English/Spanish Organizing Director<[link removed]>
Salary: $60,000 - $65,000
The Greater Minnesota Worker Center (GMWC) is a community-based organization dedicated to empowering low-wage workers in the Greater St. Cloud area in Central Minnesota through organizing, education, advocacy, and leadership development. We work to unite workers across ethnic and cultural backgrounds to advocate for systemic changes that improve workplace conditions and strengthen communities.
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL)
🔸 Construction Lead Organizer<[link removed]>
Salary: $67,980
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en Lucha (CTUL) is a worker-led organization where workers organize, educate, and empower each other to fight for a voice in their workplaces and in their communities. We partner with other organizations and leaders to build a movement to win racial, gender, and economic justice. We identify the root causes of injustice and work to shift the balance of power between those who have it and those who don’t to improve the lives of our communities for present and future generations.
Dream of Wild Health
🔸 Youth Internship Program Coordinator<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $21 - $22 / hour
Dream of Wild Health (DWH) is celebrating 26 years of working within the Twin Cities Native American community and has recently grown to a 30-acre farm in Hugo with an office in Minneapolis. DWH is a Native-led organization committed to promoting the health and well-being of Native American communities through traditional and sustainable agriculture, cultural recovery, and youth development.
Share your events and jobs in our newsletter
Submitting your event or job posting is easy! Use the link below to fill out our 60-second form. Our newsletters go out on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This link (
bit.ly/HFJnews<[link removed]>) will be active for all future newsletters - so keep it handy!
🔗 Submission Form<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Donate<[link removed]>
Unsubscribe<[link removed]>
Headwaters Foundation for Justice<[link removed]>
2801 21st Ave S, Ste 132B | Minneapolis, MN 55407
<[link removed]>
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