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What's New this Month?
- Join Us in Doubling Down for Justice
- Black Radiance Network BBQ
- Meet Kat, May's Featured Artist
- Thank you for RSVP-ing to our Community Celebration!
- May community events
- Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
Join Us in Doubling Down for Justice
It's no coincidence that Minnesota is a trans and queer sanctuary state, has held the line on environmental protections, and won victories for labor, Land Back, and housing rights. Minnesota is home to a powerful social change ecosystem. As a people-powered foundation, Headwaters pools resources from justice-driven people like you and turns them into funding for grassroots community organizing. While other funders pull back, Headwaters is doubling down on what we know is right.
Headwaters will hold strong in this moment, but we need your participation. Will you hold the line with us?
🔗 Fuel the Fight for Justice
In the last few months alone, our community's power has allowed us to fund twelve gender justice organizations and to move eight rapid response grants to immigrant-led and trans-led organizations organizing in the face of heightened political attacks. Your support will increase the number of grants we're able to distribute.
Black Radiance Network BBQ
Friday, June 13, 2025 from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Join us for the annual Black Radiance Network (BRN) BBQ, hosted at the Headwaters office. This event is open to all community members engaged in the Black movement and power-building work in Minnesota. Please join us for a family-friendly BBQ event. We want to hear about what you have been working on and doing in the community! For people coming from outside the Twin Cities, a transportation stipend is available.
🔗 RSVP Today
Meet Kat, May's Featured Artist
We are excited to spotlight Kat Eng this month! Kat is a mixed Khmer multidisciplinary artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. She also designs t-shirts to raise funds for community members facing persecution by ICE. Kat's piece "LIVING FIELDS" is a part of a series that places refugees in gentle reconnection with the land.
Curated by Sati Varghese Mac, 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 Kat
Thank you for RSVP-ing to our Community Celebration!
Thursday, May 15, from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
We appreciate everyone who took the time to sign up for our Annual Community Celebration! Please expect an email with more information the week of the event. For those who missed registering, we have reached capacity and closed registration at this time. If you’d like to be added to the waitlist, please email Sarah Xiong at [email protected]. We will let you know if seats become available. Thank you to everyone for supporting Headwaters, and here's to a night of community renewal!
Community Events
🇵🇸 March Against the Ongoing Nakba
Saturday, May 17 at 1:30 p.m.
March with AMP-MN and partners to commemorate 77 years of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Al-Nakba, Arabic for “the catastrophe” refers to the violent expulsion of 750,000+ Palestinians. March to demand an END to the ongoing Nakba! Right of return for ALL Palestinians! MN Divest from genocide NOW! Free Mahmoud Khalil! Defend the right to protest!
🌱 Narrative Healing: Resistance Poetry Within and Around Health
Wednesday, May 21 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Join Healthcare Reparations Cooperative at Open Book (1011 Washington Ave S, Minneapolis) for dinner and good conversation on Resistance Poetry within and around health. Facilitated by Kene Orakwue with healer DejaJoelle. Masks required.
💝 We Protect Us: a Skill-Up Symposium on Rest and Resistance
Saturday, May 24 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This administration has made our communities faced with unprecedented challenges leaving many of us wondering what's next? Join Paper Lantern Project to learn important skills including situational awareness, digital security, immigration updates, making informed decisions in reproductive health, implementing a rest practice, and ways to build community. This event is Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) centered but open to all people who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). White-bodied people are kindly asked to stay home for this event. For safety purposes, to keep our people safe, and because of the ever-evolving state of our world, pre-registration will be required and we will not welcome walk-ins. Meal provided and comfy clothes recommended!
🏡 Welcome to TOPA-opolis!
Tuesday, May 27 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Join the Housing Justice League to learn more about this year’s TOPA campaign: Welcome to Topa-opolis! Minneapolis needs Tenant Opportunity to Purchase (TOPA) and Council Member Ellison has committed to introducing TOPA for a vote in 2025. It’s time for Minneapolis renters to have the chance to buy their buildings and strengthen pathways to housing stability. Free and open to the public, families are welcome. We’ll have food, fun activities, and a warm and welcoming gathering open to all. Program available in English, Somali, and Spanish.
✍️ Dear Diaspora: Creative Writing Via Letters
Saturday, May 24 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
New Arab American Theater Works hosts a writing workshop facilitated by Sana Wazwaz, a Palestinian American writer, theater artist, and organizer. To grow up in diaspora is to be in a constant state of being deprived the permission to confront, rage, and speak out directly to the voices who have most suppressed us. Diaspora leaves us unable to scream. And, diaspora often prompts us to personify the inanimate and abstract, to develop connections to symbols and objects and find home in them. Join us for a writing workshop on epistolary writing. We will explore the ways in which writing in letter form can foster a sense of reclamation, connection, and home. Open to BIPOC folks and those that identify with diasporic communities.
🦋 Community Wealth Building: Rooted in Legacy, Owning Our Future
Thursday, June 5 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Join Nexus Community Partners for their second event in their 20th Anniversary event series. This virtual gathering will highlight their North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship and the Shared Ownership Center @ Nexus. Over the past 13 years, we have been carefully laying the foundation for Community Wealth Building to grow inside and outside of Nexus. Now, in a time of ever-increasing privatization and the erosion of public resources, we are poised to meet the moment. Sharing bounty and abundance is everything.
☀️ HIA Summer Volunteer Day 2025
Friday, June 6 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. or from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Join Housing in Action for our first volunteer day of the summer! There will be two shifts for this event—9am-12pm and 1-4pm—both starting at the HIA office. Volunteers are welcome to do either a morning shift, an afternoon shift, or stay for the full day! Potential shift activities include yard cleanup, potting flowers, light landscaping, and neighborhood cleanup—more details to come.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
🔸 Community Outreach and Engagement Coordinator
Salary: $50,000 - $60,000
🔸 Request for Proposal: K-12 Curriculum
Formerly known as Lower Phalen Creek Project, Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi is a Native-Led, East Side environmental stewardship nonprofit centered in Dakota values. Our name means “those who take care of Wakan Tipi”. Founded in 1997 by community activists, our project area stretches from Lake Phalen to the Mississippi River and throughout the East Side River District. Our work is powered by a dedicated board, staff, and community of volunteers.
Niibi Center
🔸 Co-Executive Director, Operations and Development
Salary: $70,000
The Niibi Center is a repository of Anishinaabe culture and knowledge to protect and advance our prophecy, sovereignty, and cultural survival. The Niibi Center is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization, based at the White Earth Reservation and serving all Anishinaabe people.
Climate Generation
🔸 Teach Climate Network Coordinator
Salary: $50,882 - $53,045
Climate Generation ignites and sustains the ability of youth, educators, and communities to act on systems perpetuating the climate crisis. Based in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, Climate Generation strategically engages and empowers youth, educators, decision-makers, and the public to foster climate literacy and action with the goal of building a more equitable and resilient future for all.
Greater Minnesota Worker Center
🔸 Bilingual English/Spanish Organizing Director
Salary: $70,000 - $75,000
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
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.
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