| From | Headwaters Foundation for Justice <[email protected]> |
| Subject | People-powered fundraising, grantmaking, and more! |
| Date | June 11, 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?
Summer Office Closure
Join people-powered fundraising at Headwaters
Justice & Liberation Fund Grantmaking Committee
Meet Nico, June's Featured Artist
Coming together with the Headwaters community
June community events
Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
🏖 Summer Office Closure 🏖
The Headwaters office will be closed from Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th. We will be taking time to rest, replenish, and restore. If you need to reach our staff, please contact us before then!
Group photo of 15 people smiling at the camera. Backdrop includes plants, wicker lamp shades, and paintings. <[link removed]>
Join people-powered fundraising at Headwaters
Don’t be fooled by these friendly faces – this is our fiercely committed and all-powerful Development Committee! As a community foundation, we raise all of the dollars we grant out. So, volunteers who support our fundraising efforts are integral in ensuring that we are able to boldly and unapologetically fund grassroots movements across Minnesota. We are immensely grateful to have such an amazing group of committed individuals.
Curious to know what's involved with this committee work, or want to join? Reach out to
Mary, our Direc​tor of Individu​al Giving<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Headwaters%20Development%20Committee> ([email protected]) to learn more!
Group photo of Justice and Liberation committee posing wearing the Black Radiance Network and Justice & Liberation hoodies.<[link removed]>
Justice & Liberation Fund Grantmaking Committee
Many thanks to our community grantmakers who stewarded a historic $2 million to Black-Led organizing across Minnesota! This group of community leaders, elders, youth, and advocates designed and informed every part of the Justice & Liberation Fund. Minnesota’s Black community is not a monolith and we are proud to have worked with members from all over Minnesota, across sectors, and representative of the Black diaspora. Stay tuned for our official grant announcement next week!
Want to celebrate with us? Join us this Friday at the
Black Radiance Network BBQ<[link removed]>! Open to community members engaged in the Black movement and power-building work in Minnesota.
<[link removed]>
Meet Nico, June's Featured Artist
Our June artist calendar features Nico Sardina, a Minneapolis-based screen printer. Nico operates
Kuya Print Co.<[link removed]>, a print shop focused on local fundraising and artist exhibitions. Formerly concentrated on material experimentation through screenprinting and animation, he now spends his time thinking about production under capitalism, commodity fetishism, and the place of a brand new t-shirt in a global context.
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 Nico<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Coming together with the Headwaters community
Thank you to everyone who shared their time, energy, and light with us (not to mention your dancing skills!) at our annual Community Celebration in May. We loved bringing together our grantee community, our donor community, community grantmakers, board members, and staff. And thank you to our performers, including
Tearra Oso and her band<[link removed]> (pictured above), for teaching us Bomba! Didn't get around to making a gift? Your donation fuels our collective grantmaking!
🔗 Support our grantmaking<[link removed]>
Community Events
🌱 The Children’s Gardening Program<[link removed]>
Wednesdays, June 11, 18, 25 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Children’s Gardening Program is a neighborhood program in the Rondo & Frogtown communities of St. Paul. This is a ‘drop in’ program for neighborhood children ages 5 to 105 years. We tend the garden together, learn some science-based gardening skills, discover things about the food we grow including how to prepare it, and we snack on it!
📖 "You Only Get What You're Organized to Take": Lessons from Poor People's Movements<[link removed]>
Sunday, June 15 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
It's an honor to host co-authors Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back at CTUL to discuss their new book "You Only Get What You're Organized to Take", which explores the history of poor people's movements in the United States and Rev. Dr. Liz's own journey through poor people's movements! Our panel discussion also include current CTUL leaders to connect these lessons to our current work.
🌄 Soul of the Southside<[link removed]>
Thursday, June 19 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Soul of the Southside ignites the spirit of Juneteenth and Black Liberation by centering the richness of Black culture. Through a powerful fusion of history, art, music, food, and education, our festival is a transformative platform that unites, empowers, and inspires. We honor the brilliance of Black creatives, businesses, and community organizations, showcasing the profound contributions of Black Americans. By using creativity as a force for liberation, we build connections, foster learning, and leave a legacy of cultural pride and unity for generations to come.
🕊 29th Annual Community Peace Celebration<[link removed]>
Friday, June 20 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Community Peace Celebration was founded in response to violence that occurred in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul in 1996, a traveling Peace Pole with the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in four languages visited 30 neighborhood sites. In June of 1997, the first Community Peace Celebration (CPC) was held. It brought healing words from community leaders along with music and dance by local performers to cultivate the meaning of Peace and a shared vision of cooperative relationships.
🏘️ Northside Tours - Affordable Housing in the Community<[link removed]>
Friday, June 27 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Join Housing in Action's Resources and Relationships Director Paul Vliem for a van tour of North Minneapolis! Learn more about this vibrant community and discuss the historical and present-day reasons the work of Housing in Action is necessary. If you have a desire to be more connected to the work of housing justice, this is a great place to start! Tours are limited to 5 people.
🌈 Minneapolis People's Pride<[link removed]>
Saturday, June 28 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Minneapolis People’s Pride intends to be a space for all queer folks to experience joy, eat food, trade art, and various other activities. Making space for and feeding queer joy is a radical act of resistance that both uplifts the queer community and resists white supremacist heteropatriarchy. We aim to create a space for rest, collaboration, and love, centering those most marginalized and affected by systemic xenophobia.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
MIGIZI Communications
🔸 Part Time Youth Worker<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $19/hour for 20 hours a week
MIGIZI provides a strong circle of support that nurtures the educational, social, economic and cultural development of American Indian youth. MIGIZI was founded in 1977 as Migizi Communications, Inc. with a goal of countering the misrepresentations and inaccuracies about Native people in the media.
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
🔸 Director of Land and Environment<[link removed]>
Salary: $80,000 - $95,000
🔸 Communications Manager<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $30/hour for 20-30 hours a week
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<[link removed]>
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.
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.
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]>
What's New this Month?
Summer Office Closure
Join people-powered fundraising at Headwaters
Justice & Liberation Fund Grantmaking Committee
Meet Nico, June's Featured Artist
Coming together with the Headwaters community
June community events
Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
🏖 Summer Office Closure 🏖
The Headwaters office will be closed from Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th. We will be taking time to rest, replenish, and restore. If you need to reach our staff, please contact us before then!
Group photo of 15 people smiling at the camera. Backdrop includes plants, wicker lamp shades, and paintings. <[link removed]>
Join people-powered fundraising at Headwaters
Don’t be fooled by these friendly faces – this is our fiercely committed and all-powerful Development Committee! As a community foundation, we raise all of the dollars we grant out. So, volunteers who support our fundraising efforts are integral in ensuring that we are able to boldly and unapologetically fund grassroots movements across Minnesota. We are immensely grateful to have such an amazing group of committed individuals.
Curious to know what's involved with this committee work, or want to join? Reach out to
Mary, our Direc​tor of Individu​al Giving<mailto:[email protected]?subject=Headwaters%20Development%20Committee> ([email protected]) to learn more!
Group photo of Justice and Liberation committee posing wearing the Black Radiance Network and Justice & Liberation hoodies.<[link removed]>
Justice & Liberation Fund Grantmaking Committee
Many thanks to our community grantmakers who stewarded a historic $2 million to Black-Led organizing across Minnesota! This group of community leaders, elders, youth, and advocates designed and informed every part of the Justice & Liberation Fund. Minnesota’s Black community is not a monolith and we are proud to have worked with members from all over Minnesota, across sectors, and representative of the Black diaspora. Stay tuned for our official grant announcement next week!
Want to celebrate with us? Join us this Friday at the
Black Radiance Network BBQ<[link removed]>! Open to community members engaged in the Black movement and power-building work in Minnesota.
<[link removed]>
Meet Nico, June's Featured Artist
Our June artist calendar features Nico Sardina, a Minneapolis-based screen printer. Nico operates
Kuya Print Co.<[link removed]>, a print shop focused on local fundraising and artist exhibitions. Formerly concentrated on material experimentation through screenprinting and animation, he now spends his time thinking about production under capitalism, commodity fetishism, and the place of a brand new t-shirt in a global context.
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 Nico<[link removed]>
<[link removed]>
Coming together with the Headwaters community
Thank you to everyone who shared their time, energy, and light with us (not to mention your dancing skills!) at our annual Community Celebration in May. We loved bringing together our grantee community, our donor community, community grantmakers, board members, and staff. And thank you to our performers, including
Tearra Oso and her band<[link removed]> (pictured above), for teaching us Bomba! Didn't get around to making a gift? Your donation fuels our collective grantmaking!
🔗 Support our grantmaking<[link removed]>
Community Events
🌱 The Children’s Gardening Program<[link removed]>
Wednesdays, June 11, 18, 25 from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Children’s Gardening Program is a neighborhood program in the Rondo & Frogtown communities of St. Paul. This is a ‘drop in’ program for neighborhood children ages 5 to 105 years. We tend the garden together, learn some science-based gardening skills, discover things about the food we grow including how to prepare it, and we snack on it!
📖 "You Only Get What You're Organized to Take": Lessons from Poor People's Movements<[link removed]>
Sunday, June 15 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
It's an honor to host co-authors Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis and Noam Sandweiss-Back at CTUL to discuss their new book "You Only Get What You're Organized to Take", which explores the history of poor people's movements in the United States and Rev. Dr. Liz's own journey through poor people's movements! Our panel discussion also include current CTUL leaders to connect these lessons to our current work.
🌄 Soul of the Southside<[link removed]>
Thursday, June 19 from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Soul of the Southside ignites the spirit of Juneteenth and Black Liberation by centering the richness of Black culture. Through a powerful fusion of history, art, music, food, and education, our festival is a transformative platform that unites, empowers, and inspires. We honor the brilliance of Black creatives, businesses, and community organizations, showcasing the profound contributions of Black Americans. By using creativity as a force for liberation, we build connections, foster learning, and leave a legacy of cultural pride and unity for generations to come.
🕊 29th Annual Community Peace Celebration<[link removed]>
Friday, June 20 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
The Community Peace Celebration was founded in response to violence that occurred in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul in 1996, a traveling Peace Pole with the message “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in four languages visited 30 neighborhood sites. In June of 1997, the first Community Peace Celebration (CPC) was held. It brought healing words from community leaders along with music and dance by local performers to cultivate the meaning of Peace and a shared vision of cooperative relationships.
🏘️ Northside Tours - Affordable Housing in the Community<[link removed]>
Friday, June 27 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Join Housing in Action's Resources and Relationships Director Paul Vliem for a van tour of North Minneapolis! Learn more about this vibrant community and discuss the historical and present-day reasons the work of Housing in Action is necessary. If you have a desire to be more connected to the work of housing justice, this is a great place to start! Tours are limited to 5 people.
🌈 Minneapolis People's Pride<[link removed]>
Saturday, June 28 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The Minneapolis People’s Pride intends to be a space for all queer folks to experience joy, eat food, trade art, and various other activities. Making space for and feeding queer joy is a radical act of resistance that both uplifts the queer community and resists white supremacist heteropatriarchy. We aim to create a space for rest, collaboration, and love, centering those most marginalized and affected by systemic xenophobia.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
MIGIZI Communications
🔸 Part Time Youth Worker<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $19/hour for 20 hours a week
MIGIZI provides a strong circle of support that nurtures the educational, social, economic and cultural development of American Indian youth. MIGIZI was founded in 1977 as Migizi Communications, Inc. with a goal of countering the misrepresentations and inaccuracies about Native people in the media.
Wakan Tipi Awanyankapi
🔸 Director of Land and Environment<[link removed]>
Salary: $80,000 - $95,000
🔸 Communications Manager<[link removed]>
Hourly Pay: $30/hour for 20-30 hours a week
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<[link removed]>
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.
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.
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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