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What's New this Month?
- Introduce Headwaters to Your Community
- Rapid Response Fund - Cycle 1 is Live!
- Meet Alexandra, August's Featured Artist
- Spotlighted by Northwest Area Foundation
- Upcoming community events
- Job opportunities from the Headwaters community
Introduce Headwaters to Your Community
Do you belong to a workplace, club, or affinity group who care about fighting for equity and justice? People who want to stay connected and informed about the social justice ecosystem across our state? As our communities look for new ways to engage, we’re excited to offer Lunch & Learns as a way to fuel connections to Headwaters’ work. From now through the end of the year, our team will be bringing Lunch & Learns to you – in-person or virtually. Groups of any size are welcome – from 5 to 100! Reach out to Grassroots Gift Officer, Timi Bliss to learn more: timi@headwatersfoundation.org.
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Rapid Response Fund - Cycle 1 is Live!
We are proud to have announced open applications for our Rapid Response Fund. While providing rapid response funds is not new to Headwaters, this new open process was built to increase transparency and access to these funds. Cycle 1 opened this month and the inquiry deadline is August 27th. Check out the link below for the timelines of all upcoming cycles!
Meet Alexandra, August's Featured Artist
August's featured artist is Alexandra Beaumont! Alexandra is a textile artist and dancer working in fabric and movement to explore personal and collective joy, celebration, and expansion. Her handmade banners reference the visual, kinetic, and metaphoric elements of dance floors through collaged cloth portraits of celebrants in movement.
🔗 Learn more about Alexandra
Spotlighted by Northwest Area Foundation
Many thanks to our partners at Northwest Area Foundation for spotlighting us and explaining why our partnership is a strategic one. As a funder ourselves, Headwaters also receive grants from larger foundations who believe in the grassroots power of Minnesota's organizers. When we pool funds for grassroots power, our movements grow stronger!
“In a time of complexity and challenge, Headwaters offers something rare: a way to act. For donors who want to make a difference but aren’t sure how, supporting Headwaters means joining a broader movement for justice."
🔗 Read their profile of Headwaters
Community Events
🤍 Community Vigil and Solidarity Mourning Tent
Wednesday, August 13 from 6 p.m.
Join JVP Twin Cities and friends as we hold space to mourn Awdah Hathaleen, a beloved Palestinian teacher, activist, and friend who was murdered by an Israeli settler in his village of Um Al-Khair in late July. Together we will grieve and take action in his honor. We will gather at the people's plaza outside of Minneapolis City Hall.
☕️ Book Launch and Signing: "Prosperity with Purpose: A Muslim Woman's Guide to Abundance and Generosity"
Sunday, August 17 from 4 p.m.
Be among the first to experience this groundbreaking book that empowers Muslim women to take control of their financial futures while staying true to Islamic principles. Come meet the author, Nausheena Hussain. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
🪑 Foster-informed Philanthropy Roundtable
Monday, August 18 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Join this important gathering to explore the MN Promise Report and hear from Fosters on their insights and ideas for how to best serve all youth and meet our collective promise to Fosters! They are excited to meet with you and other funders dedicated to youth and systems equity. This is a hybrid event, with breakfast provided for those able to attend in person.
🌱 Future Healing: Actualizing Black Joy in Health
Wednesday, August 20 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Healthcare Reparations Cooperative's August Political Pedagogy will be at Modus Locus - 3500 Bloomington Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN. Dinner will be provided. This is a Black-centered event that welcomes all. Sponsored by Saint Paul - Ramsey County Public Health.
🪩 Global Feminist Funk Underground Club
Saturday, August 23 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Join us as we gather in meditation and intentional dance to meet the moment. Facilitated by Artistic Director Ananya Chatterjea and Artists of Ananya Dance Theatre, we will cultivate a practice of joyful dance and embodied meditation that is invested in seeing and honoring the contexts of our resistance and survival. Between these meditations, local musicians and poets will hold sonic space for folks to move, rest, and be as they feel called. Come experience intimacy and solidarity through dance!
📚 Foster Advocates Peer Learning
Wednesday, August 27 from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Join Foster Advocates for Peer Learning (virtual, 14+). We'll have discussions to prep for college scheduling and time management for the fall! Sign up details released in July.
🎉 Ayada Leads 10 Year Anniversary
Friday, September 5 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Join us as we celebrate 10 incredible years of growth, community, and achievement! This milestone anniversary honors a decade of dedication, collaboration, and unforgettable moments. Reflect on our journey, connect with old friends and new faces, and be part of the exciting future ahead. The celebration will feature special guests, highlights from the past ten years, and plenty of opportunities to make new memories together.
💃 THE FUNCTION
Saturday, September 13 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m.
THE FUNCTION is Public Functionary’s annual world-building, abundance-making, dream-living, money-raising art party. And this year taking place in open air! We're expanding outside our galleries and into the NKB courtyard campus with multiple curated stages, installations, and moments of joy. Through celebration, we aim to raise funds through tickets sales to sustain our year-round artist support platform and the PF Studios program at Public Functionary.
🦋 Ananya Dance Theatre Presents: SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING
Friday - Saturday, September 19-20 from 7 p.m.
SWAPNŌ JHNĀP: DREAM JUMPING faces the ongoing chaos and escalating destruction of our Common Life by bringing connectivity and liberation out of the dream world and into reality. As the dancers travel through portals that cross time cycles and spacescapes, they integrate vital medicine and patchwork a methodology of dreaming that literally brings the desired world closer. We discover wisdom and connectivities inside the depths of oceanic grief, in the shared rhythms of a dance club, in the hatching of mythical creatures, in the rubble of war-torn landscapes, and inside quantum entanglements of movement and breath.
🐦🔥 Wings of Unity: A Celebration of Nature & Inclusion with UBC
Saturday, September 28 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The Urban Bird Collective is hosting our second annual gala! This year's theme is "Wings of Unity: A Celebration of Nature and Inclusion." We hope you'll join us in celebrating the UBC and supporting our work and mission. We'll have food, nature walks, a silent auction, costume contest, and more... Feeling creative? Gala attendees are invited to wear a bird-themed costume, or make one at the event, and enter the costume contest to win a prize.
Job Opportunities from the Headwaters Community
InquilinXs UnidXs por Justicia (United Renters for Justice)
🔸 Lead Policy Organizer
Base Salary: $58,000
InquilinXs UnidXs por Justicia (United Renters for Justice) (IX) was founded to build tenant power to change the housing system in Minneapolis. We are a multi-identity/gender, multi-language, and multi-cultural organization. IX was founded by Latinx community members to work with renter communities most oppressed by high rents, bad conditions, and intimidation by landlords in the city.
Wildflyer Coffee
🔸 Development and Communications Manager
Salary: $50,000 - 55,000
Wildflyer Coffee is a non-profit coffee company that creates employment opportunities for youth experiencing homelessness. The Development and Communications Manager is a key member of the Development team and works collaboratively across departments on initiatives that raise public awareness of Wildflyer Coffee’s mission and secures financial contributions to help end youth homelessness.
Resource Generation
🔸 Midwest Regional Organizer
Salary: $69,300 - 79,300
Resource Generation is a national non-profit organization mobilizing young people (age 18-35) with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards equitable wealth, land, and power. The broader Resource Generation community includes people of all ages and class backgrounds who support young people with wealth's role in social change.
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