​I will be participating in the 5th Cohort over a sixth month period to advance Social Justice Philanthropy. Focusing on the root causes of social, economic, and environmental injustice. We will be focused on Fundraising & Funding through community organizing.

We will be setting a fundraising goal in the coming weeks, providing a personal meaningful gift and begin raising funds for The New Majority Fund.

The Giving Project Goals

• Move significant money to social justice organizations in MN.
• Build community
• Educate ourselves about current challenges & potential of social justice organization around these issues, through  racially aware lens.
• Develop our skills as donor organizers
• Create a sustainable new model of funding critical, underfunded social change.

One of the activities we did was Inspired by Marshall Ganz.
The Story of SELF, US, NOW Framework:
My Values: Learning, Ideas, Collaboration, Diversity, Equity, Empowerment.
My Hopes: Grow my understanding of philanthropy, develop my skills as fundraiser, tie my cohort experience back to my business and connect with other Changemakers in the Twin Cities.
Shaped Me: Adopted, Multi-Racial backgrounds, my mother, my educational training.
Stirs Me: Ideas, Students, opportunity, and possibility of change.