Hey there,

Thank you. Your support isn’t just a donation — it’s a declaration. A refusal to accept the broken systems we were handed. A commitment to building something truer, kinder, and more powerful alongside the people who live this work every single day.

Around here, we don’t center institutions. We don’t center gatekeepers. We center our people — because they are the heartbeat, the brilliance, and the frontline architects of the world we’re fighting for.

Your contribution helps us keep doing exactly that: resourcing community power, elevating the voices that have always held the solutions, and building toward a future shaped by those who have carried generations of resilience in their bodies.

When you give to this work, you’re not funding charity. You’re investing in community-led visions that refuse to settle for survival and instead demand joy, dignity, and sovereignty.

Because of you, we can keep showing up where the system fails.
Because of you, families, youth, farmworkers, and culture-bearers can step into their own power without apology.
Because of you, we get one step closer to a world where kindness is not a luxury — it is the baseline, the culture, the collective agreement.

Thank you for walking with us. Thank you for believing that our communities deserve more. And thank you for helping us build the better, bolder world we all know is possible — a world shaped by love, truth-telling, and the unstoppable power of our people.

With fire, gratitude, and so much heart,

Melissa Acedera, Founder and Executive Director

Giving Tuesday 2022

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Giving Tuesday 2022

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