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Dear YES! Community,

2024 has been a whirlwind of a year so far, with so much happening on the international systemic level that is impacting our individual journeys and our relationships. As a community of global changemakers working to create a world with more justice and more beauty, YES! staff, facilitators and alumni are responding to the demands of these times by offering even more opportunities for presence, healing and connection.

So many of us are holding on to hope and battling with despair as we navigate the ways we can resist the normalization of violence and oppression while continuing to see(k) the full humanity in each other. We know this work is not for the faint of heart. We also know we can harness much power by coming together to affirm the possibilities of our visions for a better world and to incubate collaboration opportunities to get us closer to those visions.

Thus far in 23/24, we have held 9 in-person Jams in 4 different countries, almost a dozen virtual workshops and spaces to connect on topics such as Grief, Belonging, Play and Workplace Wellness, as well as many in-person and online reunions and alumni programs for our Global Jamily. And we’re only halfway through the year, with many other Jams still to come (including 5 in the next 2 months) and more emphasis on spotlighting and celebrating the stories of our YES! alumni who are making a difference in the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Your engagement and support has been invaluable to YES!’s journey of impact, and we continue to rely on your generosity to keep Jams alive and affordable to all deserving applicants. Please consider supporting our Spring crowdfunding campaign by donating what you can and sharing our work and this campaign with others in your network.

With love and gratitude,

Nour Elkhattaby Strauch

Executive Director, YES!

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Founded by two teenagers in California, USA, 1990, YES! has evolved into a vibrant and dynamic organization working towards providing co-creative brave spaces for changemakers like you. People gifted with compassion and a desire to make a difference. People looking for healing, learning, and connecting at the personal, interpersonal, and systemic level.

YES! Is a vibrant and dynamic body of people – staff, board, global program partners, alumni, and supporters – on a learning journey, seeking to live and work more consciously in alignment with our values. Our organization focuses on restoring balance sustainably and creating partnerships across historic divides. YES! brings these core elements into social change movements worldwide by creating transformational gatherings called Jams and building lasting partnerships with diverse social entrepreneurs to create intentional space for the role of love and spirit.

We seek to facilitate growth and positive change on three simultaneous and deeply interconnected levels: the internal, the interpersonal, and the systemic. We ignite the power of self-awareness and of beloved community, recognizing how inner work and relational shifts can lead to healing and liberation. We nurture vision and collaboration to co-create possibilities for our lives, our families, our work and our communities

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