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We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
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Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
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We build public and private partnerships to administer grant dollars toward targeted programs.
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We provide funds at below-market interest rates that can be particularly useful to start, grow, or sustain a program, or when results cannot be achieved with grant dollars alone.
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Tia Burroughs Clayton, MSS
Learning and Community Impact Consultant
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
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Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
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Joe Pyle, MA
President
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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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Our Roots Our Youth
Community Fund for Wellness
Our Roots Our Youth develops the emotional and political capacity of youth to transform their communities through political education, community building, and leadership development using context-based learning and hands-on experiences.
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OurRoots is VietLead’s youth leadership program that engages Vietnamese and Southeast Asian youth of low-income, refugee/immigrant backgrounds in Philadelphia and Camden. VietLead develops their emotional and political capacity for transforming communities through year-round programming in political education, community building, and leadership development using context-based learning and hands-on experiences. Immigrants are a major part of the community which comes with cultural and language barriers. Southeast Asian high school youth find themselves disconnected from their roots and communities. Through cultural and educational programming, youth experience team building activities to think more deeply about the social, emotional, and historical connections with each other and their communities.
Students attend a workshop series on their cultural and political history through a Just Transition economic lens: they learn how Southeast Asian cultures started from a deep connection to earth and nature; how an extractive economic system exploited land and labor; how people became distanced from nature through colonialism and wars. To shift towards a regenerative economic system, communities must reclaim practices of cooperation and restore a relationship with earth that allows the land to sustain. These practices are deep cultural practices still in our communities and families today. Students reclaim these practices by undergoing training in urban agriculture and cultural cooking.