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Value Your Breath

This video series by one of the Catalyst Initiative's grantees, the Irreducible Grace Foundation, is designed for middle and high school students and teaches mindfulness, breathing, and wellness tools.

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Sowing Seeds of Healing

The Catalyst Initiative creates sustainable systems change by giving communities what they say they need. Catalyst focuses on building resilience, healing trauma, and contributing to positive health outcomes at the individual, organizational, and community levels. Learn more about this innovative work in this article from the Bush Foundation.

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Educational Transformation and Collective Healing

The Catalyst Initiative is connected to a UNESCO effort to build collective healing that addresses the legacy of the international slave trade. Watch UNESCO’s video to learn more about their process and goals.

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Micro Grants Support Community Gatherings, Healing Spaces

The final round of micro grants has been awarded to local groups that have been working to address community trauma and create healing spaces in the weeks leading up to the anniversary of George Floyd’s murder.

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Stewarding Resources to Advance Healing

This report digs into work being done in Minnesota to study non-narcotic, integrative healing therapies as an opioid preventative strategy.

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Micro Grants during Chauvin Trial

$111,000 in micro grants will be given to 25 local organizations that are working to address community trauma and promote wellness in a season that marks the anniversary of George Floyd’s death.

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Waging Peace

To be effective warriors for peace, we must intentionally nurture our bodies, minds, and spirits. Being grounded in radical self-care is required if we are to move beyond simply surviving and step fully into thriving.

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Partner Spotlight

During the pandemic, our community partner Rebeka Ndosi pivoted her healing work to a virtual setting while expanding our community’s network of BIPOC healers.

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What is the Catalyst Initiative?

Check out this infographic to learn more about how the Catalyst Initiative supports community-based, culturally grounded integrative health and healing practices.

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Fund for Safe Communities

Established in 2018, the Fund for Safe Communities supports meaningful actions to address and prevent violence, promote healing, and address systemic inequities. This fund emphasizes the importance of work led by young people and is advised by emerging leaders who have been personally affected by gun violence.

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