Graze 4 Good Trivia Night Will Support Youth-Led Work
Fourth Generation fundraiser will be held April 30 at Graze Food Hall by Travail.
Want to meet fellow changemakers, plug into your community, and see what collective giving is all about? Don’t miss Graze 4 Good!
This annual fundraiser is your chance to connect with the emerging philanthropists of Fourth Generation—a giving circle powered by the Minneapolis Foundation. Grab your tickets now for an evening of food, fun, and learning about this year’s grantmaking focus: Youth-led initiatives.
Graze 4 Good will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on April 30 at the newly launched Graze Food Hall by Travail. Event proceeds will support Fourth Generation’s 2024-2025 grantmaking.
Tickets are available at mplsfdn.org/graze2025.
Fourth Generation is a giving circle for rising leaders who care about our community and want to make a bigger impact than they could alone. Every year, this volunteer-led group comes together to learn about a local issue, research and hear from organizations that address it, and pool their resources to support it through equity-focused grantmaking.
“I'm excited to celebrate the end of another cycle. I love that we get to cultivate equity-minded donors, amplify the voices of local nonprofits, and give some money away in the process.” — Chas Kennedy, Fourth Generation’s Grantmaking Chair
This year, the group chose to support organizations and projects that are led by young people and focus on cultivating youth leadership.
“Young people have great ideas, and I love that we’re able to celebrate these organizations that are youth-powered and youth-focused,” Kennedy said.
Fourth Generation is happy to announce that they will support three local organizations this year. Based on how much the group raises, they will determine specific grant amounts in May. The grantees include:
- Believe In What’s Possible is a youth-led nonpartisan nonprofit working to reveal,center, and support youth power in Minnesota politics through art, education, and events-based organizing. They envision a future where young voices are valued and leading change at all levels of politics, including organizing, campaigning, and governing.
- Bridgemakers is a movement of young leaders creating young leaders to transform youth-serving systems. The organization cultivates purpose, prosperity, and power through leadership development programming. Their vision is both a philosophy for societal-scale human thriving and a practical framework for leadership development and the organization’s own operations.
- Good Trouble is a youth-led intergenerational movement pushing to make school culture competitive to gang culture by elevating learning experiences that provide young people with real work and cultivate a sense of belonging and purpose.
Since its founding in 2010, and with the support of more than 400 volunteer members along the way, Fourth Generation has raised and distributed more than $800,000 to local organizations addressing issues that range from mental health to economic justice.
“Fourth Generation is an amazing way to network and learn,” said John Wulterkens, Graze 4 Good Co-Chair of Fourth Generation. “Not only do I get to have fun and meet amazing people, but we all get to ‘do good’ along the way.”
Can’t make it to Graze 4 Good, you can still be part of Fourth Generation’s grantmaking? Make a tax-deductible contribution to the group’s grantmaking here.