Support Our Work
Hello, Threads of Justice Friends, Family, and Collective,
So far, this year has been amazing and filled with so much growth, community, and learning! This year, among other workshops and events, we offered two sessions of our Anti-Bias Leadership Seminar, we partnered with the Early Learning System Initiative (ELSI) to offer three sessions of the Building Anti-Racist Learning Spaces course, and I am excited to share that we graduated our first cohort of BIPOC Emerging Facilitators!
The Emerging Facilitators program is an inclusive and intensive cohort designed to support early childhood professionals in learning and sharing their knowledge and experience with others in the field. This first cohort of BIPOC facilitators worked together through TOJC coursework in partnership with a facilitation coach and with the mentorship of a TOJC elder. Facilitators were invited to nurture their identity work and see it as a powerful asset to the skills and collaborative learning they can do with others during workshops and trainings. They worked together to explore how to invite inclusive participation for learners with diverse and intersectional identities and learning styles.
The Emerging Facilitators will now join the TOJC team in offering high-quality, thoughtful learning opportunities for early childhood professionals committed to Anti-Bias practice and action toward more inclusive learning environments and systems. Our mission is to support young children in anti-bias education by facilitating conversations and efforts for collective action against oppression.
This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to support this collective action by becoming a sustaining member of Threads of Justice. Your donation of even $5 per month can help programs like our Emerging Facilitators cohort continue year after year. You can help bring inclusion and justice to the core of all early childhood systems and practices.
Thank you for your support and for being an ongoing co-conspirator in this work to make the world a place where children thrive, teachers are supported, and everyone belongs.
With Gratitude,
The Threads of Justice Collective
By making a contribution to Threads of Justice Collective you will support the successful programs which have helped students, families, neighbors and other community members continue to work on the functioning of the Board and direction of the Organization while building capacity for increased service and a Team that is focused on our primary Project, the development of anti-bias education teaching kits for early childhood educators, providers and families. Threads of Justice Collective is a 501c(3) and your gift is fully tax deductible. Consult the IRS, your attorney, or tax advisor for your specific situation.
Threads of Justice Collective would like to grow and can because of the generous contributions from people like you. We have a very ambitious year ahead of us. If you are willing and able to contribute, we welcome donations of any amount--all donations are tax deductible. Please specify if you want your contribution to go to a specific project. Thank you for your vital support!
2023 in Review
We are so grateful to be reflecting on another year of facilitating anti-bias work and supports in our community. This year we completed our series of self-paced online workshops that are a companion to our Justice and Inclusion Toolkit: For Young Children and their Grownups. Not only are the workshops available to a diverse range of practitioners, they were created by many members of our community - current and past TOJC board members, teachers, education specialists, artists, mentor teachers, etc. It has been a pleasure to co-create these resources!
We have had a very busy year of in-person workshops! We have loved getting to know so many early learning professionals and learning contexts in the Portland area. To support this increasing in-person presence we are looking forward to launching our Emerging Facilitators program next year!
This year we are thrilled to have been the recipients of several new grants and partnerships - including from the Oregon Community Foundation and a partnership with ELSI Inclusion and Oregon State University. Stay tuned for exciting work, learning, and resources coming out next year!
A gift of $25 can provide the Threads of Justice Collective an opportunity to provide stipends to the team of people maintaining the website and social media to create regular posting to share the tools we create. A gift of $50 or more will provide the Threads of Justice Collective the opportunity to create additional online learning opportunities for adults caring for young children.
If you are willing and able to contribute, you can easily give online by following the link or by mailing a check to: Threads of Justice Collective, 1130 NW First St, Gresham, OR 97030
No gift is too big or too small, we welcome donations of any amount--all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your support and Happy New Year!
Threads of Justice Collective
2022 in Review
As 2022 comes to an end, we want to take a moment to say thank you for all of your support this year which has enabled us to have a productive and successful year. A dedicated team has invested time to take our Justice and Inclusion Toolkit: For Young Children and Their Grownups project and create 7 online workshops on how to incorporate anti-bias education philosophies into their teaching practice. We want to recognize their efforts and acknowledge the power of this collective effort.These resources are for all adults in the lives of young children, and in particular early childhood care and education providers and parents. The Toolkit and workshops include information, activities, and resources for supporting children's identity and addressing oppression in the six core identity areas of: Culture and Language, Race and Skin Color, Gender, Family Structure, Economic Class, and Abilities. This project was funded with grants from, local and international Social Venture Partners.
We have also spent a lot of time this year broadening our online presence through our new website and social media platforms, Facebook and Instagram. With technical support from SVP, we are working hard to maintain our website and social media platforms where people will be able to hear more about us, access upcoming resources, and purchase the new Toolkit. In 2023, expect to see more frequent postings for the Threads of Justice Collective.
Despite continuing covid challenges, Threads of Justice Collective has returned to providing in-person professional development training for childcare providers in the Portland metro area. Most notably, the Celebration of the Life of Hadiyah Miller and a Gathering of People in Early Childhood Education who are invested in Justice and Inclusion in December 2022. In the fall of 2022, the Threads of Justice Collective lost one of our founding members, Hadiayh Miller, and our collective heart is broken with this loss of our sister-leader, friend and comrade in the fight for justice and inclusion for young children. In honor of Hadiyah and her legacy, this will become an annual event hosted by the Threads of Justice Collective.
While we reflect on the wonderful year behind us, we are focused on the great year ahead of us. At the Celebration of the Life of Hadiyah Miller and a Gathering of People in Early Childhood Education who are invested in Justice and Inclusion, we put our minds together to reflect on What are the most important issues, needs and priorities children and families face in regard to specific aspects of their identity? In 2023, we plan to take those collective thoughts and use them to create an additional series of online learning opportunities for adults caring for young children.
A gift of $25 can provide the Threads of Justice Collective an opportunity to provide stipends to the team of people maintaining the website and social media to create regular posting to share the tools we create. A gift of $50 or more will provide the Threads of Justice Collective the opportunity to create additional online learning opportunities for adults caring for young children.
If you are willing and able to contribute, you can easily give online by following the link or by mailing a check to: Threads of Justice Collective, 1130 NW First St, Gresham, OR 97030
No gift is too big or too small, we welcome donations of any amount--all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your support and Happy New Year!
Threads of Justice Collective
