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Dear Friends of the Threads of Justice Collective,

As 2025 comes to a close, we would like to take a moment to express our gratitude for the support that has enabled us to have our most active year yet! In the face of widespread national turmoil, the Threads of Justice Collective continues to support justice and inclusion, serving as a beacon of hope and a gathering place.  

This year’s efforts included beginning the process of translating our Justice and Inclusion Toolkit: For Young Children and Their Grownups into Spanish. The Toolkit and workshops include information, activities, and resources to support children's identity and address oppression in the six core identity areas: Culture and Language, Race and Skin Color, Gender, Family Structure, Economic Class, and Abilities.

This has been our busiest year ever, which included responding to numerous requests for workshops and trainings, as well as new collaborations with community partners. Over the past year, we have had more than 600 participants in 14 counties across Oregon (nearly quadrupling our reach from the previous year). We completed three sessions of our Anti-Bias Leadership Seminar (ABLS) and two sessions of the Building Anti-Racist Learning Spaces (BARLS) and partnered with Early Learning Systems Initiative (ELSI) to launch the first BARLS course in Spanish. We also graduated five new individuals from our second cohort of Emerging Facilitators and launched two new series: Pro-Justice Parenting and White People's Work. 2025 also included our 3rd Annual Hadiyah Miller Legacy Gathering, where we honored founding member Hadiyah Miller on her 70th birthday by dedicating a learning space to her life's work, featuring a portrait and plaque in the Preschool For All Conference Rooms at Rockwood Market Hall.

Additionally, we partnered with Teaching Preschool Partners, Child Care Resource and Referral of Multnomah County, and Anti-Bias Leaders ECE for a three-part training and film series called “Another World Possible: Anti-Bias Education with Young Children and Families.” Facilitated various workshops with Oregon Infant Mental Health Association (ORIMHA), The Oregon Community Health Workers Association (ORCHWA), Northwest Regional Education Service District (NWERSD), Willamette Education Service District (WESD), 18th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference, Harmony Montessori, and began s workshop series with Neighborhood House. The Threads of Justice Collective concludes 2025 with “Understanding and Supporting our Indigequeer Youth and Community” through the Transgression Exhibit, in collaboration with the University of Oregon's Natural and Cultural History Museum.

This work has been possible through some grant funding from the Collins and Pride Foundation. We’ve also applied for grants with the Meyer Foundation, Oregon Community Foundation, and the Portland Children’s Levy.

Heading into 2026, we will offer a workshop on Personal Dolls and market and disseminate all our resources and events with the support of our new Social Media intern. This intern will help broaden our online presence through our website and social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. In addition, we will be working with a PSU MSW student completing an internship focused on infant–toddler mental health, who brings a strong passion for culture work and storytelling and will collaborate with us on new programming. We will also offer more BARLS (in English and Spanish) and ABLS workshops, our 4th annual Hadiay Miller Gathering, plus aim to have a few workshops created in languages other than English, plus more!

As the tone and climate in our country continue to fan the flames of exclusion and injustice, the Threads of Justice Collective, along with many other justice-oriented organizations, faces a potentially challenging future.  We stand firm in our commitment to voice our opposition to decisions and policies that threaten the lives and increase the marginalization of the children, families, and communities that we serve. As some funding sources are disappearing, we hold on to the hope that others will emerge. The great Ella Baker said, “We who believe in freedom cannot rest.” We know you stand with us.

A gift of $25 can help provide stipends to the team maintaining the website and social media, enabling them to create regular posts that share the tools we develop. A gift of $50 or more will help our effort to have our materials and resources translated. If you are truly thinking big, a gift of $2,000 would underwrite half of the cost for our two in-depth courses: Building Anti-Racist Learning Spaces and Anti-Bias Leadership Seminar. Both of these intensive courses are expensive to offer because of the long hours involved.  If we could secure a donation of $2,000 from an individual or business, we could significantly reduce the cost to participants.  If this is something you would like to consider, please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

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. We stand with you in solidarity as we approach the New Year!

With love,

Threads of Justice Collective