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The Download

Welcome to the download, Threshold Philanthropy's monthly newsletter where we welcome you to get a closer look at how we're practicing transparency, access, reciprocity, joy, and deepening relationships:) There will be job postings, events, shout outs of partners and community members, insights for the team and more. Co-Creation is another big one for us so if there is something you want to see in the download let us know! 

Our Stories
Threshold Philanthropy was conceived during a pandemic, a racial uprising, and through a text message in a Target parking lot...To read more of our September blog and our previous blogs just click the blog button on our website. 

Website
Check out our updated website or the landing page as we lovingly called it. In version 1.5 you can read all about our pilot year and some of the work we’ve done in 2021. 2.0 will include the breadth of our work with sprinkles of shade. We're grateful for your patience, friendship, and guidance. You’ll know way more than you asked for;)



Events
Arte Noir  
Shout out to Arte Noir 09/16 Grand Opening at the corner of 23rd and Union in the Central Area/Central District!!! Come by, be inspired, create, and reciprocate! 

Social Justice Fund 
Social Justice Fund will be hosting their FIRST hybrid event since the pandemic and will have Alexis Pauline Gumbs as their keynote speaker and  Black Belt Eagle Scout performing throughout the night, come check them out!
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2022 for SJF’s Annual Celebration!
Location: Block 41 115 Bell Street Seattle, WA 98121 + Online: Via Zoom, link provided week of the event

Advancing Racial Equity with LaTosha Brown
Join United Way of King County for an evening of advancing racial equity in our community. Come listen, learn & take action!
Date: Wed, October 5, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM 
Location: Pigott Auditorium, Seattle University 901 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122

Tacoma Urban League's 2022 Empowerment Awards
Tacoma Urban League invites you to join and support them as they celebrate and recognize very influential community leaders. 
Date: October 6, 2022 6 p.m.
Location: Hotel Murano - Bicentennial Pavilion 1320 Broadway Tacoma, WA 98402




Continued learning and reflection as a team is a big pillar of our work. It supports us in building trust, imagination, collective power, and guides us to make responsible decisions. Learning from our people and our environment makes us better stewards and people. Below are some of the resources that we have been learning from. 

What we're listening to 
This Land - This is a big one for Threshold crew. Both seasons of Rebecca Nagle’s podcast are fascinating and heart wrenching. 

Finding Our Way - Hosted by Prentis Hemphill where they discuss subjects from boundaries, healing, creativity, and more "with people who are working to reshape this world. This isn’t a podcast about answers. It is an exploration into ourselves, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want."

The Emergent Strategy Podcast - Lindsay had Morgan, Beth, and Cristina read A lot of adrienne maree brown as we got to know each other. Emergent strategy has been an anchoring text for us.

For the Wild - Ayanna speaks with practitioners that support and remind us what it means to be in right relationship with ourselves, each other, and our environment. 

Abolition is for everybody - Gives insight and nuance on the "history, futures, obstacles, and joys of abolition."  

Fare of the Free Child - Akilah S. Richards discusses with friends and guests "the fears and the fares (costs) of raising free black and brown children in a world that tends to diminish, dehumanize, and disappear them."

All My Relations- "This space is for everyone—for Native folks to be joyous, think critically about issues facing our communities, hear new perspectives, look into a mirror of self, and for non-Native folks to listen and learn."




What we're reading
My grandmother's hands - Anchoring text for our team. "A call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not only about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide."

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmer teaches us, through Indigenous science and wisdom, about inheritance, reciprocity, responsibility, and awe of this land and how to listen, learn, and lead so that we can restore and replenish what has been harmed and beyond. 

Inflamed - Deep Medicine and the Anatomy - Discusses how so many factors outside of "clean" diet impacts our health. Our genes, " epigenetics (how those genes are programmed), as well as social and environmental factors such as stress, racism, climate change and wildfires."

The Menopause Manifesto - Writes about the "invisibility of menopause and aging women in culture and in medicine and the insidious effects of the patriarchy on women’s minds and bodies."

Fair Play - "outlines a system for how to divide up household tasks fairly, based on your needs."

Raising Free People - Making a case to create new systems for education and "healing generations of school wounds by pivoting into self-directed, intentional community-building, and Raising Free People shows you exactly how unschooling can help facilitate this process."




Jobs
Native Action Network - Executive Director
Type: Full-Time, Exempt Salary & Benefits: Salary range of $82,00 - $110,00 
Location: Seattle, WA

Diversified Search Group - Many openings

Social Justice Fund - HR & Work Culture Community Manager 
Type: Full-Time $60-70,000 DOE
Location: Seattle, WA

United Way of King County - Many openings 

Philanthropy NW - Many openings



Currently obsessed with
1. Dualism. The concept that two things can be true and the multitudes of truths we each hold.
2. Fall rom coms. I rewatched my fave 'When Harry Met Sally' last weekend and discovered 'Broadcast News' & "The Mirror Has Two Faces' which are both new favorites
3. Fall color clothes, hikes to search for Larch trees, finding a good sci-fi series I haven't already watched, cabin get aways with hot tubs!
4. Completion and decay after harvest - the need to allow things to run their course to allow for rebirth and transformation; leaves, leaves, leaves
5. Wellness, and medicine to support ourselves as the seasons change
6. Boundaries as expressions of love and authenticity

Questions for the work going into fall/autumn
1. Why do we have so much expectation around the shortest time of the year? 2. How do we add more ease and rest in the midst of the chaos of midterms, holidays, and closing out the year?
3. What is the balance of celebrating everyone's work, staying connected, and protecting ourselves and each other during these Holiday seasons?

Interested in Moving Money for the Midterms?
Please reach out to Morgan at morgan@thresholdphilanthropy.org

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