During anniversaries, birthdays, and specific holidays there is a practice of reflecting, releasing, cleansing, and the invitation and welcome for more prosperity, and ease to blossom into the new year. Our two-year anniversary reflections take on those rhythms, they are a compilation of our celebrations, stumbles, growing edges, aha moments, and commitments going into 2023. Here's a glimpse from our blog: 
 

In 2023, we’re taking time to build alongside our existing partners in Washington state and exploring the answers to “How much can we maintain well and what does that look like? Each of our relationships are important and need nurturing and tending to, which is another reason why we are not taking on new partners.  

For now, we have met “the ones” that we want to deepen and build with and vice versa. Going wide and skimming the surface is the opposite of holistic community care. It’s time to get to know all the workings of maintaining a relationship. Learning all the awkwardness, discomfort, beauty, joy, and difficulties. If you’ve ever been in a relationship that you want to devote time to, you know what we’re talking about. IT’S WORK! Fulfilling, challenging, and transformative work.  

Living Myth - Michael Meade presents mythic stories that offer uniquely insightful and wise ways of understanding the current dilemmas of the world we live in.

Fare of the Free Child - Decolonizes living and learning focusing on "Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling."

Lovers and Friends with Shan Boodram - Let's talk about sex, relationships, connection, and chemistry. 

Brown Ambition - build wealth by saving, investing and making smart career choices — on your own terms! 

Coffee and Books - Marc Lamont Hill chats with "authors and prominent public figures" sharing the backstory of their latest book.  

Q with Tom Power - Tom Power sits down with the artists, writers, actors and musicians who define pop culture.

The Happiness Lab - Dr. Laurie Santos will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.

Events
What: Quiet February for Threshold Philanthropy office is CLOSED
Dates: February 1st - February 28th 2023
Time: WHOLE TIME:)

What: ARTE NOIR Happy Hour with Midtown Square Neighbors 
Date: February 3rd
Time: 4-6pm
Location: 2301 E Union St Suite H, Seattle, WA 98122
Bonus: Raffle prizes!

What: ARTE NOIR hosting complimentary beer tasting with 23rd Avenue Brewery 
Date: February 4th
Time: 4-6pm
Location: 2301 E Union St Suite H, Seattle, WA 98122
What to bring: ID and friendship mindset and energy

What: Lunar New Year Celebration
Date: Feb 4th 
Time: 11 - 4pm 
Location: Seattle Chinatown-International District 423 Maynard Ave S, Seattle, WA 98104

What: Children's Film Festival 
Date: February 3-12th 
Location:  Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Ave, Seattle
Ticket price: Festival passes

What: Ross Gay: In‑Person (sold out) & Online
Date: February 6th 
Time: 7:30
Location: Town Hall, Great Hall 1119 8th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: ONLY available online

What: Steppin' 4 week Series 
Date: Feb 1st 
Time: 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM 
Location: WOW Gallery • AMC • Pacific Place, 600 Pine St 3rd Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: Register 

What: Celebrating Dr. Joy DeGruy!
Date: Feb 4th 
Time: 1-7pm
Location: WOW Gallery • AMC • Pacific Place, 600 Pine St 3rd Floor, Seattle, WA 98101
Tickets: Register

What: Alki Winter Beer + Food Truck Festival
Date: February 25th
Time: It says 2am, do not trust it and keep a lookout:)
Location: 2701 Alki Ave SW, Seattle, WA 98116
Tickets: $15

What: Change Makers Award 
Fill out: Nomination form
Date: September 27 2023 

Operations Manager - Washington Community Alliance
Full Time: 40hrs
Salary range: $70,000 - $75,000
Anticipated Start Date: Mid-March, 2023
To Apply: Please send application materials including a resume and cover letter with “Operations Manager” in the subject line to Shin Shin at shin@wacommunityalliance.org. Priority deadline for applications is Monday, February 6th, 2023; interviews will be scheduled on a rolling basis.

Impact Director - Byrd Barr Place
Full Time: 40hrs
Salary/Wage: Nonexempt: $75,480-$102,000

Byrd Barr Place - Many openings

Interim Executive Director - RISE
Part Time: 20hrs a week
Compensation: $40-$50/hour
Apply: Email a resume to development@rise4us.org. Only applicants under consideration will be contacted.
Effective Date: No later than March 1, 2023

The 2023-2024 Voter Education Fund is now open!
Information session: February 3, 2023. 11am – 12:30pm, Register here  and February 15, 2023. 1-2:30pm. Register here
1. Grant Types - Multi-Year Funding up to $50,000 over two years (up to $25,000 a year)
2. Seed Level - grants up to $10,000 a year
How to submit a proposal and contact information Proposals must be submitted online in Seattle Foundation’s Application Portal

Native Americans in Philanthropy - Many openings 

Philanthropy NW - Many openings

Tides - Many openings

United Way of King County - Many openings 

JustFund - Many openings

Jobs for the Future (JFF) - Many openings 

Currently obsessed with
1. Co-Star App - love the simple, quirky and fun daily advice and the invitation to share my sign and placements with friends and family:)
2. Love poems
3. Resetting my house
4. Bombas + Solmates
5. Ancient Apocalypse, a show on Netflix
6. A TikTok that Morgan sent me of Christine, from Sister Wives, dancing to a sped-up version of Bloody Mary from the show Wednesday. I LOVE it!

Tender wonderings and reflections 
1. What does maintenance mean?
Appreciating what you already have and nurturing that on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to prevent bigger issues from forming. Taking the time to breathe & setting up little things that will make life easier. Ensuring your energy levels are balanced and stable. It is an investment, it can feel boring, expensive, consuming, not the sexy shiny thing and it is the true foundation for co-creation.

2. Which emotions have been guiding your days recently? Curiosity, grief, going with the flow, thawing from not feeling, anxiety.

3. What is one choice you can make to love your body more?
Thanking them for getting me here. Drop the judgement and focus on what my body can do. How do I heal myself with intention. Investing in regular body work, different kinds based on the messages I’m receiving from my body.

4. What are ways that you express gratitude to the earth?
Being in Nature. Enjoying sunsets and allowing them to breathe through me. Expressing myself through art. Being near and touching trees and plants. Hands in water, feet to soil, articulating gratitude for the land around us. In Qigong we gather chi from Mother Earth and exhale toxins back to the Earth. Mother Earth is our greatest alchemist and composter. 

5. What’s something that you’d like to see humans do more of?
Sit in their feelings. Be outside, in the forest, in water, fly kites, care for animals/engage with animals. Be together without judgement or expectation. Break bread and laugh together more.