Dear Bioneer, As we reflect upon the upcoming Solstice—and after a challenging time for so many among us—we find that we still have so much to be thankful for. We’re particularly grateful for you, the Bioneers community. Throughout a year like this one we are more grateful than ever that Bioneers is here and ready to meet this moment in such profound, deep and far-reaching ways.
We write to invite you to consider contributing an end-of-year gift to Bioneers. Thanks to a challenge grant, the impact of every dollar you give will be doubled up to $30,000. Your donation today will directly support the diverse Bioneers programming that you’ve come to love, and that we believe is helping to evolve our cultures—to one that’s Earth-honoring, celebrates diversity, is just, regenerative and peaceful. Your gift will help it all—from our podcasts and radio shows to the Indigeneity Forum and our Annual Conference (which will return in-person this coming May 2022!): |
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- $50 supports one month of the beautiful imagery and graphics you’ve come to expect from our articles and newsletters.
- $100 supports the production of our monthly Food Web newsletter.
- $550 allows us to provide full Bioneers Conference registration, with three healthy meals for one Native youth.
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| The world has clearly entered what Joanna Macy calls “The Great Turning,” and the work of Bioneers is more important, relevant and timely than ever. We need the cultural enzyme, the contagious memes, and whole-systems approach that Bioneers offers, spread as far and wide and as quickly as possible, to ignite the citizen engagement and leadership that’s so urgently needed. We hope you’ll consider stretching to give as generously as you possibly can—and we promise to use your support resourcefully and well! And remember, all gifts up to $30,000 will be worth double to Bioneers, through January 1st! |
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| At Bioneers we measure our mission delivery in cultural shifts and transformation. What does a cultural shift look like? One story: |
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In 2016 Bioneers began an innovative project: “Decolonizing Thanksgiving,” which involved hosting a “Decolonized” Thanksgiving meal with a visionary donor and a group of allies. We reported on this meal and what the concept of Decolonizing Thanksgiving meant. Every year since then, we’ve built on that foundation: hosting events, creating curriculum, and producing media around the topic.
Google the phrase “Decolonizing Thanksgiving” and Bioneers is the first thing you’ll see. Not bad for a tiny team. But the story gets even better. Last month we launched a formal resource page, collecting all our Decolonizing Thanksgiving materials into one place, alongside contributions/resources from other leading organizations, and discovered just how influential these resources can be.
In mid-November the Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. schools sent an email to the entire district that included a link to Bioneers’ Decolonizing Thanksgiving resources as a way to pay respect to the different ways of experiencing the holiday. This story was then picked up by none other than Fox News online, who tried to skewer it (unsuccessfully, in our view). Since its publication, our Decolonizing Thanksgiving materials have generated massive traffic and brought visitors both new and returning to our site—in November alone we had over 215,000 visitors to Bioneers.org.
Moving from an intimate gathering of ten Bioneers around a dinner table to influencing the mainstream media’s national discourse—that’s the kind of change and cultural shift that you are supporting. |
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We hope you'll consider supporting us and everything we do to tell stories that change the world, create sovereign spaces dedicated to Indigenous programming, uplift the voices of diverse women and youth leaders, promote the conservation of biocultural diversity, and weave the web of relationships among disparate communities to build the power it’s going to take to actually change the system.
Our sincerest gratitude,
Nina Simons, Kenny Ausubel, and the entire Bioneers Team |
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