Funding support over 24 months to design and implement a global narrative healing program for people impacted by the transatlantic slave trade. Building on key insights garnered from a report co-produced by Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (GHFP) and United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, this proposed project addresses the challenges of the continuing trauma of slavery through the lens of spirituality and love in a multi-faith, multi-cultural context.

The concept is to design a national festival of LOVE hosted by faith organizations to promote a common experience, ritual, and language of love. The design will include revenue generation models and engaging multiple partners that will be able to support the events financially.

A collaboration opportunity with St. Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace to explore the key ingredients and nuances of faith and moral courage through direct engagement with diverse audiences.

Support for Youth for Peace, an international movement of young people linked to the Community of Sant’Egidio. The grant would support a musical contest called “Play Music Stop Violence,” which offers the “opportunity for young musicians (ages 11-25) to face, through music, important current issues, with the aim of launching a strong message for a better world.” The concert will feature original songs composed by youth along these themes: peace, solidarity, ecology, racism, violence in all its forms, war, respect for life, welcoming, living together, change, and post-pandemic world.

Support for the project “Building Bridges Word by Word.”

The purpose of this project is to unearth initial learnings on spiritual mothers as leaders nurturing the vitally needed underground relational networks, or roots, between sacred sector organizations that sustain the larger ecosystem. This project will challenge established preconceptions of movement-building focused solely on archetypical masculine-oriented, visibly quantifiable metrics of success, such scaling for external size and scope. This project posits that spiritual mothers nurture hidden relational networks in the sacred sector.

A project partnership with The Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) to advance the capacity of their More Than Enough Love initiative. The More than Enough collaborative campaign unites Christians organizations, churches, and families in a shared national vision to embody God's Love in foster care. This initiative will coordinate a national campaign to grow a local network of congregations and faith-based organizations in every one of the 3,142 U.S. counties.

Road Ahead – BISC’s signature, invitation-only conference is the progressive community’s conference solely dedicated to ballot measures. BISC’s yearly event features state-based advocates, ballot measure campaign experts, movement leaders, and funding partners – all focused on how ballot measures can build power and be a tool for liberation.

The Donors of Color Network (DOCN) is the first-ever cross-racial community of donors of color – a home for donors committed to building the collective power of people of color to drive systems change and advance racial equity. The Fetzer Institute joined the DOCN as the first organizational member in 2021 in order to expand our network of funding partners to include black and brown funders who care about faith and spirituality. Tamaya 2022 is the annual gathering for DOCN members which will bring together 50 people for a three-night intimate member retreat in Albuquerque, NM.

In April 2022, thousands of Americans will converse face-to-face on video with those who have different backgrounds and beliefs. Each conversation will provide a repairing stitch to America’s frayed social fabric, as participants shift perspective from “us versus them” to “you and me.” Millions more Americans will be inspired by these conversations, which will be amplified via news media, social media, an influencer campaign, and a live streaming event.