Re(New) Youth Giving

Are you looking to start, renew, or reimagine your youth giving effort or program?

Are you seeking inspiration and guidance for how to share or build power equitably, especially across generations?

Are you wanting a space to practice transforming issues causing tension or harm, especially centering race?

Are you hoping to bring more calm and compassion to your life and those you do this work with?

**If so, you are not alone.**

Gather in circle starting this November with other youth leaders and supportive adults wanting to explore these questions and intentionally work together to grow more *conscious, compassionate, and connected youth giving*.

The Circle.

This 4-month journey is for youth leaders and their supportive adult(s) who, together, are wanting to embody an anti-racist, socially just culture and practice. All levels of experience are welcome, so come as you are.

We’ll hold space for each other and (among other things) we will create:
Personal growing giving project + care plans
A collaborative Martin Luther King, Jr. growing giving project with $3,000+
Growing giving profiles and avatars
**Participants will be invited into a circle to build relationships, practice redistributing power, and foster responsibility and compassion as we see what emerges on our journey.** To honor those in the circle, commitment to attendance and use of webcam is important. *There will be intentional breaks and spaces designed for youth-only and adult-only time during the circle.*

**Participants will also be invited to schedule two team and/or individual coaching times with Annie–one at the beginning and another at the end of the experience.** This will be a time to share specific wishes, challenges, growth interests, or questions…or to work on a specific plan or skill together. These 90 minute spaces will be tailored to ensure you feel supported working on and leading the youth giving changes you desire.
**Individual circle resource guides will be co-created throughout the journey.**
**And, a mail treasure will be sent in advance of each circle.**

Dates.

Please plan to join for the following dates and times:

Mid Oct-November 17 TBD, 11A-6P PT/2-9P ET

Team and/or individual coaching time to be scheduled via Calendly upon acceptance; may be the start of growing giving project and/or care plans

Sunday, November 20th, 1-4P PT/4-7P ET

Opening the circle + community sharing + giving profiles

Sunday, December 4th, 1-4P PT/4-7P ET

Intentional care + Martin Luther King, Jr. collaborative grantmaking planning circle

Sunday, January 15th, 1-4P PT/4-7P ET

Gather for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day plan based on December meeting + closing the circle

January 16-February 20 TBD, 11A-6P PT/2-9P ET

Closing team or individual coaching time to be scheduled via Calendly upon acceptance.

Application Details.

Teams of at least one youth leader and at least one supportive adult are required to apply. Space is limited and those accepted for the circle will be notified within two weeks of application. A balance of young people (age 10+) and adults are anticipated. When full, a waiting list will be started and information about additional circles will be shared.

The 2022 sliding scale for this experience is $6,000-$7,500/per team of 2, $3,000 per additional team member. *We invite you to consider your personal and organizational privilege and wealth and share with us the fee you would like to select on your application.

An invoice will be sent along with the acceptance email into the circle and is due prior to the circle opening. ** Payment may be made by check, venmo, or PayPal and payment schedules can be made available. ***Fees are non-refundable after December 1, 2022.

PLEASE APPLY HERE.

*Growing Giving, LLC is committed to economic justice and to challenging white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and all systems of oppression in every aspect of our work.

**The fee is not tax deductible although $500/team will be offered for the collective grant. This is being done intentionally to offer maximum giving imagination and flexibility.

***We understand life happens. We will try to take into account any extenuating circumstances that result in cancellation after the deadline and may allow your fee to be applied to a future circle within 12 months. All circles are live learning and not recorded.

If there is anything you would like to discuss or if you have questions, please email annie@growinggiving.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Circle Keeper.

Andrea Hernandez Rodriguez, Ph.D.

President, Growing Giving, LLC

she/her/they | white body

Hi, I’m Annie and I’ve been growing giving as long as I can remember — it’s how I make sense of and move in the world. I am also always growing my practice and learning how to move in ways that cause less harm and spread more compassion and love.

I grew up experiencing a lot of change, some welcome most not. I learned early to make choices, some healthy and others not, about how I let those changes impact me. I believe we are all worthy of making changes for freedom. And, that we shape those changes through continually learning and growing.

I have dedicated the past 20 years to working with and for organizations that strengthen communities and grow collective liberation. A constant thread through my journey has been supporting the involvement of young people in community involvement and organizing. I have been supporting youth philanthropy and giving efforts, especially in family foundations and giving families, for 15+ years and am grateful to the young people who continue to question and teach me. I have been a recipient of philanthropy from a young age, wrote my first check to a community foundation at age 21 to honor the death of my cousin, and have helped start giving circles and foundations. I come to this work to grapple with, repair, and heal the harms I have experienced and made over the years in community giving and philanthropy and do something different.

Along with degrees in agricultural education, community development, and a PhD in social justice focused-Leadership and Change, I have been trained in family philanthropy, trauma-informed practice, and conflict transformation, including the Immunity to Change personal conflict transformation framework. I openly explore and honor spirituality and healing practices, including oracle, sound, and somatics. Singing and music has always been important to me.

My husband, George, and I are the proud parents of Marcelo. You can usually find us near water with our Australian Shepherd, Ellie. We give thanks daily to live on the Island of Maui, in the military occupied Kingdom of Hawai’i.