We are excited to announce the third round of winners of the 2020 Tzedek Impact Awards! With cancelled travel, a closed office, and no in-person meetings, one unexpected result of 2020 is…
2020 Impact Award Winners Part Three
Welcome to Our New Director of Community Led-Grantmaking
Dear Tzedek Community, We are delighted to announce that Libby Kyles will be joining our team as the new Director of Community-Led Grantmaking later this month! Libby has extensive experience visioning and…
Responding to the Ongoing Crisis of White Supremacy
The uprisings of this summer demanding justice for Black lives, the racial disparities in COVID-related deaths, and the Presidential election results affirm something we’ve long known to be true–white supremacy is a rampant crisis.
Dear Asheville Community
Dear Asheville Community, Like many of you, we are stunned. While we are uncertain about what is to come for our communities, we are clear about our mandate for these times: We…
2020 Tzedek Impact Awards
Ashevillians are invited to nominate themselves for a Tzedek Impact Award that will support and strengthen their social justice work. The Tzedek Impact Awards are designed to support individuals who are addressing…
How Do You Award Brilliance? Learnings from Our First Participatory Grantmaking Process
In Spring 2019, we announced a new pilot initiative–the Tzedek Brilliance Awards. These awards celebrate and resource Asheville community leaders who have had a demonstrated impact working in one or more of our…
Where Are We? An Organizational Update
Over the last several months, we’ve heard from many of you. Some have reached out to celebrate the winners of the Brilliance Awards. Others have offered feedback about the pilot programs. Several have reached…
A Founder’s Reflections on Pausing and Transitioning
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this blog post implied that Tamiko Ambrose-Murray and Beth Trigg led a deep process of internal work at the Center for Participatory Change. In reality, that work…
Celebrating the Impact of Asheville’s Leaders
We are excited to announce the winners of the Tzedek Impact Awards, a pilot grantmaking initiative designed to support individuals who are working to transform Asheville into a community where everyone thrives. …