Headwaters Foundation for Justice is a Minneapolis-based community foundation that invests in grassroots organizing across Minnesota
Our mission is to amplify the power of community to advance equity and justice.
We do this through grantmaking programs that support organizations and groups on the front lines of social change. Each of our programs invites community members to learn about and lead the foundation's grantmaking work. Since 1984, Headwaters has believed that those who directly experience society’s injustices are the ones who know the path to collective liberation. We prioritize work led by and for Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color through our four core values of advancing equity, demanding inclusion, transforming power, and trusting in community.
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Our Four Core Values
Advance Equity
Our work supports movements and systems change that lead to individual resiliency and community power.
Demand Inclusion
People who are most affected by inequity are often left out of decision-making work. We insist on changing that—nationally, regionally, and locally.
Transform Power
We grow power through community-led grantmaking, donor education, and leadership development.
Trust In Community
A community knows itself best, and its people need to lead the way to collective liberation. Our job is to listen to and support the solutions that will improve life for all Minnesotans.
