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Inspired Legacies convenes donors, nonprofits and advisors for inspired outcomes. So naturally with wonderful partners and alliances, we want to share just a few projects which we feel are exemplary.

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NEXT GENERATION LEADERSHIP AND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Here is our sacred future. Cherish the portal through which they take shape and build community.

• Metta Center for Nonviolence
• Next Gen LGBTQ Giving Challenge
• Resource Generation
• The New Millennium Renaissance Scholars
• Third Wave Foundation
• Yes! (Youth for Environmental Sanity)

Metta Center for Nonviolence
Website: www.mettacenter.org
Donations:www.mettacenter.org
Contact: Stephanie Van Hook, Executive Director
Email: stephanie@mettacenter.org
Phone: 707-774-6299
Mission Statement: The mission of the Metta Center is to promote the transition to a nonviolent future by making the logic, history, and yet-unexplored potential of nonviolence available to activists and agents of cultural change (which ultimately includes all of us). We help practitioners use nonviolence more safely and effectively, and anyone interested to understand and articulate it more fully.
2011 Budget: $112,000
Amount to Raise: $30,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $115,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) March, 2013

Next Generation LGBTQ Giving Challenge
Website: http://fex.org/funds/next-gen-lgbtqi-giving-challenge-fund
Donations:https://www.donationpay.org/lgbtqgiving/
Contact: Bill Lyons, Project Coordinator
Email: Bill@lgbtqgivingchallenge.org
Phone: 646-912-8690
Mission Statement: The Giving Challenge is a five-year campaign to create a transformative shift in the culture of LGBTQ Giving by strategically engaging next generation donors, new donors and diverse donor communities in innovative ways to give at their highest capacity to affect social change.
2011 Budget: $100,000
Amount to Raise: $50,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $175,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) Dec. 31

Resource Generation
Website: www.resourcegeneration.org
Donations:www.resourcegeneration.org
Contact: Mike Gast, Co-Director
Email: mike@resourcegeneration.org
Phone: (646) 461-6269
Mission Statement: Resource Generation (RG) organizes young people with wealth to leverage resources and privilege for social change. Through community building, education and organizing, we help young people with wealth bring all they have and all they are to the social change movements and issues they care about. Key programs and resources include a developing network of local chapters, national conferences, delegations, action projects and publications. Find out more at: www.resourcegeneration.org and for more info on one of most exciting recent projects, visit: http://westandwiththe99percent.tumblr.com/
2011 Budget: $529,000
Amount to Raise: $35,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $621,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) July 31st, 2012

The New Millennium Renaissance Scholars
Website: www.newmillenniumscholars.org
Donations: http://www.newmillenniumscholars.org/supporters
Contact: Sharon Ryan, Exec. Dir.
Email: sharonryan@aol.com
Phone: (919) 309-7878
Mission Statement: Supporting first generation, minority and marginalized college students from North Carolina and Appalachia in the development of the whole person: mind, body, spirit, right and left brain. It is a national model that will be built for replication in we hope many regions.
2011 Budget: $150,000
Amount to Raise: $100,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $447,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) Dec. 31st

Third Wave Foundation
Website: www.thirdwavefoundation.org
Donations: www.thirdwavefoundation.org
Contact: McKensey Smith, External Relations Manager
Email: mckensey@thirdwavefoundation.org
Phone: 212.228.8311 x14
Mission Statement: Third Wave is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy, we support groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.
2011 Budget: $1,180,000
Amount to Raise: $150,000 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $900,000
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) 12/31/12

YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity)
Website: www.yesworld.org
Donations:http://www.yesworld.org/contact-us/donate
Contact: Shilpa Jain, Executive Director
Email: shilpa@yesworld.org
Phone: 630-962-4579
Mission Statement: YES! connects, inspires and collaborates with diverse young and multi-generational changemakers in building thriving, just and sustainable ways of life for all.
We work at the meeting point of internal, interpersonal and systemic transformation to expand the vision and effectiveness of leaders committed to positive social change and values that affirm life, justice and peace.
2011 Budget: $562,966
Amount to Raise: $93,750 by Dec. 31, 2011
2012 Budget: $313,840
2012 Fiscal Year-End Date (2012) September 30, 2012

All things are possible,
Once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.

~ Norman Cousins

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