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2022 Annual Report
2022 marked our fifth year of operation as a non-profit organization, an odds-defying milestone we don’t take for granted. A small board of committed, hard-working volunteers without extensive non-profit experience founded this organization alongside me. What...
Veteran Artist Spotlight: Willie Young
Our Veteran Artist Spotlight shines on photographer, writer, and Army Veteran, our friend and Mission Belonging Board member Willie Charles Young Jr.Willie graduated from High School in 1993 from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, in Oklahoma City,...
Veteran Artist Spotlight: Leslie Hidalgo
Multi-disciplinary artist Leslie Hidalgo is our inaugural 2023 Veteran Artist Spotlight.We are starting off our brand new year of Mission Belonging Veteran Artist Spotlights with the amazing Leslie Hidalgo! Leslie is a 16 year Veteran of the United States Air Force,...
WATCH: Glowing In The Dark: A Mission Belonging Winter Reading & Gathering
Our Winter Reading with Hari Alluri, Shuly Xóchitl Cawood, Yesenia Montilla, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Carla Rachel Sameth, and Ben Weakley is now available to watch on YouTube. "As the darkness deepened, we passed candles." -Seema Reza On November 30th, Mission Belonging...
Writing for a Change: Jonathan Merritt
A special writing workshop with author, Jonathan Merritt, to benefit Mission Belonging programs for veterans, service members, military families, and health care workers.Join us on Monday, December 19th at 7 PM Eastern Time, us for a special writing workshop with...
Veteran Artist Spotlight: Joe Merritt
The final artist spotlight for 2022 falls on Mission Belonging Co-Founder and Veteran Artist, Joe Merritt!For December, we are proud to spotlight the awe-inspiring work of Mission Belonging co-founder, and our friend, Joe Merritt. Joe was medically retired from the...
Giving Belonging, Receiving Community
Among the most awkward – but most important – things we’ve had to do to sustain and grow Mission Belonging is ask our friends and supporters for the money necessary to run our programming. But from the start, in order to expand our reach and pay our artists, we have...
Glowing In The Dark: A Mission Belonging Winter Reading & Gathering
Join us for GLOWING IN THE DARK, a reading to celebrate members of our community, hosted by Seema Reza. Join Mission Belonging Founder Seema Reza on Wednesday, November 30th at 7pm EST, as she hosts Glowing in the Dark, a winter reading and gathering to...
Imagining Another Way
Imagining Another Way I sat down to write a note about gratitude, as is the custom. And there is plenty to be grateful for: this community, the outpouring of support that carries it forward—our board, our advisory board, the facilitators that share their talents, the...
GiveBelonging on Giving Tuesday, November 20th through December 4th, 2022
GiveBelonging on Giving Tuesday: Click here to visit our Giving Tuesday Campaign site.
Veteran Artist Spotlight: Ben Weakley
Shining a spotlight on Veteran, Poet and Author, Ben Weakley!Today we are honored to spotlight someone who is no stranger to the Mission Belonging community; Our friend and colleague, the incredible, the talented, Ben Weakley! Ben Weakley spent fourteen years in the...
A Container For What We Carry: Veterans Day 2022
Veteran and poet, Ben Weakley reflects on life after service in this special Veterans Day blog post.As we approach Veterans Day, I’m re-visiting Phil Klay’s book of short stories, Redeployment. Perspective changes with time and distance, and my current experience with...
