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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
