Change is a journey, and today, we’re excited to share an important step in ours—we are becoming Mission Belonging. The decision to transition from Community Building Art Works to Mission Belonging reflects a strategic evolution that aligns with our expanding vision,...
Confiding to the impartial, sympathetic page paved the way for me to accept myself and finally reveal to my friends and family who I really am and begin to live my best honest life. I write. I write because I want to write; I write because I need to write. I write...
On Wednesday, April 23rd, Mission Belonging was honored to participate in the The Veterans Consortium Pro Bono Program‘s Volunteer Appreciation Night. Veterans Consortium is an incredible organization dedicated to assisting unrepresented veterans and their families...
A trailblazing veteran and passionate LGBTQ+ advocate joins our board to champion inclusive art and community empowerment. Rockville, Maryland – Mission Belonging is proud to announce that Alleria Stanley has joined its Board of Directors. A combat veteran and...
Editor's Preface In this hybrid essay, Susan Niemi writes with specificity, clarity, and the clear eye of a survivor who knows how much work it takes to forge a path forward again and again. Studded with lines of her own poetry, this essay is a meditation on...
I sat cross-legged on a curb in the middle of New Jersey in the middle of the 1970s and wrote a poem about despair. I was fourteen, it was humid and windless, and I was waiting outside my father’s girlfriend’s apartment to go home where my father and I had barricaded...
