Building collective power to change the world.
We build collective power by transforming philanthropy and funding movements, in the pursuit of justice and liberation for all communities.
Our Values
- Community: We center our communities in our work and are guided by their wisdom, knowledge, and priorities in all that we do. We see, hear, understand, and value our relationships and each other. We build power together and take collective action.
- Confidence: We embrace the power we hold to support and resource our communities, and to challenge systems of oppression.
- Justice: We are committed to healing injustice as we reimagine and transform systems in the process.
- Transformation: We reject status-quo philanthropic models that are extractive, unaccountable, and undemocratic. We commit to work over generations as we challenge and transform philanthropy, and redefine who has power within it.
- Accountability: We are committed to being responsive to our community and to being a nimble and consistent partner in the movement, grounded in relational and personal connections.
We believe in justice for all.
We fund grassroots movements working to overcome injustices that have harmed our communities and planet for far too long. We support emerging organizations and change makers on the frontlines fighting for social, racial gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice.
We center the wisdom and agency of our communities most impacted by injustice in order to upend broken systems that hoard and consolidate power and wealth.
We work to transform philanthropy—from top-down and extractive to justice-driven and regenerative.
From McKenzie River Gathering Foundation to Seeding Justice.
In 1976, our founders gathered on the banks of the McKenzie River in Eugene, Oregon with a revolutionary idea: that activists, philanthropists, and those working in community should decide, together, how to use their inherited wealth to make an impact on the root causes of social inequity and environmental degradation.
That gathering grew into MRG Foundation. Early grantmaking and steering committee members continue to be directly involved in movements across our region.
In 2021, to better reflect our mission and work, MRG Foundation changed its name to Seeding Justice.
Whether you have been part of the MRG family since our founding or are just joining us, we welcome you to work with us to be in service to the movement.
