MATAHARI

With funding from Finding Our Way Home, Matahari will continue integrating healing, rest, spiritual practice, and culture into its power-building model to support staff, leaders, and members facing ongoing economic, political, and emotional pressures. Our work intentionally centers grounding, accompaniment, and healing practices before and after campaigns, ensuring community members and staff approach their organizing with clarity and care. Funding will support stipends for member-leaders, staff time, and partnerships with migrant women and femme healers and spiritual practitioners of color, including Reina Reyes, Margarita Perez, Luana Morales, Tamika Middleton, and others, to lead healing circles, rituals, and capacity-building sessions for collective care.

This integration work is designed to strengthen emotional resilience, trust, and creativity across the organization. By embedding healing and restorative practices into daily work and leadership development, Matahari anticipates a more sustainable, relational, and responsive organizational culture. Leaders and members will be better equipped to sustain long-term campaigns for immigrant justice while modeling care and wellness for the broader community, creating a movement that values both strategy and the wholeness of those leading it.