Announcing Leaven's 2024 Leadership + Strategic Goals

On December 10, 2023 at Leaven’s annual meeting, the community made some big decisions, approving five strategic goals for 2024-2025 and electing 12 members to Leaven’s 2024 Board of Directors.

Leaven’s 2024-2025 Strategic Goals

  • Recommit to Community Organizing as a Core Sacred Practice of Leaven Community - Community Organizing and Action is one of our four core values. It’s time to scale back up, training our leaders and use the lens of community organizing to guide our strategy.

  • Build a Culture of Radical Belonging - In 2024, we will create a team at Leaven that attends to Leaven’s culture and communal sense of belonging, in order for Leaven to more fully live into its vision where all people can gather here - making meaning and organizing for change regardless of race, gender, religion, age, ability, sexuality, class, and other identities and experiences.

  • Explore Leaven becoming a Community Resilience Hub - We will initiate and deepen our existing neighborhood and organizing partnerships to understand what needs there might be for increasing resilience in a time of climate and other social, political and natural emergencies, as well as where and how Leaven might support, lead or partner in these efforts.

  • Develop Secular Sacred Spaces at Leaven - Cultivating deep, meaningful relationships is an essential part of who we are as Leaven Community. We long for more spaces to cultivate strong relationships, and for more secular spaces to explore our diverse spiritualities.

  • Develop a Sustainable and Abundant Resource Pool for Leaven's Financial Stability - Leaven has a strong foundation of generous and longtime individual donors who are committed to our vision. To strengthen our financial stability, Leaven’s Raising the Dough team will experiment with and evaluate the development of additional revenue streams such as grants, events, and earned income, and will build on what we learn.

Leaven’s 2024 Board Members

  • Meshal Alajmi

  • Vanessa Bird

  • Jennifer Creswell

  • Derek Fenwick, Co-Chair

  • Mike Hogan

  • Lois Jordahl, Salt and Light Appointee

  • Cheryl Lohrmann, Co–Chair

  • Joe Morgan, Treasurer

  • John Rodgers

  • Jazmín Vélez

  • Marshall Wattman-Turner

  • Brent Wilson, Secretary