Help Support Our Work!
Here at MEEA, we are running our first ever annual giving campaign! As we’ve grown over the past couple of years, we’ve seen our impact grow through emergent and responsive programs and collaborations that support a holistic theory of change. With a brand new look and a clarified identity, we wanted to share a little bit about the work we’re doing now and ask for your support to keep doing it! Over the span of a few weeks we’re sharing impactful stories from the all corners of our work. We’ll be featuring some stories from amazing Changemakers, educators, and community partners, so be sure to keep an eye on our socials!
What Work Does This Support?
Fostering Youth Leadership
MEEA works with youth and early career professionals to create leadership opportunities that empower their drive for social and climate justice. This support includes tools, resources, and stipends for their time and expertise. Community building is essential to fostering youth leadership. Therefore, we connect youth to network peers, community partners, mentors, and coaches. We recognize our youth’s work through award nominations.
Supporting Educators
Educators are critical change agents. We aim to support their work through peer connections, convenings, professional development, and financial and non-financial resources. We elevate storytelling and celebrate educator successes to share these achievements with our state and national network.
Prioritizing Research and Evaluation
Research and evaluation are crucial in highlighting the needs of our community.MEEA identifies statewide trends, patterns, and needs and utilizes this information to support programmatic evaluation, assess progress toward systems change, and disseminate local case studies of innovation. We also seek to communicate best practices from the national level.
Shifting Culture
Multiscale change is essential to MEEA’s work. We build organizational infrastructures to cultivate values-aligned procedures, emergent strategies, transparency with failure and process, and authentic relationships. We share the lessons learned with our state and national networks through modeling, teaching, and ensuring accountability for others working towards these culture shifts.
Advancing Transformational Policy
MEEA strives to advance research-informed, transformational policy solutions that will have systemic impact across the sector, the state, and beyond. Our approach focuses on engaging with grassroots movements, collaborating with coalition partners, and building relationships with state and federal decision-makers.