Windcall Institute
Gift LOVE to organizers today! My name is Reynaldo Leon, a 2010 Windcall alum, and this year I committed to sustaining Windcall on a monthly basis. Please consider making a LOVE GIFT today on Giving Tuesday for Windcall’s 30th Anniversary Love Campaign. Let me share why this gift is so important to me: When I […]
Join me in celebrating Windcall’s 30th year anniversary by donating to the Resilience Fund. Prior to doing my residency, I was running myself into the ground going from one campaign to the next. I had no other identity except my work life and doing things for the benefit of others, never for myself. Then in 2016 […]
To My Fellow Alumni: Join me in donating to Windcall today! I was recently reminded of my time as a Windcall Resident so I have joined the team of alumni ambassadors seeking donations for the Resilience Fund during the 30th anniversary. I’ll tell you my story:I went to Windcall in Montana in 1995 after transitioning from an organizing […]
Join me in donating to Windcall today! As Windcall’s first alum I am very excited to see the impact Windcall’s residency and staying power programs have had on many amazing leaders. Celebrate Windcall’s 30th year anniversary with me by donating to the Resilience Fund. Which provides an opportunity for rest, reflection, and rejuvenation for movement leaders from around the country. Thirty-one years […]
As part of our 30th Anniversary celebrations, Windcall is debuting a new video highlighting the journey from trauma healing to transformation of two Bay Area organizers who did their Windcall Residency in 2018. Check out the video here and join us here in raising $50K for our Albert & Susan Wells Resilience Fund. Our anniversary […]
With the rise of white supremacy and increased violence against communities of color, Windcall renews its commitment to hold healing and transformative spaces for POC organizers. In the Fall, 2019, we hosted our first all African-American/Indigenous cohort. In 2019, all POC residents included: M Adams, Freedom Inc.. WI Charlene Carruthers, BYP100, IL Carlos Duarte, Mi […]
Long aware that many organizers are limited from taking sabbaticals by caretaking responsibilities while they raise a family or care for a family member, Windcall started offering one-week Mindful Breathers. Just enough time to catch their breath alone, or together with their family. Windcall now hosts Breathers in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains, in the Connecticut […]
Responding to alumni’s interests for continued learning of wellness and healing justice, Windcall holds several webinars per year focused on various transformative practices. Alumni organizers often facilitate these sessions, grounded in their lived experiences. A rapid response grant from the San Francisco Foundation supported Windcall in forming a training team and designing a curriculum to […]
In partnership with the idyllic inn Rancho Gallina in New Mexico, Windcall holds the residencies at a movement home for the first time. Owners and hosts Leslie Moody and Mitch Ackerman organized in labor for decades before retiring and deciding to contribute to the movement by hosting retreats in their environmentally-upgraded ranch outside of Santa […]
In 2015, Windcall partnered with the Four Freedoms Fund to sponsor residency opportunities for Immigrant Rights organizers. Groundswell Fund joined the following year to offer more capacity building experiences for their Reproductive Justice grantees. These partnerships increase Windcall’s capacity to support frontline organizers in times of crises. Every year, the alumni board convenes to determine […]