Rising Hearts, an Indigenous led organization, elevating community voices through meaningful kinship, movement, advocacy and storytelling.

Much of the heart work we prioritize is cultivating kinship with brands, companies and groups, while creating meaningful collaborations with the Rising Hearts athletes, community partners and broader movement community.

Our Programs:
Running On Native Lands Initiative
Running With Purpose Athlete Advocates
Rising Hearts Stories | Filmmaking
Virtual Movement Events | Race Organizing
You Are Loved Community Grant Initiative
Consulting - DEI / Collab opportunities / Facilitating Connections

RH is finally fiscally sponsored after four years of out-of-pocket expenses, community fundraising, micro grants support and donations! Please consider donating if you can to support the heart work below.

CURRENT PROJECTS:
1. You Are Loved Community Grant Initiative
2. Running On Native Lands Initiative
3. Running with Purpose Collective: Supporting 36 Athlete advocates, intersecting advocacy with their passion of running and movement.
4. Consulting with companies - organizations - institutions - on justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, access, safety, and visibility for POC, 2SLGBT+, Nonbinary and Disability, underrepresented communities
5. Rising Hearts Stories: Production of storytelling through filmmaking and advising on film projects or donating towards projects through Narrative Shift Stories + Productions
6. Charity Bib Program
7. Community Fundraising: Organizing virtual runs to transform the running community to gain new knowledge about topics, issues, advocacy and more that are themed within the run and registration page, to fundraise and support community led organizations and groups doing heart work across our communities. Through our virtual runs and in person runs, we have raised over $300k through registrations that we have donated to nearly 20 organizations, families and advocates across our movement spaces. We all were part of that!

PAST CONTRIBUTIONS & SUPPORT: We helped organize and/or lead in these gatherings - Water is Life rally 2016, OccupyInauguration, Native Nations Rise March and Rally, co-founded DC ReInvest Coalition (get DC to divest from Wells Fargo and reinvest in the community through Public Banking), served on the National and local steering committee and helped organize the Peoples Climate March 2017, March for Racial Justice, Prayer Vigil for Savanna LaFontaine Greywind 2017, #MeToo rally, Environmental Justice Panel with California for Progress, No More Stolen Sisters educational forum 2018, May 5th National Day of awareness for MMIW prayer run and community gathering 2019, advocacy on the Hill and meetings with Congressional members to discuss the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline and missing and murdered Indigenous womxn and girls initiatives, 2019 Youth Climate Strike, 2020 Fire Drill Fridays -Los Angeles, 2020 International Womxn’s Day Rally in Los Angeles and honoring Aleyah Toscano (MMIW) and her family, produced a Change The Name video campaign to support the IllumiNatives/NDN Collective/Native Organizers Alliance campaign, and more.