Mavin Foundation


Mavin Foundation is a community organization which seeks to build "healthy communities that celebrate and empower mixed heritage people and families." Located in Seattle, WA, Mavin has been recognized nationally for its work toward a society inclusive of those in the mixed heritage community. Mavin’s current projects include Mavin Magazine, The Generation MIX National Awareness Tour, and The MatchMaker Bone Marrow Donor Project.
In 2004, The Association of MultiEthnic Americans and Mavin partnered to launch , a national clearing house of information related to mixed race and transracial adoption issues.

History

MAVIN initially began in 1998 as a "national magazine dedicated to the mixed race experience." The magazine was named MAVIN by then Wesleyan University freshman Matt Kelley. In 2000, the magazine became a 5013 nonprofit, intent on expanding their programming to further impact the social and political state of the mixed heritage community.

Timeline

  • 4/28/1998: Matt Kelley announces, Mavin, a magazine for mixed race young people.
  • 1/29/1999: Mavin magazine publishes its first issue.
  • 2/14/2000: The magazine transitions into the 5013 nonprofit Mavin Foundation.
  • 9/15/2001: Two interns conduct Mavin's first bone marrow drive, a precursor to the .
  • 4/4-6/2003: The Mavin Foundation National Conference on the Mixed Race Experience in Seattle, WA draws over 500 attendees.
  • 7/1/2003: Mavin publishes the 288-page, Multiracial Child Resource Book.
  • 10/1/2003: With money from the City of Seattle's Race Relations and Social Justice Fund, Mavin launches the pilot phase of its Community Mixed race Action Plan.
  • 5/1/2004: Mavin partners with the to launch the Campus Awareness and Compliance Initiative.
  • 4/4/2005: Mavin launches its .
  • 4/26/2005: Mavin founder Matt Kelley provides testimony to the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on the health needs of mixed heritage Americans.
  • 7/25/2005: Mavin launches Adoptee Empowerment Project with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • 11/14/2005: As part of Mavin's CACI project, students hand deliver 3,200 comment cards to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., urging them to provide guidance to U.S. schools to adopt a "mark one or more races" format on forms that request racial/ethnic data. The initiative is a partnership with the Association of MultiEthnic Americans and the Hapa Issues Forum.
  • 1/19/2006: Mavin releases the documentary film, .
  • 2/28/2006: Matt Kelley steps down and is succeeded by Anne Katahira-Sims.
  • 12/5/2007: Mavin and the Association of MultiEthnic Americans officially launch the online Mixed Heritage Center 2.0.

    Articles

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  • by Julie Dexter, . Winter 2007
  • by Suemedha Sood, . Posted January 28, 2005.
  • by Mireya Navarro, . April 24, 2005
  • by Florangela Davila, . January 17, 2005
  • by John DiConsiglio, Scholastic Choices. September 2004
  • by D. Parvaz, . March 14, 2001
  • by Andy Steiner, . September/October 1999
Category:Multiracial affairs in the United States
Category:Non-profit organizations based in Seattle