Mavin Foundation

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Mavin Foundation is a community organization which seeks to build “healthy communities that celebrate and empower mixed heritage people and families.”[1] 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 Project.

In 2004, The Association of MultiEthnic Americans and Mavin partnered to launch The National Mixed Heritage Resource Center, a national clearing house of information related to mixed race and transrascial adoption issues.[2]

Contents 1 History 2 Timeline[3] 3 External links 4 Articles

[edit] History

MAVIN initially began in 1998 as a "national magazine dedicated to the mixed race experience." The magazine was named MAVIN (Yiddish for one who understands) by then Wesleyan University freshman Matt Kelley. In 2000, the magazine became a 501(c)3 nonprofit, intent on expanding their programming to further impact the social and political state of the mixed heritage community.

[edit] Timeline[3]

• 4/28/1998: Matt Kelley announces, Mavin, a magazine for mixed race young people.

• 1/29/1999: Mavin publishes its first issue.

• 2/14/2000: The magazine transitions into the nonprofit Mavin Foundation.

• 9/15/2001: Two interns conduct Mavin's first bone marrow drive, a precursor to the MatchMaker Bone Marrow Project.

• 7/1/2003: Mavin publishes the Multiracial Child Resource Book.

• 5/1/2004: Mavin partners with the Level Playing Field Institute to launch the Campus Awareness and Compliance Initiative (CACI).

• 4/4/2005: Mavin launches its Generation MIX National Awareness Tour.

• 1/19/2006: Mavin releases the documentary film, Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America.

• 2/28/2006: Mavin founder Matt Kelley steps down and is succeeded by Anne Katahira-Sims.

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America
• The Generation MIX National Awareness Tour
• The National Mixed Heritage Resource Center

[edit] Articles

organized by most recent

• Mavin: One who understands by Julie Dexter, Washington Health Foundation. Winter 2007
• Generation Mix by Suemedha Sood, WireTap. Posted January 28, 2005.
• When you contain multitudes by Mireya Navarro, New York Times. April 24, 2005
• Race isn't as clear as black and white by Florangela Davila, Seattle Times. January 17, 2005
• Multiracial and proud! Multiracial teens are claiming their own identities and changing our notion of race by John DiConsiglio, Scholastic Choices. September 2004
• Multiracial - a new way of thinking by D. Parvaz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. March 14, 2001
• Birth of a Maven: Matt Kelley's brave new magazine targets a mixed-race world by Andy Steiner, Utne Reader. September/October 1999