Joy Fund Vision
About Joy Fund
In our deep and heartfelt commitment to creating an
equitable world, Conversation Starters developed a
social justice arm of our business —Conversation
Starters Joy Fund®.
Joy Fund Mission
Areas of Giving
We know that a collective working toward common goals of liberation can carry the greatest impact. Meet our impact partners for the Joy Fund.
Impact Partners
Recipients
Joy Fund applications are accepted on an ongoing
basis and reviewed monthly. We re-invest in and center the needs and experiences of BIPOC individuals, organizations and programs.
Our support extends to:
- Individuals
- Education costs (books, fees)
- Fines that prevent employment
- License fees for promotion or advanced employment
- Program or certification sponsorship
- Organizations
- BIPOC run and/owned businesses
- BIPOC run and/owned non-profits
- BIPOC run-owned social enterprises
- Programs
- Community-based programming/ events
- DEI training
- Leadership program sponsorships for BIPOC individuals
Since 2016, Conversation Starters has been elevating equity as a critical issue for people and communities. To actualize this work, we have created webinars, articles, convenings, and certification programs. Conversation Starters believes that all oppressed groups and individuals should benefit from our work, as we participate in and benefit from a capitalist system.
While our work includes all forms of difference and oppression, we center race. Research and lived experience has proven that while race is not the only factor contributing to the diminished capacity of all people, particularly Black, Indigenous, poor and immigrant peoples, it is the factor which so many people of power and authority fail to effectively recognize, understand and/or address.
Therefore, Conversation Starters’ equity work is not race-exclusive, but it is race-explicit.