Our Vision
Heal America is collaborative community of citizens and organizations pursuing solutions to racial injustice. We support and equip them to facilitate tough conversations and replace division with unity to foster the conditions for empowerment.
Our vision is to connect a network of citizens healing together using the principles of justice, redemption, courage, and love to transform communities. Local leaders confronting the most significant barriers have the power to restore human dignity in communities and demonstrate the resilience and capability of every person to achieve extraordinary things.
The process of healing promises to bridge divides and address injustice. Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principles of non-violence, in 2018 the late Bishop Omar Jahwar founded Heal America to breathe new life into the power of those ideals—growing from a series of local events into a community of changemakers across the country.
This Healing Stream provides access anywhere and anytime to people, principle-based tools and products, and opportunities for collaboration to maximize the impact of healing in pursuit of justice.
Stand Together’s vision is for strong and safe communities of engaged citizens committed to breaking cycles of poverty, bridging divides, and empowering every person to realize their full potential. Their work focuses on shifting paradigms from one of deficiency, in which people are problems to be solved, to contribution, in which people are sources of solutions to be empowered to find new and better ways of doing things.
Stand Together community partners are changing the way people think about, talk about, and tackle these challenges. That includes accelerating innovations that bring new, disruptive ideas to the social sector, initiatives around the principles of empowerment, collaborations that bring people together to catalyze solutions, and storytelling and thought leadership that connects the dots between those solutions and the principles that drive them.
After Bishop Omar passed away in March 2021 after a long battle with complications from COVID-19, Stand Together Foundation and thousands of advocates committed to carry on the vision of Heal America.