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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

With great enthusiasm, we share with you our 11 magnificent funded projects for 2025. These initiatives are caring for their communities + our planet in powerful + connected ways. Let these projects give us hope as they inspire new directions of travel. Learn more about them at startthewave.org 🌱🌍

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

After much reflection, Dom has decided to auction their beloved camper van, Connie, with all money raised going to Start the Wave. 🙏🦋 If you think her next chapter could be with you, or you'd like to find out more, please see the link below: www.startthewave.org/connie-fundr... 💚💚💚

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

11 life-giving projects selected! ✨🙏🏻💚 We can’t wait to introduce you to the wonderfully diverse, intersectional, life-changing projects that your support will help bring to life – stay tuned to find out more across the coming weeks! www.instagram.com/p/DKclUz1I0G... #StarttheWave

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We're fundraising for our latest round of project submissions - you can get yourself a tee and signed tote bundle or donate directly through our wesbite. All links in our linktree. Please head over to Instagram to see our latest video where Dom shares more information! 💚🙏🏻 #StarttheWave

Over a contrasting black background, 3 green watering cans pour STW pillar-coloured hearts over 4 sprouting seedlings held up by 4 hands. A smiling yellow sun sits proudly between the watering cans. In the background, a rainbow has formed from one of the hands to the other. The poster reads: Start the Wave needs you! Can you help us water even more seeds of change?

A photograph shows Dom P-C, a non-binary human wearing a STW hoodie smiling gratefully and with hope at the camera. Below, their image reads, ‘Please watch our latest video for more information.’

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Our funded project application window will remain open until April 22nd. ✨ You can submit your application in English, French or Spanish through the links on our website.🙏🏻 Thank you. We can’t wait to hear from you! STW Team 💚 #StarttheWave #STWFundedProjects

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Please welcome our newest STW Eco-Creator, Adele H! www.startthewave.org/eco-merch/ec... #StarttheWave

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

7 years of Start the Wave ✨🙏🏻💚 ➡️➡️➡️ www.instagram.com/p/DIEri1toPPa/ #StarttheWave

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

2025 Start The Wave Funding - NOW OPEN! 🦋 forms.gle/CkZDy2cZcbP3... #StarttheWave #STWFundedProjects

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Meaningful connections over material things. 🫂 Less ads, more community.✨ #StarttheWave #InternationalDayofZeroWaste #STWConsciousConsuming

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

STW Book Recommendation 📚 Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement - Tarana Burke. #STWEquality #STWAntiOppression #STWCreativityandHealing #WomensHistoryMonth

Start the Wave Book recommendation: Unbound by Tarana Burke. A photograph shows the paperback book cover featuring a vibrant image of Burke created by American fiber artist Bisa Butler.

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This Women’s History Month, & every month, Start the Wave stands in solidarity with all womxn across the world facing oppression, injustice, sexual brutality as a war crime, gender-based violence, harassment, discrimination & lack of access to education & healthcare #STWEquality #STWAntiOppression

An illustration of Audre Lorde, self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet”, sits next to the quote, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Behind Audre, a rainbow in the seven colours that represent each Start the Wave pillar flows across the width of the page.

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Start the Wave is over the moon to introduce our new Eco-Creator, Gesa! Gesa is so intentional in their artist expression + really embodies what our Eco-Merch mission is about. Spread our message, say yes to sustainability + start the wave by supporting Gesa today! www.startthewave.org/eco-merch/

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Para mantenerte al día con Start the Wave, recibir información sobre las rondas de financiamiento de proyectos y saber más sobre las personas en el terreno que trabajan para combatir la opresión, por favor suscríbete a nuestro boletín. Encontrarás el enlace en nuestra bio. #StartTheWave 🌊✨

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

To keep up to date with Start the Wave, stay informed about Project Funding rounds and learn more about folx on the ground doing work to combat oppression, as well as event and fundraiser news, please sign up to our newsletter. You’ll find the link in our bio. 🫶🦋✨ #StarttheWave #PositiveChange

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

If you'd like to stay up to date with all things #StarttheWave you can sign up to our newsletter, here: mailchi.mp/startthewave...

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thank you to all the activists, the messengers + the people shedding light on what’s happening in Congo, Sudan, Haiti and Tigray, and for the information + learning that made this blog post possible. FREE HAITI FREE TIGRAY FREE SUDAN FREE CONGO www.startthewave.org/black-histor... #StarttheWave

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The trans community cannot and will not be erased. Together we celebrate the courage and honour the legacy of our trailblazing trans siblings by continuing their fight for queer liberation and transgender rights. There is no LGB without the TQ2IA+ 🏳️‍⚧️🫶✊ #startthewave

A colourful illustration of Marsha P Johnson, wearing a pink dress and red lipstick, smiling with flowers in her hair. Behind her, there is a large rainbow over a purple background. In the foreground, another more prominent rainbow made up of the trans flag colours sits on top of a text box. The text reads: “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.”

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dom's fundraiser for Congo closes at 5am est tomorrow (27th). Can we reach $11000 to support the work of Bel Avenir? Humanity first. 🫂 Free Congo. 🇨🇩 Donate what you can. 🙏 can.givergy.com/supportforbe...

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hello Wavemakers, Dom is fundraising to support Bel Avenir, an organisation in the DRC helping with education, food and artistic expression in displacement camps. Please help by sharing and making a donation if you're able. Thank you, STW 💚 #FreeCongo can.givergy.com/supportforbe...

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

1/2 STW se enfoca hoy más que nunca en seleccionar proyectos equitativamente. Asegurando que apoyamos a grupos oprimidos por los imperios coloniales que explotan nuestro planeta.

Nuestra misión: Start the Wave es una organización sin fines de lucro y un movimiento que proporciona financiación, apoya y conecta a creadorxs de olas por todo el mundo. Al financiar y amplificar proyectos que crean cambios en las comunidades, Start the Wave apoya la acción sostenible arraigada en el amor y la liberación.

PROYECTOS FINANCIADOS:

Start the Wave les da prioridad a los proyectos que trabajan con un enfoque interseccional y comunitario, liderados por personas de la mayoría global/negras, indígenas y otras personas de color, personas con discapacidades (visibles e invisibles) y personas trans, de género dicidente e intersexo.

APOYO COMUNITARIO:

Para financiar proyectos, nos apoyamos en la ayuda de nuestra comunidad para amplificar nuestro trabajo y apoyo financiero con donaciones cuando es posible. Les damos las gracias a nuetrxs increíbles donadorxs por su apoyo continuo y por creer en nuestra misión. Sin ustedes, esto no sería posible.

NUESTROS PILARES:

Nuestros pilares son las áreas en las que hemos decidido enfocarnos en Start the Wave.
Son nuestros cimientos y lo que nos sostiene.
Financiamos y amplificamos los proyectos que encajan en el siguiente arcoiris de cambio:

Amor y Bondad, Creatividad y Sanación, Igualdad y Anti-opresión, Nuestro Medio Ambiente, Unidad y Unión, Consumo Consciente y Orgullo.

APÓYANOS

Si deseas apoyarnos para continuar con nuestro trabajo, puedes conocer más y donar en www.startthewave.org
Para seguirnos y amplificar nuestro trabajo: Instagram: @Start_the_Wave
Bluesky: @starthewave.bsky.social

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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

STW is more focussed than ever on selecting projects equitably. Ensuring that we are supporting groups who are oppressed by the colonial empires exploiting our planet. If you know of projects working to counteract the aggression of the US election, please forward this on. We see you. Love STW 💚🦋

Our mission: Start the Wave is a non-profit organisation and movement that funds, supports and connects wavemakers worldwide. By funding and amplifying projects creating change on the ground, Start the Wave supports sustainable action rooted in love and liberation.

FUNDING PROJECTS:
Start the Wave prioritizes projects working with an intersectional and community-based approach led by folx from the global majority/BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour), Disabled (Seen and Unseen) and TGNCI (transgender, gender non-conforming, intersex) people.

OUR PILLARS:
Our pillars are the areas that we choose to focus on at Start the Wave.
They are our foundation and what holds us up.
We fund and amplify projects that fall under the following rainbow of change:
Love & Kindness, Creativity & Healing, Equality & Anti-Oppression, Our Environment, Unity & Oneness, Conscious Consuming, and Pride.

SUPPORT US:
If you would like to support us in continuing our work, you can learn more and donate at: www.startthewave.org To follow us and amplify our work: Instagram: @start_the_wave Bluesky: @starthewave.bsky.social

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