New Team Formed to Advance IRI’s Social Purpose
I am chairing a new Imago Relationship International (IRI) team recently formed to proactively advance IRI’s social mission—to change the world one relationship at a time. Our primary goal is to support and expand humanitarian and research programs that bring Imago healing to broader communities and underserved populations. As IRI’s fund development committee, the team’s main responsibility is to raise charitable grants from philanthropic foundations and donors who share Imago’s vision of a just and peaceful world.
Our first step is to gather information about what’s currently being done. In early March, Tim sent a survey to the Imago community to collect stories and information about how members are applying Imago magic in the form of humanitarian outreach, education and research programs. If you haven’t already, please share your story with us as soon as possible, by emailing survey@imagorelationships.org. Our objective with the survey is to (1) compile an inventory of existing outreach and educational programs to share with the Imago community; (2) identify ways that IRI can provide programmatic support to increase Imago capacity in your communities; and (3) engage philanthropic foundations and donors in supporting IRI’s social benefit programs.
Over the next several years, we hope to sponsor an array of educational, scholarship, and research programs that move forward IRI’s social purpose and expand Imago to a larger public. We’ll keep you posted, and hopefully involve many of you, as we progress.
Julie Drezner
IRI Board Member |