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Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · Feb 10
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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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 🌱🌍
August 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Today is the last day to make an offer for Connie! 🙏✨

For more information, or for any questions you might have, please follow the link below. 🚐🌅🏞️💚✨
startthewave.bsky.social Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · Aug 13
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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August 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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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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August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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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!

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June 5, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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We have one tee & signed tote bundle left - thank you to everyone that has supported our fundraiser so far. It means the world to us! 🙏🏻💚
You can grab the last bundle here for $150CAD including worldwide shipping, or donate directly through our website.
Love, STW 🦋
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startthewave.bsky.social Start the Wave 🦋 @startthewave.bsky.social · May 9
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 black STW t-shirt is laid out, showing the front and back. The back of the t-shirt has a full back print showing a simple line drawing of a waterfall, flowing into the Progress Pride flag with the STW Logo through the middle. A shining sun arches over the waterfall, and two sprouting seeds grow on either side. The entire image is enclosed within a circle, and the phrase, ‘Let it Fall to Build From the Root Up’ wraps around. Below, it says www.startthewave.org #STWEquality #STWAntiOppression. Printed on the top left of the front of the t-shirt, the STW logo sits next to a sprouting seed with a shining sun arching over the top. A large tote bag lies next to the t-shirt, with the STW Butterfly logo across the middle. Below, another image shows that the bag has been signed inside by Dom P-C. The inscription reads, ‘Thank you for looking after our planet, Keep being you. Your actions matter!’ The caption next to it says, ‘Follow the links in our linktree to buy a STW bundle, or donate directly via our website www.startthewave.org 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.’
May 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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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 black STW t-shirt is laid out, showing the front and back. The back of the t-shirt has a full back print showing a simple line drawing of a waterfall, flowing into the Progress Pride flag with the STW Logo through the middle. A shining sun arches over the waterfall, and two sprouting seeds grow on either side. The entire image is enclosed within a circle, and the phrase, ‘Let it Fall to Build From the Root Up’ wraps around. Below, it says www.startthewave.org #STWEquality #STWAntiOppression. Printed on the top left of the front of the t-shirt, the STW logo sits next to a sprouting seed with a shining sun arching over the top. A large tote bag lies next to the t-shirt, with the STW Butterfly logo across the middle. Below, another image shows that the bag has been signed inside by Dom P-C. The inscription reads, ‘Thank you for looking after our planet, Keep being you. Your actions matter!’ The caption next to it says, ‘Follow the links in our linktree to buy a STW bundle, or donate directly via our website www.startthewave.org 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.’
May 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Please welcome our newest STW Eco-Creator, Adele H!

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April 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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7 years of Start the Wave ✨🙏🏻💚
➡️➡️➡️
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A blue border frames an illustration of a world map in the shape of a heart. Above the heart in big letters reads ‘THANK YOU’. In the middle of the heart sits the Start the Wave logo. Two leafy branches frame the heart on either side and a yellow banner reading ‘7 Years of Community’ wraps around the bottom. Below the heart it says ‘We are the Change’, at the bottom of the image, a Start the Wave butterfly sits on either side of #StarttheWave
April 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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2025 Start The Wave Funding - NOW OPEN! 🦋
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April 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Meaningful connections over material things. 🫂
Less ads, more community.✨

#StarttheWave #InternationalDayofZeroWaste #STWConsciousConsuming
March 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Meaningful connections over material things.
Less ads, more community.
#StarttheWave #InternationalDayofZeroWaste #STWConsciousConsuming
March 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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.
March 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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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.
March 20, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Lovely group call with Dom and some awesome Earpers. You guys, we had TWO new Earpers in that group call. How epic! Such a great chat. Shameless plug: @startthewave.bsky.social’s funding will be opening in a few months time. Find communities & projects that could use the funding and let them know! 🦋
March 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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/
March 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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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 🌊✨
March 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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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
March 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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If you'd like to stay up to date with all things #StarttheWave you can sign up to our newsletter, here:
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March 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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

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#StarttheWave
February 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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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.”
February 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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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. 🙏

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February 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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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

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February 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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...
February 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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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
February 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM