Mavin Foundation is a community organization which seeks to build "healthy communities that celebrate and empower mixed heritage people and families

Located in

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, Mavin has been recognized nationally for its work toward a society inclusive of those in the mixed heritage community. Mavin’s current projects include Mavin Magazine, The Generation MIX National Awareness Tour, and The MatchMaker Bone Marrow Donor Project. In 2004, The Association of MultiEthnic Americans and Mavin partnered to launc
The Mixed Heritage Center
a national clearing house of information related to mixed race and transracial adoption issue

History

MAVIN initially began in 1998 as a "national magazine dedicated to the mixed race experience." The magazine was named MAVIN (

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for ''one who understands'') by then

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freshman Matt Kelley. In 2000, the magazine became a 501(c)3 nonprofit, intent on expanding their programming to further impact the social and political state of the mixed heritage community.

Timeline

* 4/28/1998: Matt Kelley announces, Mavin, a magazine for mixed race young people. * 1/29/1999: Mavin magazine publishes its first issue. * 2/14/2000: The magazine transitions into the 501(c)3 nonprofit Mavin Foundation. * 9/15/2001: Two interns conduct Mavin's first bone marrow drive, a precursor to th
MatchMaker Bone Marrow Project
* 4/4-6/2003: The Mavin Foundation National Conference on the Mixed Race Experience in Seattle, WA draws over 500 attendees. * 7/1/2003: Mavin publishes the 288-page, ''Multiracial Child Resource Book''. * 10/1/2003: With money from the City of Seattle's Race Relations and Social Justice Fund, Mavin launches the pilot phase of its Community Mixed race Action Plan (MAP). * 5/1/2004: Mavin partners with th
Level Playing Field Institute
to launch the Campus Awareness and Compliance Initiative (CACI). * 4/4/2005: Mavin launches it
Generation MIX National Awareness Tour
* 4/26/2005: Mavin founder Matt Kelley provides testimony to the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on the health needs of mixed heritage Americans. * 7/25/2005: Mavin launches Adoptee Empowerment Project (AEP) with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation * 11/14/2005: As part of Mavin's CACI project, students hand deliver 3,200 comment cards to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., urging them to provide guidance to U.S. schools to adopt a "mark one or more races" format on forms that request racial/ethnic data. The initiative is a partnership with the Association of MultiEthnic Americans and the Hapa Issues Forum (HIF). * 1/19/2006: Mavin releases the documentary film
Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America
* 2/28/2006: Matt Kelley steps down and is succeeded by Anne Katahira-Sims. * 12/5/2007: Mavin and the Association of MultiEthnic Americans officially launch the online Mixed Heritage Center 2.0.

External links

Official websiteChasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in AmericaThe Generation MIX National Awareness TourThe Mixed Heritage Center
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One Box Isn't Enough: An Analysis of How U.S. Colleges and Universities Classify Mixed Heritage Students
} by Alfredo Padilla with Matt Kelley. November 9, 2005

SB 26 would have required State of California agencies that directly collect demographic information to allow respondents the option of selecting more than one racial or ethnic designation. The bill was drafted and lobbied for with Mavin Foundation support (Hearing Date: April 17, 2007)

Articles

organized by most recent
Mavin: One who understands
by Julie Dexter
Washington Health Foundation
Winter 2007
Generation Mix
by Suemedha Sood
WireTap
Posted January 28, 2005.

by Mireya Navarro, ttps://www.nytimes.com/ New York Times April 24, 2005
Race isn't as clear as black and white
by Florangela Davila
Seattle Times
January 17, 2005
Multiracial and proud! Multiracial teens are claiming their own identities and changing our notion of race
by John DiConsiglio, Scholastic Choices. September 2004
Multiracial - a new way of thinking
by D. Parvaz
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
March 14, 2001
Birth of a Maven: Matt Kelley's brave new magazine targets a mixed-race world
by Andy Steiner
Utne Reader
September/October 1999 Multiracial affairs in the United States Non-profit organizations based in Seattle