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The UPLift with Tzedek: Real Talk for Real Change
Welcome to The UPlift - Real Talk for Real Change! We're here to build authentic community relationships and help fuel social transformation in Asheville, NC, believing collective liberation is not only possible but probable as we share, listen, and learn together.
The Tzedek Social Justice Fund is a social justice philanthropy fund that redistributes money, resources, and power to support systems change and community healing in Asheville, North Carolina. Through adaptive, trust-based philanthropy, we resist oppressive systems and work to transform our collective home into a place where everyone flourishes. We fund mission-aligned work centering LGBTQ Justice, Racial Justice, and/or Dismantling Antisemitism; this means we give money to organizations and individuals invested in creating a more fair, equitable, and flourishing society.
We dream of a thriving Asheville where everyone's needs are abundantly met - where everyone is safe, respected, and celebrated. We believe that a community rooted in joy and love is possible - that is, if we can connect and build our shared vision on the value that liberation is for all.
Sound good to you? We hope so!
Let's be real. Let's go deep. Let's get liberated.
The UPLift with Tzedek: Real Talk for Real Change
The Future Speaks: Youth Voices Unfiltered
What if the future stopped waiting for its turn? This month on The UPLift, we’re handing the mic to six Youth Transformed for Life (YTL) members—and they’re not here to play nice. No filters. No watered-down talking points. Just unshakable truth about identity, belonging, and what community should look like, online and off.
From calling out policies that box people out to reimagining community care, these young voices cut straight to the heart of it, moving from broken systems to personal perspectives: moments of exclusion, flashes of solidarity, and the kind of hope only raw, lived experience can bring.
The takeaway? Youth aren’t “leaders of tomorrow”: they’re leading now. And they’re inviting you to actually listen.
Ready to hear the next generation’s unfiltered take on a fractured world and how they’re piecing it back together? Press play.
Special thanks and much love to Carmen, Au'deiah, Akelia, Daymon, Jimmy, and Kayde-Mae for letting us into your world.
We'll see you same time, same place next month. Until then, peace.
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