motherearthliteracies@gmail.com
716-235-8152
Understanding Your
Organizational Needs
Welcome to Mother Earth Literacies
MEL is a people first business designed to help break barriers and access opportunities in the nonprofit world of WNY. Founded by two passionate women educators/researchers/activists who understand injustice and have worked to help others access opportunities for over 30+ years, Mother Earth Literacies uses a community-building business approach to collaborate with nonprofit partners to understand and address their needs around funding, growth, and sustainability.
Our Mission
Our mission is to partner with grassroots nonprofit organizations to address sustainability and capacity challenges to enhance the quality of life in New York for all.
Our Vision
Our vision is to foster resilient and justice-oriented organizations, led by passionate individuals, working collaboratively to create a safe, equitable, and sustainable community.
MEL Values
- We center our efforts on underserved neighborhoods that have historically been under-resourced and overlooked by the mainstream community
- We prioritize collaborative approaches and work to develop action plans to courageously and responsibly address challenges important to local neighborhoods
- We are dedicated to working in partnership with mission-driven organizations, focusing on equity and sustainability
Note About the Use of 'Partners'
Using our community-building business approach, we collaborate with partners to understand their needs around equity, growth, and sustainability. We chose the term “partner” over the traditional “client” or “customer” since both can have negative connotations rooted in capitalism. Our justice-oriented business practices help us understand and support our partners and their unique needs using active listening, providing individual attention, responding to partners in a timely manner, and offering deliverables using top notch, asset-based professionalism which honors the critical community impact our partners are offering.
