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Cheryl Vennerstrom joins the 2025 Board of Directors, National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (National VOAD)
Our very own Cheryl Vennerstrom joins the 2025 Board of Directors of the National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (National VOAD). Read more about their work here: https://www.nvoad.org/
DelRae Messer Named to List of 2025 Notable Nonprofit Board Members
Executive Board Member of Headwaters Relief Organization DelRae Messer was named to Twin Cities Business magazine's list of Notable Nonprofit Board Members of 2025. "As an eight-year board member for the Golden Valley-based Headwaters Relief Organization, DelRae...
Great Day Louisiana Reflects on Katrina 20 features the Headwaters Relief Organization
Great Day Louisiana Reflects on Katrina 20 features the Headwaters Relief Organization. Learn more here:...
Remembering Typhoon Haiyan on the Tenth Anniversary
Headwaters Remembers our work in Philippines on 10th Anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan
Ernst & Young Article on dolls- Our good fortune with media coverage of our Asha doll initiative continued
Through her non-profit disaster relief organization, Headwaters, Rebecca Thomley of Orion provides aid and comfort to families and communities in desperate situations all over the world. After a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015, Headwaters sent a team of...
Article about the dolls
Headwaters Relief Organization has long focused on the wellbeing of children following natural disasters, whether they’re within U.S. borders or in far-off countries like the Philippines, Nepal and Liberia. Its latest effort will include the delivery of...
Fox 9 News Story about the dolls
A half a world away from Minnesota, young girls in Nepal struggle to stay in school. But now, boxes of help are coming from the Twin Cities. The name Asha in Nepal means hope – in this case, the hope of empowering young girls. One of the founders of Headwaters Relief...
KSTP Interview about the dolls
A Minnesota nonprofit is trying to help girls on the other side of the world. Golden Valley-based Headwaters Relief Organization will deliver 2,000 dolls to girls in Nepal to help urge them to stay in school. The group partnered with a multicultural doll maker to help...
Channel CCX Media Interview
A Golden Valley relief agency is responding to a growing crisis in Haiti. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake hit the island earlier this month. The situation in Haiti is dire. So far, more than 2,200 people have died in the earthquake, over 12,000 people are injured, and...