Nile Rodgers
Celebrates 70th Birthday
with
$1 Million Endowment to
We Are Family Foundation
Youth To The Front Fund 2022
“Frontliners” Announced
Musical icon and philanthropist, Nile
Rodgers, is celebrating his 70th birthday
and the 20th anniversary of his
We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) with a
$1 million endowment gifted to WAFF.
Rodgers’ gift is an important personal investment to ensure
solidifying the longevity of WAFF and its programs for
future generations.
Rodgers, Co-Founder & Chairman, WAFF stated,
"My mother used to say, 'It's better to give than to
receive.'
I knew the best thing I could do to celebrate my 70th birthday
and the 20th anniversary of WAFF was to provide a
million-dollar endowment to sustain the foundation’s
important work.
Our Global Teen Leaders and Youth To The Front Fund
“Frontliners” give us their all and this is the least I can
do to continue supporting them."
Committed to fighting systemic racism,
inequality and injustice,
WAFF is also pleased to announce the
2022 Youth To The Front Fund
“Frontliners”,
representing 7 states in the USA and 15 countries on 6
continents.
WAFF created the Youth To The Front Fund (YTTFF)
in 2020 to support under 30-year-old BIPOC-centered youth
activists, youth-led organizations, projects, innovations
and creative solutions at the forefront of fighting systemic
racism, inequality and injustice.
The 2022 Frontliners’ work in the USA, and around the
globe,
is funded through generous contributions from
WAFF’s
Board of Directors
and its partners,
SAP, Sony
Music Group,
and the
Walton
Family Foundation.
The 2022 Frontliners, aged 18 to 29,
are using their creativity and infusing science, art,
technology and social justice into their project design and
overall implementation to collectively reimagine new
possibilities and solutions that positively impact and shape
future generations.
Frontliners’ projects focus on:
Civic & Community Engagement,
Education Equity,
Climate Justice,
and Criminal Justice Reform.
The 2022 Youth To The Front Fund
Frontliners are:
Alinafe
Malonje & Lerato Honde (25, Malawi);
Amonge Sinxoto (20, South Africa);
Anthony
Sanford (26, USA);
Aroe
Ajoeni (22, Malaysia/Indonesia);
Autumn Palen (26, USA);
Brianna Nelson (26, Canada);
Charliese
& Chasah West (28, 31, USA);
Diana Nkhoma (27, Malawi);
Francis
Odhiambo (24, Kenya);
Gabrielle Perry (29, USA);
Ghislain
Irakoze (22, Rwanda);
Jennifer Lee (20, USA);
Joel
Bervell (26, USA);
Johanna Alazar (26, Eritrea);
Joy Munthali (26, Malawi);
Marwa Eltahir (26, Sudan/USA);
Matthew
Nwozaku (22, Nigeria);
Meshack Otieno (28, Kenya);
Miguel Angel Herrera Vivar (28,
Ecuador);
Nasreen Al-Amin (28, Nigeria);
Nerima Makhondo (26, Kenya);
Nina Vendham (24, USA);
Ninel Nekay (24, USA/Jamaica);
Ozgur Mehmet Gur (26, Turkey);
Shawon Jackson (28, USA);
Taimin Liao (18, USA/China).
About We Are Family Foundation
Co-founded by legendary musician Nile Rodgers and inspired
by the power and true meaning of his song, "We Are Family",
We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to the visions of a global family by
creating programs that promote cultural diversity while
nurturing and mentoring the vision, talents and ideas of
young people who are positively changing the world.
Find more information
wearefamilyfoundation.org
@wearefamilyfdtn
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