Story, Values, Principles
Our Mission is to Create a Culture of Care.
Our Story
begins in March of 2020. Just as schools were closing and shifting virtually, we launched our first initiative, Connected Cultures, a workplace mental health training for educators.
We trained 250 educators across Baltimore City Public Schools, and educators shared our community-building skills with over 5,000 students. Our training demonstrated a 30% reduction in symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress in our educator graduates.
As we supported educators, Anthony, our Executive Director and Founder, worked part-time in a grocery store. With MOM’s Organic Market, we piloted and designed a mental health training for retail workers, a first of its kind.
We trained over 20 managers to share our work culture skills with hundreds of store employees on a weekly basis over a year-long pilot. The training showed an over 50% reduction in employee calls-outs within the first two months.
Then, we expanded our focus to include nonprofits, philanthropy, government and universities, graduating over 1,500+ people across our programs.
Today, we’re continuing to build upon these foundations to empower the social sector and frontline workers with tools and techniques to build healthy work cultures.
What We Value
Community.
Empowerment.
Growth-Mindset.
Impact.
Anti-Oppression.
Guiding Principles
Build Healthy
Work Norms
We protect at least 20 minutes, three days a week, to practice work culture skills such as gratitude and mindfulness.
Respect the Boundaries Between Work and Non-work Time
We do not send work emails, slack messages, or post on Evolving Minds social media after the end of the workday or on the weekends.
Enable
Adequate Rest
We have four-day work weeks and one month of paid time off in addition to 15 days of PTO and holidays.
40-Year Vision
YEARS 1-10
(between 2020 and 2030)
PHASE 1: Empower people with tools and techniques to build healthy work cultures.
YEARS 10-20
(between 2030 and 2040)
PHASE 2: Launch advocacy branch of Evolving Minds to unite workers to advocate for a healthier work world.
YEARS 20-40
(between 2040 and 2060)
PHASE 3: Fund and amplify cultural ideas, such as books, documentaries, art, and music that foster culture change in the workplace.
