Mavin Foundation - Timeline

Timeline

• 4/28/1998: Matt Kelley announces, Mavin, a magazine for mixed race young people.

• 1/29/1999: Mavin magazine publishes its first issue.

• 2/14/2000: The magazine transitions into the 501(c)3 nonprofit Mavin Foundation.

• 9/15/2001: Two interns conduct Mavin's first bone marrow drive, a precursor to the MatchMaker Bone Marrow Project.

• 4/4-6/2003: The Mavin Foundation National Conference on the Mixed Race Experience in Seattle, WA draws over 500 attendees.

• 7/1/2003: Mavin publishes the 288-page, Multiracial Child Resource Book.

• 10/1/2003: With money from the City of Seattle's Race Relations and Social Justice Fund, Mavin launches the pilot phase of its Community Mixed race Action Plan (MAP).

• 5/1/2004: Mavin partners with the Level Playing Field Institute to launch the Campus Awareness and Compliance Initiative (CACI).

• 4/4/2005: Mavin launches its Generation MIX National Awareness Tour.

• 4/26/2005: Mavin founder Matt Kelley provides testimony to the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the U.S. Congress on the health needs of mixed heritage Americans.

• 7/25/2005: Mavin launches Adoptee Empowerment Project (AEP) with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation

• 11/14/2005: As part of Mavin's CACI project, students hand deliver 3,200 comment cards to the U.S. Department of Education in Washington, D.C., urging them to provide guidance to U.S. schools to adopt a "mark one or more races" format on forms that request racial/ethnic data. The initiative is a partnership with the Association of MultiEthnic Americans and the Hapa Issues Forum (HIF).

• 1/19/2006: Mavin releases the documentary film, Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America.

• 2/28/2006: Matt Kelley steps down and is succeeded by Anne Katahira-Sims.

• 12/5/2007: Mavin and the Association of MultiEthnic Americans officially launch the online Mixed Heritage Center 2.0.