The 1937 Foundation

The 1937 Foundation was honored to be a sponsor of Black CannaBusiness Conference & Expo. We delivered food for thought from the stage and food for the soul through mindful meditation and movement, we call The 1937 Healing Tour. It was delightful to be among the variety of Chicago cannabis professionals to be onsite delivering strong support. Familiar faces in the right places. Thank you Kristi Price for landing your show in Chicago! #chicago #minoritiesincannabis #womenincannabis

Where the rubber meets the road = hundreds of minority men going to the mat, over 36 hours, in downtown Chicago, at one of our wellness studios, and in honor of Chicago hosting Black CannaBusiness' national, annual convention. Learn more below, and consider joining our Founder & CEO, Ambrose Jackson. The mindfulness and movement classes are free. #traumainformedcare #mentalhealthmatters #menshealth #chicago #minoritymen #blackcannabisbusiness

Welcome to Chicago Black CannaBusiness attendees! Please plan to catch The 1937 Healing Tour while you are here. BCB Men, you can start your morning and wrap your BCB day with us at our nearby downtown Chicago wellness studio. Opt into one of the six free mindfulness and movement classes crafted exclusively for you: Thursday afternoon. Friday morning. Friday afternoon. Our Founder and CEO, Ambrose Jackson will see you on that mat. Thank you. #yoga #mentalhealthmatters #minoritiesincannabis #chicago #blackcannabisbusiness #traumainformedcare #nonprofits

EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW 📣📣📣

Welcome to Chicago! Wednesday of this week, The Black Cannabis Business Conference & Expo convenes in Chicago. Hundreds of minority men and women as owners, entrepreneurs, executives, managers, innovators and thought leaders will gather downtown, and for several days. The Black CannaBusiness conference stage is laden with Illinois and Chicagoland's Black women and men who are the activists, implementers, opinion leaders and role models of the state's cannabis legalization and its social equity core. Of course, the lead and legendary legislator tied to Illinois' cannabis social equity legislation will be there to welcome guests to her city, as well: Illinois Majority Senator, Kimberly A. Lightford. On Thursday morning – opening day – Ambrose Jackson will escort The Honorable Senator to the Black CannaBusiness Conference General Assembly stage for a discussion about the social and restorative justice pathways the Honorable Senator wove into the state's cannabis law, and how non-profits, like The 1937 Foundation, delivers on those goals.    Equity was written in as core to Illinois cannabis legalization; designed to make sure the communities harmed most by the war on drugs can participate. The law included provisions to use revenue from Illinois’ adult-use, recreational cannabis sales to fund a grant program to deliver support to Illinois' hardest hit communities. The Honorable Senate Leader Lightford was the Chief Senate Sponsor of the 2019 Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. Ambrose Jackson, a dual CRTA-participant as Chairman and CEO of The 1937 Group, a minority owned and operated, vertically integrated cannabis company headquarter in Chicago, and Founder & CEO of this 501c3 non-profit, The 1937 Foundation.  Please join Senator Lightford and our Founder as they explore lessons and leverage resulting from the four-year-old R3 grant initiative, which has been using a quarter of all Illinois cannabis tax revenue to support communities hurt by economic disinvestment, violence and the multi-generational and disproportionate damage caused by the war on drugs, and relying on 501c3 non-profit organizations, including The 1937 Foundation, to deliver it. #minoritiesincannabis #illinoisstatesenate #blackcannabizconference #blackcannabiz #warondrugs #marginalizedcommunities #foundersjourney #nonprofits #socialjustice #socialequity #chicago #illinois

Exciting news, just announced by our Founder & CEO, Ambrose Jackson. Listen to his brief message, and learn more, below. Thank you. https://lnkd.in/gx5NmqDe #blackmen #traumainformedcare #minoritiesincannabis #chicago #blackcannabizconference #mindfulness #underservedcommunities #warondrugs

Next week, hundreds of Black men will gather in Chicago, as men in cannabis and attendees of the annual national convention: Black CannaBusiness Conference & Expo. The conference has never been held in Chicago, before. A key part of the conventioneers' experience? Experiencing our Healing Tour. Thursday and Friday men have the option to gather together over free mindfulness and movement classes. The 1937 Foundation has crafted a set of six yoga Healing Tour experiences especially for about 12 dozen minority men: our special guests -- Black CannaBusiness' local and out-of-town attendees, our local constituents and the Foundation's friends, stakeholders and supporters. We encourage you to learn more about the trauma-informed offerings and consider joining us. If not you, please share with the men you know would want the option to opt in and go to the mat with other minority men, in our private downtown yoga studio. Each class features ganja, proudly presented by Higher Self, and always provided as an option to integrate into your personal practice, as guided by our certified ganja yoga coach. Browse detail of each of four different healing modalities offered over two days, next week -- via the link below. Follow us on IG @the1937healingtour, and check out the video message our Founder & CEO, Ambrose Jackson, has just posted. He looks forward to hosting more than a hundred men on the mat soon! For BCB -- All-Men Mindfulness and Movement Class Registration: https://lnkd.in/gx5NmqDe Do you still need to register for the Black CannaBusiness conference & expo, visit its site and use our Founder's discount code-- Ambrose25 -- to receive 25% off of your ticket purchase. #blackcannabusiness #cannabusiness #socialequity #chicago #cannaconference #blackmen #mentalhealthmatters #yoga #traumainformedcare #marginalizedcommunities #minoritiesincannabis

New Skies. Same Roots: The 1937 Foundation is excited to be supporting an upcoming national convention, to be held here next week, in Chicago. We are privileged to have partnered with the leadership of Black CannaBusiness who are soon to draw almost 800 minority individuals to our hometown as speakers, exhibitors and attendees of the annual, national Black CannaBiz Conference & Expo 2024. This is Chicago's first year to host this important conference, and our team and its founder, Ambrose Jackson, are ready to treat BCB conference constituents to mindfulness and movement. Please stay tuned for more on our collaboration with Kristi Price and team; meanwhile, make sure you've made your plans to attend. https://lnkd.in/dzdqrJFn #minoritiesincannabis #cannabisconvention #chicago #mentalhealthmatters #warondrugs #illinois #blackcannabusiness

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The 1937 Foundation could be found at NECANN Illinois last Friday and Saturday, introducing the industry and attendees to its team and various partners. We showed up in collaboration with Alex Al-Sabah and others from The 1937 Group, and under the shared leadership of Ambrose Jackson, CEO of both of our organizations. The Foundation's leadership team – Ambrose, Cindy Kosydor, Sonia Antolec (She/Ella/Jej) and Yazmin McCamey, could be found on the conference stage and on the convention center floor. A few important purpose-driven partners joined us as well. Thank you Richard Lawrence of North Lawndale Employment Network & Sweet Beginnings, Chicago; Rashaunah Williams SHRM-CP of Illinois Equity Staffing and the local team from 40 Tons Brand. NECANN was a significant two-day outing for us, designed to let you know where you can usually find us: in Chicagoland's marginalized neighborhoods, helping heal individuals and communities from violence-induced trauma. We thank NECANN, Marc Shepard and Kris Hultgren for the opportunity to showcase our team, partners and programs. #necann #minoritiesincannabis #violenceinducedtrauma #marginalizedcommunities #chicago #nonprofitjourney #foundersjourney