What is The Gathering Grant?

What stops great ideas from becoming reality? The money to make them happen. What would be possible if you had $5000 to get your idea off the ground? After attending, participants are allowed to submit and vote on the best proposal which is chosen to receive a $5000 grant as venture capital/start up funding. We are putting the funds behind the best new idea. Submissions are required to share and make their work publicly available for all to use and learn from. Successful proposals come from the emergent thinking of our time together at The Gathering event.

Jenny Levering

Jenny currently serves as the Director of the Cliff Alexander Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Prior to joining the Miami community, Jenny worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Dean of Students Office, also with Fraternity and Sorority Life. She’s been a member of the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors since 2002 and is on the Director of Educational Programs for the Association of Fraternal Leadership & Values. Jenny enjoys volunteering for circle of Sisterhood, Delta Gamma, and Beta Theta Pi. She holds a master’s degree in student affairs in higher education from Ball State University and a bachelor’s degree in communications from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Jenny is a member of Delta Gamma Fraternity, enjoys decorating her home, cooking, entertaining, and traveling to see family and friends.

Project Title:
nourish

“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.”

– The Invitation

The Invitation is a declaration of intent, a map into the longing of the soul, the desire to live passionately, face-to-face with ourselves and skin-to-skin with the world around us. nourish is an intense sabbatical designed to help women in the field of higher education accept The Invitation (phase 1), embrace The Dance (phase 2) and answer The Call (phase 3).

nourish is not a retreat, it is not a conference; it is not a stand-alone experience. nourish begins by making a personal commitment during an annual sabbatical to finding your authentic self and living an authentic life by nourishing yourself, nourishing others, nourishing your body, nourishing your mind, nourishing your soul and nourishing the sisterhood (relationships) in your life.