Seeds of Change

Join us for Nation Outside's inspiring annual benefit, Seeds of Change, on Thursday, September 25th, 2025 at the Brooklyn Detroit.

✨ Honoring Our 2025 Award Recipients

🌟 Change Maker Award: Senator Sue Shink

For championing services and support for people returning home from incarceration, ensuring that second chances are possible.

🌟 Change Maker Award: Peckham

For their unwavering commitment to reentry support in Lansing and partnership with our team to create pathways of dignity and opportunity.

🕯️ The Everette Seay Lightkeeper Award: Christine Harris

This award honors a peer who, like Everette Seay, has grown into leadership through lived experience — someone who now helps guide others by keeping the light alive. Christine, once a peer, now serves as a navigator, embodying the spirit of hope and resilience.

🎶 An Evening of Impact and Inspiration

• Dinner, drinks, and live entertainment included with every ticket

• Powerful spoken word performances

• Moving films, including our Seeds of Change and Welcome Home videos

• The chance to stand alongside community leaders, partners, and changemakers who believe in second chances

• Regular Price: $105

Together, let's plant seeds of hope and grow lasting change!