OUR VALUES

Community

lend a hand, connect with people, be generous with your time for special efforts and opportunities

Positive Influence

a grateful heart and inspired mind can only lead to more beautiful things. Be the influence for others or work with those leading the high vibes charge.

Creativity

Imagination, resourcefulness, and problem-solving form the foundation for change and progress. Add a little art, beauty and inspiration and you’ve got the creative backbone that Bonnaroo was born from.

Social Significance

Contribution can come in many forms but we want our efforts and the efforts of our partners to make an impact that ripples throughout the community and nudges more pebbles to ripple as well.

Human Development

We believe all humans can be better and do better with the right tools, inspiration, and support. We help our partners do just that.

#RooYourBest

Finding Wellness & Hope Together

At Bonnaroo, we strive for a special kind of energy. Vibrance and celebration are at our core, but that feels almost wrong right now. “Radiating Positivity” feels impossible or even insensitive during this unbelievable situation. It’s hard just to get out of bed with all the unknown challenges that each day presents… However, we believe hope is not lost.

We believe we can cope by making small, safe efforts to do our best each day. We believe we can find hope through tiny wins. And we believe we can help each other by sharing our wins so they inspire others to find useful bits of comfort in a bizarre reality. Useful bits of love to keep us going. We don’t need to overachieve right now, we just need to do our best. And we need to celebrate any and all efforts to do just that.

At the Bonnaroo Works Fund, we focus on community, creativity, and positive influence. Our organization and values were derived from the founding goals of the festival to create sustainable and healthy communities for the region, the staff, and our patrons. We hope you’ll join us in creatively cultivating community and respectful positivity outside of the festival grounds. Join us in showing everyone else the Bonnaroovian methods of doing our best.

For the foreseeable future, we’ll be making regular #RooYourBest posts to highlight the little things that can be done to feel better right now. From the biggest gesture to the smallest shift in mentality, we want to help generate ideas that bring hope to the masses and align with our values.

And we can’t do it alone… We want to hear what you’re doing to #RooYourBest. We want to hear about the small steps you’re taking to find wellness. Anything you’re doing or thinking that helps you say at the end of the day “I can feel good about [ INSERT YOUR OWN ACTION, THOUGHT, GESTURE ],” we hope you’ll share it with us using the hashtag.

If we make small efforts to maintain our collective wellness, we’ll be better prepared to spring back to action once it’s safe to resume business and life in our new normal. We want to help you do that. We need to feel good in order to carry on. Let’s help each other to the other side.

DISCLAIMER:

Please be mindful of and adhere to any and all local regulations regarding physical distancing, stay-at-home orders, and non-essential travel. If you’re knowingly putting yourself and others at risk, that by nature, wouldn’t qualify as ‘Roo-ing your best’…

This also includes some mindfulness toward the community. Let’s do our best to remain sensitive to the range of situations the community may be experiencing.

We love you all and wish you a safety and health over the coming weeks and months.

With Love and Positivity,