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A Panel on Black Philanthropy: Describing Love In Action
For Black Philanthropy Month, Dr. Nekya Johnson facilitated a virtual conversation with Olympia Edwards, CEO and founder of Project Girl Mentoring Program; Jesse D. Hayes IV, president of Red Tailed Hawks Flying Club; and Kristina Jorgensen, executive director of Participatory Justice about what love in action looks like and what it means for philanthropy in the future.
Love in action in Northeast Washington: A conversation with Lu Hill & Kerra Bower
To celebrate the deep roots of Black giving, we are featuring truthful conversations between Black grantees and Black funders. These conversations shed light on the relationships at the heart of philanthropy and showcase new ways of giving.
We see you: Global Perinatal Services (GPS)
As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Global Perinatal Services (GPS)
Black love in action is why we’re alive
Our shared history as a people reflects the truth that love breathes bravery down our backbones and nourishes us to continue shaping, bringing forth, and sustaining solutions that make joy and shared abundance real for all of us.
Love in action in the Puget Sound: A conversation with Liahann Bannerman & Dr. Kendrick Glover
To celebrate the deep roots of Black giving, we are featuring truthful conversations between Black grantees and Black funders. These conversations shed light on the relationships at the heart of philanthropy and showcase new ways of giving.
Through Them, Through Us, Through You
Our power is activated in community. The spaces Black people have curated, built, and shared across time and distance have enabled that activation.The love cultivated in each of those hubs has supported our people's perseverance and our self-preservation.
We see you: TeamWrk Foundation
As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: TeamWrk Foundation
Our Strategic Plan: Re-rooting in Community
We’ve developed a three-year strategic plan organized around four primary areas of impact: connecting Black communities for collective power, promoting truthful Black narratives, investing in Black generational prosperity, and shifting the philanthropic paradigm.
We see you: Black Heritage Society of Washington
As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Black Heritage Society of Washington
Honoring the Black and Brown Founders of Pride
Our queer and trans ancestors’ words are as instructive as they are inspirational.
As we celebrate Pride this June, we honor DeLarverie, Johnson, Rivera, and the other trans and gender non-conforming people of color who inspired it. Their love, audacity, rage, and yearning were integral to queer liberation, and their words remain instructive for all of ours.
We see you: Lavender Rights Project
As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Lavender Rights Project
We see you: Tri-Cities Diversity and Inclusion Council
As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council.
The questions we’re asking ourselves after the ABFE Annual Conference
We invite Black philanthropic and nonprofit leaders to lean into embodying the learnings that surfaced at the recent ABFE conference by stirring on questions we're asking ourselves.
Mothering is essential work, and mothering is on all of us
As we celebrate Black motherly love this May, we call attention to their physical, social, and emotional labor in the face of structurally harmful systems fortified by narrative violence. And call for tending to all parts that influence Black mothers’ well-being.
What spring teaches us about possibility
This season of growth, gratitude, and revival reminds us to walk in and build on our ancestors' dreams to secure the prosperous and self-determined future Black Washingtonians deserve.
Lift every voice and sing, always
#BlackHistoryIsInfinite. The stories of resilience, triumph, achievement, and challenge we've kept alive and shared in community have helped preserve our history outside formal education.
A call to mourn and to love — for Tyre Nichols
Though justice is being sought, it will never be enough. For now, we say Tyre Nichols’ name as we allow ourselves to grieve and then collect ourselves for the continued work of Black liberation.
What Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words tell us about our civic duty
As we reflect on the legacy of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we’re reminded that his life is our call to action. His words remain a directive for how we show up and embody our civic duty in support of our collective thriving.
Black Washingtonians identify community solutions to longstanding structural inequities
The Black Future Co-op Fund released a monumental report that aims to inform policy change, support collective organizing and direct resources into building Black generational wealth, health and well-being
Doing soul-filling work drives her commitment to place-based philanthropy
Shona Carter (she/her) has joined the Black Future Co-op Fund team as director of partner engagement & investment. In this special Q&A conversation, Shona shares how she got into philanthropy and what inspires her about the Fund and the work.