Grantmaking – Solidaire

Supporting Racial, Gender and Climate Justice

Solidaire’s members move money to the frontlines of social change movements in order to fund urgent needs, support bold and innovative ideas that others may not fund, and help build long-term infrastructure for the movement. Through our grantmaking and funding, Solidaire seeks to achieve five goals:

Protect movements immediately as movement leaders and their organizations face a heightened risk of violence and state repression, alongside the considerable stresses and harms of fighting racism 24-7.
Resource movement infrastructure by funding legal, communications, technology, financial, organizational development, healing, cultural work, and leadership development to sustain and support our movements for the long term.
Support resistance through funding organizations and activities that are focused directly on dismantling and disrupting extractive, exploitative, and oppressive systems steeped in structural racism.
Fund imagination and futures by investing deeply in the work of envisioning and creating new institutions, deeply democractic governance structures, and decolonized systems that recognize and respect the dignity of all oppressed peoples.
Liberate wealth to support Black liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty by calling on philanthropy to liberate capital and wealth in new ways and build durable power for grassroots and movement leaders.

GRANTMAKING AREAS

These goals are met through the following grantmaking areas:

Movement Building Fund

The Movement Building Fund will provide long-term resourcing of movement formations and organizations.

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Black Liberation Pooled Fund

Our Black Liberation Pooled Fund is a new opportunity for donors and foundations to step up in defense of Black lives. Right now, as people rise up around the globe for racial justice, we are in a unique moment to propel forward the work that Black organizers have been leading for years.

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Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund

As part of the Black Liberation Pooled Fund, Solidaire Network will allocate $2 million for movement protection to honor Janisha R. Gabriel and support the urgent and immediate needs of movement leaders facing threats of violence and a heightened risk of danger due to the current political climate in the United States.

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Rapid Response

Our rapid response funding is the most nimble way to support time sensitive opportunities, stay vigilantly prepared to trust movement leaders in real time to tell us what they need and give directly to frontline work in the heat of movement moments.

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