Black Liberation Pooled Fund

INVESTING IN A BLACK MOVEMENT ECOSYSTEM

At Solidaire Network, we believe that Black-led social change is not just about justice for Black communities, but also about a broad and deep societal transformation for all. We operate in deep solidarity with grassroots organizers in Black communities, working to coordinate deeper and longer-term resource mobilization for a network of Black-led movement efforts.

Between 2013 and 2019, our members moved over $7 million through Solidaire directly and over $20 million in aligned giving to the Black-led social change ecosystem. In 2020 and 2021, the Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund moved over $3 million to support the digital and security needs of majority Black-led work. And now, through the Black Liberation Pooled Fund, Solidaire is moving $14 million over two years to Black-led organizations and projects working towards Black freedom.

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund (BLPF) pools resources to allocate to the powerful ecosystem of Black-led social change organizations around the country. Through multi-year grants, supporting general operating funds, the BLPF will fortify Black resistance organizing, embolden the imagination and creation of liberatory Black futures, and invest in the development of Black movement infrastructure.

Learn more about how Solidaire supports a Black-led Movement Ecosystem here.

Movement Oversight Committee

The Movement Oversight Committee serves to ground and guide the Black Liberation Pooled Fund. The committee is made up of various movement leaders working across a diversity of fields within Black movement and Black liberation, as well as some funding allies who have worked alongside and funded Black social movements for years. The committee provides the Solidaire staff with regular field assessments on the state of Black organizing as well as feedback on the grantmaking strategy and impact of the Black Liberation Pooled Fund.

Committee Members:

Charles Long – Movement for Black Lives
Chinyere Tutashinda – BlackOUT Collective
Cicely Garrett – National Black Food and Justice Alliance
Deseree Fontenot – Movement Generation
Devon Turner – Grow Dat Youth Farm
Dustin Gibson – HEARD
Hakima Abbas – AWID
Ingrid Benedict – Daphne Foundation
Jaelynn Scott – Lavender Rights Project
Leila Tamari – Formerly ArtPlace America
Monica Atkins – Climate Justice Alliance
Nwamaka Agbo – Kataly Foundation
Paris Hatcher – Black Feminist Future
Solome Lemma – Thousand Currents
Tamieka Atkins – Pro Georgia