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 a broad and deep societal transformation for all. Since 2013, our members have moved over $7 million through Solidaire and over $20 million in aligned giving to the Black-led social change ecosystem. Today, we continue to 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.

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund (BLPF) pools resources to then allocate to the powerful ecosystem of Black-led social change organizations around the country. Through multi-year grants, 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
Deseree Fontenot – Movement Generation
Devon Turner – Grow Dat Youth Farm
Hakima Abbas – AWID
Ingrid Benedict – Daphne Foundation
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