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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.

MEET THE BLACK LIBERATION POOLED FUND GRANT PARTNERS

Collectively, the inaugural cohort of Black Liberation Pooled Fund grant partners are doing some of the most innovative work anywhere to advance Black freedom. This group of grantees reflects the depth, breadth, creativity and vision of the complex ecosystem of Black freedom fighters. This powerful work is happening across all geographic regions in the U.S. and Puerto Rico on a range of deeply intersectional issues including: land, housing and climate justice, abolition and decarceration, electoral justice, media and narrative shift, Trans justice and leadership development and building and sustaining movement infrastructure.

The Solidaire community is humbled by the rigorousness of the work happening across the Black liberation ecosystem. Many applicants and grantees are meeting this moment by conducting deep mutual aid practices that engage their communities and bring them deeper into grassroots organizing. Other groups are working at critical and creative intersections such as land and queer justice and how Black liberation struggles must challenge toxic notions of masculinity. And much of the work led by the BLPF grant partners is rooted in a Black queer feminist framework, an abolitionist lens and/or an anti-capitalist politic.

We are committed to supporting a diversity of tactics that can build power towards Black liberation including C3 organizations, C4 organizations and LLCs. Over $600,000 of the fund was awarded in C4 grants. Here are the C3 and LLC grantees: 

  • African Bureau for Immigration and Social Affairs (ABISA) 
  • Acorn Center for Restoration and Freedom 
  • Acres of Ancestry Initiative/Black Agrarian Fund  
  • Action St. Louis 
  • African Communities Together
  • Alabama Justice Initiative
  • allgo
  • Anti Police-Terror Project
  • Black Feminist Future
  • Black Girl Freedom Fund
  • Black in Appalachia
  • Black Land Liberation Initiative 
  • Black LGBTQIA Migrant Project
  • Black Liberation Collective 
  • Black Lives Matter Phoenix
  • Black Men Build 
  • Black Mycelium Project
  • Black Organizing Project 
  • Black Trans Prayer Book 
  • Black Women’s Blueprint, Inc.
  • BOLD: Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity
  • Brooklyn Movement Center 
  • BVM Capacity Building Institute
  • BYP100 New Orleans Community Mutual Aid Fund 
  • Called by Water
  • Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing
  • Clarke Street Fund
  • Comfrey Films
  • Cooperation Jackson 
  • Cooperation New Orleans’ Black Liberation & Cooperative Economics School
  • Dignity & Power Now 
  • Disability Justice Culture Club 
  • Drinking Gourd
  • Earthseed Land Collective
  • Earthseed Permaculture Center 
  • East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative 
  • Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
  • Essie Justice Group 
  • Families for Freedom 
  • Feminist Women’s Health Center
  • Free Hearts
  • Free Press’ Media 2070 Project — Making Reparations Real 
  • Freedom to Thrive
  • Grow Dat Youth Farm
  • HEARD
  • Highlander Research and Education Center
  • Homes for All South 
  • Homes for All St. Louis
  • House of Tulip 
  • Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative 
  • Just Media 
  • Lavender Rights Project 
  • Loving the Skin You Are In
  • Maji ya Chai Land Sanctuary  
  • Marsha P. Johnson Institute 
  • Masjid al-Rabia
  • Mississippi Center for Cultural Production 
  • Mississippi Votes 
  • Mobile Homecoming 
  • Movement for Black Lives
  • National Black Food and Justice Alliance 
  • National Black Worker Center
  • Nfungotah Ile Osain Ecological Epicenter of New Orleans
  • North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project 
  • Nouveau Nom Noir
  • Official Black Lives Matter Memphis Chapter
  • Organization for Black Struggle 
  • Parceleras Afrocaribeñas
  • People of Color Sex Worker Outreach Project
  • Project Nia 
  • Question Culture
  • SisterReach 
  • SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
  • Southeastern African American Farmers Organic Network 
  • SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW!, Inc.
  • SpiritHouse Inc 
  • Taproot Earth
  • The Black Feminist Project
  • The BlackOUT Collective 
  • The Bottom 
  • The Come Up Project feat. Gangstas to Growers Training Program & Sweet Sol Co-op 
  • The Embodiment Institute /The Black Embodiment Initiative | 
  • The Fields at Rootsprings 
  • The Montana Racial Equity Project 
  • The NY Black Food Ecosystem 
  • The UndocuBlack Network 
  • Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project 
  • Urban Bush Women
  • Urban Growers Collective
  • Urban Tilth 
  • Vision Change Win 
  • We Are the Ones Cooperative Incubator and Accelerator
  • We the People of Detroit 
  • Woke Vote
  • Women on the Rise GA

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 

APPLICATION PROCESS

Solidaire is currently not accepting new applications. We have committed to our current partners for 2-5 years and are actively seeking additional resources to support more important work. When Solidaire opens a new open application, we will announce it at least 6 months before a deadline. Please follow us on social media to follow and learn more about our work.

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