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.

Centering Black liberation has been a value since our beginning. 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. We launched the Black Liberation Pooled Fund (BLPF) in 2020 and through this fund we have liberated a total of $19,758,000 to Black-led organizations and projects working towards Black freedom.

The 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 Insight Committee

The Movement Insight 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.

Current Committee Members:

Cicely Garrett – National Black Food and Justice Alliance
Dustin Gibson – HEARD
Jaelynn Scott – Lavender Rights Project
Monica Atkins – Climate Justice Alliance

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund was developed with strategic partnership and direction from elders and leaders in the struggle for Black liberation. Thank you to our founding committee members who were critical in the envisioning the BLPF.

Founding Committee Members:

Charles Long – Movement for Black Lives
Chinyere Tutashinda – Center for Third World Organizing
Deseree Fontenot – Movement Generation
Devon Turner – Grow Dat Youth Farm
Hakima Abbas – Black Feminist Fund
Ingrid Benedict – Daphne Foundation
Jaelynn Scott – Lavender Rights Project
Leila Tamari – This Place Works
Monica Atkins – Climate Justice Alliance
Nwamaka Agbo – Kataly Foundation
Paris Hatcher – Black Feminist Future
Solome Lemma – Thousand Currents
Tamieka Atkins – Pro Georgia