Key Insights from #BaltimoreUprising
Austin Thompson, director Youth Engagement Fund Understanding Baltimore’s Uprising [...]
Mother’s Day Gathering for Black Lives
Mother's Day Gathering for Black Lives. Sunday May 10th at 3 pm. Congo Square, New Orleans, LA.
Stop the War on Baltimore
by Dante Barry, Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, in The Nation, May 6, 2015: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake has lifted the citywide curfew, and the National Guard plans to implement a drawdown. Now is the time for Mayor Rawlings Blake to put an end to Baltimore police militarization.
Joint Affinity Groups Statement on the Baltimore Uprising
The events in Baltimore Maryland unfolded right as many grantmakers [...]
After Ferguson: Conference Call looking at the role of the faith community in mobilizing around racial justice
Listen to the following conference call with Lisa Sharon Harper, Sojourners’ Senior Director of Mobilizing about how this movement is being mobilized and organized in the aftermath of Ferguson and how communities of faith can and are being engaged in this movement at this critical moment.
Bending the Arc from Interest to Advancement
Funders engaged community-based leaders to delineate current efforts aimed at meeting the needs in the Ferguson area, as well as to identify gaps that present opportunities for additional investment.This document provides a snapshot of our environmental scan captured in the beginning of December 2014.
Civil Rights Monitor
Leadership Conference Education Fund annual publication that chronicles civil and human rights issues pending before the three branches of government, and other, emerging issues like the potential for big data to supercharge discrimination against disadvantaged communities. The 2015 volume addresses police misconduct.
Private University Police Patrol Off-Campus (and Off the Record)
Members of the University of Chicago Police Department carry guns, make arrests, and patrol tens of thousands of residents unaffiliated with the university—but they don’t have to disclose any information about stops, arrests, and policies. Two Illinois Representatives are finally trying to change that.
Solidaire
Solidaire is a community of people with wealth, aligning their resources with movements that promote dignity, justice, and equality.
Bay Area Justice Funders Network
The Bay Area Justice Funders Network (BAJFN) is alliance of funders working to advance a justice agenda and strengthen grantmaking for social justice movements in the Bay Area and beyond.