WeTheProtesters Open Letter
An Open Letter affirming the protesters' point of view and vision for this movement.
Mapping Police Violence
We've mapped 302 black people killed by police in 2014, disaggregated the data by race/gender/age/place.
Thinking About the Safety of Black Lives Beyond Policing
We need to fund more teachers and social workers, not police officers, in our schools. We need doctors, not cops, to deal with drug addiction and mental illness. We need full employment not the criminalization of poverty. We need organized and powerful communities not federal tank giveaways. We need to fund stronger, healthier neighborhoods, not bigger police departments.
Making Black Lives Matter
Nat Chioke Williams, Executive Director, Hill-Snowdon Foundation: The Black Lives Matter movement has allowed the country to approach having honest, clear and urgent dialogue on structural racism by punching holes in the cone of silence that typically suffocates meaningful dialogue on racism with a sea of deeply cynical memes like political correctness, reverse racism, and color blindness.
Pledge to support the Racial Justice movement
The recent police killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and many others — and the failure to indict the officers responsible — have ignited people across the US to take the streets in protest and demand change. Philanthropic organizing, in solidarity with this movement, is a growing force. See the public pledges and sign on yourself. You can pledge publicly or anonymously.
Has your giving changed because of Ferguson?
We are tracking philanthropy’s response to police violence and the #BlackLivesMatter movement for racial justice around the country through a survey of foundations and affinity groups. We will compile information we've gathered to publish what philanthropic resources have to support Ferguson and related organizing. We'll also connect funders with peers interested in similar funding opportunities.
‘She was only a baby’: last charge dropped in police raid that killed sleeping Detroit child
On 16 May 2010, Aiyana was shot dead by Weekley in the middle of the night, as she slept on a sofa inside her home on the east side of Detroit. Her grandmother, Mertilla Jones, was close by.
Akonadi Foundation
"All of our work at the Akonadi Foundation is guided by our vision for a racially just society. We dream of a day when all people, including youth and adults of color, enjoy the right to self-determination. When all peoples are respected and all cultures celebrated. When every community is safe, healthy and sustainable. A day when everyone has an opportunity to thrive." www.akonadi.org
North Star Fund
North Star Fund is New York’s community foundation supporting grassroots groups leading the movement for equality, economic justice and peace.
Freedom Side Open Letter
This is a moment recorded for the future and we are writing this letter to open up ways for people to stand in solidarity.