#Law4BlackLives
#Law4BlackLives is a national gathering of lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers who are committed to working with activists to build a world where #BlackLivesMatter.
California Funders Create Rapid Response Fund
California funders including Liberty Hill Foundation, The California Endowment, The [...]
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.
Joint Affinity Groups Statement on the Baltimore Uprising
The events in Baltimore Maryland unfolded right as many grantmakers [...]
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.
Still-grieving mothers ask Andrew Cuomo to assign special prosecutors ‘to all cases of police killings moving forward’
Bell, who broke down in tears while retelling the story, is one of 18 family members of people killed by cops who penned a letter to Gov. Cuomo. The letter dated Feb. 24 and obtained by the Daily News urges him to “enact an executive order to assign a special prosecutor to all cases of police killings moving forward.”
EPIP Webinar – Police Accountability and Racial Justice: Sustaining a Movement
Feb 18th: In this webinar, we will be joined by representatives of Communities United for Police Reform (CPR), a New York City based coalition, to learn about their local work and how it fits into a larger national and historical context. We'll discuss how to maintain momentum and make this issue more than just a campaign point, while exploring the critical role funders play.
The Police Are Killing One Group at a Staggering Rate, and Nobody Is Talking About It
The end of 2014 was a bloody time for Native Americans. Even as protesters rallied against the police killings of unarmed black people like Michael Brown and Eric Garner in December, Rapid City police fired five bullets into Allen Locke, a 30-year-old Lakota man living in South Dakota.
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.