Dear Community, We’re thrilled to gather with you all at our virtual convening next week! If you haven’t yet registered for our free convening: Reclamation & Reciprocity: Harvesting Just and Liberated Futures for Girls, Femmes and Gender-Expansive Youth of Color, you can do so here! There’s more information about what you can expect below, as…
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Let Black women-led funds and Black girls lead the way: Centering Black women-led funds to lead social justice efforts
By Monique Couvson and Tynesha McHarris Black women and girls, femmes, and gender-expansive youth of color deserve abundant investments in supporting our liberated futures. Tragically, philanthropy has always underfunded us. In 2018, just $15 million out of almost $428 billion in philanthropic giving in the United States reached Black women and girls. That means less…
Read MoreHow Philanthropy Can Follow the Lead of Girls of Color
By Kyndall Osibodu My family has always been philanthropic—from my grandparents hosting everyone on holidays, to volunteering with our church for back-to-school fairs and holiday drives, to the ways we show up for each other in both celebration and crisis. But it wasn’t until I became a youth organizer that I first learned about institutional…
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