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Funds & initiatives

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Funds & Initiatives

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We invest in the success of organizations that are led by and center girls and gender-expansive youth of Color. Each of our initiatives support these organizations.

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Our Love is Healing Fund was created in 2020 to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and gender-expansive youth of Color. Today, its funding priorities have expanded to include preventative or responsive health strategies, research and advocacy to document and elevate the needs and experiences of girls of color in the context of the pandemic and beyond, Strategies to protect the security of youth organizers working to dismantle systems of oppression, and more.

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Young people attending our Youth Celebration in October 2022. (Photo Credit: Kylie Squiers)

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Our Black Girl Freedom Fund launched in September 2020 to support the ongoing #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, a 10-year philanthropic initiative to mobilize a $1 billion investment in Black girls and gender-expansive youth by 2030. Each February, Black Girl Freedom Fund celebrates Black girls and gender-expansive youth during Black Girl Freedom Week. The Black Girl Freedom Fund is focused on resourcing the braintrust, innovation, health, safety, education, artistic visions, research, and joy of Black girls and gender-expansive youth and their families.

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Youth volunteers at a Black Girl Freedom Fund event on Martha’s Vineyard in August 2024. (Photo Credit: Charlotte Moore)

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The New Songs Rising Initiative is a partnership between the Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous People’s and G4GC to resource Native and Globally-Indigenous girls and gender-diverse, and their families, and their communities with abundance and intention. This initiative expands opportunities for Indigenous girls through grantmaking, convening and community building, and mentorship and peer support, with a specific emphasis on Indigenous cultural work, and also works to encourage the field of philanthropy to better meet the needs of Indigenous young people.

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New Songs Rising Fellows pose for a group photo at the conclusion of the New Songs Rising Fellowship convening in June 2024. (Photo Credit: Lisann Ramos)

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Our Holding a Sister Initiative fund is a partnership with the Black Trans Fund and G4GC and is dedicated to trans girls who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latina, Asian, Arab, Pacific Islander and other People of Color nationwide. This initiative mobilizes funds and brings attention and resources to organizations that serve and are led by trans girls and youth of color. Another goal of this initiative is to hold space for cis and trans girls of color to build intentional solidarity with one another in efforts to advance racial and gender justice.

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Campers at Transformations KC’s Trans Liberation Camp pose for a photo at the camp in October 2023. Holding A Sister Initiative sponsored the camp. (Photo Credit: TransformationsKC)

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