Youth volunteers at a 2024 event in Martha’s Vineyard. Credit: UpsyDaisy Productions for G4GC
Our Black Girl Freedom Fund (BGFF) launched in September 2020, along with the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, a 10-year philanthropic initiative to mobilize a $1 billion investment in Black girls and gender-expansive youth by 2030. Through the Black Girl Freedom Fund, we organize events, such as our Black Girl Freedom Week celebration in February, support participatory grantmaking through our youth advisory council, and increase organizational capacity building.
Through this fund, we’ve cultivated meaningful relationships with Black-girl-led or serving organizations and individuals across the country. We work with these partners to support and expand on the artistic vision, activism, civic engagement, leadership and innovation of young people.
Funding priorities
The Black Girl Freedom Fund raises resources to re-grant to organizations that center, serve, and/or are led-by Black girls and gender-expansive youth. This fund supports organizations that advance the well-being of Black girls, gender-expansive youth and their families, including:
- Education
- Economic development
- Climate justice
- Reproductive justice
- Safety from violence in all its forms
Grant making council
Black girls and gender-expansive youth who participate in our grantmaking council are final decision-makers on many of the grants that are awarded. Beyond regranting, the Black Girl Freedom Fund also engages in advocacy to support Black girls and gender-expansive, centering their power through:
- Donor organizing
- Research and asset mapping
- Organizational development and capacity building
- Narrative work
- Convenings
Highlights
Creating Grantmaking Councils, led by six to nine Black girls and gender-expansive youth ages 14 to 22 from Black Girl Freedom Fund’s grantmaking council.
$9.2m
From 2020 to 2025, the Black Girl Freedom Fund has awarded over $9,2 million to 147 organizations across the country and U.S. territories.
$10k
In the summer of 2023, BGFF provided $10,000 grants to support 18 specific youth-led and created projects led by Black girls and gender expansive youth, ages 15–25. These projects focused on the artistic vision, activism, and innovation of Black girls and gender-expansive youth.
Black Girl Freedom Week
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.
Learn more about Black Girl Freedom Week and view past events by visiting the #1Billion4BlackGirls website.
#1Billion4BlackGirls Campaign
The #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign is in collaboration with Ms. Foundation for Women, Black Girls Dream Fund from the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium and other Black women leaders.The co-founders of the #1Billion4BlackGirls Campaign are Black women and femme activists, artists, educators, organizers, and philanthropists.
LaTosha Brown
(she, her)
Co-founder of the Black Voters Matter Fund & the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium
Black Girl Freedom Fund in the Media
BGFF is changing the national narrative about Black girls and gender-expansive youth and elevating their stories and experiences in the media. We are also challenging philanthropy to follow the lead of Black girls and not let them be an afterthought in grantmaking, education, policy and more. Some outlets that have featured the fund and the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign include Inside Philanthropy, MSNBC, The Root and the Associated Press.
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