Our Community. Our Power. Our Prosperity.

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Building Black Generational Wealth, Health, and Well-being

As a society, we are called on to change, to disrupt the imbalance of power and create a liberated future with shared prosperity for Black people.

The Black Future Co-op Fund is a new paradigm for philanthropy uplifting Black-led solutions that ignite Black generational wealth, health, and well-being.

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What We Do

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Connecting Black communities for collective power

We believe connection is a strategy for change, uniting Black communities across Washington to share knowledge and build shared objectives for systems change.

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Promoting truthful Black narratives

We’re committed to uplifting the full truth of Black life in Washington state. We honor the mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, aunties and uncles, children and grandparents who are vital members of our society.

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Investing in Black generational prosperity

We fund with trust. We believe that funding should be barrier-free because Black prosperity is not conditional.

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Shifting the paradigm of philanthropy

We are redesigning philanthropy away from the status quo. We model a new way, rooted in Black genius, art, culture, and joy. By centering Blackness in all we do, we show what it means to move away from gatekeeping to reciprocity and liberation.

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Sankofa Now

Black Philanthropy Month 2025

Sankofa Now! Remember. Reclaim. Rise.

The past holds the key to our future. As we navigate growing challenges—where DEI initiatives are under attack, and Black-led movements are being sidelined—we must draw strength from those who came before us. Sankofa Now! is more than a reflection; it’s a rallying call.

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Featured Grantee

Divine Alternatives for Dads Services (D.A.D.S)

Narratives around Black families and fatherhood have mischaracterized the deep healing love that defines our communities. Divine Alternatives for Dads (DADS) aims to restore hope in fathers, children and families by addressing the barriers separating fathers from being present in the lives of their children.

Through their parental courses, support, and more, DADS is building a radically free and healed future, one father at a time.

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Recent News & Stories

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Using Data to Promote Truthful Black Narratives

We are witnessing a full-on attack on data, research, and knowledge. As we honor our embodied community wisdom, we know and understand that data is an important tool to offer necessary context and clarity about the society we inhabit. 
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Meet the 2025 We See You Grantees!

We are excited to announce our latest cohort of We See You grantees! When we built the Fund in 2020, we didn’t aspire to do philanthropy the Eurocentric way. We wanted to do it Blackly— focusing on community wisdom, healing, and relationships.
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Our 5-Year Story

Making a Way Out of No Way

Five Years of Love in the Real World with the Black Future Co-op Fund.

In June 2020, four Black women set out to do something that had never been sustainably done in Washington state. The four of us: Andrea Caupain Sanderson, Angela Jones, Michelle Merriweather, and T’wina Nobles launched the Black Future Co-op Fund, a cooperative philanthropy rooted in the beauty, soulfulness, and strength of Blackness.

We offer you this story of our five-year journey in celebration of all we have accomplished, the ancestral wisdom that guides us, the beauty and brilliance of Black people and communities across Washington state, and the radically free Black future we are working to create, together.

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