Our Community. Our Power. Our Prosperity.
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.
What We Do
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.
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.
Investing in Black generational prosperity
We fund with trust. We believe that funding should be barrier-free because Black prosperity is not conditional.
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.
A Statement on the Voters’ Rights Act Decision
As a member of the National Network of Black Foundations and Funds, we have joined other organizations from across the country in releasing a joint statement in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision further dismantling the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
This decision is part of a long pattern, and our response is to double down: investing in Black-led organizations, strengthening civic infrastructure, and protecting Black voice and power. Even at the height of national commitments to racial equity, funding for racial justice and power-building never exceeded 1.4% of institutional giving. This gap has consequences, and we are witnessing them now.
Featured Grantee
Yoga Behind Bars
Incarceration has increasingly become used as a solution for social issues such as mental illness, racism, poverty, homelessness, and drug addiction. Yoga Behind Bars envisions a different world—one where systems prioritize healing and growth over punishment.
Founded in 2008, the organization has provided trauma-informed yoga and meditation with our community behind and beyond bars to foster individual and community healing.
Artist Spotlight: Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories
Narrative Quilts by Black Americans
An exhibit featuring 12 Black artists, Masters of the Stitch: Threaded Stories at Claire Oliver Gallery in Harlem spotlights remarkable narratives in fabric ranging in perspective, from childhood memories to the COVID-19 pandemic to civil rights actions like the Freedom Train.
“Black American quilts occupy a singular position in the history of American art: they are simultaneously an intimate domestic practice and a form of public witness,” the gallery says.
Marion Coleman, “Waiting for the Freedom Train” (2011)
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