Stories and Updates

Reckoning with the fractured ecosystem of Black health equity

Investing in Black freedom means more than just acknowledging Black struggles. It also means highlighting our joy.

Black music has always been more than entertainment. It has been a tool for survival, a vehicle for truth-telling, and a catalyst for collective action.

15 organizations making change across WA state.

In the wake of the U.S Supreme Court’s ruling dismantling the Voting Rights Act, Black communities are standing up and fighting back.

Through conversations with community members, partners, staff members, and more, we created the 2025 Strategic Planning Data Synthesis Report, which serves as a roadmap for our new strategic vision.

Black religious institutions have always been places where people gather to imagine a better world. Their civic engagement is not an add‑on to their spiritual mission—it is an expression of it.

In December 2025, the Black Future Co-op Fund took a trip to Ghana with some of our grantee leaders, looking to understand how our historical roots, rest, and learning can help reinvigorate and inspire our leadership. This blog shares highlights of our journey, our biggest takeaways, and how we believe embodied learning builds embodied leadership.

In this blog, the Fund takes a step back and looks at the philanthropy sector as a whole, delving into how we practice our philanthropy, and asking the increasingly important question: What would it look like if philanthropy stopped rewarding overwork and started resourcing actual sustainability?

At Black Future Co-op Fund, we know that Black artistry is more than just a form of expression—it’s a lifeline. In this piece, co-architect and Interim Managing Director Andrea Caupain-Saunderson discusses how BFCF supports the arts because of its vitality to Black survival, resistance, and joy