Stories and Updates

For Black Philanthropy Month, Dr. Nekya Johnson facilitated a virtual conversation with Olympia Edwards, CEO and founder of Project Girl Mentoring Program; Jesse D. Hayes IV, president of Red Tailed Hawks Flying Club; and Kristina Jorgensen, executive director of Participatory Justice about what love in action looks like and what it means for philanthropy in the future.

To celebrate the deep roots of Black giving, we are featuring truthful conversations between Black grantees and Black funders. These conversations shed light on the relationships at the heart of philanthropy and showcase new ways of giving.

As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Global Perinatal Services (GPS).

Our shared history as a people reflects the truth that love breathes bravery down our backbones and nourishes us to continue shaping, bringing forth, and sustaining solutions that make joy and shared abundance real for all of us.

To celebrate the deep roots of Black giving, we are featuring truthful conversations between Black grantees and Black funders. These conversations shed light on the relationships at the heart of philanthropy and showcase new ways of giving.

Our power is activated in community. The spaces Black people have curated, built, and shared across time and distance have enabled that activation.The love cultivated in each of those hubs has supported our people’s perseverance and our self-preservation.

As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: TeamWrk Foundation.

We’ve developed a three-year strategic plan organized around four primary areas of impact: connecting Black communities for collective power, promoting truthful Black narratives, investing in Black generational prosperity, and shifting the philanthropic paradigm.

As part of the Fund’s commitment to elevating truthful Black narratives and connecting communities for collective power, we are excited to highlight We See You grantee: Black Heritage Society of Washington.

Our queer and trans ancestors’ words are as instructive as they are inspirational. As we celebrate Pride this June, we honor DeLarverie, Johnson, Rivera, and the other trans and gender non-conforming people of color who inspired it.