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Promoting Truthful Black Narratives
Truthful Black narratives hold and celebrate the multiplicities of Blackness. Centering the depth of our soulfulness and the expansiveness of our humanity, truthful Black stories actively rewrite the narratives of the past as we imagine radically free futures.
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Our Strategic Plan: Re-rooting in Community
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.
We see you: Black Heritage Society of Washington
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.
Honoring the Black and Brown Founders of Pride
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.
We see you: Lavender Rights Project
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: Lavender Rights Project.
We see you: Tri-Cities Diversity and Inclusion Council
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: Tri-Cities Diversity & Inclusion Council.
The questions we’re asking ourselves after the ABFE Annual Conference
We invite Black philanthropic and nonprofit leaders to lean into embodying the learnings that surfaced at the recent ABFE conference by stirring on questions we’re asking ourselves.
Mothering is essential work, and mothering is on all of us
As we celebrate Black motherly love this May, we call attention to their physical, social, and emotional labor in the face of structurally harmful systems fortified by narrative violence. And call for tending to all parts that influence Black mothers’ well-being.
What spring teaches us about possibility
This season of growth, gratitude, and revival reminds us to walk in and build on our ancestors’ dreams to secure the prosperous and self-determined future Black Washingtonians deserve.
Lift every voice and sing, always
#BlackHistoryIsInfinite. The stories of resilience, triumph, achievement, and challenge we’ve kept alive and shared in community have helped preserve our history outside formal education.
A call to mourn and to love — for Tyre Nichols
Though justice is being sought, it will never be enough. For now, we say Tyre Nichols’ name as we allow ourselves to grieve and then collect ourselves for the continued work of Black liberation.