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The Village (noun): An intentionally curated space supporting Black leaders and resourcing nonprofits primarily impacting Black community members. Check out this snippet from my interview with the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee discussing the geneses of the work (which would not exist without the dedication and persistence of Dawn Stone & Ron Johnson), why this space is long overdue, & the creating a legacy of belonging & representation in the impact sector. Stay tuned for more! Learn more at nashvillevillage.org #BlackLeadersMatter #InvestInBlackLeaders #ImpactSector

Land and other forms of property ownership are primary building blocks of wealth for current and future generations. Yet, for hundreds of thousands of Black, Latino, and Indigenous people who inherited their land and homes from family members, these assets—called heirs’ properties—are at risk. As asset funders work to build equitable economic security and to dismantle systemic barriers that create and sustain racial wealth gaps in our nation, securing and preserving the property rights of heirs’ property owners requires more focused attention. AFN'S new brief: HEIRS' PROPERTY: ACTING TO PRESERVE WEALTH explores the role of philanthropy in helping all people preserve these inherited assets. READ THE BRIEF: https://loom.ly/uEbSNGI Join AFN on September 19, 2023 at 1:00 pm ET to further discuss Heirs Property: Acting to Preserve Wealth. REGISTER HERE: https://loom.ly/wyyqoL8

We should be clear that our movements and movement leaders are targets for right-wing disinformation, legislation, strategy, and violence. And those attacks are well-funded.

Juneteenth derives its name from June 19, 1865, when U.S. General Gordon Granger informed the enslaved individuals of Galveston, Texas, that they were officially free. Two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Granger’s decree marked the end of slavery in Confederate states. Established in 2020, on the Juneteenth holiday, Black Resilience in Colorado Fund is more than a fund. It is a movement for change to address systematic racism and inequities that negatively impact Black communities throughout Colorado and beyond. Help us pave the path forward. With your support, BRIC can continue to provide resources to Colorado's Black-led and serving nonprofits and build Black communities now and in the future. Become a BRIC Builder TODAY→ https://lnkd.in/g3_vTPmJ **Dollar-for-dollar will be matched up to $50,000 til June 30th** #BRICFundCO #BRICbyBRIC #GivingBlack #BlackPhilanthropy #Juneteenth #BlackHistory #BRICAnniversary #BlackExcellence #BlackPower #Freedom #BlackisBeautiful #LIberation

To everybody Black ✊🏾: 👏🏾 You're doing it! 🙌🏾 Remember, success is not a sprint, it's a marathon. You don't need to hustle until you burnout. Our ancestors taught us the importance of consistent effort and rest along the way. "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde Every small step you take towards your goals adds up, leading you closer to your dreams. So embrace the journey, celebrate your progress, and keep moving forward one day at a time. And above all, remember our roots in the collective. Lean into your trusted community, community care, and mutual aid. We're not meant to do life in isolation. "Without community, there is no liberation..." - Audre Lorde ▪️▪️▪️▪️▪️ 📢 Speaking of #MutualAid, help me fund a mini-grant for Mutual Aid Distribution of Richmond, MADRVA. https://lnkd.in/e6wRaCbf MADRVA provides mutual aid services in Richmond through a free community market and a mini-grants program, prioritizing marginalized and vulnerable groups. You can help me fund a mini-grant by purchasing my affirmation coloring pages. 25% of the proceeds will go towards funding a MADRVA mini-grant. Let's sell 100 affirmation pages and get this mini-grant funded! 22 sold, 78 to go. #YoureDoingIt #MarathonNotSprint #BlackLeaders #ConsistentProgress #ThriveWithBalance #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #CareerSuccess #DiverseLeadership #affirmations

What will it take to create a more equitable America? Increasingly, that conversation is turning to reparations for Black people and building a culture of racial repair for everyone, as the missing piece. In CEP, my Bridgespan colleagues share research highlighting three key roles for funders to support the reparations and repair ecosystem.

📣 Today National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released "Cracks in the Foundation: Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People in the DMV". This comprehensive and powerful body of work was led by my coworker Katherine Ponce, MBA, MS alongside countless others who have stewarded this work for over two years. I encourage you to read it!📣 Institutional philanthropy's systemic underfunding of Black communities and Black-led institutions has been called out by activists and advocates in the movement for racial justice for decades. Folks in the movement for reparations have also long highlighted that increased funding to racial justice work, while critical, is not the same as reckoning with the harms caused to specific Black people and communities by the founders of philanthropic institutions as they generated their philanthropic capital. "Cracks in the Foundation" compiles, contextualizes and publishes the historical connections between philanthropic wealth origins, past harms, and modern-day racial disparities to provide an invitation and a roadmap for philanthropy to exercise responsibility for past harms by finding ways to repair, heal, and restore local communities harmed by the actions and decisions that created charitable wealth.  #DCReparations #ReparationsMatter #DMVHistory  #ResponsivePhilanthropy #RacialJustice

"True repair for Black people requires: (1) resources, and by resources, I mean land and money; (2) equitable policies and programs in areas such as wealth-building, education, housing, environment, health, employment, the criminal legal system, and democracy; and (3) an end to anti-Blackness in future governmental policies and practices." In this Nonprofit Quarterly The Movement for Black Lives piece, Temi F. Bennett, Esq. of iF, A Foundation for Radical Possibility talks about #reparativephilanthropy, the shifting landscape, and the foundation's local reparations work in Washington DC. #ParticipatoryDemocracy plays a key role in ending anti-Blackness in governmental policies and practices by challenging us to build a system of governance that is rooted in radically reimagining how we relate to the policies and practices that shape our lives. This requires a reckoning with the deep roots of #structuralracism and how white supremacy shapes our current models of top down decision-making. ⭐Find out more about the foundation's groundbreaking work in acknowledging, addressing, and daring to repaid legacies of harm at https://www.iffdn.org/ Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/gEHVDQWB

Cracks in the Foundation: Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations for Black People in the DMV details how the disparities in areas like education, income, employment and housing for Black residents in the District of Columbia, southern Maryland, and northern Virginia areas (commonly known as the DMV) are not random or natural occurrences but are a string of conscious choices that repeatedly harmed communities. Using publicly available quantitative and qualitative research, the report details how the great wealth that made local philanthropy possible harmed the region’s Black residents in four distinct sectors: media, housing, employment, and healthcare. It also provides a framework for foundations to not only understand their past, but how they may start acknowledging and addressing these harms with community residents. The report is available for download at https://bit.ly/liRI24

Wanna read the email I sent out a few days ago announcing and explaining my candidacy? Here's Part I: Earlier this month, I announced I’m running for San Jose City Council in the March 2024 primary for the District 6 open seat. Here’s my journey to this point and why I’m running: I truly love District 6 and San Jose! I was raised next door in Saratoga and moved to District 6 a decade ago after having been away from our Valley for a dozen years. Of the 9 cities I lived in, I’ve never felt the sense of belonging, community, & purpose I feel here in San Jose. That purpose is driven by a simple desire: do all I can to build a better community. Thankfully, as San Jose has been for so many others, this community has been incredibly welcoming to me. It has enabled me to quickly get involved and make a difference, including: - bring a farmers market back to my neighborhood in 2018, - serve on San Jose’s Housing & Community Development Commission for 8 years, - launch a successful effort to get a San Jose street renamed after our country’s first black president in 2021, - propose and get passed new policies in county and city government, and - co-found the nonprofit Catalyze SV in 2017 to get the community more engaged in what gets built. When we started Catalyze SV in my living room, I felt called to do so. Like it was my purpose for being here as the housing crisis exploded. It’s been driving me as my dream job since then. Thanks to so many, I’ve been fortunate to build a successful endeavor from the ground up that is improving my community. But recently, unsettling local trends have made me wonder if there's more I can be doing. Here's what I'm seeing: San Jose has become the most unequal city in the nation. -Housing continues to be way too scarce & expensive. - Our friends and families are getting pushed out of town forever because it’s so costly. - More of our neighbors are homeless. - Small businesses are struggling to survive post-pandemic. - Too many storefronts sit empty. - Our roads are too clogged. - Our streets aren’t safe enough or easy to walk & bike. - Our climate is hotter and our environment struggles to sustain itself. - Our city services aren’t sufficient. - Our city's pace of change can be too slow. - Our sense of community is fraying. - At times, our relationships with our neighbors & our trust in our government are wearing thin. These conditions have been eating at me. And left me wondering, “How can I help more?” Helping others is in my blood. Many of my family members have been teachers, social workers, doctors, & mental health professionals. My mom was a psychologist who helped struggling children. My Dad has been a physician for 40 years. Since I was a 14-year-old boy praying at my bedside for 30 minutes to be elected freshman class president, I've sensed my path was a related yet different one: public servant. Thankfully, my experience and my community have taught me a lot & prepared me for this next step.