The Community Governance Board (CGB) of the St. Louis Regional Racial Healing + Justice Fund launched the Fund’s third grant cycle with a goal of investing $800,000 this round in Black and Brown-led community healing and racial justice initiatives.
Donor Name: Forward Through Ferguson
State: Missouri
City: St. Louis
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 10/05/2022
Grant Size: $800,000
Details:
The Racial Healing + Justice Fund target its investment into initiatives that:(1) heal individual and community trauma, (2) engage a broader range of residents in systems change work, (3) prepare leaders of color to organize for healing justice, (4) build local capacity to nurture, support, and cultivate healing assets and (5) align resources for long-term sustainability.
The Racial Healing + Justice Fund funding priorities were chosen based on the intersection of the community engagement and design activities during the summer of 2020 and the central purpose of the fund to invest in and build the capacity for healing from racial trauma. They have been identified by residents, community organizers, and healing practitioners and solidified by the Community Governance Board.
These funding priorities are a call to action for bold ideas and initiatives of Black and Brown St. Louisans (St. Louis region and surrounding counties) directly impacted by racialized oppression who want to take on the commitment to change the systemic conditions that reinforce systemic racial inequities and endanger lives and to heal the core of their community.
What Type of Activities will be Funded?
Within the above funding priorities, the design process surfaced examples of activities.
- Storytelling & Creative Art
- Activating the creative arts to dismantle systemic racism, build awareness, promote racial healing, and move people to action.
- Growth & Sustainability of Community Healers and Organizers
- Fostering collaboration and partnership
- Professional development, continuing education, and skill-building
- Developing leadership pipelines
- Models for Collective Healing
- Supporting mental and emotional health services for people of color, as well as services specifically targeted to the Black community
- Creating and piloting models for holistic community health and wellbeing
- Centering intentional healing initiatives
- Intersectional Healing and Organizing Initiatives for People of Color
- Healing and organizing focused on:
- Maternal Health
- Elderly Services and Care
- Parents and Parent Advocacy
- Children and Young People
- Healing and organizing focused on:
- Community Building
- Focusing on community healing and the creation of models for collective healing
- Creating intentional community-based spaces for healing justice
- Supporting education initiatives for the community
- Supporting education & professional development (capacity building) of grantees
- Growing and implementing models for effective community decision-making or participatory budget.
- Supporting crisis program infrastructure and housing supports
- Democracy and Building Political Power
- Implementing leadership development initiatives for residents to participate in civic institutions (government, elected office, schools, etc.)
- Activating residents of color to exercise their political power towards systemic change.
- Addressing Racialized Trauma
- Addressing systemic oppression within racial healing or organizing spaces and sectors.
- Creating and upholding methods, models, and frameworks for accountability to communities of color.
- Continuing support of activists and advocates for justice.
- Developing and delivering antiracism and racial justice training, workshops, and interventions that heal internalized racial oppression.
For more information, visit Forward Through Ferguson.
