The Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF), based at Borealis Philanthropy, is accepting applications to support Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and other politically aligned organizations in the South and Midwest region, so that it can better shape policy agendas for Black communities and create alternatives to institutions that have been harmful to Black people.
Donor Name: Borealis Philanthropy
State: Selected States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/28/2022
Grant Size: $200,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Fund provides a dedicated vehicle for funders to support the ecosystem of grassroots, Black-led power building organizations working towards community safety, justice, and liberation.
The BLMF exists to ensure that progressive, Black-led movement organizations have the resources, visibility, and infrastructure and leadership capacity to sustain their day-to-day work. This includes the organizing, advocacy and collective care needed to combat anti-Black racism, ableism, cis heteropatriarchy, and state violence in their communities and achieve transformational and lasting change.
BLMF’s Values
The Black-Led Movement Fund is rooted in a commitment to:
- Intersectional feminism and the leadership of Black queer and trans people, as well as women/femmes/girls;
- Funding organizations addressing the root causes of anti-Black racism, misogyny, ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, and transphobia;
- Being adaptive, flexible and responsive;
- Funding work that centers Black joy;
- Resourcing anchor organizations in interconnected movement ecosystems, and Solidarity, collaboration, and transparency.
The BLMF prioritizes funding for:
- Groups centering the leadership of Black women/femmes, girls, as well as queer and Trans people. “Black-led” as 75% or more of the members/leaders AND board self-identify as Black.
- Groups experimenting with new approaches to community safety or other strategic experiments that are less likely to be funded by institutional philanthropy.
- Groups that have an intersectional connection to other issues and movements, such as climate justice, food and land justice, im/migration, reproductive justice, prison industrial complex abolition, disability justice, gender justice, and economic justice.
- Groups working within the M4BL ecosystem, or within other movement ecosystems that are politically aligned with the M4BL Values.
- Community organizing, advocacy, and/or policy work, or other work that moves ideas and practices of disability inclusion and disability justice forward.
M4BL Values
- Abolitionist
- Transformation and Radical Realignment of Power
- Anti-capitalist
- Center those Most Directly Affected
- Believe in Organizing and Organization
Funding Information
$200,000 general operating support grants will be awarded ($100,000 per year) over a two year period, 2023-2025.
Funding Guidelines
Funding will provide general operating support for U.S. based Black-led organizations or projects working within the Movement for Black Lives ecosystem, or within other movement ecosystems that are aligned with the M4BL Values.
- Borealis Philanthropy believes that directly affected communities are the essential creative force in the larger arc of social change. As a Borealis fund leading the resourcing of social change within Black communities and larger ecosystems, BLMF defines “Black-led” as any organization with 75% or more of its organizational composition self-identifying as Black.
For more information, visit Borealis Philanthropy.
