The Headwaters Foundation for Justice’s Black Seed Fund makes grants to Black-led work that moves us towards liberation.
Donor Name: Headwaters Foundation for Justice
State: Minnesota
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/18/2022
Size of the Grant: $20,000 to $50,000
Grant Duration: 2 years
Details:
The Black Seed Fund grant honors the revolutionary spirit, context, and times from which Black identities emerge. It is open to to Black-led nonprofits and fiscally-sponsored groups that are based in Minnesota and serving Minnesota populations. The Fund is most interested in supporting organizations who see Black identity as a gift of consciousness that is guided by African peoples’ legacies of resistance to racialized class oppression, rather than framing Blackness as burden forced upon people.
Funding Information
- The grant provides $20,000 to $50,000 of general operating support over two years ($10,000 to $25,000 per year for two years).
Core Criteria
Nominated organizations and groups will want to show how they practice the following Black liberation principles in their work:
- All of us or None of Us: How does a Black, radical, queer, feminist lens guide your work?
- Justice without Harm: How do you, in partnership with your community, engage in transformative justice?
- Soothing for Generational Trauma: How do you practice healing justice that sustains Black aliveness and uplifts Blackness as a lived experience?
- Liberation without Hesitation: How do you expand possibility for Black communities to grow their political, economic, cultural, and social power? How do you contribute to dramatic and positive shifts at a local or statewide level that end systemic oppression?
- In Good Standing with Community: Are any of your staff, board, or leadership in an active or unresolved incident of conflict? Does anyone you work with violate personal boundaries or your community’s standards? If so, can you demonstrate the steps you are taking to repair and remedy the situation?
Eligibility Criteria
- The Black Seed Fund is open to Black-led 501(c)3 and (c)4 nonprofit organizations and fiscally-sponsored collectives and coalitions who are based in Minnesota. Multiracial- or white-led nonprofits are also eligible on the condition that they use grant funds to support the work of Black staff and communities.
- For this Fund, Black refers to people who are: 1) of direct African-ancestry, whether you have lived inside Africa or not, and includes people who are Mixed and Transracial Adoptees; 2) who also have internalized Blackness as a political consciousness; 3) and who hold a commitment to the political project of liberation for African peoples, wherever they are on this planet, as well as liberation for all peoples experiencing oppression.
For more information, visit Black Seed Fund Grant.
