by Ashley Johnson | Mar 31, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
International Trans Day of Visibility extends far beyond mere recognition: it’s an affirmation of the existence, beauty, and resilience of trans and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) folks. We also recognize visibility as a double-edged sword – one that has led...
by Ashley Johnson | Mar 29, 2024 | News & Updates
Source: Sam Mallon/Education Week The National Women’s History Month’s theme for 2024 celebrates “Women Who Advocate for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.” It’s a fitting theme for a year in which we’ve witnessed escalating attacks on the values of...
by Ashley Johnson | Mar 28, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates
In a 1979 radio interview, Audre Lorde offers an elegant meditation on the dual goals of organizers for liberation: “While we’re surviving in the mouth of this dragon, we also need to be feeding our vision … devising a future where we will live someplace other...
by Ashley Johnson | Mar 18, 2024 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
Last Fall, Borealis Philanthropy announced our decision to sunset our Racial Equity in Philanthropy (REP) Fund. Today, we are pleased to announce that $6 million was awarded to all 25 of the Fund’s grantee partners, each of which is working in creative and manifold...
by Ashley Johnson | Feb 20, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates
“A story is the shortest distance between two people.” – Unknown Only recently has philanthropy begun to grasp what organizers have always known to be true: the stories we tell one another and ourselves are critical to social justice and change. The written and spoken...
