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...
by Ashley Johnson | Jul 25, 2023 | News & Updates
Sandy Ho — Program Director of the Disability Inclusion Fund July is Disability Pride Month. This is also the month many in our disability communities mark the passage of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, a cornerstone of our country’s civil rights that still,...
by Ashley Johnson | Jul 11, 2023 | News & Updates
In the face of ongoing police violence and state-sanctioned aggression, the need for systemic change and accountability has never been greater. This month, Borealis’ Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) connected with Mari Mari Narváez, the founder and...
