BLMF GRANTEE PARNTER, DREAM DEFENDERS

The BLMF exists to ensure that progressive, Black-led movement organizations have the resources, visibility, 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.

The BLMF was launched in 2016 and has since moved more than $21.1 million to Black-led organizations!

The BLMF prioritizes funding for:

• Groups centering the leadership of Black women/femmes, girls, as well as queer and trans people. We define “Black-led” as 75% or more of its organizational composition self-identifying as Black.
• Groups building local power, particularly in the South and Midwest, where funding opportunities for Black-led organizing are more often scarce.
• 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.