by Marcus Ohanesian | Jun 15, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates
This week, MacKenzie Scott announced a gift to Borealis Philanthropy in support of our work to resource and strengthen grassroots movements. We are deeply honored to be among the 286 organizations receiving a total of $2,739,000,000. And we are delighted to see so...
by Borealis Communications | Jun 3, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates
The Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color Fund (formerly the Transforming Movements Fund) is celebrating Pride month with a commitment to support young trans women of color building power in the movement for trans and queer liberation. This spring, the ELLC Fund will award...
by Borealis Communications | May 26, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates
Starting today, the Transforming Movements Fund will now be known as the Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color Fund. We began this fund in 2015 as a collaborative effort with Arcus Foundation, Ford Foundation, and anonymous donors because we saw LGBTQ young people as the...
by Borealis Communications | Apr 21, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates
Dear Borealis family, Yesterday, we watched with bated breathe as the judge read the guilty verdict in Derek Chavin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd. We knew that it was, frankly, too late for justice. And, the exhale we still allowed ourselves with this...
by Borealis Communications | Mar 3, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates
In a year marked by the COVID-19 pandemic and racial justice uprisings affirming that Black Lives Matter, it has become abundantly clear that grassroots leaders saved this country from an authoritarian takeover by organizing and energizing voters in all 50 states....
by Borealis Communications | Jan 18, 2021 | Borealis News & Updates
In April of 1963, as he sat in a Birmingham jail cell after peacefully protesting the oppression of Black Americans, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. drew a clear line between action and complacency that has defined social movements since his passing. In his...
