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Spark Justice Fund Launches Safety & Security Rapid Response Fund! Application Open Until Funds Are Exhausted

Spark Justice Fund Launches Safety & Security Rapid Response Fund! Application Open Until Funds Are Exhausted

by Borealis Communications | Apr 17, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates

ABOUT THE SPARK JUSTICE FUND The Spark Justice Fund (SJF) launched in 2019 and resources grassroots organizing groups that are ending money bail and unjust pretrial detention policies. The SJF focuses on supporting grassroots and power-building groups to decarcerate,...
Borealis Philanthropy Launches the Black Disabled Liberation Project

Borealis Philanthropy Launches the Black Disabled Liberation Project

by Borealis Communications | Apr 16, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates

Jonathan Soren Davidson for Disabled And Here — Three Black friends sit in comfortable chairs and supportive recliners during an evening conversation. In the middle, a friend with narcolepsy falls asleep smiling while clouds drift behind her head. Her girlfriend sits...
[Application Closed] Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Opportunity!! Accepting Applications Now Through May 29, 2024

[Application Closed] Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Opportunity!! Accepting Applications Now Through May 29, 2024

by Borealis Communications | Apr 4, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates

African American student with disability talking to his classmates during break at college April 5, 2024 – The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis Philanthropy is thrilled to share that we are currently accepting applications from organizations working to...
Beyond Visibility: Building Joyful Trans Futures

Beyond Visibility: Building Joyful Trans Futures

by Borealis Communications | 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...
Beyond Dragonhood: Funding Liberated Futures through Participatory Grantmaking

Beyond Dragonhood: Funding Liberated Futures through Participatory Grantmaking

by Borealis Communications | 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...
Justice on the Line: Responding to Georgia’s Cash Bail Expansion and Championing Bail Funds

Justice on the Line: Responding to Georgia’s Cash Bail Expansion and Championing Bail Funds

by Borealis Communications | Mar 19, 2024 | Borealis News & Updates, News & Updates

By Brandon Gleaton, Program Officer of the Spark Justice Fund In February 2024, the Georgia legislative body approved a state bill criminalizing charitable bail funds. As similar anti-bail-fund bills have been introduced by state legislatures in Kentucky, Tennessee,...
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