by Borealis Communications | Apr 1, 2021 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
“Our findings imply that platforms may be diverting desperately needed advertising dollars away from local news, and contributing to the nationalization of politics.” —Sean Fischer et. al Pandemic walls and the struggle for justice We are more than a year into the...
by Borealis Communications | Mar 16, 2021 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
In this issue, we meet with Arelis Diaz (Director, Office of the President) and Ciciley “CC” Moore (Program Officer, Office of the President) of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. We hear their perspectives on the pivotal role individuals play in advancing racial equity and...
by Borealis Communications | Mar 4, 2021 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
The Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) is now accepting letters of inquiry on a rolling basis. CTPF is a donor collaborative that works to resource local communities impacted by deadly and discriminatory policing practices to build power, increase police...
by Borealis Communications | Mar 3, 2021 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
Community organizers across the country have worked hard to shift power and resources from police and the carceral state to communities to create a transformative vision of justice without police, jails, and prisons. And they have been winning. According to a recent...
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 | Feb 23, 2021 | Grantee News & Updates, News & Updates
Meet Sally Leiderman (Center for Policy and Assessment) and Maggie Potapchuk (MP Associates, a REACH grantee) who are half of the team behind racialequitytools.org (Shakti Butler of World Trust and Stephanie Halbert Jones of CAPD, are the other half.) Maggie and Sally...
