FOR ALL
Meet Our Grantee Partners
Black Deaf Project
“At the end of the day, we want folks to experience joy and freedom—this is the goal.”
The Black Deaf Project is a Deaf and hearing Black collaborative nonprofit, which creates educational materials, experiences, and trainings rooted in Black Deaf cultures in solidarity with other Communities of Color to build relationships, increase cultural understanding, promote respect, and create pathways to joy and liberation.
Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro
“We imagine a world where our healing and Black joy is centered, our reparations and rest are had and Western imperialism no longer dominates our daily lives.”
Black Lives Matter Phoenix Metro is a Black, Queer, and Femme led organization that centers Black people who are the most impacted and marginalized. The organization works towards Black Liberation through two wings of work: tearing down the old world, and building a new world—working to defund carceral systems, advocating for policies that reduce harm, supporting Black reproductive justice, fostering community engagement, creating art, and cultivating healing and Black joy.
Deep Space Mind 215
“We believe that people with lived experience have expertise and skill that can be shared to protect and strengthen communities.”
Deep Space Mind 215 is a Philadelphia-based mental health and wellness cooperative that seeks to invest in community-grown practices, systems, and initiatives that improve and enhance the wellness of the city. The co-op seeks to provide low-barrier pathways for neighbors and workers with lived experience of mental health, neurodiversity, and/or institutionalization to gain practical skills in providing community care both in the community or within institutions.
Depressed While Black
“The healing begins with us and that’s where it ends. ‘We are the magic.”
Depressed While Black is an online community and a 501(c)3 nonprofit that donates Black-affirming personal care items to psychiatric patients and connects people to Black therapists. This work is guided by the vision of a world where people of African descent heal from severe depression through Black-affirming mental health support and advocacy.
Embraced Body
“However our bodies show up in the world, they are perfect, worthy of existence, and capable of magic.”
Embraced Body is a Black, queer, and disabled led-organization focused on performance art that centers embodied Disability Justice praxis for collective healing. Its offerings include workshops, and private sessions, as well as consulting in somatics, implementing a culture and lens of Black access, and dance.
“[Our work is about] centering the role of collective care in our political liberation. How do we build strategy and power together?”
Healing Justice Lineages is a body of work—gathered through community engagement, interviews, and research—that provides movement-based context urging community and survivor-led care strategies. These practices and frameworks disrupt and push beyond the ways surveillance and policing of the medical industrial complex and public health system create harm.
Loud’ N Unchained Theater Co.
Based in Madison, Wisconsin, Loud’ N Unchained Theater Co. is a collective of Black & Queer, trans, non-binary, Mad, c/Krip & disabled poets, teaching artists, abolitionists, healers & playwrights whose artistry is committed to Gender, Queer, and Disability Justice practices. The organization is rooted in the lived-experience of navigating the medical and psyche industrial complex while Black, mad, and in chronic pain.
Shelterwood Collective
“We measure impact by the communities we serve, the state of the 900 acres, and the contributions to the larger land rematriation. How are we supporting one another, and catering to Black communities and to the land?”
Shelterwood is a 900-acre Indigenous, Black, Disabled, and Queer-led community forest and collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers. Shelterwood is based on unceded Southern Pomo and Kashia territory, above what is now called the Russian River in Northern California. Through land stewardship, active forest restoration and wildfire risk reduction, community and cultural organizing, and the development of a community retreat center, the Collective heals interconnected ecosystems.
PeoplesHub is an online hub for movement workers to learn, connect, collaborate, and strategize in and across the disability justice and solidarity economy movements. These strategies are implemented through the organization’s many offerings, such as trainings and popular education-style workshops on radical hospitality, participation, and access.
“If you’re leaving out disabled people, you’re really not working for liberation.”
We Were There, Too is a project led by Anita Cameron, a Black disabled lesbian whose leadership has been present at historical moments in both the disability rights and justice movement. Her activism has ensured ongoing liberation from nursing homes and institutional care, especially for marginalized disabled community members with limited access to privilege and advocacy power. Anita’s new project will highlight the contributions of Black disabled people in the disability rights movement which often gets erased by white disabled-led disability rights movement leaders.