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Resources for Our Collective Care During Mental Health Awareness Month

Resources for Our Collective Care During Mental Health Awareness Month

This year, Mental Health Awareness Month lands at a time of uncertainty, heightened stress, and reflection. Ongoing sociopolitical and economic challenges are weighing heavily on us, and intensifying the burdens of injustice we already carry. We also know that caring...

Carrying the Legacy Forward: Youth Organizing Across Movements

Carrying the Legacy Forward: Youth Organizing Across Movements

April marks the 65th anniversary of the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)—a powerful force that, in the face of Jim Crow segregation and white supremacist terror, organized toward a more just and equitable future. From sit-ins to Freedom...

REACH Fund Launches Participatory Grantmaking Committee

REACH Fund Launches Participatory Grantmaking Committee

The Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund at Borealis Philanthropy is excited to announce the launch of our first-ever round of participatory grantmaking. Our first step in the process is forming an experienced and informed Participatory Grantmaking...

Black Disabled Organizing: Architects of Liberation, Past and Present

Black Disabled Organizing: Architects of Liberation, Past and Present

This Black History and Black Futures Month, we are honoring the enduring wisdom of Black disabled organizers who have always been at the center of movements for equity and justice. From Fannie Lou Hamer to Brad Lomax, Audre Lorde, and Harriet Tubman, Black disabled...

Becoming the Ground: How Philanthropy Must Respond to Escalating Crises

Becoming the Ground: How Philanthropy Must Respond to Escalating Crises

“As the ground shakes underneath us, how do we practice to become the ground?” — Prentis Hemphill, The Embodiment Institute On January 20 – a day when many of our grantee partners would have normally been participating in community-focused events and celebrations...

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