News & Updates
Disability Inclusion Fund Grant Opportunity! Accepting Applications Now Through June 25, 2025
Portrait of a young Black woman sitting in wheelchair and looking at camera while using laptop computer at home. May 21, 2025 – The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis Philanthropy is thrilled to share that we are currently accepting applications from...
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
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
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
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...
Ten Years of Resourcing Movements: Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color Fund Awards Over $2.3 Million to LGBTQ BIPOC-Led Organizations Reimagining Justice and Care
Since its founding in 2015 as Borealis Philanthropy’s first-ever fund, the Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color (ELLC) Fund has proudly resourced the leadership and organizational development of queer and trans organizations of color to build inclusive, effective and...
The Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color Welcome Four New Leaders to it’s Young Trans Women of Color Cohort
Borealis Philanthropy’s Emerging LGBTQ Leaders of Color Fund is excited to welcome four new leaders to its Young Trans Women of Color (YTWOC) cohort—an innovative leadership development program that invests in trans organizers working across movements and issues....
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...