News & Updates
Inside the Push for More Equitable Boards: How BoardSource Leads with Intent
What do boards have to do with racial equity? In this issue, we hear from Jim Taylor (Vice President of Leadership Initiatives) and Anne Wallestad (President & CEO) of BoardSource on key findings from the most recent Leading with Intent study, how they are...
Lessons from a Long-Time Racial Equity Grantmaker
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...
The Communities Transforming Policing Fund Is Accepting Letters of Inquiry
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...
Organizers Show Why—And How—We Need to Defund the Police In a Powerful New Online Hub
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...
Borealis Philanthropy’s 2020 Annual Report: Resourcing Transformative Change In A Year Like No Other
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....
Using Racial Equity Tools (RET) for Truth-telling and Action
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...
Staying the Course: Committing to Racial Equity Through Change and Disruption
Meet Satonya Fair (she|her), President and CEO of PEAK Grantmaking. In this Storyletter, we learn how PEAK weathered multiple storms and Satonyas vision for a more collaborative philanthropy—starting with PEAK Grantmaking. “I've been working with PEAK...
The Black-led Movement Fund Moves $5.4 Million to Grassroots Organizations in Fall 2020
Since 2016, Borealis Philanthropy’s Black-led Movement Fund (BLMF) has been committed to supporting intersectional Black-led organizing rooted in the values and ideologies of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). And this Black Futures Month, we are excited to...