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Capacity-Building Opportunities (March – July 2023)
“What kinds of people does the planet require at this time, and what is our responsibility inside of social justice movements to prepare the ground so that those are the kinds of people that are emerging from [it?]” This was facilitator Autumn Brown’s opening question...
Borealis Philanthropy and Ford Foundation Launch $1 Million Disability x Tech Fund to Advance Leadership of People With Disabilities in Tech Innovation
Five organizations and two fellows join inaugural cohort to advance disability justice in tech. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Gabrielle Connor Cell: 901-337-8993 Email: gconnor@spitfirestrategies.com NEW YORK, NY - (February 28, 2023) — Today, Borealis...
A Borealis Black History Month Resource List
As we celebrate Black History and Black Futures Month, we are reminded of the movements and the generations of freedom fighters who paved the way for us. These folks dared to dream of a more just and equitable world, putting their radical imaginings into practice and...
TOOLKIT: The Fight Against Surveillance: Our Neighbors, Our Safety
As funders aiming to secure safety, self-determination, and freedom for all, the rising threat of surveillance cannot be ignored. The practice is more widespread than ever, and continues to harm communities at the margins, as well as those fighting for justice and...
Meet the Fund for Trans Generation’s 2023 Grantmaking Committee
At the Fund for Trans Generations (FTG), we believe that funders are accountable to communities. For this reason, we use a participatory grantmaking approach, with community members who play a key part in decision-making and the direction of the Fund. We’re...
Meet the 2023 Communities Transforming Policing Fund Participatory Grantmaking Committee Members
Lea en español. ROBYN K. HASAN Robyn K Hasan is the Executive Director of Women on the Rise in Georgia. She has her BA in Business Administration with a minor in Accounting. Robyn comes to her current work after being incarcerated in Georgia State Prisons from 2010 to...
The Presence of Justice: How Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Ethos Must Impact Our Philanthropic Decisionmaking
[Photo Source.] “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” – Letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963. Article Revised: January 3, 2024 In April of 1963, as he sat in a...
Poverty is violence. Nowhere is that clearer than in our jails and pretrial detention policies.
By Sade Dumas For many of us, January is a time for reflection, taking stock, and thinking about how we’re spending our brief time on this earth. This has me thinking about my own life, my community, and the future I am honored to build with Spark Justice Fund...