Beloved Community

“Our goal is to create a beloved community, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

We have committed to using our resources to fund organizations involved in social impact, racial justice and adjacent areas. We are new to philanthropy and still learning, but we are committed to moving resources now versus later in life. We have tried to focus our efforts on storytelling projects that help communicate the work of these leaders and teams. We have also tried to support emerging organizations and new ideas in these spaces.

For some inspiration and insight into this space I recommend this essay, “Only Solidarity Can Save the Planet”.

Here are some of the initiatives we are involved with or are supporting as an on-going donor…

Donor Networks

Tides
Tides works closely with doers and donors to provide fiscal sponsorship, donor advised funds, impact investing, and a grantmaking to advance social justice.

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
PVF engages creative donors and community partners in grassroots philanthropy via radical collaboration.

Solidaire Network
Solidaire is a community of donor organizers who mobilize quickly to get critical resources to the frontlines of social justice movements.

Arts and Media

Compound
Compound is a presentation space where visual artists at all stages of their careers can show immersive or experimental bodies of work.

AgitArte
AgitArte is an organization of working class artists and cultural organizers who work at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality and ideology.

The Black School
TBS is an experimental art school teaching radical Black history and combines a non-profit physical schoolhouse and for-profit design studio.

Laundromat Project
Laundromat Project advances artists and neighbors as change agents in their own communities.

New Latin Wave
New Latin Wave is dedicated to celebrating the most current and compelling Latinx voices.

Center for Story-based Strategy
Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.

Unicorn Riot
Unicorn Riot is a decentralized non-profit media organization of artists and journalists dedicated to exposing root causes of dynamic social and environmental issues through amplifying stories.

Racial and Economic Justice

Black Futures Lab
Black Futures Lab transforms Black communities into active, interdependent, responsive public partners that change the way power operates.

Color of Change
Color of Change designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward.

Economic Security Project
Economic Security Project catalyzies ideas that build economic power for all Americans through convening, funding and strategy.

Environment

Mojave Desert Land Trust
Mojave Desert Land Trust protects the unique living landscapes of the Mojave and Colorado Deserts, and has conserved more than 100,000 acres of desert habitat.

National Park Foundation
National Park Foundation is the official nonprofit partner of the National Park Service.

Rivers Without Borders
Rivers Without Borders has been striving to protect the wild intact watersheds and rich ecological and cultural values of the British Columbia-Alaska transboundary region.

Indigenous Peoples

Native American Land Conservancy
Native American Land Conservancy protects and restores sacred sites and areas in aboriginal territory, provides educational programming for Native American youth and the general public.

Seeding Sovereignty
Seeding Sovereignty is an Indigenous-led collective workin to disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation.

Sunrise Movement
Sunrise Movement is a youth movement to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process.