The Seattle Foundation announced that its Fund for Inclusive Recovery is awarding a total of $12.6 million to 21 organizations led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals.
“As we work to build back our region, centering BIPOC communities ensures solutions go beyond pandemic recovery, address structural racism and inequities, and contribute to a future that is healthy, thriving, and prosperous for all,” said Seattle Foundation’s Chief Impact Officer Kris Hermanns.
“These resources will further expand and sustain the capacity and infrastructure for groups to take on even more organizing, building community leadership, and engaging policymakers to reinvent our public structures and systems.”
The organizations, whom the foundation has deemed as having “a deep history of community justice and advocacy work,” will receive $200,000 a year for three years.
Grantees include Casa Latina, Rainier Beach Action Coalition and the Native Action Network.
The Fund for Inclusive Recovery Fund is a crucial element of Seattle Foundation’s strategy to advance racial and economic equity in the Puget Sound region, known as the Blueprint for Impact.
“The Fund for Inclusive Recovery teaches philanthropists that the insights of the community should be valued, especially when determining grant allocations. It has been transformational to see Seattle Foundation co-create the Fund with community members,” Ubax Gardheere, a member of the Community Advisory Group, said in the statement. “Our hope is that more philanthropists will see this process and invest in the Fund – and similar efforts – to advance racial equity across the country,” Gardheere shared.
Read more about the Fund for Inclusive Recovery here. View the full announcement and list of grantees here.
