Borealis Philanthropy in Minneapolis has announced that its Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund awarded $2.2 million in support of 19 groups working to integrate racial equity into nonprofit systems, policies, and practices. 

During the latest grantmaking cycle, grantee partners identified shared priorities and practices, including building race-conscious organizations and leadership, integrating healing justice into racial justice practices, and designing for internal and external strategy, policy, and culture change. This year’s offerings included a series on somatics, grantee-led peer learning sessions, finance and fundraising workshops, and digital security webinars. 

Recipients include the Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance, Bari Katz Inc & Authentic Coaching & Consulting, and the Center for Diversity and the Environment.  

“Very few racial equity/racial justice funders understand and fund the depth and breadth of the types of engagements that advance transformation toward deep equity (deep meaning at the intra-personal, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic levels simultaneously) and liberation (meaning as Monica C. Dennis defined it, in continuous and interdependent connection with source, whole selves, and whole stories),” said recipient Change Elemental in a statement. “We are so very appreciative that REACH Fund…does.”

For a complete list of grantees, see the Borealis Philanthropy website.

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