Borealis Philanthropy’s Black-Led Movement Fund (BLMF) has announced grants totaling $6 million to 30 organizations and organizers advancing community safety, justice, and liberation.

The grant recipients—who work at the intersection of racial equity and issues including climate justice, food and land justice, immigration/migration, reproductive justice, prison-industrial complex abolition, disability justice, gender justice, and economic justice—will each receive $200,000 in flexible, core operating support through 2025. In the first round of grantmaking since the fund shifted to a participatory model of decision making, recipients were selected by a committee of 10 community organizers representing a cross-section of generations and various aspects of movement building, including land, food, and Black culture systems.

Recipients include Birthmark Doula Collective, Counter Narrative Project, Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, and People’s Justice Project. Since its inception in 2016, the fund has distributed nearly $30 million in funding to the broader Black-led movement ecosystem.

“We were thrilled for the opportunity to practice participatory grantmaking for the first time as a fund,” said BLMF program director Julia Beatty. “This shift was an important step in sharing power, bringing community into a more democratic funding process, and challenging the traditional gatekeeping model, which does not serve our organizations or our communities.”

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