The California Black Freedom Fund has announced grants totaling $9 million in support of power-building efforts among Black-led groups across California.

In a second round of grants from the fund, general operating support was awarded to seventy-four Black-led organizations with operating budgets of $1 million or less. Launched in February, the fund addresses a history of underinvestment in Black-led organizations and works to ensure that locally rooted Black-led organizing efforts have the sustained investments and resources they need to eradicate systemic and institutional racism. In addition, the fund will provide capacity-building support through technical assistance in communications, narrative change, and policy; research and data; and convening and learning opportunities. Recipients include the African Diaspora Network, Belle Haven Action, BreakBox Thought Collective, Children's Resources, Dads Evoking Change, IE CEEM Incorporated, Millionaire Mind Kids' Positive Results Center, the Hannah Project, and Wise Choices for Girls.

"The road to justice requires those with privilege and power to leverage every platform and resource available to amplify the voices that have often been silenced," said Sandy Herz, president of Sobrato Philanthropies, which provides support to the fund. "We are deeply grateful to be working with Silicon Valley Community Foundation and others as effective allies and supporters in this vital movement to sustain, build upon, and accelerate the Black-led racial justice movement underway in California. The depth and diversity of the organizations that applied and have now been funded with unrestricted general operating grants through the California Black Freedom Fund give us great hope for a racially just California of the future."

For a complete list of recipients, see the California Black Freedom Fund website.

(Photo credit: Positive Results Center)