The Black Liberation Pooled Fund

About The Black Liberation Pooled Fund

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund is housed and managed by Solidaire Network, Inc. It was established in the summer of 2020 in response to the swell of philanthropic interest to support the Black-led movement ecosystem. We operate in deep solidarity with grassroots organizers in Black communities, working to coordinate deeper and longer-term resource mobilization for a network of Black-led movement efforts.

In 2021, Solidaire selected 102 powerful partners as the inaugural cohort of Black Liberation Pooled Fund grantees and committed general operating support in the form of multi-year grants to these partners. We ask that you join us in raising an additional $21 million to reach our 5-year funding commitment to these current partners. More information on the analysis of the first year of this fund can be found in Solidaire’s 2021 Learning and Evaluation Analysis. 

Fund Priorities

The Black Liberation Pooled Fund (BLPF) grantmaking strategy provides resources to organizations and movements that are at the forefront of (1) Black Resistance work and building (2) Black Futures, while supporting the creation of (3) Movement Infrastructure.

The main areas of work supported through the Black Liberation Pooled Fund are:

• Land/Housing/Climate Justice
• Trans Organizing & Leadership
• Abolition/Decarceration/Defund
• Infrastructure
• Electoral Justice
• Disability Justice & Immigrant Justice

Movement Oversight Committee

A Movement Oversight Committee (MOC) has been created to guide the Black Liberation Pooled Fund. The MOC consists of 12 movement leaders and 3 aligned funders who reflect various geographies and fields of work within Black liberation. Specifically, the MOC helps assess the movement landscape and ecosystem of Black Liberation, shape the guiding principles and values that inform the selection criteria for funding, and review the overall impact and success of the Black Liberation Pooled Fund.

Movement Oversight Committee Members:

• Charles Long – Movement for Black Lives 
• Chinyere Tutashinda – BlackOUT Collective
• Cicely Garrett – National Black Food and Justice Alliance
• Deseree Fontenot – Movement Generation 
• Devon Turner – Grow Dat Youth Farm
• Dustin Gibson – HEARD
• Hakima Abbas – AWID 
• Ingrid Benedict – Daphne Foundation 
• Jaelynn Scott – Lavender Rights Project
• Leila Tamari – formerly ArtPlace America 
• Monica Atkins – Climate Justice Alliance 
• Nwamaka Agbo – Kataly Foundation 
• Paris Hatcher – Black Feminist Future 
• Solome Lemma – Thousand Currents
• Tamieka Atkins – Pro Georgia 

Aligned Pooled Funds

Here is a partial list of other pooled funds and funder networks that are supporting Black-led organizing:

• Democracy Frontlines Fund – a funder collaborative leveraging millions of new dollars to fund Black-led organizers fighting for free and fair elections and working to defund prisons and police.
• Borealis Philanthropy’s Black-Led Movement Fund – a collaborative fund providing a dedicated vehicle to support the M4BL ecosystem.
• North Star Fund’s Let Us Breathe Fund – New York City Fund focused on supporting the long-term leadership of Black New Yorkers fighting police violence and structural racism.
• California Community Foundations’ Black Empowerment Fund – Supports Black-led and Black-empowering organizations throughout Los Angeles.