Over the next five years, the California Black Freedom Fund will strategically increase the resources available to Black-led organizations throughout California, prioritizing the courageous and visionary grassroots advocates and organizers leading California as a whole toward systemic transformation.
ANNOUNCING OUR LATEST ROUND OF GRANTMAKING:
Nearly $9 million in general operating grants has been awarded to 74 Black-led groups across California as part of our commitment to resource, connect and strengthen Black-led power-building organizations in the state:
- African Diaspora Network - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Afrikan Black Coalition - Central Coast, Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- Alena Museum - San Francisco Bay Area
- Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates Inc - San Francisco Bay Area
- Belle Haven Action - San Francisco Bay Area
- Black Citizen - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Black Parallel School Board - Northern California
- Black Skeptics Los Angeles - Los Angeles County
- Black Students of California United - Northern California, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- Black Thumb Farm - Los Angeles County
- Black Vendors Association - San Francisco Bay Area
- BreakBox Thought Collective - San Joaquin Valley
- Brioxy - Los Angeles County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area
- Building Blocks for Kids - San Francisco Bay Area
- CA-HI NAACP State Conference - Central Coast, Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- California Black Health Network - Central Coast, Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- California Black Women's Health Project - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Center for Third World Organizing - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, San Francisco Bay Area
- Children's Resources - Inland Empire
- Clay Counseling Foundation - Inland Empire
- Community Advocates For Just and Moral Governance - San Diego - Imperial
- Community Property Management Corporation - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Community Ready Corps - San Francisco Bay Area
- Conservancy Corp - San Francisco Bay Area
- Critical Resistance - Los Angeles County, San Francisco Bay Area
- Dads Evoking Change - San Francisco Bay Area
- East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative - San Francisco Bay Area
- East Bay Queer Healing Arts Center - San Francisco Bay Area
- Elite Skills Development - Los Angeles County
- Gateway Educational Services - Central Coast
- Global Communication Education And Art - Los Angeles County, San Francisco Bay Area
- Haitian Bridge Alliance - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial
- Healing Justice Santa Barbara - Central Coast
- Healthy Black Families - San Francisco Bay Area
- I AM GREEN - San Diego - Imperial
- i.D.R.E.A.M. for Racial Health Equity - Los Angeles County
- IE CEEM Incorporated - Inland Empire
- Los Angeles Community Action Network - Los Angeles County
- Love Not Blood Campaign - Central Coast, Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- Love Program - Inland Empire
- MC Arts and Culture - San Francisco Bay Area
- Millionaire Mind Kids - Inland Empire
- Mirror Memoirs - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Mothers-for-mothers Postpartum Justice Project - San Francisco Bay Area
- National Black Women's Justice Institute - Central Coast, Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego - Imperial, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- Nehemiah Charitable Fund - Inland Empire
- Operation Genesis Inc - San Francisco Bay Area
- Parenting for Liberation - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County, Orange County
- Paving Great Futures - San Diego - Imperial
- People Acting In Community Together Inc - San Francisco Bay Area
- Pillars of the Community - San Diego - Imperial
- Positive Alternative Recreation Teambuilding Impacting Program - Central Coast, Los Angeles County, Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area, San Joaquin Valley
- Positive Results Center - Inland Empire, Los Angeles County
- Priority Africa Network - San Francisco Bay Area
- Project Joy - Los Angeles County
- Radical Monarchs - Los Angeles County, San Francisco Bay Area
- Reclaiming Americas Communities Through Empowerment (R.A.C.E.) - Los Angeles County
- San Diego Black Worker Center - San Diego - Imperial
- San Diego Urban Sustainability Coalition Inc - San Diego - Imperial
- Santa Cruz County Black Coalition for Justice and Racial Equity - Central Coast
- Self-eSTEM - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Social Justice PolitiCorps - Northern California
- Spearitwurx - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center - Central Coast
- Tha Hood Squad Inc - Los Angeles County, Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- The Allen Temple Leadership Institute - Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area
- The Community Action League - Los Angeles County
- The EmpowerThem Collective - Los Angeles County
- The Hannah Project - San Francisco Bay Area
- The Village Method Inc - San Francisco Bay Area
- Turning Point Alcohol & Drug Education Program Inc - Los Angeles County
- Unseen Heroes - Northern California
- Voice of Youth Inc - Northern California
- Wise Choices for Girls - San Francisco Bay Area
In its first round of grantmaking, the California Black Freedom Fund invested over $6 million to support three established Black networks with proven, long-term working relationships with more than 50 Black-led organizations across the state:
Black Census and Redistricting Hub
A network of over 30 Black-led and Black-serving organizations maximizing participation in the census and redistricting process among hard to count Black communities.
Black Equity Collective
A community-public-private partnership strengthening the long-term capacity and infrastructure of Black-led and Black-empowering social justice organizations in Southern California (Los Angeles County and Inland Empire).
PICO California: Live Free/ Bring the HEAT
Organizing intervention to protect the basic health, safety, and well-being of all people by demanding a series of immediate and sweeping changes to the current policing system in the United States.