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2021 Center for Innovation in Worker Organization Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general program support to three CIWO projects: Strengthening Labor Standards Enforcement, Build the Bench, and WILL Empower.

 Active $200,000 24 months
2021 Economic Policy Institute Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support Southern EARN and grassroots partners’ research, policy, and advocacy efforts to win worker, racial, and gender justice reforms in the South.

 Active $1,475,000 72 months
2021 MLK50: Justice Through Journalism Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general program support to MLK50.

 Closed $350,000 24 months
2021 New Growth Innovation Network Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support.

 Active $280,000 24 months
2021 PolicyLink Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. 

 Active $750,000 36 months
2021 YES! Media Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support.

 Closed $350,000 24 months
2021 Asian American Federation, Inc. Path Created with Sketch.

General Operating Support

 Closed $50,000 6 months
2021 Black Gravity Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to provide seed money to launch Black Gravity. Black Gravity’s mission is to close the racial wealth gap by 2060. 

 Closed $50,000 12 months
2021 Boston Impact Initiative Fund Path Created with Sketch.

General operating support

 Closed $20,000 6 months
2021 Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation Path Created with Sketch.

General program support for Minority Business Accelerators transition to affiliate status.

 Closed $50,000 6 months
2021 Community LIFT Path Created with Sketch.

To build River City Capital’s internal capacity to meet current opportunities and the great challenges of the COVID economy, by fueling Memphis’ small business owners of color with affordable, patient capital.

 Active $540,000 39 months
2021 Didtechnology, Inc. Path Created with Sketch.

General operating support.

 Active $400,000 24 months
2021 Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development Path Created with Sketch.

To advance the Greater Milwaukee Committee for Community Development’s efforts to increase wealth, access to capital, revenue growth and opportunities in communities of color by providing the tools, knowledge, and networked ecosystem to support ambitious growth and generational wealth for minority business owners.

 Closed $430,000 32 months
2021 Inclusive Capital Collective

The purpose of the grant is to advance the strategic objectives of the Inclusive Capital Collective (ICC), a growing, national group of over 100 mostly BIPOC operators of loan, debt, and real estate funds, and of entrepreneur support organizations.

 Active $500,000 24 months
2021 Jobs with Justice Education Fund Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of the grant is to support JWJEF’s efforts to build worker power towards a healthy and equitable economic democracy.

 Active $1,000,000 36 months
2021 Just Capital Foundation Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support JUST Capital’s work focusing on racial and economic inequity. We are defining corporate leadership on these issues through narrative, partnerships, research, disclosure, and equity metrics.

 Active $350,000 24 months
2021 Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to better the conditions of workers in the South while ensuring that workers have a say or voice in their communities and places of work.

 Active $600,000 36 months
2021 Latino Business Action Network Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

 Closed $190,000 12 months
2021 Mission Driven Finance Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to hire a Chief Legal Officer and make investment strategies for inclusive economies accessible at a community scale. 

 Closed $300,000 24 months
2021 National Urban Fellows Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support National Urban Fellows’ general and program operations and the placement of a mid-career BIPOC and/or woman in a 9-month mentorship residency in the Surdna Foundation’s Inclusive Economies program.

 Active $300,000 24 months
2021 One Fair Wage, Inc. Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support One Fair Wage’s efforts to conduct policy, industry, and narrative shift activities to educate policymakers and the public about the need to end the subminimum wage for tipped workers and improve wages and working conditions for workers, particularly in the service sector.


 Closed $450,000 24 months
2021 One Fair Wage, Inc. Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. Funds will be used to support OFW’s Emergency Fund that will give direct cash assistance to workers in Texas in response to the weather crisis.

Closed $23,450 6 months
2021 Partnership for Southern Equity Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

 Active $800,000 40 months
2021 PowerSwitch Action Path Created with Sketch.

General operating support for the Partnership for Working Families, a national network of regional advocacy organizations that support innovative solutions to the nation’s economic and environmental problems.

 Active $900,000 36 months
2021 Texas Organizing Project Education Fund Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this general operating support grant is to allow Texas Organizing Project to support both current and alumni members of BCLI who have been impacted by the severe weather across Texas.

 Closed $50,000 6 months