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2020 Texas Organizing Project Education Fund Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

Closed $31,000 6 months
2020 Urban Manufacturing Alliance Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

Closed $20,000 6 months
2020 YES! Media Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support. This emergency funding is being provided in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

 Closed $50,000 3 months
2020 Association for Enterprise Opportunity Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to introduce a new tech-enabled solution to assess and match businesses of color to services that build their capacity to compete successfully within inclusive procurement programs after their initial decline by a participating corporate partner.

 Closed $150,000 21 months
2020 Coworker.org Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support Coworker.org to build systems that workers can use to develop leadership, new forms of collective power, and productive engagement with employers.

 Closed $300,000 24 months
2020 MORTAR Cincinnati Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support the development, beta testing, revisions and evaluation of the MORTAR 3.0 curriculum which is geared towards helping minority small business owners expand and tech-enable their businesses.

 Closed $206,000 24 months
2020 New Orleans Video Access Center Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support the production and post-production of A FINE GIRL, a short documentary about Brandi Jarrow, a successful hairstylist in New Orleans who happens to be a trans woman of color.  At the Tribeca If/Then Pitch at the 2019 New Orleans Film Festival, the film project was awarded a special jury prize by the Surdna Foundation. 

 Closed $7,000 6 months
2020 Next City Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

 Closed $400,000 24 months
2020 Opportunity Finance Network Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support to enable OFN to support and develop new capital and operating models for CDFIs.

 Closed $250,000 24 months
2020 Transform Finance, Inc. Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to enable Transform Finance to support social justice actors to develop place-based and topic-based strategies to influence financial actors and capital flows in advancement of social and economic justice.

 Active $570,000 36 months
2020 CapEQ Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support developing the Black Business Development Goals which includes convening costs.

 Closed $75,000 12 months
2020 Economic Security Project Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support the Anti-Monopoly Fund to build a grassroots, sustained, and cross-sector anti-monopoly effort to rein in the power of corporations in the U.S. to the benefit of low- and middle-income people.

 Active $250,000 29 months
2019 Activest Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to reduce municipal government’s usage of tax breaks for economic development through developing alternative economic development financial products to attract investment and mobilizing municipal investors to push for accountability and transparency.

 Closed $250,000 24 months
2019 Boston Impact Initiative Fund Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of the grant is to support a research and development phase that lays the groundwork for a national cohort made up of community partners who wish to deploy integrated capital dedicated to closing the racial wealth divide.

 Closed $100,000 12 months
2019 Common Future Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of the grant is general operating support.

 Active $850,000 36 months
2019 Financial Services Stakeholder Project NFP Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

 Closed $125,000 12 months
2019 Georgetown University Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support Georgetown University’s Beeck Center in conducting field work to advance the growth and success of minority-led and women-led financial services firms, including a survey of current initiatives, a stakeholder convening, and Opportunity Zone case studies.

 Closed $175,000 12 months
2019 MLK50: Justice Through Journalism Path Created with Sketch.

To report a series of stories on poverty, power and public policy, with a focus on workers; develop a monthly newsletter; build a membership program; and switch to a new content management system.

 Closed $175,000 12 months
2019 National Urban Fellows Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support the development of a mid-career professional in a 14 month Fellowship, which is comprised of a nine month mentorship at Surdna Foundation and attainment of a graduate degree from Georgetown University.

 Closed $70,000 12 months
2019 New Growth Innovation Network Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to strengthen NGIN’s network and deepen its practice innovation work to enable practitioners across the country to do disciplined practice and product innovation together: systematically inventing, testing, and scaling practices that enable more Americans to own and drive growth in the next economy. 

 Closed $280,000 24 months
2019 Rutgers University Foundation Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to advance three CIWO projects: Strengthening Labor Standards Enforcement, Build the Bench, and WILL Empower, that are working to shift the balance of power towards greater economic and social equality.

 Closed $200,000 24 months
2023 Accelerate 500 Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support 1863 Venture’s business development program that seeks to accelerate new majority entrepreneurs from high potential to high growth through coaching, mentoring, online tools, a tracking platform, and fund development. 

 Active $600,000 24 months
2022 Black Gravity Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is to support  BIPOC fund managers (infrastructure & commit).

 Active $1,020,600 18 months
2023 Black Gravity Path Created with Sketch.

General program support to Black Gravity with fiscal sponsor Accelerate 500

 Active $50,000 12 months
2023 Black Innovation Alliance Path Created with Sketch.

The purpose of this grant is general operating support.

 Active $450,000 36 months