The Libra Foundation approves $10.2 million in grants for social justice organizations
San Francisco, CA – In the first half of 2021, The Libra Foundation has approved $10,215,000 million in unrestricted grants supporting 52 organizations building political power, determining their own strategies and implementing their own solutions, and realizing futures that work for all. This slate includes grant renewals and 16 new grants, focusing on groups led by and for BIPOC and directly impacted communities.
“Our role is to help sustain and support the remarkable vision, power and strategy of frontline groups,” said Crystal Hayling, the Executive Director of The Libra Foundation. “We are glad to provide continuous support as we begin to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis, which hit communities of color the hardest.”
Last year, Libra announced it was doubling its grantmaking to $50 million, and launched the Democracy Frontlines Fund, an aligned giving strategy that leveraged $36 million in multi-year, unrestricted support for a slate of 10 Black-led racial justice organizations. In 2021, this support continues while the twelve funders in the Democracy Frontlines Fund have embarked together on a multi-year learning journey around racial justice in philanthropy.
For further information, please contact Virginia Witt, [email protected].
Renewing
Ahimsa Collective
Border Network for Human Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Cultural Power
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Reproductive Rights
CLIMA Fund
Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
Democracy Now!
Fund for Global Human Rights
The Futuro Media Group
Grassroots Global Justice
Green New Deal Network Fund
Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Human Rights First
Detroit Justice Center
Drug Policy Alliance
Immigrant Defense Project
Initiate Justice
Ipas
It Takes Roots
Let’s Breakthrough
Life Comes From It
MediaJustice
Mother Jones
Movement Law Lab
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Planned Parenthood of Illinois
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
She the People
Students for Sensible Drug Policy
UltraViolet
Visión y Compromiso
Western States Center Inc
The Women’s Foundation of California
New Grants
Black Trans Fund
The Collective Future Fund
Free Hearts
Freedom Inc.
Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy
In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
me too. International Inc.
New Breath Foundation
Piper Fund
Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples
Spirit House
The Solutions Project
Survived and Punished
Transgender Law Center