At Black Lives Matter, we're proud to take part in Giving Tuesday by helping to raise funds for six different grassroots organizations that embody our movement’s beliefs and practices. Each of these organizations plays a crucial role in the fight for Black liberation.
Join us in giving to these organizations today, and read more about them below:
- Cure Violence Global is a public safety organization that strives to cure violence through community based public safety solutions. Cure Violence Global trains community members as violence interrupters to mediate conflicts when they arise and prevent future escalations. The success of their teams across the United States and around the world are proof that alternatives to police exist and can thrive if we invest in them.
- CoFED is a QBPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color from poor and working-class backgrounds to meet our communities' needs through food and land co-ops. Since 2011, they’ve developed 12 new cooperative projects, trained over 600 emerging cooperative leaders, and cultivated a community of support across the U.S. and Canada.
- KC Tenants is a grassroots organization led by a multiracial, multigenerational base of poor and working class tenants in Kansas City. KC Tenants are organizing to ensure that everyone in KC has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home. They wrote and passed a Tenants Bill of Rights for Kansas City in December 2019, and was implemented beginning in June 2020.
- The Urban Youth Harp Ensemble is an established nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, GA. The ensemble’s goal is to give children the opportunity to play the complex and beautiful instrument. Students attend a summer camp and perform at public and private events. They even have in and after school programs, and the program continues to grow each year.
- The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. They envision a world where all people have access to healing resources rooted in social justice and liberation to recover from trauma, violence, and systemic oppression.
- Lead to Life is an Oakland-rooted and trans-local collective led by black and queer artists, healers & ecologists devoted to embodying Mark Anthony Johnson’s prayer that “Black wellness is the antithesis of state violence.” Lead to Life is dedicated to Bridging racial and environmental justice through ceremony and art practice.