Black-led Organization Grants - June 2021
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Approved $15,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Agape African Senior Center, Inc. is established as a self-help initiatives by elderly African Immigrants to help ourselves combat the acute isolation we experience linguistically, socially, culturally, and economically through self-advocacy, self-development, and self-empowerment in order to enhance our independent living and graceful aging in our new home, the USA.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Amistad Law Project's mission is to fight for the human rights of people in our community by providing free and low-cost legal services to Philadelphians and those incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s prisons. Additionally, we advocate for laws and policies that reflect our vision for a new justice paradigm and organize events and activities to educate the public on their rights and the law.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Beyond The Bars is a student driven music and career skills program that is dedicated to interrupting the cycles of violence and incarceration while helping our students recognize their immense potential and bright futures.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Black Brain Campaign's mission is to eradicate the stigma against mental health in the Black community. We strive to help the community learn more about mental health and to advocate to ensure therapy treatment includes cultural humility. Our goal his to improve mental health by providing education, resources, and advocacy.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Chapman Foundation's mission is to provide tutoring and educational services to inner-city and economically disadvantaged students to minimize educational inequalities.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: City Athletics Community Partners’ mission is to improve the lives of underserved Philadelphia youth through sports, fitness and community. The goal of CACP is to build leadership, resilience and character through fun and challenging sports activities.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Collective Climb is a community-based nonprofit empowering primarily BIPOC teenagers (15-19) in West Philadelphia through restorative justice. We offer three programs: 1) The Restorative Community Project, 2) a Youth Advisory Board, 3) and Collective Kickbacks. We are committed to Black joy, security, and freedom.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Dimplez 4 Dayz, Inc.'s mission is to assist children, youth, and families from the inner-city by providing unrestrained resources, programs, and encouragement to create a promising lifestyle.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The mission of The ECO Foundation is to provide creative education, healthy food, and employment opportunities, so people can meet their needs and exceed their goals.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: EMIR (Every Murder Is Real) Healing Center provides victims advocacy, support groups, wellness, mental health counseling, housing relocation and educational services to the families in Philadelphia, PA, and more recently, Chester, PA. EMIR Healing Center was founded after the murder of Victoria Greene's only son. Supported by a staff well versed in the devastation homicide brings to families and communities, EMIR focuses on healing through a wholistic and trauma-informed approach to care.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Created with trauma-impacted women’s specific needs in mind, I’m FREE - Females Reentering Empowering Each Other, Inc. helps incarcerated women transition back into society by providing coaching, training, and care services. I’m FREE serves Philadelphia area women who are imprisoned, disenfranchised, and disconnected from their children, families and communities; reconnect with society, revitalize their sense of purpose and renew their minds.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: LA21-CDC's mission is to partner with stakeholders to promote economic development, promote social justice through beautification and support new business ventures in the community. We serve the business needs of business owners on the commercial corridor and provide networking opportunities by promoting economic growth, advancing business-friendly public policies, and servicing our members through outstanding programs to help build their customer base.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Lil Filmmakers Inc.’s mission is to train young underserved artists to use media and the arts as a tool to overcome societal and personal barriers and prepare them for career opportunities in the arts and media industry.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia (MCCP) engages with the community we serve in many capacities. From the inception, our mission has been focused on empowering the communities we serve with a variety of services and programs with a focus on our Restorative Cities Initiative (RCI). The RCI Movement utilizes a Restorative Conferencing model that facilitates a process for solving problems and building community.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Neighborhood United Against Drugs (NUAD) is a community-based, grassroots organization committed to reducing drug use/abuse, teen pregnancy, the spread of HIV infection, chronic illness, and senseless violence in the community.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: No-Mo, Inc.'s mission is to provide children and teens with prevention and early intervention healthy lifestyle information. The information provided helps them make healthy lifestyle decisions. We use a holistic trauma informed style to apply healing.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: OWN's mission is to enhance commerce on the Upper Lancaster Avenue Business Corridor, collaborate with neighbors and community stakeholders to improve our quality of life, and serve as the Registered Community Organization (RCO) for zoning concerns.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance's mission is to improve the lives of people in the Philadelphia region by supporting democratically organized businesses, promoting the principles of the international cooperative movement, and growing the cooperative economy.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Philadelphia Bail Fund frees our neighbors, friends, and loved ones from jail, while simultaneously working to end wealth-based detention in Philadelphia, the poorest large city in America. This work stems from our belief that pretrial detention is unjust, unnecessary, and inhumane. We are committed to building equitable and transformative justice systems in which everyone feels safe and all communities have the resources they need to thrive.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Philadelphia Community Bail Fund (PCBF) is a grassroots community bail fund organizing for the abolition of bail, pretrial detention, and prisons, and for our collective liberation. Until that day comes, we post bail to free our loved ones, neighbors, comrades, and friends in Philadelphia.
Approved $10,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Philly Children's Movement is a collective of families & educators talking, playing, learning, and rising up for racial justice. We envision a world in which all people are liberated, whole, and valued. Thus far, PCM has worked collaboratively with countless students, teachers, schools, and organizations, helping to facilitate professional development, build curricula, curate discussions, support student-led actions and guide parents on their antiracist journeys.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Spiral Q is an interdisciplinary ensemble of artists, activists, and cultural organizers guided by a mission to build strong and equitable communities characterized by creativity, joy, can-do attitudes and the courage to act on their convictions. In pursuit of this mission, we use art to connect people, values, neighborhoods and movements to their collective creative force for change.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Business Center provides the education and business networking programs necessary to strengthen the business formation necessary to contribute to improving Northwest Philadelphia’s minority business ecosystem. Our programs better position small business and startups to develop and vet their business concepts and further establish their reputations.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The mission of Evoluer House is to uplift and change the trajectory for girls of color in the Philadelphia region between ages 13 and 18 experiencing social and emotional challenges and racial oppression to value themselves, realize their power, recognize their self-worth, break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and change their lives to lead and thrive.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Tioga United, Inc. is working to rebuild and strengthen its community and serve as a catalyst to empower its people one step at a time. Our goal is to heighten awareness, educate, and provide residents with basic needs and human services.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Unity in the Community is dedicated to changing the lives of others in Philadelphia. Throughout the year Unity in the Community organizes a host of community events and initiatives that promotes unity and peace throughout the community.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The mission of UrbEd is to advocate and improve education, social, economic, and racial inequities in the Philadelphia Public School System.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: we REIGN, Inc.'s mission is to create safe, brave spaces where Black girls are visible. A place where they can define themselves, practice living unapologetically, and develop the skills needed to become change agents in their own lives and communities.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: The Womanist Working Collective is a radical grassroots social action and support collective for Black folks of marginalized gender experience, specifically women (trans* and cis), femmes, and other gender expansive folx. Our Community of Practice unapologetically centers our Quality of Life and livelihoods through Community Organizing, Mutual Aid and Holistic Wellness.
Approved $10,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Women of Faith and Hope works to enlighten, encourage and empower women about issues related to breast cancer in an effort to reduce the mortality rate through early detection; to offer spiritual and emotional support to women battling breast cancer.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: YOACAP's mission is to enhance the quality of life and health for Philadelphians through community-based and culturally competent interventions. YOACAP provides supportive youth development services and works with youth and communities to encourage increased civic engagement among people of color. The common threads uniting all of YOACAP's programs are commitment to diversity, respected community ties, and culturally competent service delivery.
Approved $25,000 June 2021 general operating support. Organization's Mission: Youth United for Change is a leadership development organization that wins positive educational policy changes through school-and community-based organizing. Our approach to youth-led advocacy amplifies the impact of young people towards creating systemic change and foments the conditions for young people to simultaneously develop as critically strategic leaders.