Blac Fund - I Be Black Girl

Who We Are
Advocacy
Birth Justice
Black Led Investment
Economic Justice
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Advocacy

I Be Black Girl believes policy is a driver for change within our approach to reproductive justice. Policy has historically been weaponized against Black communities. As a result, we are committed to building Black political power to address the harm and chart a new experience of legislation that centers Black women, femmes and girls.

Birth Justice

Using a Collective Action Framework, I Be Black Girl is catalyzing a movement to disrupt the systems that perpetuate incidence of maternal morbidity, mortality and traumatic care experiences using strategies that center the voices, experiences, and leadership of Black women and Black birthing people. We deserve to not just live through our birthing experiences but thrive.

Black Maternal Health Coalition

Community Birthwork

Innovation Projects

Black Led Investment

I Be Black Girl enables resource redistribution led by and for Black women, femmes, and girls in Nebraska as well as a place for institutional philanthropy to live. These philanthropic efforts have changed the landscape of philanthropy in Omaha by inviting Black women, femmes, and girls to give in ways that are meaningful and through a trusted outlet creating collective power

I Be Black Girl Gives

Blac Fund

Economic Justice

This country has spent countless decades depriving Black people of economic security, abundance and dignity, leading to a scarcity mindset rooted in injustice. I Be Black Girl’s priority is to abolish pay equity gaps and work to give Black women, femmes and girls the ability to live whole, abundant lives.

Catalyst

BLAC Fund: Building Local Alignment in Community Fund

The Building Local Alignment in Community (BLAC) Fund is a participatory grant process powered by I Be Black Girl. Community members will have the opportunity to co-design and decide how funds will be invested in the community while radically reimagining the role of philanthropy, including how power is wielded.

Goals of the initiative:

Center communities of color, low-income residents and other individuals and groups facing historic and ongoing harm from systemic inequities as co-creators and beneficiaries of local efforts to advance health equity

Advanced strategies that require public health, healthcare and social service (multi-sector) systems, as well as funders and intermediaries, to demonstrate accountability to community residents, their priorities and racial equity

Provide additional support for community-led nonprofits for technical assistance, policy advocacy, leadership development, community organizing, and other priorities and needs they identify

Model participatory grantmaking approaches that shift power and influence to communities – and share lessons across RWJF and beyond in ways that seed new norms for how philanthropy is done

Foster meaningful, transparent, and equitable partnerships between community-led nonprofits and multi-sector systems in advancing racial and health equity

The BLAC Fund Council is...

Three-year council service
Represent target communities with shared identities and lived experience
No experience in philanthropy is required

“Participatory grantmaking” is defined as:

Co-designing funding strategies and priorities
Reviewing and assessing proposals
Establishing decision-making criteria
Making funding decisions
Participating in and co-designing the evaluation of an initiative

2024 Blac fund council

Brittany Parker (She/Her)

Jael Coffey (She/Her)

Jasmine Reddick (She/Her)

Kween Alabi (She/Her/They)

Tainesha Owens (She/Her)

Dr. Toccara Steele (She/Her)

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