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.
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
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
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