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Toolkits
Everyday resources to get us closer to our collective vision of self-determination, healing, and a world where all Black people are liberated.
See our latest toolkits below or view our full toolkits library.
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Draft Your Own Local Community Safety Policy
This step-by-step guide helps users co-create a policy agenda that makes non-carceral, life-affirming safety investments now, and helps users ensure those investments become institutionalized, so they are sustained over time.
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Get Involved With over 50 civil rights Organizations with the Community Safety Agenda
The Community Safety Agenda is a joint project of more than 50 civil rights, public health, racial justice, housing, violence prevention, economic justice, and allied organizations nationwide dedicated to building safety that works for all communities.
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Check Out Our Healing Justice Resource List
As we continue to build the infrastructure for continued direct aid, we want to share a list of other amazing organizations that offer assistance.
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Talking Points for Defund the Police Week
What is Defund the Police Week? Why doesn’t the current approach work? What is the Solution? What does investing in our communities mean and why? What does the “crime” data say? Why would we defund the police? What does Defunding the Police mean? Why is “joy” included? Community Safety Messaging It is tragic when any…
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People’s Response Act Partner Digital Toolkit
The People’s Response Act leverages innovative, community-based strategies to transform public safety as we know it, and invests in the support our communities need to thrive. Put simply, the People’s Response Act invests in what we know keeps us safe: our own communities and the knowledge we hold.
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Healing in Action: A Toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice & Direct Action
This toolkit was created to collate, condense and share the lessons we have learned in ensuring that our direct actions are centered on healing justice.
Grantmaking
Through our grantmaking program, we support thinkers, leaders, creators, and organizations that are working for lasting change across any of our six organizational pillars: Arts, Culture, Frontline Organizing, Healing Justice, Policy, and Research & Education.
We have different avenues for grant support, ranging from hyper-focused, targeted support, to more robust, multi-year partnerships.
Over the last decade, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation has formally granted over $30 million to more than 60 organizations and across two rounds of mutual-aid-style microgrants. We’ve also granted $12.54 million to BLM chapters and affiliated organizations. All dollars have been granted under an invitation-based approach to grantmaking, and we will continue as such.
Some of our previous grantees include: Anti Police Terror Project, BYP100, Center for Third World Organizing, Equity and Transformation Chicago, Oakland and the World, St. Elmo’s Village, TakeAction Minnesota, The Love Not Blood Campaign, and the Trans Justice Housing Project
At this time, we have closed our fiscal year and have paused grantmaking.
Please leave your information by clicking the button below, and we will provide updates on the opening of our next grantmaking cycle.
Glossary
Our glossary is a continued effort to reimagine and rebuild a world without police and policing. We continue to examine manifestations of policing and white supremacy in the language we use.
We hope this ever-expanding glossary will help provide architecture for the horizon we are moving toward:
Abolition
Ending the practice and institutions of punishment.
Accessibility
The capacity for all members in a community to feel welcome and able to participate fully in a given space or environment. Best practices include those which are mindful of how folks operate differently in the world and are committed to accommodation and inclusivity.
The capacity for all members in a community to feel welcome and able to participate fully in a given space or environment. Best practices aid in how folks operate in the world.
Art Activism
Creation, expression, innovation with the purpose of mobilizing change, uplifting culture, and reimagining a radical future.
Arts
BLM Foundation is concentrating on the nexus of art and activism in pursuit of Black liberation and the preservation and protection of Black creativity.
Black Culture
Any cultural contributions made by Black people.
Culture
BLM Foundation is uplifting Black culture that propels us to dream big and create the community we want and need to flourish, grow, and thrive.
Foundation
An organization that funds, uplifts, and spotlights other organizations, groups, and projects.
Freedom
The right of all people to have full bodily, spiritual, and emotional autonomy – unapologetically.
Frontline Organizing
Working at the local level to realize social change.
Healing Justice
BLM Foundation is building healing spaces and nurturing ecosystems that support Black communities impacted by oppressive structures and injustice.
IntersectionalITY
Accounting for the overlapping and intertwined nexus of various aspects of a person’s identity and the social consequences they may experience as a result. These positive or negative consequences may include, but are not limited to a person’s social, economic, racial, ethnic, sexual, or gender identity.
Joy
A feeling of great pleasure, peace, calmness, happiness.
Liberation
The act of freeing Black people, and all people, from structures of oppression.
Policy
BLM Foundation is intervening on existing and new policies that reimagine a world without punitive measures to create a world where Black people have all that we need: food, education, housing, health care, clean water, breathable air, and everything that is foundational to personal and community safety.
Radical
Praxis and theory that dismantles and disrupts oppressive systems and images change.
Research & Education
BLM Foundation is investing in modern-day research and education focusing on abolitionist frameworks and curriculum around Black history, identity, and Black futures.
Self-Determination
A person’s or community’s ability to self-actualize, to determine without coercion their pursuits and desires.
Wellness
Overall good health including but not limited to: mental, emotional, physical, holistic, and spiritual health, etc.
Tell us what you need
We are here for our community. Our constituency director will connect you to the right people.
Research and Data Center
Access to data is vital, and everyday we amass more and more. The problem, however, arises when data is misconstrued — either because of implicit bias or overt bigotry. We see this consistently in response to data related to Black communities. Black Lives Matter seeks to take ownership of the research dissemination process as it relates to data which most impacts Black people. We not only have the cultural intimacy needed to situate such data, we also know the stakes.
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