 Andrew, Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. At Black Lives Matter, we're proud to take part in Giving Tuesday by helping to raise funds for three different grassroots organizations that embody our movement's beliefs and practices. It's part of our #BuildBlack efforts each holiday season to seed the services, programs, and institutions that feed our community. Rather than spending our dollars on meaningless items, let's support Black-led, Black-serving organizations. Each of these organizations we're supporting for Giving Tuesday play a crucial role in the fight for Black liberation. Last year we raised nearly $100,000 for several small (but mighty!) organizations and with your help, we can do the same this Giving Tuesday. For these small organizations that is a transformative amount of money. And we're counting on you, Andrew, to help out. Read more about these organizations and join us by giving whatever donation you can to one of the organizations we're honored to be raising money for today: - The HBCU Disability Consortium is a group of colleagues working in disability services at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities. The project was set up as a partnership between the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, and Syracuse University, and the Association on Higher Education And Disability (AHEAD) and is now permanently based at AHEAD. The HBCU Disability Consortium has an email listserv for HBCU disability services providers, detailed website, research with students and HBCU professionals, and much more.
- Black Trans Travel Fund (BTTT) is a grassroots, Black Trans led Collective, providing Black transgender women with financial and material resources needed to remove barriers to self-determining and accessing safer travel options. BTTF was created in direct response to the relentless and unacceptable transphobic violence Black transgender women across the country have been continuously experiencing. They have been working to provide Black transgender women with the resources needed to be able to self-determine and access safer alternatives to travel, where they are less likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm. They have already redistributed over $150,000 to Black trans women in need, and are working to expand their programs to other states and countries soon.
- Black Outside, Inc. has a mission to reconnect Black/African-American youth to the outdoors. With the knowledge that that only 1% of Texas state park participants identify as Black/African-American, they craft programming that not only connects students with our powerful history in the outdoors but inspires a new generation of outdoor participants.
- Autistic People of Color Fund has one mission: to support autistic people of color who face the severe financial impact of combined racism and ableism. They practice redistributive justice and mutual aid by returning and sharing money directly to and with autistic people of color. The Autistic People of Color Fund provides microgrants to Black, Brown, Native, Asian, and mixed-race people in the autistic community for survival, organizing, leisure, and pleasure. As of Spring 2021, they have given nearly $100,000 USD to individual autistic people of color.
Black Lives Matter is dedicated to so much more than just ending police brutality and state sanctioned violence against Black people. We're dedicated to eradicating white supremacy in all spaces and systems. We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise. We eradicate systems of white supremacy by tackling it in all spaces -- whether that be policing and public safety, environmental justice, health care, mental health, and more. That's why we've chosen multiple organizations in multiple spaces to raise money for this Giving Tuesday and #BuildBlack. Last year we raised almost 100k for a number of organizations. We want to go just as big -- if not, bigger than last year. Chip in to get a head start on Giving Tuesday and donate to one or more of these organizations >> In love and solidarity, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation | | | Black Lives Matter Global Network |
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