Funders for Justice

Will you be at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference this week in Chicago? Join Funders for Justice and our partners, Mirror Memoirs The Movement for Black Lives Race Forward and Black Voters Matter for an important conversation on the role of philanthropy in supporting the safety and security of movement organizations. See you there!

By now it’s clear that we are living in a sustained moment of bold attacks on trans people’s rights and the blatant erosion of reproductive autonomy. The rise of the far right and the normalization of fascist tactics that leverage eugenic logic either to control and/or eliminate disabled bodies needs greater scrutiny from reproductive justice to build a strategic, effective and collaborative effort to push back. Join Funders for Justice, Transgender Law Center The Disability Project, Third Wave Fund, Disability & Philanthropy Forum, and Funders for LGBTQ Issues for The Bodily Autonomy Institute: A Disabled and Trans Perspective 🗓️ Tuesday & Wednesday, Oct 8 & 9 @ 9am PT | 10am MT | 11am CT | 12pm ET 🔗 For More Information & To Register: https://lnkd.in/g2BBWiZU *Please note this training is designed for staff, board members, grants panelists, and donors of grant-making institutions, donor networks, and philanthropic serving organizations Safety & Security: For security reasons, please share and re-post this webinar only through email, on LinkedIn, and on the websites of donors, grantmakers, and funder affinity groups as part of FFJ's baseline security practices. #DisabilityJustice #ReproductiveJustice #TransRights #FundersForJustice

State attacks on Trans people and their loved ones are on the rise, and Trans-led movements lack the necessary funding to support their often life-or-death work. How can funders unite to fight the criminalization of trans communities and defeat hateful state attacks that threaten democracy for all? Join our growing network of concerned funders seeking to end the criminalization of trans folks, fund trans-led movements & trans justice funders, and share this graphic series with your funder colleagues! #TransRights #FundTransMovements #TransJusticeFunders

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In 2024 alone, 550 anti-trans bills have targeted trans people’s access to healthcare, housing, employment, and their right to exist publicly. This legislation criminalizes trans individuals and penalizes their supporters, including healthcare providers, parents, and teachers. Black, brown, and working-class trans and gender non-conforming folks are leading efforts to defeat these bills and build a world where everyone’s bodily autonomy is respected. However, trans-led organizations receive only a fraction of the funding they need. Join Funders for Justice and Shelby Chestnut, Executive Director of Transgender Law Center, for a crucial discussion on how your institution can support this life-saving work. 🗓️ Tuesday, June 18th @ 10:30am PT | 11:30am MT | 12pm CT | 1:30pm ET 🎟️ $50 for non-institutional members / Free for institutional members Register here: https://lnkd.in/g6Aia9KV *Please note this webinar is for funders only. Safety & Security: For security reasons, please share and re-post this webinar only through email, on LinkedIn, and on the websites of donors, grantmakers, and funder affinity groups as part of FFJ's baseline security practices. #TransRights #FundersForJustice

"Philanthropy too often fails to fund movements that are organizing to uphold civil and human rights and defend our freedoms from state-sponsored violence and police repression. Our sector funds when issues are popular – the racial justice uprisings calling for police accountability and the value of Black lives being the most recent major example, and then pulls back when a specific uprising moment passes, leaving movement organizations at the whim of the larger systems that they are fighting. These larger systems include the criminal legal system and an education system that time and again brings more cops into schools rather than teachers, counselors, books, and a robust education – the same systems that the students in the encampments are now fighting." Read the full statement here: https://lnkd.in/g2icrH7M

Criminalization is on the ballot! Funders, join our conversation with Democratizing Justice Initiative and movement partners to discuss strategy around key ballot initiatives across the country. We will delve into ballot initiatives focused on decriminalization, divest/invest, and police accountability measures that can and will impact us all.

🗳 This election year, the issue of criminalization is front and center on the ballot. We invite you to join us - Funders for Justice (FFJ), and the Democratizing Justice Initiative, and our movement partners for a crucial webinar discussing and strategizing around key ballot initiatives from across the country that will impact us all. In this webinar, we will delve into ballot initiatives focused on decriminalization, divest/invest strategies, and police accountability measures. Through presentations and discussions, funders will gain insights into how local organizations in Texas, California, and Georgia are organizing to improve their communities in the face of similar challenges.  ⏰ When: Thursday, May 30th @ 10am PT | 11am MT | 12pm CT | 1pm ET  👥 Who: This webinar is designed for C3 and C4 funders. Please note that this webinar is for funders only, including grantmakers, donors, donor networks, and funder affinity groups. Cost: Free. Safety & Security: For security reasons, please share and re-post this webinar only through email, on LinkedIn, and on the websites of donors, grantmakers, and funder affinity groups as part of FFJ's baseline security practices. About FFJ: Funders for Justice (FFJ) is a national funder organizing platform focused on grassroots organizing led by and for people of color at the intersections of racial justice, gender justice, economic justice, ending criminalization, and building models for community safety and justice. Learn more at Funders for Justice. About Democratizing Justice Initiative (DJI): Democratizing Justice Initiative engages, educates, and connects like-minded donors and foundations around the impact of Police Unions on criminal justice reform and the intersections with other issue areas such as Health, Housing, Economic Justice, and others. DJI provides funders opportunities for aligned and collaborative investments with a growing number of partners. Don't miss this opportunity to engage with your funder colleagues around the criminalizing bills on the ballot this year, and how we can work together to support movement in fighting back. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dMJarA5J

We are alarmed by this weeks police raids across the country. The young people engaging in their right to protest, continuing the legacy of youth-led anti–war movements by demanding their colleges and universities divest their dollars from Israel’s genocide of Palestinians, are being brutalized and experiencing human rights violations perpetrated by U.S. militarized police forces. Youth are not just the future of our democracy and of racial and social justice, they are our now. Read our full statement written alongside Communities for Just Schools Fund (CJSF), Chispa, and Alliance for Educational Justice (4edjustice) on why our partners in philanthropy must defend our young leaders from the police violence intended to silence them and deny them their democratic freedoms of free speech and assembly. Read our full statement: https://lnkd.in/gqF-CCGx

Join us for a webinar on equitable retirement plans and investing on April 25th! We're co-sponsoring this conversation, where Just Futures will share practical guidance for how to ensure your organization’s plan supports an equitable distribution of retirement benefits and unpack what is possible for organizations who want to collectively harness our retirement investments for social justice. #EquitableRetirement #RetirementPlans #Retirement #WorkerCoops https://lnkd.in/ek5JYGN2