Black Abundance Collaborative
The Black Abundance Collaborative
The Black Abundance Collaborative is a five-year investment in the ecosystem of local Black-led organizations working across a variety of issue areas toward a just, connected, and inclusive Greater Washington.
Rooted in the belief that Black organizers and the organizations they lead deserve to be well resourced, the Collaborative connects Black-led groups to build collective power through shared learning, strategic collaboration, and organizational development.
Overview
Over a five-year period, organizations invited into the Black Abundance Collaborative work together across a range of issue areas and tactics, united by a shared commitment to systemic change. Groups in the Collaborative receive multi-year general operating support, capacity building resources, rapid response funding, and opportunities to convene.
Our goal is for the Black Abundance Collaborative to foster and strengthen lasting partnerships among Black-led organizations and to resource an ecosystem in which these organizations can collectively strategize for the benefit of Black people and all people in Greater Washington. The Collaborative is intended to be a generative space for grantee partners that strengthens their organizations and leadership, deepens each other's analysis, and inspires collective action. Organizational leaders also engage in Black thought leadership and a community of practice to grow and develop their tactics, shared strategies, and tools to win.
How We Got Here
The Black Abundance Collaborative is preceded by the Fund for Black-Led Change, our five-year capacity building initiative that laid the groundwork for our convening strategy and our thinking around how philanthropic institutions can begin the work of showing up in support of Black-led and Black-centered movement building. Through the Black Abundance Collaborative, we move forward with the next iteration of this work with critical insights that participants have shared with us, and with consideration of the current landscape of funding for Black organizations.
A Black organizer posed the question, “What would it look like if funders really wanted Black movements to win?” The Black Abundance Collaborative expands on our answer to that question.