Reparations Campaigns Get Boost From New Philanthropic Funding

The campaign to win reparations for Black Americans plans to bring broader support for smaller nonprofits advancing the cause, with a new philanthropic funding initiative announced Friday at the “Alight Align Arise” national conference in Atlanta.

The Decolonizing Wealth Project, an organization dedicated to creating racial equity through education and “radical reparative giving,” is committing $20 million over five years to boost campaigns for reparations across the country, along with a research collaboration with Boston University to map reparation projects.

The project's founder and CEO Edgar Villanueva announced the plans at the Atlanta gathering of advocates, including the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, the Democratic congressman whose district represent parts of The Bronx and Westchester County in New York.

“The point of all of this for us is to elevate the issue and the opportunity for reparations and to resource these groups who have been doing this work, often for a little or no money, and it takes the money to win,” said Villanueva in an interview.

The nonprofit, which is fiscally sponsored by Allied Media Projects, has not yet fully funded the commitment but has brought in millions of dollars in unrestricted grants from the likes of the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recent years. That’s in addition to hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from individuals to their reparations campaign fund supporting Black and Indigenous groups, called Liberated Capital, which the MacArthur Foundation supports.

Even before the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, institutions and municipalities began examining their own roles in systems that oppressed Black Americans, including slavery, redlining and gentrification. They also looked at policies impacting other communities of color.

So, they have $20 million they could use to help black people, but they are using it for lobbying instead?

[So, they have $20 million they could use to help black people, but they are using it for lobbying instead? ]

They’re shooting for $200T ($5m apiece for ~40m blacks) at the expense of the American taxpayer, so $20m is a drop in the bucket.

2 posted on 06/09/2023 5:41:39 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)

Inter gotta grift.

3 posted on 06/09/2023 5:43:31 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )

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