John,
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 six different grassroots organizations that embody our movement's beliefs and practices. Each of these organizations plays a crucial role in the fight for Black liberation.
Today, we're bringing to light just how much these innovative organizations do for our communities on a day to day basis, as their work speaks volumes about the complexity and importance of our fight for Black lives.
Read more about these organizations and join us by giving whatever amount you can to one or more of the organizations we're honored to be raising money for today:
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Cure Violence Global is a public safety organization that strives to cure violence through community-based public safety solutions. Cure Violence Global trains community members as violence interrupters to mediate conflicts when they arise and prevent future escalations. The success of their teams across the United States and around the world is proof that alternatives to police exist and can thrive if we invest in them.
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CoFED is a QBPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color from poor and working-class backgrounds to meet our communities' needs through food and land co-ops. Since 2011, they've developed 12 new cooperative projects, trained over 600 emerging cooperative leaders, and cultivated a community of support across the U.S. and Canada.
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KC Tenants is a grassroots organization led by a multiracial, multigenerational base of poor and working-class tenants in Kansas City. KC Tenants are organizing to ensure that everyone in KC has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home. They wrote and passed a Tenants Bill of Rights for Kansas City in December 2019, and it was implemented beginning in June 2020.
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The Urban Youth Harp Ensemble is an established nonprofit organization based in Atlanta, GA. The ensemble's goal is to give children the opportunity to play the complex and beautiful instrument. Students attend a summer camp and perform at public and private events. They even have in and after school programs, and the program continues to grow each year.
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The National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network is a healing justice organization committed to transforming mental health for queer and trans people of color. They envision a world where all people have access to healing resources rooted in social justice and liberation to recover from trauma, violence, and systemic oppression.
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Lead to Life is an Oakland-rooted and trans-local collective led by black and queer artists, healers, and ecologists devoted to embodying Mark Anthony Johnson's prayer that “Black wellness is the antithesis of state violence.” Lead to Life is dedicated to bridging racial and environmental justice through ceremony and art practice.
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 are working toward freedom, justice, liberation, and affirming our humanity -- and we do so by tackling the systemic racism that thrives in health and health care, housing, socio-economics, climate change, education, and so much more. And we know that one organization on its own cannot make the change we wish to see in the world.
That's why for this year's Giving Tuesday, we chose organizations that play a crucial role in our movement. These six organizations are dedicated to the fight for Black freedom and liberation, and they stand on the shoulders of our ancestors in the work they do every single day.
Our movement couldn't persist if it weren't for the work that these organizations do -- so before Giving Tuesday is over, donate whatever you can to help them in their part of fighting for Black lives.
In love and solidarity,
Black Lives Matter Global Network
