Racial Justice and Equity Fund for Northern Virginia
Component of the Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia
The Racial Justice and Equity Fund for Northern Virginia is a component fund of The Permanent Fund for Northern Virginia, an unrestricted endowment at the Community Foundation that makes grants to help build a community that works for everyone. The Fund will deploy philanthropy to:- Increase understanding and awareness of our community’s historic and current challenges with systemic and structural racism
- Provide access to stories from diverse perspectives on the lived experience of inequity in the region
- Promote access to capital, loans, grants, mentoring, and coaching to Black owned and other minority owned businesses in the region
- Drive change in systems that cause and perpetuate racial and ethnic disparities
To date, the Community Foundation has awarded $440,000 to 22 local organizations in June 2020 to both strengthen and empower communities of color in our region who are fighting on the front lines of not one, but two crises - COVID-19 and racial injustice.
Those organizations are listed below:
- AAKOMA Project - $20,000
- BEACON for Adult Literacy - $20,000
- Capital Youth Empowerment Program - $20,000
- CASA de Virginia - $20,000
- Centreville Immigration Forum - $20,000
- Edu-Futuro (Educacion Para Nuestro Futuro) - $20,000
- Ethiopian Community Development Council - $20,000
- Hispanics Against Child Abuse and Neglect (HACAN) - $20,000
- Hopkins House - $20,000
- La Cocina VA - $20,000
- Legal Aid Justice Center - $20,000
- LULAC Institute - $20,000
- Lutheran Social Services of the National Capital Area - $20,000
- NAACP Fairfax - $20,000
- NAACP Loudoun - $20,000
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women Prince William County Chapter - $20,000
- National Korean American Service & Education Consortium - $20,000
- Nueva Vida, Inc - $20,000
- OAR of Fairfax - $20,000
- Tenants and Workers United - $20,000
- Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights - $20,000
- Virginians Organized for Interfaith Community Engagement (VOICE) - $20,000