Programs
The Akonadi Foundation's mission is to support the development of a powerful social change movement to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society. We do that through our two programs: Grantmaking and Peer Networks.
Grantmaking
Through our grantmaking program, the Akonadi Foundation provides racial justice organizations with financial and capacity-building support. We also provide opportunities for these racial justice organizations to network with each other through grantee-led gatherings and other timely movement-building opportunities that promote collaboration in the field.
[Read more about our Grantmaking program.]
Peer Networks
As part of our movement-building strategy, Akonadi works to build formal and informal peer networks, both among racial justice organizations in the field, and among Akonadi and our philanthropic peers. At the field level, we work to make sure that racial justice organizations, especially our grantees, have the opportunity to learn from and about one another's work. Among our peers, we increase the resources available to the field by encouraging other funders to support racial justice organizing, and by coordinating grantmaking strategies with local and national funders and donors.
"If you have come here to help me, then you are wasting your time…but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together."
-Lila Watson