Programs
Race and Place (RAP) Fund: Building Racially Just Communities
RAP’s goal is to inspire and inform racial justice movement building by elevating innovative place- based racial justice efforts. Over the next five years, RAP’s grantmaking will seek to strengthen Oakland-based cultural work, community power building, and policy creation and advocacy that contributes to racial justice movement building; build regional alliances for racial justice that contribute to racial justice in Oakland, and enhance Oakland’s local discourse on race and elevate it beyond Oakland. RAP’s grantmaking includes general support grants as well as capacity building grants to organizations already receiving RAP grants.
[See Our Race and Place Grantees]
BAM Building A Movement (BAM) Fund: Racial Justice Movement Building
BAM’s goal is to increase the use and practical application of a structural racism framework by social justice organizations that are committed to racial justice. BAM supports organizations across the country whose core work is deepening an understanding of structural racism; disseminating an explicit racial justice theory; and advancing strategic action toward racial justice. These organizations, found across all areas of social justice work, encourage a diversity of ideas and approaches that together make up the building blocks of a vibrant racial justice movement. These groups are advancing racial justice in connection with multiple issue sectors and affecting the discourse on race in the larger society.
[See Our Building A Movement Grantees]
SOS Strategic Opportunity Support (SOS) Fund:
Movement Building Innovation
The goal of the SOS Fund is to encourage innovation in racial justice movement building through cross learning, alliance building, and strategic initiatives. The SOS fund will provide small one-time grants to timely efforts as they emerge on a local, regional and national level. SOS Funds are available to grant partners as well as racial justice organizations not currently funded by the Akonadi Foundation.
Racial Justice Philanthropy
Akonadi understands that its resources alone cannot achieve the vision it seeks and that it must bring in more partners, more resources and more commitment to the effort of creating a racially just world.
Racial Justice Communications
Akonadi will help tell the story of today’s exciting and inspiring racial justice work, thus increasing understanding and funding to the field.
"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