By: Iris Garcia, Akonadi Foundation
August 1, 2019
Advocates and organizers gathered with funders recently in San Francisco at a briefing to spotlight a powerful movement that is mobilizing to stop the harm that mass incarceration imposes on women and girls.
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By: Renee Geesler
July 9, 2019
Akonadi Foundation has awarded $50,000 over 12 months to support KQED’s Oakland Arts coverage. The grant will support KQED’s radio show ‘Rightnowish’, hosted by Pendarvis Harshaw, as well as his web-based column.
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March 27, 2019
Oakland – Akonadi Foundation will be distributing $255,000 through its final round of grants of the Beloved Community Fund to 17 organizations.
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From the President
‘Tell Her’ Akonadi’s 2019 Racial Justice Poster
Beloved Community Fund Grant Awards
Benchmark ‘Mapping Report’ Wins Award
FROM THE PRESIDENT
The last few months have been a busy time for us as– after 20 years of grantmaking to support racial justice movement building in Oakland, we are getting ready to go all in on ending the criminalization of people and youth of color in Alameda County.
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Guest Blog post by | Mar 26, 2019 | Arts Blog
Unity Council “2013 Day of the Dead.” Photo courtesy: Akonadi Foundation
“Mapping Small Arts and Culture Organizations of Color in Oakland,” a report commissioned by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and Akonadi Foundation, won first place for external publication or report in PR News’ 2019 Nonprofit Awards.
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March 1, 2019
At Akonadi Foundation, we believe that access to quality education is a human right; that young people deserve compassion, respect, and dignity.
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December 20, 2018
From the President
$1.3 million awarded to Arc Toward Justice Grantees
Oakland, A Beacon of Cultural Brilliance
Investing in Healing and Safety
FROM THE PRESIDENT
2018 proved to be a difficult year, challenged by untimely deaths of dear community members and an onslaught of repressive policies from the White House.
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Akonadi Foundation awarded over $1.3 million in grants to 12 organizations to advance racial justice movement building in Oakland through the Foundation’s Arc Toward Justice Fund.
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By: Vanessa Camarena Arredondo
Oakland is a beacon of cultural brilliance and resistance, with communities of color and immigrant communities largely at the lead.
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By Iris Garcia
For communities of color in Oakland and across the nation, prioritizing healing is a radical, political act. These are trying times.
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