Announcing Six Grants to Black-led Nonprofits Reimagining Community Care

SVPLA is thrilled to announce that we’ve made $360,000 in grants to six visionary, Black-led organizations reimagining community care and public safety: 

These grants were made possible thanks to a general operating support grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. The Hilton Foundation spoke last year on the urgency of supporting efforts to directly dismantle racist systems - to address the root causes of police brutality and law enforcement institutions that disproportionately harm Black and Brown communities:

We condemn the police brutality we have witnessed, and we demand accountability and reforms in our law enforcement institutions so that these killings and abuses will end. As a society, we have grown far too complacent in the face of glaring inequities. It is time for this to change. We need to work together to identify and dismantle the policies and systems that keep so many of our fellow citizens in poverty, ill health, and fear for their lives.

In the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the long history of law enforcement murdering Black and Brown residents throughout our country, coupled with the stress of a global pandemic that is laying bare the racism of our health systems, we saw perhaps the largest social movement uprising in our country’s history. There has never been such a profound opportunity for policy and systemic change. 

We’ll be amplifying the work of these organizations throughout the year, and we hope that you’ll join us in learning how you can support these efforts to reimagine public safety and community care.