Bread and Roses Community Fund: Solidarity Fund for COVID-19 Organizing

About

As the leading funder of grassroots community organizing for racial, social, and economic justice in the Philadelphia area, Bread & Roses is launching an emergency response fund. The Solidarity Fund for COVID-19 Organizing will support vital community organizing in this time of crisis.

The pandemic and its economic fallout are landing hardest on those communities already targeted by systems of oppression: people of color, poor people, immigrants, people with disabilities, incarcerated people, people experiencing homelessness, and other marginalized communities.

Preventing further tragedy requires community organizing for social, racial, and economic justice. Only through organizing can we work effectively for a just and humane response from governments, corporations, and other institutions. The groups that do this work mostly operate on shoestring budgets at the best of times. With the economic shutdown, many of their donors can’t give. Most are not eligible for the other philanthropic programs responding to this crisis.

About the Host

Bread & Roses believes in change, not charity. We organize donors at all levels to support community-based groups in building movements for racial equity and economic opportunity for all. We support movements and their leaders through fundraising, grantmaking, capacity building, and convening.