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Racial Justice - Guides

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Racial Justice 


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Racial Justice Community Fund


 

The Bonner Foundation announced a community fund in Summer 2020 for students and faculty in the Bonner Network to support racial justice initiatives that address inequities and build bridges in their local communities. The goals included encouraging students to engage other Bonners on their campus, the 3,000 current students across our national network of 65 colleges and universities, and our 18,000+ Bonner alumni. The Foundation supported faculty to incorporate social action into an existing or new course where students can learn and join or launch a social action campaign during the semester that addresses racial injustice. 

 

The Bonner Foundation staff and community of campuses supported these efforts with funding and also on-going training, resource development, and networking. The goals with this funding were not only to launch new projects and courses that seek to address the immediate and long-standing challenges facing our country and communities, but also to build sustainable structures and support on campuses in Bonner network that will continue this work for the long-term.

 

You can download the updated Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Racial Justice Community Fund for 2022-2023 here

 

This initiative helped mobilize and support Bonner students as they take on leadership roles to combat racial, social, and class-based inequities, and build stronger campus-community relationships. Student leaders and Bonner staff formed teams, inviting other motivated and interested students and community partners to collaboratively design and implement projects that focused on meeting immediate community needs, resulting from racial inequities, as well as structural, policy, educational, economic, and social change. Ten Bonner schools received grants and spearheaded projects around racial narratives and healing in local areas, food security in underprivileged communities, health equity and access among racial minorities, and voter education. Find the examples of the projects and links to profiles about their work, developed in the summer of 2021, on Campus Examples and on the Bonner Foundation's website at: Racial Justice Initiative.

 

In March 2021, Foundation Staff (Ariane Hoy, Rachayita Shah, and Arthur Tartee Jr.) and Spelman College Bonner Scholar Antonia Izuogu presented the model and projects at the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ Diversity, Equity, and Student Success conference in March 2021, garnering interest from other campuses about participating. The project, along with others in the Racial Justice Community Fund, demonstrated how campus community engagement could be linked with racial and social justice efforts.

 

Here are the slides from that session:

 

 

Accessing Bonner Community Funds on Your Campus


 

The majority of the Foundation funds (whether from endowments or other grants) are allocated to students’ financial aid and to funding the operations of campus-wide centers. Additionally, only a third of the institutions in our network have funds from the Foundation, and many support their programs through Work Study and other institutional funds. If your campus is an endowed Bonner Scholar or Leader Program, talk with your Director or Coordinator about how to create a proposal for using your Bonner Community Fund and/or Junior/Senior Leadership Fund for organizing, training, and supporting efforts within your community. Additional information about pools of Bonner funds can be found here.

 

8-Themes Curriculum - Module on Fundraising — Check out this training to learn more about crowd-source fundraising and to find platforms and help with this skill.

 

 

Resources To Facilitate Dialogue 


Common Practices to Engage with Community Stakeholders 

 

The slides below are based on Michael Wenger's essay "The Journey to Racial Healing and Racial Equity." The essay includes discussion of certain common characteristics that help facilitate dialogue among diverse stakeholder and invigorate the journey of individuals and communities working towards racial justice and racial healing.

 

 

 

Questions to Facilitate Dialogue on College Campuses

 

  • What are some best practices for approaching the protests once we are back on campus? (Campuses often encounter situations involving race, e.g. Syracuse, what can we learn?)

  • How have you engaged with your students? (Have you released statements, reached out to Bonners, etc.) What is the pulse of your Bonner program?

  • What has your institution done as a whole? (Not just centers for community engagement)

  • Do your institutions have statements of commitment to inclusivity and diversity in their missions? How does your institution uphold those values? 

  • What can the Bonner Foundation do to support you?

 

 

Taking Action 


 

Here are some recommended links and places to take action.

 

Support Social Action Campaigns

 

 

 

 Learn How to Advocate and Organize for Policy Reforms

 

 

 

 

Donate Your Time

 

This video project was created to offer people a way to contribute to #blacklivesmatter without having any actual money or going out to protest themselves. Investing in our future can be difficult for young people, so 100% of the advertisement revenue this video makes through AdSense will be donated to the associations that offer protester bail funds, help pay for family funerals, and advocacy listed in the beginning of the video. You could help by watching the video and sharing it with others. 

 

Sign Petitions

 

  • Color of Change's petition demands that Frey block the involved officers from receiving their pensions and ban them from being able to become police officers again, as well as demands that Freeman charge the officers with murder. You can also text "FLOYD" to 55156 to sign the petition.
  •  This PETITION on change.org website intends to reach the attention of Mayor Jacob Frey and county attorney Mike Freeman to beg to have the officers involved in this disgusting situation fired and for charges to be filed immediately.

  • To sign other petitions, CLICK HERE.

 

Contact Public Officials in Minneapolis and Other Areas

 

  • Contact Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to demand justice. You can call his office at 612-673-2100.REACH OUT HERE or submit your concern using this FORM.

  • Demand County Attorney Mike Freeman charge the officers with murder by calling him at 612-348-5550

 

Donate to Support Victims and Their Families

 

Visit https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/#victims, which includes links to donate to: 

  • George Floyd Memorial Fund
    • Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, has started a GoFundMe to assist his family in their time of grief and need. 

  • George Floyd’s Sister’s Fund

    • Floyd’s sister Bridgett Floyd is raising money to help support George's daughter Gianna.

  • Ahmaud Arbery Fund

  • Regis Korchinski Fund

  • Jamee Johnson Fund

  • Destiny Harrison Funeral Fund

  • Eric Rosalia Fund

  • Belly Mujinga Fund

  • Dion Johnson Fund

  • Aaron James Fund

  • Tony McDade Fund

  • Healing For Darnella

  • Destiny’s Dream Scholarship

  • James Scurlock Fund

  • Support For Leslie Fund

  • Trever Belle Fund

 

 

Donate to Organizations

 

  • #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. DONATE HERE

  • The Minnesota Freedom Fund, a grassroots organization currently working with the National Lawyers Guild and the Legal Rights Center, will use donations to bail out arrested protestors and to supply those on the field. DONATE HERE

  • Reclaim the Block, a grassroots organization based in Minneapolis, will use funds to address community needs.DONATE HERE

  • Black Visions Collective, which is based in Minnesota, focuses its work on transformative justice in the state. DONATE HERE

  • North Star Health Collective is a group of street medics, radical health organizers, and community health trainers based in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and will use funds for gear and medical supplies on the field. DONATE HERE

  • Organizers in Louisville, Kentucky–the city that Breonna Taylor lived in–have created a community bail fund for protestors. DONATE HERE

  • Unicorn Riot, a non-profit media organization is dedicated to fair, on-the-ground reporting on civil disobedience, police brutality and white supremacy. Be thoughtful about sharing images of police brutality. These graphics may be personally traumatizing to watch for Black and brown individuals. DONATE HERE

  • The Legal Rights Center, which is based in Minnesota provides criminal defense and restorative justice services to low-income people, in particular people of color. Clients are never charged for firm services. DONATE HERE

  • National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is a nonprofit organization, created to protect the human and civil rights of individuals in their encounters with law enforcement and detention facility personnel. The central mission of NPAP is to promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. It works toeducate and inform the public about issues relating to police misconduct, provide information resources for non-profit and community groups who work with victims of police abuse, support legislative reform efforts aimed at raising the level of police accountability, and create a forum for legal professionals and community organizations to come together and creatively work to end police misconduct. DONATE HERE

  • CLICK HERE to see a running list of major organizations by state that need support right now.