In 2019, twenty-three committed volunteers joined the 2019-2020 Economic Justice Giving Project cohorts in Portland and Seattle, beginning a journey of political education, donor organizing, and grantmaking. Learning at the intersections of race, class, and gender, the two cohorts raised $380,177 to fund vital organizing for economic justice in our region and made two-year grants…

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tony McDade. Ahmaud Arbery. The murders of Black people at the hands of police — and former police, in the case of Mr. Arbery — galvanized demonstrations of grief and rage that spread from Minneapolis across the nation over the past week. Black communities grapple with and fight against the terror of…

In 2018 Social Justice Fund NW launched the initial phase of Fund 4 the Frontlines, an ambitious major gifts campaign with a singular focus: to level-up our region’s grassroots organizing by resourcing powerful, long term base-building for people working at the frontlines of struggle. By January of this year we had raised enough towards our…