A Year-End Giving Playbook To Invest In Community, Justice and Power
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“The throughline in all of these choices is simple: each organization reflects what matters most to me right now — Black women’s leadership, community joy, narrative power, economic infrastructure and civil rights. Year-end giving does not have to be perfect or exhaustive, but it should be intentional. Choose a few organizations that sit at the heart of your values, and commit to being more than a one-time donor. Whether it is a local arts center transforming a vacant building into a community anchor, a national network training Black women to lead, a narrative lab closing the hope gap, a credit union financing possibility in the Deep South or a civil liberties group defending our freedoms — this is a moment to move beyond performative generosity. Because there is no better investment in this moment than in the people and institutions who are quietly making “impossible” futures feel within reach.”