Fall 2017 Giving Project

The Fall 2017 Giving Project members raised money from their friends and family to make $130,000 in grants to 13 groups advancing Black-led, Black-centered organizing in our region.

20 people pose on a rooftop in Philadelphia

Like all Giving Projects at Bread & Roses, the Fall 2017 Giving Project brought together a cross-class, cross-race, intergenerational group of people who shared a vision for social justice and wanted to apply their time, talent, and resources to supporting movements for social change.

Black-led, Black-centered Organizing Fund Grantees

Agape African Senior Services Center
Amistad Law Project
Black and Brown Workers Cooperative
Concerned Citizens of Point Breeze
Parents United for Public Education
Philadelphia Student Union
PhillySUN at Media Mobilizing Project

Reconstruction, Inc
Soil Generation
Urban Creators
Wholistic.art
Womanist Working Collective
Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP)

Members of the Fall 2017 Giving Project

Denise Beek
Molly Fischer
Carly Friedman
Edurne Irizarry
Laura Johnson
Jennifer Jordan

Seneca Joyner
Beckett Koretz
Duong Ly
Jordyn Myers
Karen Orrick
Samantha Pearson

Kaye Pyle
Muthi Reed
Kat Walden
Terry Williams
Julie Zeglen

Learn more about Giving Projects at Bread & Roses.