IMPACT PARTNERS
“There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made. ”
100% of Member Donations go towards our Initiatives
$ 245,043
OUR VALUED IMPACT PARTNERS
With the 100% tax deductible gifts of you, our Aspiring Allies, we support organizations that seek the flourishing of the BIPOC communities in the areas of:
Health and Wellness, Education, and Community Development which includes housing, job and life skills, restorative justice and economic development.
Black Liberation Walking Tour
Black Spaces Matter.
“Oakland’s Hoover-Foster neighborhood encapsulates more than a century of Black Liberation struggles. It was a destination for migrants fleeing the Jim Crow South to find work in the East Bay’s booming shipyards or as Pullman Porters. The newcomers brought their music, cuisine, and creativity with them, changing California forever. Civil rights leaders, pioneering writers, revolutionary activists, and athletes who smashed through racist color barriers all lived and worked here. “ excerpted from East Bay Yesterday Podcast episode 75.
A project of the West Oakland Cultural Action Network (WOCAN), the Black Liberation Walking Tour captures oral histories to document the lives and culture of long-time residents, historical figures, and rapidly disappearing former Black spaces. Flourish Collective Members have enjoyed being invited into their community and we continue to be excited about standing in allyship.
Our two 2021 grants helped the local community provide back to school supplies for elementary kids at Hoover Elementary as well as expand the number of tours so more people can learn the history of West Oakland and the its impact on Black Community and Culture.
Brothers EMpowered
Building strong male leadership and a solid moral, social, and spiritual foundation within the urban community. They enable, strengthen and equip men of color in overcoming all barriers within their lives, and the lives within their communities.
They work in 4 areas:
Health and Wellness
Youth Empowerment
Community Safey
Economic Development
Silicon Valley Urban Debate League
"Through the rigor and thrill of the academic sport of debate, the Silicon Valley Urban Debate League (SVUDL) helps youth from low-income backgrounds tap the power of their voices to compete, excel, and change the world. They help all students build mastery in creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, collaboration, and communication. Debate teaches students to analyze complex issues, formulate evidence-based arguments, and communicate persuasively and respectfully. SVUDL empowers low-income students of color, many of whom will be first generation college students, to unlock the power of their voices to become advocates for themselves, their futures, and their communities."
Multicultural Classroom
"At Multicultural Classroom, we support schools and organizations with anti bias and antiracist strategies We help participants understand the intersection of race, bias, education, and society. In our work, we want to reach as many as possible to see their impact and maximize their work toward social justice. We offer half-day training, panel sessions, keynotes, staff development, and more."
Black Girls United Club
Teaching Teenage Girls Black Girl Solidarity
Founder, Tanisha Walton believes Black teenage girls deserve to have a place to be celebrated, to share similar experiences, to be encouraged, empowered, seen, and valued. Sadly, there are very few places like this in our communities. The mission of CollabHERation is to cultivate safe spaces for Black girls to exist in peaceful solidarity with one another. Read about her impact in this newspaper article linked >>HERE!
CollabHERation intends to normalize Black girl solidarity. Interactive lessons will teach girls how to practice black on black compliments and initiate intentional acts of kindness towards one other. CollabHERation offers emotional and mental support by partnering with Black women therapists, conducting restorative justice circles, and equipping girls with the skills needed for peer conflict meditation and resolutions. They’re also committed to providing a welcoming, safe and open space for our Black non-gendered loved ones.
Our 2021 grant helped launch Black Girls United at Longfellow Middle School in Berkeley, CA. Our 2022 grant is helping launch 2 more Black Girls United clubs and covering the costs to train and 3 new Cal Berkeley women students and offer them a weekly stipend for their time. We’re honored to stand in allyship with these young women!
Rising Hearts - Jordan Daniels
Indigenous Wellness & Advocacy
Rising Hearts is an Indigenous led grassroots organization founded by Jordan Daniels committed to the ‘heart work’ in elevating Indigenous voices and promoting and supporting Intersectional collaborative efforts across all movements. They maintain the goal of racial, social, climate and economic justice with a primary focus to inform, elevate, mobilize and organize through strategic and targeted advocacy. They work to establish collaborative partnerships to help create a better and safer future and environment for all relatives to inhabit this planet past, present and future.
Their vision is for a socially, economically and environmentally just world where all who inhabit her are safe and empowered to thrive while realizing their collective potential.
CHOOSE 180 transforms the lives of youth and young adults by partnering with institutional leaders, connecting them with community, empowering them with choice, and teaching them the skills necessary to avoid engagement with the criminal legal system.
They envision a future where youthful behavior is decriminalized and young people are offered restorative practices in lieu of traditional prosecution. In place of the school to prison pipeline a community will exist to help young people realize their potential and provide them with the tools necessary to achieve their goals.
Our 2022 grant helped create living wages for Choose 180’s team of tireless staff. Sean Goode told us:
“CHOOSE 180 raised the wages of all of their staff to a minimum of $70,000 a year in effort to meet the rapidly rising cost of living in the region. This commitment added a significant amount of money that needed to be raised in effort to sustain this investment in 2023. The Flourish Collectives commitment to CHOOSE 180 helped close this gap and allowed for the organization to continue to honor the labor of those who are serving in some of the most difficult places throughout the greater Seattle area. The impact of this decision and investment from partners like Flourish didn't end there. After CHOOSE 180 was able to make this decision over the course of the next year more than a dozen Seattle area non-profits followed suit in raising their wages to a minimum of 70k. Work like theirs comes at a cost, the brunt of which shouldn't fall on those who are giving of themselves every day to make a difference. The flourish collective made this possible.
Dig Deep is human rights non-profit working to ensure that every American has clean, running water forever.
More than 2.2 million Americans still don’t have running water or basic plumbing, like a flush toilet. 44 million more don’t have clean water that’s safe to drink. They plan water projects that are locally-led, leveraging the unique experiences and resources of the communities they serve.
The Flourish Collective’s 2021 donation brought hot-and-cold running water and light to two homes, transforming a family’s life forever through their Navajo Water Project.
Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting &
Serving Sexually Exploited Youth
Since 2007, MISSSEY has worked to address the exploitation of young people throughout the state of CA, supporting hundreds of youth on their journeys to safety, healing, and liberation. Our mission is to provide supportive services and work for systemic change with youth impacted by commercial sexual exploitation.
Arrabon
Building Reconciling Communities:
Creating agents of racial healing
Arrabon is a spiritual formation ministry that equips the American Church to actively and creatively pursue racial healing in their communities by offering a discipleship process that results in a new action with these 5 distinctives:
Hope over shame
Formation over information
Practice over theory
Community over individual
Peacemaking over partisanship
Yanira Guzman- The Career Gem
Helping Latinas own their own expertise, thrive in their careers and helping to close the Latina pay gap.
Yanira expertise lies in the areas of :
Private Executive Coaching
Leadership Development Training
Consulting
The Black Teacher Project
Every Child Deserves a Black Teacher
The Black Teacher Project’s mission is simple and beautiful: Every Child Deserves a Black Teacher. They aim to raise the number of Black teachers in the classroom to mirror the proportion of Blacks in the general population in cities where they work.
Research shows ALL students greatly benefit from a wide diversity of teachers. Research shows that Black teachers have higher expectations for Black students than White teachers do, and non-Black students benefit from Black teachers by having a role model across racial differences.
Miscia Mosely, the Executive Director of the Black Teacher Project, is excited about the vision of The Flourish Collective. They have several programs for teacher development offering both encouragement and training for the unique role and weight Black teachers carry.
Our 2021 grant helped cover the costs of black teachers to attend the Black Teacher Project conference offering them support, mentorship & connections with fellow teachers.
Bridge of Hope
Bay Area Rescue Mission located in Richmond, CA has been serving the homeless population since the 1960’s. In the last few years there has been a dramatic increase in homeless women. In fact, women with children currently make up 60% of the San Francisco Bay Area’s homeless population.
BARM has been building a 114 bed shelter exclusively for women and children called Bridge of Hope, and they opened their doors in Spring 2022. Bridge of Hope residents will be able to stay for up to year and have access to shelter, showers, meals, support services and all of their training classes from job training to emotional and spiritual support.
Our 2021 grant helped finish the 114 bed shelter and we were able to be there on opening day to congratulate the staff on an incredible job of bringing this dream to life!
Our City Circle Impact Partners
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Nyack & Beyond City Circle
DIVINE SISTERHOOD CIRCLE-A sacred space where women of color feel safe, seen, heard, and are able to receive support at every stage of raising children.
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Greenville City Circle
GIRL UP-GVL- Enriching young women with positive formative experiences that replace obstacles with opportunities by initiating early, life-changing success by empowering girls to reach their highest potential. Our programs are geared towards creating experiences for our students to lead to greater enrichment and empowerment.
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Boston & Beyond City Circle
CATO- A social justice organization dedicated to advancing racial justice for Black and brown people focusing on Advocating, Educating, Engaging, an Empowering to address racial inequities in Reading, MA and the surrounding communities.
How We Choose Impact Partners
Our aim is to grow an ongoing friendship with our Impact Partners. We desire to learn from their experience and work, as well as elevate their voices and those in their community of service.
We seek to build a trusting relationship with our Impact Partners. We believe the leaders of these organizations are best suited to discern how to allocate and utilize the unrestricted funds we offer whether for programs, payroll or printer ink.
We commit to continued communication to stay abreast of their work and ask for annual reporting.
Diversity in their leadership team and staff is what we look for in our Impact Partners.
How do we find our Impact Partners?
Any Flourish Collective Member can nominate a potential Impact Partner via our nomination form linked here.
How are Impact Partners vetted?
A Founder or Leadership Board member is responsible to meet the potential grantee to learn about vision, need, community and work and to determine if our mission and core values are in alignment. They will act as the point person for communication and partner care.
When is the Nomination period?
All year long but disbursements will be twice yearly. The January - May nomination window will be disbursed by June 30 and the June - November nomination window will be disbursed by December 31. Members will vote on potential grantees in late May and late November. Founders will give recommendations of grantees and funding amounts prior to the vote.
What areas do you focus on?
Community Development
Education
Health and Wholeness
What Donation Amount Do You Recommend to Make an Impact?
We accept donations of $50 dollars or more per year to become a member. We do not want giving be a financial hardship and we don’t create tiers of giving. Everyone’s dollar has equal voice. So whether you give $50 or $5000 a year, your gift matters to our mission! For those who can, our goal is a $1000 contribution per member each year. Of course, larger gifts are always welcomed! Gifts can be given anytime throughout the year as often as it works for your budget. You can give electronically, annually or monthly, by clicking on the button below. ALL DONATIONS, YEP, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOUR DOLLARS, GOES DIRECTLY TO OUR IMPACT PARTNERS.
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ”