Here is one way you can kick-off BLACK HISTORY MONTH this year.
LEARN-INVEST-GIVE
Wherever you are, there are lots of options to support Black communities.
If you’d like to take a regional and entrepreneurial approach, the Southern Reparations Loan Fund is a powerful option…
“The Southern Reparations Loan Fund (SRLF) is a network of non-extractive loan funds that make loans to community-based businesses anchored in the most marginalized Southern communities. The SRLF network is a regional network within the national Seed Commons network, which strengthens the individual and collective capacity of our Southern loan funds. All of SRLF’s work is done within a reparations framework, with the goal of building self-reliant, resilient, and just cooperative solidarity economies in marginalized communities in the South.
Who We Are
SRLF network members focus their lending to start-ups and expansions of democratically-governed enterprises that meet the needs and elevate the quality of life of African Americans, immigrants, poor whites, and others who have been systematically damaged by exploitation and oppression. Our aim is to nurture the development of businesses that maximize community benefit, rather than the narrow concept of maximizing profit. The SRLF network began life in 2015 as a single, centralized loan fund, which made four loans in its first four years: the Renaissance Community Coop grocery store in Greensboro, NC, Rebel Threads, a t-shirt printing project connected to the Florida Dream Defenders, the Rankin County Farmers Association, a Mississippi farmers coop, and Las Casitas, a mobile home coop of immigrants in Asheville, NC.”
LEARN MORE:
https://southernreparations.org
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