Black Lives Matter foundation raised more than $90M in 2020 Print this article
The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation claims to have raised more than $90 million in 2020, a year filled with protests against racial inequality and police brutality.
A report released this week also said that the foundation had $8.4 million in expenses in 2020 and announced plans to share $21.7 million in grants to a variety of leftist activist groups and local BLM chapters.
Patrisse Cullors, the executive director of the BLM Global Network Foundation and a self-described Marxist who formed the BLM national organization with Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, claimed in a new letter this week that “in July, we paused for a moment as we were inundated with a surge of interest, attention, and allies.” She said that “our network of almost twenty chapters at the time came together to ideate something different; an entity and structure that could remain true to the grassroots origins of
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The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is working on getting money into the hands of people disproportionately affected by the pandemic. It’s part of the foundation’s new survival fund designed to help Black and Brown folks who are struggling financially amid the wait for more relief from the federal government.
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