Liberation Ventures is a field catalyst accelerating the reparations movement and building a culture of repair for all people in the United States. We invest in ideas, people, organizations, and networks to unlock the reparations movement’s full potential. Our work spans three pillars:
Mobilizing Resources- Each year, we invest in organizations that accelerate the reparations movement and consistently co-create grantmaking strategies with practitioners in the field.
- Since 2021, we have moved $9.5 million to more than 60 organizations. The organizations we invest in are led by people of all races, and demonstrate accountability to Black communities. Learn more about our 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 movement partners
- We co-created the Reparations Grantmaking Blueprint – a unified grantmaking strategy that sets clear and achievable goals for the next 10 years
- We built the Collaborative For Repair, a donor collaborative that is raising $220 million and deploying dollars in alignment with the Reparations Grantmaking Blueprint
Building Capacity and Connective Tissue- We gather the movement annually to convene and connect people – to opportunities and each other. Together we strategize, and strengthen relationships that drive coordination and collaboration – making the movement more than the sum of its parts
- We anchor coalitions that support the coordination and development of legal, research and communications strategies
- We support movement partners with non-financial resources related to fundraising, communications, strategic planning, research, healing, and more
- We develop knowledge to support the entire field including databases of existing research, state and local research guides, and more
Changing the Narrative- We build narrative power by amplifying the stories of our movement, and framing reparations as common sense and commonplace
- We broadcast narratives and messages in a range of ways that shift public beliefs and sentiments towards full support for reparations
- We run the Reparations Narrative Lab, a research hub focused on clarifying current beliefs and sentiments about reparations. The lab produced a narrative schema, research on public opinion, state and local research guides and the report There Are New Suns: Building A Transformative Narrative for Black Reparations
- We develop tools, trainings and tailored support for people and organizations that are crafting and shaping narrative and cultural strategies