What if Black people were paid the debt they are owed?
Supporting economic justice movements, including the movement to pay reparations to Black people who are owed a debt as a result of historic and contemporary racial harms.
Foundation Reparations Project
In partnership with the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, if’s foundation reparations project will illuminate the ways in which Black people’s labor and genius have been exploited and stolen to build philanthropic wealth in the DC region. The project will make compelling cases for reparative philanthropy from DC-area foundations to DC-area Black communities by outlining the details of and quantifying harm on a foundation-by-foundation basis.
Let’s GO DMV! Guaranteed Income Pilot
At the top of the pandemic, Vee, a hospitality worker and organizer with ROC-DC, approached if about the possibility of investing funds she and her co-workers were raising. The idea: to create residual income for hospitality workers who lost jobs due to COVID-19.
Since then, if has partnered with Amalgamated Bank, Amalgamated Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Restaurant Opportunities Center of DC, and Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers on a five-year guaranteed income (GI) pilot project for 75 DC-area hospitality workers who lost jobs due to COVID-19.
Let’s GO (Guarantee Opportunity) DMV! is funded by program related investments and philanthropic grants that center workers. The pilot includes a strong narrative component to help make the case for local government-supported GI programs. We do this in partnership with The DC UBI Coalition and other pilots and coalitions throughout the region.
if, Open Horizon, and Horning Family Foundation have already committed grant funding to support the first year of GI to workers. We are actively seeking funders to commit additional grants and make impact investments in Let's GO DMV! For more information, contact Hanh Le, VP for Strategic Partnerships at hanh@iffdn.org, or complete the form below.