(We recognize that your time is valuable and your plates are full. We have received more letters of interest (LOIs) than we can accommodate in our Community Well-being portfolio this year. In recognition of the time spent drafting and submitting LOIs, we are temporarily pausing LOIs for the Community Well-being portfolio.
Please check back after January 1, 2024 for additional information, when we expect to reopen our LOI process for this portfolio. Thank you.)
We all want to live in safe and healthy communities. Yet too often, laws, policies and lack of investment deprive communities of the resources they need to thrive. The negative effects of this disinvestment are easily seen. But the processes, systems, and thinking behind the disinvestment are too often hidden.
As a result, communities of color disproportionately suffer from structural inequities in environmental justice, community violence, gun violence, and youth incarceration. These are just a few of the important areas that affect the health of individuals and communities.
Communities know what they need. When we listen to people in communities who have been most affected by historical neglect and racial injustice, our job is made clear.
Our Community Well-being portfolio will provide resources that support the health, safety and resilience of communities of color, especially those that have been disproportionately affected by unhealthy environments and community violence.
This is our work: