An endorsement expresses confidence in our Blueprints and Groundswell’s remarkable model: A foundation created and run by a staff of women of color and transgender and gender non-conforming people of color who are former grassroots organizers; and A giving strategy shaped by advisors and board members who include some of the most important movement leaders…
Executive Director of Groundswell Action Fund, Quanita Toffie, is featured in this installment of Women & Democracy from Ms. Magazine. This series is focused on feminist philanthropy and the visionary leaders charting new ground to demonstrate exactly what it looks like to fund and mobilize at the intersection of gender and democracy. Voters have…
When we introduced our 2020-2025 Blueprint at the end of 2020, we were amidst a tumultuous presidential term, devastating natural disasters, and a global pandemic that shifted the resources available to communities and how we interact with each other. Since Groundswell Fund’s inception in 2003 and the start of our current Blueprint in 2020, we…
Thank you Through your investment, we provide grants and capacity-building support to reproductive and social justice grassroots organizations led by women of color and transgender and gender-expansive communities of color. With your support, we are well on our way to reaching our Blueprint goal of moving $20 Million into the field through 2025.
Quanita Toffie, Groundswell Action Fund’s executive director, recently penned a piece titled To Counter Anti-Democracy Efforts, It’s Time to Invest in Florida Year-Round, which was published in Ms. Magazine. In the piece, Toffie calls for the end of boom-and-bust patterns of c4 funding and discusses how Florida retains its authoritarian stronghold in America.
Mrs. Daroneshia Duncan-Boyd is an unapologetically Black, trans woman, a southerner, and the Executive Director of TAKE Resource Center, a trans people of color-led organization headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. Mrs. Duncan-Boyd has a deep commitment and passion for this work. As an out trans woman, born and raised in Alabama, she has experienced physical and…
Make Democracy Great Again History teaches us that whenever social justice movements make progress, there is an equal and opposite level of backlash. And the backlash we’re currently facing cannot be overstated. Nowhere was this more apparent than in the repeal of Roe v. Wade last year. With escalating attacks on bodily autonomy and voting rights alongside…
Advance Native Political Leadership Action Fund Advance Native Political Leadership Action Fund develops and implements national political power-building strategies for Native people in both urban and tribal communities. It is the only national, Native American-led organization addressing the vast inequities that exist in funding and support for Native American-led, especially Native women-led, electoral work.
By Janette Robinson-Flint, Executive Director of Black Women for Wellness Action Project Black Women for Wellness Action Project is a Groundswell Action Fund grantee. We must defend the right to choose. Globally, we have been in crisis for some time, and while there must be space for us to grieve the massive burden of SCOTUS’…