12 Grants and Funding Sources for Black Organizations and Small Businesses Affected by COVID-19

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Many organizations and small businesses have shut down temporarily due to COVID-19. Even those operating remotely still face significant revenue shortfalls. Below is a list of federal, state, and privately funded grants for organizations and small businesses focused on people of color. If you need assistance, apply. If you are able, please donate.

Array Grants

Ava DuVernay‘s Array Alliance has launched Array Grants, a $250,000 funding initiative for arts organizations that focus on narrative change by people of color and women of all kinds. ARRAY Grants supports individuals and organizations that advocate for people of color and all sorts of women, with a particular focus on community-building and creativity. We recognize your leadership; we embrace your passion; we celebrate your vision.

A Better Chicago

A Better Chicago is now accepting grant applications for projects and initiatives assisting low-income youth and families experiencing significant hardship due to COVID-19. Funds will support the urgent needs of young people and their families, focusing on Black and Latinx youth due to the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on these communities and the systemic inequities in Chicago.

African-American Relief Fund

Their mission of distributing grants to small black businesses, provide grants to small business owners, help seniors get fresh food, and distribute information in predominantly African American communities. They will also donate safety gear and clothing to frontline workers and provide emergency housing for homeless and low-income families affected by the crisis.

BET COVID-19 Relief Fund

The BET COVID-19 Relief Fund provides emergency support to African-American communities that have been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Donnie Fund

Social startup Digitalundivided created a new fund called The Doonie Fund, named after the CEO’s grandmother. The fund will provide relief for African American female entrepreneurs who have been impacted by coronavirus. The fund, created in early April, has already helped more than 93 entrepreneurs by providing micro-investments of $500 or less. Those eligible can apply through the company’s site.

Emergent Fund 

“Emergent Fund prioritizes grassroots organizing and power building in Indigenous communities and communities of color who are facing injustice based on racial, ethnic, religious, and other forms of discrimination. They are focusing their grantmaking on organizations that (1) are mobilizing to respond to the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable communities; (2) are utilizing power-building strategies including but not limited to digital organizing, membership development and outreach, narrative development, direct action; and (3) are led by communities of color.”

Groundswell Rapid Response Fund 

“Groundswell’s Rapid Response Fund provides fast funding to grassroots organizations led by women of color, trans people of color, and low-income women and trans people in critical, but unexpected, fights to protect and advance reproductive and social justice.”

LISC Small Business Relief Grants

The Ford Foundation first conceived of LISC; it envisioned an “intermediary”—a smart and nimble nonprofit that would connect hard-to-tap public and private resources with underinvested places and people working to access opportunities every one of us deserves. Thanks to the support from funders like Verizon and Sam’s Club, they are providing grants to small businesses to keep functioning and remain vital facets of their local economies through this challenging period.

Marketing Grant for Women & Micro-grant for Women

The Marketing Grant for Women provides help with free SEO analysis and recommendations. The Micro-grant for Women will choose one person each month providing $100 a month to a selected business.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation Rapid Response Fund

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation created this rapid response fund to respond to the hate crimes and bias against Asian American communities resulting from COVID-19. The Foundation will provide urgent support to organizations for activities. This includes, but not limited to: holding community meetings, crisis response, culturally responsive training for schools or districts, culturally sensitive therapy, community healing, racial solidarity efforts with organizations serving other People of Color (ex. Latinx, Black, etc.), or other activities intended to hold space for AAPI community members.

Small Business Marketing Grant & Minority Business Micro-grant

SBMG grant program supports Black-owned and minority-owned businesses by providing free SEO evaluations, advice, and planning. There is currently no cap on the number of possible marketing grant recipients per month. Grantees will be selected on a rolling basis. There is no application deadline.

The MB micro-grant provides $100 to one person each month.

The Black Belt Community Foundation

The Black Belt Community Foundation’s mission is to forge a collective stream of giving that transforms 12-county region. This connects those interested in having an impact in this region with nonprofits that are making a difference today.

Women of Color E-Lab

“Under SheaMoisture’s $1Million Community Commerce Fund, the brand will create an e-learning platform for women of color entrepreneurs to continue to gain an education, access to resources, mentorship, and advice on how to prepare for the economic downturn.”

Your Friends in New York Business Relief Fund

They announced on their Instagram page that they would be starting two different initiatives in response to the spread of COVID-19. They will be helping healthcare professionals obtain equipment, as well as aim to support small businesses.

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COVID-19 Resources for Artists of Color. https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/coronavirus-resources-for-artists-of-color

8 Funding Resources for Artist of Color during COVID-19

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Funding relief for artists are available as emergency funds, as well as local, state, and national resources.

The recent global health crisis has left the art world in uncertain times due to COVID-19. Museums, theaters, exhibitions, and concerts are canceled with no startup date. Fortunately, there are resources available to help. The artists will qualify for the federal government’s CARES Act, and organizations are helping to connect artists to employment opportunities and grants daily. Artist resources are available as emergency funds, as well as local, state, and national resources for a variety of artists here.

The following list provides funding relief for people of color, as well as the opportunity to donate to any of these fantastic causes.

Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund

  • Accepting donations: Yes, here
  • Apply here on a rolling basis

Arts Administrators of Color Network has set up the Arts Leaders of Color Emergency Fund which folks can donate directly to in support of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists AND administrators (consultants, facilitators, box office staff, seasonal/temporary employees, etc.) who have been financially impacted due to COVID-19. However, creatives practicing and teaching their art as well as the administrators who are supporting that art will without a doubt need our financial support to weather this unexpected and uncertain storm.

Bloom Fund

 They provide unrestricted $1,200 grants in visual arts, literature, small business, non-profit, research, and education for individuals who identify as black, indigenous, and/or person of color.

For the People Artists Collective

For the People Artists Collective is a radical squad of Black artists and artists of color in Chicago. They offer emergency microgrants of up to $500 to Illinois-based artists and freelancers of color whose income has been affected during the COVID-19 pandemic.

GoFundMe: Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund

This writers fund is geared to help at least 100 queer writers of color who have been financially impacted by the current COVID-19. Although, priority will be given to queer trans women of color and queer disabled writers of color.

Marketing Grant for Artists

This grant will help drive organic traffic from Google and Bing and provide artists a free SEO analysis and recommendations.

Micro-grant for Artists

One artist will be chosen each month from the applications provided in the link. This artist will receive a $100 micro-grant each month. 

National Black Arts

Donate to the Artist Fund
Apply to Artist Project Fund

The NBA has launched an Artist Project Relief fund starting at $5000 to support Black Artists that help assistance during this time of need. They are committed to fight, fund and feature black artists

Pillars Rapid Response Fund

“The Pillars Rapid Response Fund supports the personal expenses of Muslim artists and activists whose livelihoods are being negatively impacted by this current moment. The fund will be making $500 grants to individuals through a short application process.”

The Atlanta Artist Lost Gig Fund

Rolling application

This is for Atlanta-area artists who earn the majority of their income from their art-based practice and who have unmet essential needs due to COVID-19-related revenue loss. Priority is given to members of the Atlanta non-profit arts service organization C4, then to those who are disabled or immunocompromised, then to artists who identify as black, indigenous, people of color, transgender, and/or gender nonbinary. 

Funding Opportunites

If you have any information for other funding opportunities for people of color, please leave a comment below.

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Young Inventor Bishop Curry Raises almost $50,000 to Help Develop a Device to Stop Hot-Car Deaths.

Young inventor Bishop Curry V created his invention, which he called “Oasis,” when he was just ten years old. In 2016 alone, 39 children died in the US because they were left inside a car in sweltering conditions. Almost every state has experienced at least one death since 1998. In 2018, a record number of 53 children died after being left in a hot vehicle, closely followed in 2019 by 52 deaths.

In 2016, at the age of ten, Bishop Curry V came up with a concept for a device that could help to prevent hot car deaths after he had heard about a baby dying in a hot minivan near his home in Texas. His father, an employee at Toyota, told them about his son’s idea. After that, Bishop V met with a senior executive engineer at Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center in Michigan, and together they started working on the device he named “Oasis.”

“I heard about babies dying in car seats, and they could have grown up to be somebody important,” – Bishop said.

Young Inventor

Oasis received a patent in April 2018. When using this device and a child is left in a hot car seat, it uses a fan system to cool the child and the car. It sends an alert to the parents and alerts authorities if they don’t react. All the prototypes of Oasis have been handmade in his garage. However, his ultimate goal is a functional prototype to help manufacture Oasis. With the help of Kickr Design, a company allows investors to build products and connects with manufacturers to bring products to the market.

The Curry family opened a GoFundme page on June 14, 2018. According to the Curry family, In January 2019, Bishop finalized Oasis with his engineering team at Kickr Design. Baby Jogger requested that he submit his patent to their research department. However, they are hopeful that Baby Jogger or another car seat company decides to implement his technology into their car seats. As of April 2019, the GoFundme campaign closed with receiving $46,925. Bishop recently finished the engineering phase of Oasis and is now actively seeking a manufacturer.

Where is Bishop Curry V now and his Oasis invention? Including TedxPlano talk; he has recently been travelling around the country, giving talks at conventions about his device and encouraging kids.

Young inventor
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Here are some additional facts about Bishop

  1. The earliest prototype for Oasis was created with assistance from Bishop’s engineer father.
  2. Bishop has been asked to speak on his invention and the value of creativity and innovation at gatherings worldwide, including the United Nations.
  3. The young inventor and his father established a “Think and Wonder” business to create and promote Oasis.
  4. The Oasis gadget sends a warning to the driver’s phone to remind them to check on their passengers when it detects that a youngster or pet has been left in a heated car.
  5. If the vehicle temperature rises too high, the device also features a built-in fan that activates automatically.
  6. Bishop, who founded Oasis in addition to being a talented pianist, has played at New York City’s Carnegie Hall.
  7. Bishop, young inventor, has won many honors and accolades for his creation, and TIME Magazine named him one of the 30 Most Important Teenagers of 2018.
  8. To stop fatalities from overheated cars and save lives, Bishop hopes that his innovation will one day be a requirement for all vehicles.

Conclusion

Young inventor, Bishop has persisted in supporting innovation and creativity. He has shared his story and motivated others, particularly young people, to follow their ideas and aspirations by speaking at numerous gatherings and conferences. Additionally, he has worked to advance STEM education and foster inclusivity and diversity in the industry.

Bishop Curry V is still a prominent and motivating person in social entrepreneurship and innovation. He keeps pushing forward to stop fatalities in hot cars and create a safer environment.

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10-Year-Old Boy uses 3D Printing to Save Lives …. https://www.treatstock.com/blog/bishop-curry-oasis

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Help Bishop end Hot Car Deaths – GoFundMe. https://www.gofundme.com/f/end-child-hot-car-deaths-phase-2

RACIAL DISPARITIES OF THE SPANISH FLU TO COVID-19

Vanessa discusses the differences between the 1918 Spanish Flu to the 2020 Covid-19, as it relates to black Americans.

See podcast notes here.

The Racial Disparities of the Spanish Flu to COVID-19

It’s worth examining the social dynamics of the 1918 Spanish flu compared to COVID-19 today in 2020. Until today, the 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Mortality was high in people younger than five, 20-40, and 65 years and older. The high mortality in healthy people, including those in the 20-40 year age group, was a unique feature of this pandemic. It resulted in 50 million deaths around the globe, 675,000 of which were American. The first cases in the U.S. were identified in soldiers living in close quarters in Army barracks before heading to Europe to join the war, which the United States entered in April 1917.

Discrimination during the Spanish Flu

Black people who caught the flu were often left to fend for themselves. They received low-quality care in segregated hospitals, where they would get attention in close quarters in basements. They were only allowed admittance to black-only hospitals. Even in death, black bodies were neglected.

Black Americans from 1918 to 2020 have continued an increased susceptibility to diseases like high blood pressure and diabetes. However, even with that said, with the 1918 epidemic, the incidence of influenza was lower in African Americans. 

In Chicago, Dr. Roscoe Giles was a doctor for wealthy Black people. The Chicago Defender was the source of all news in the black community. But for those less fortunate, Provident Hospital, the nation’s first black-owned and -operated hospital, was one of the few places where black people could be seen and treated. Provident was crucial in training black nurses.

“If you caught influenza, you were obligated to self-quarantine and then report that you had caught it to the Department of Public Health, and then they would come to your house and placard your house, like put a big red sign up on your house,.” The Public Health Department mandated that people needed to wear a mask. And what a group of black Chicago ladies do is they start innovating with the masks and making them out of delicate lace and exquisite jewels. So even in the face of the pandemic, they looked fabulous in these diamond-studded flu veils.

Current Statistics

 In 2020 for only 3,300 of 13,000 COVID-19 deaths — African-Americans accounted for 42 percent of the deaths, the Associated Press reported on April 9. Those data also suggest the disparity could be highest in the South. For instance, Black Americans account for over 65 percent of known COVID-19 deaths in both Louisiana and Mississippi.

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

In Illinois, most infections are in Chicago; 28 percent of the 16,422 confirmed cases as of April 9 were African-Americans. Still, African-Americans accounted for nearly 43 percent of the state’s 528 deaths. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report looked at hospitalizations for COVID-19 across 14 states from March 1 to 30. Race data, available for 580 of 1,482 patients, revealed that African-Americans accounted for 33 percent of the hospitalizations but only 18 percent of the total population surveyed.

Overall, Many believe there was a lack of accurate data collection during the public health crisis 1918 and even today. The possibility that Black American influenza cases in 1918 may have been underreported because 

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Will Smith has a new series on Snapchat called ‘Will From Home’

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About Will Smith

The actor and rapper Will Smith, launched the 12-part series on Friday, April 3rd, on Snapchat to entertain and educate fans during quarantine from the coronavirus on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Head of original content for Snapchat, Sean Mills stated that the idea for the show came when discussing the social media platform with Westbrook Media, Smith’s production company. “Will was feeling a lot of pent-up creative energy and was excited to do something with it in a new and different way,” Sean Mills adds.

The series will follow Smith hanging out in his garage during the coronavirus pandemic; he will talk to his family, special guests like Tyra Banks and everyday people practicing social distancing by staying home. The guest appearances will all be recorded from their own homes. Dr. Anthony Fauci was in one of the episodes answering questions about the coronavirus. A 7-year-old appears with him, asking Dr. Fauci questions about the virus.

Smith’s family, relatives, and other famous people appeared on the show, offering a lighter and humorous perspective on life during the pandemic. Each episode lasted roughly ten minutes and was only available on Snapchat.

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Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School.

“I knew I was going to be a lawyer when I was a little girl,

 -Lila Fenwick, she told the Harvard Law Bulletin in 2000. 

Introduction

In 1956, Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick later led the United Nation™ Human Rights Division. She attended Harvard in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down. She joined a handful of women and the only black woman a year before Ruth Bader Ginsburg started as a first-year student at the school. According to the New York Times, the dean challenged the nine women in the future Supreme Court justice class to defend why they were occupying a place that could have gone to a man.

Early Life

On May 24, 1932, Lila Althea Fenwick was born in Manhattan to John and Hilda Fenwick, who had emigrated from Trinidad. Her father was a well-off property owner and landlord in Harlem and the Bronx.

Education

Lila Fenwick graduated from Barnard College in 1953 before attending Harvard Law. Then after law school, she attended the London School of Economics.

Harvard Law first accepted women in 1950 for its class of 1953, but it would be decades before women students felt welcome. Lady’s Day, the monthly tradition of professors calling on women students as if they were performing bears, as some have described it, was in full, humiliating swing.

Her accomplishments

At the United Nations, Fenwick became an accomplished human rights official. While at the U.N., she was a specialist on gender, racial and religious discrimination. In addition to protecting minorities and indigenous populations and the right to emigrate from oppressive countries. She then became a private lawyer and a benefactor. She also helped build the Foundation for Research and Education in Sickle Cell Disease.

Lila Fenwick was an extraordinary leader who devoted her career at the United Nations to protecting the human rights of all people across the globe, said John F. Manning, the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean of Harvard Law School. 

Fenwick was a quiet individual who stayed away from the limelight. Outside her professional accomplishments, little is known about her personal life because she did not give many interviews or public appearances.

Conclusion

In conclusion, we celebrate Fenwick’s life and her courageous path. The New York Times reported that she died on April 4 from coronavirus-related complicationsShe was 87. This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.

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Meet Dr. Corbett, the lead coronavirus vaccine scientist

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What we know is that this virus is in the same family of viruses like SARS, so it is akin, and about 80 percent genetically similar to the SARS virus

–Kizzmekia Corbett

Kizzmekia Corbett and her team became the first in the world to start the early stage of clinical trials for a COVID-19 vaccine and the fastest progress toward a possible vaccine. Forty other groups of researchers followed, including those in China and Germany. If her team is successful, which means all three clinical trials are safe, the vaccine may be available as early as 2021. Since the Coronavirus is in the same family as SARS, Dr. Corbett and her team are using that template to swap genetic code to make it more palatable for the current virus in a strategy she calls “plug and play.”

Career 

Dr. Barney Graham, the man who led the human genome project, met Corbett while she was an undergrad working during the summer at the NIH’s Vaccine Research Center. He asked her what she ultimately wanted to do with her life. She replied, “‘ I want your job,'” Graham recalls, “From the very beginning, she was pretty bold in her aspirations. And I, if I recall correctly, I was just glad to hear help was coming.” Now she’s at Graham’s center, leading the coronavirus vaccine development team.

According to The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, directs the body’s cells to express a protein that is hoped to trigger an immune response. It has shown promise in animals and is now being tested on its first human subjects, who will receive the vaccine over two rounds, 28 days apart.

Background

Kizzmekia “Kizzy” Shanta Corbett was born on January 26, 1986, in Hurdle Mills, North Carolina. Corbett received a B.S. in biological sciences and sociology from the University of Maryland (UMBC). In 2014, Corbett received a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her advice to Black Americans 

In an interview with Black Enterprise Magazine, Dr. Corbett says, “I am Christian. I’m black. I am Southern; I’m an empath. I’m feisty, sassy, and fashionable. That’s kind of how I describe myself. I would say that my role as a scientist is really about my passion and purpose for the world and for giving back to the world.” She goes on to say to the magazine,”

As this virus is infecting and killing Black American’s than any other race, Corbell believes, “One of the things that have come out of this moment is that my community does not trust our government. I think I was blinded by it because I sat in a seat, to be frank, of privilege. And so, it’s disheartening because I have people say, ‘They chose her so that they can get us to believe that the vaccine is good and then they will just like, don’t poison us or something.’ I want people to just step back for a little bit and just for just one second or a couple of seconds. Just think, what if nobody is out to hurt me?”

Adults in the Seattle area who are interested in joining this study should visit https://corona.kpwashingtonresearch.org/(link is external). People who live outside of this region will not be eligible to participate in this trial.

 â€œEveryday we are learning more and more and more, obviously, because this is a novel virus, and even though we’ve been to this rodeo before with MERS AND SARS, there are so many unknowns.”


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Pharrell Launches STEM Learning to Netflix with â Brainchild

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That’s because at the core of the plight of children of color in this country is a lack of access to actionable education. Pharrell Williams

Suppose you are like me and have kids during the “Stay at Home” ordinance. In that case, you may be looking for supplementary materials or educational programming for teaching them science, technology, engineering, art, and math (STEAM). Thanks to Netflix, the show “Brain Child” has lesson plans and student handouts for FREE at home or through the school. Pharrell Williams is the executive producer of “Brain Child,” a spinoff of “Brain Games,” which was televised on National Geographic Channel for seven seasons and earned a Primetime Emmy nomination in 2013.

Pharrell William is not just a pop star but also a father. He has been actively seeking projects to share with his kids. He is a new dad of triplets in addition to his 10-year-old son. His fanbase has expanded to young fans after his song “Happy” off the “Despicable Me 2” soundtrack. He contacted his agent at William Morris Endeavor (WME) and expressed interest in launching a show with kids. Pharrell mentioned that his excitement to work on a show with kids started after watching “Brain Games” with his wife and his kid. “It’s essential to me to get STEAM-focused programming in front of minority communities,” he explains in an interview with Variety Magazine.


The host, Shanan Srinivasan, is one of the only female leads of color on an internationally distributed science or documentary series. The show’s first season was released on Nov. 2, 2018, and features 13 episodes.

 

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