No! However, your project/organization must be Black-led and Black-focused, meaning:

• 70% of the leadership is Black
• PRIMARY leadership is Black
• 50% of Board is Black
• Black-centered Programming

No! All formations are allowed to apply, including LLCs. However, please note that all of our information and coaching will be through a non-profit lens.

While your project, organization, or business can make money, all ventures must be with the expressed intentions of improving conditions, confronting privilege, and shifting power for the benefit of Black people.

Representation alone is not enough. How is your work changing conditions for Black people?

Is your work creating solutions that are based on the collective good as opposed to exploitation; community benefit vs. individual profit, community solutions, community good, and have values that are non-exploitative.

Liberation is both a process and a destination.

Liberation requires the desire to break free of ALL the social structures that oppress us, not just capitalism.

We are looking for projects, organizations, and businesses that are working towards liberation in both the working they are doing, and in the way they are approaching the work; structures that center liberation practices.

The Praxis Fellowship is an experiment in finding new and innovative ways to grow, support, and uplift liberatory leadership practices.

While we believe in the necessity of this work, it is currently set up to be a one time opportunity; however, it is our desire to connect groups with potential funders, as well as build this program so that we can continue to grow support for many more organizations in the future.

No! A portion of the team needs to be US-based; however, we believe in connecting the African Diaspora through our work and recognize that Black people are everywhere.

While your project, organization, or business does not have to be an organizing entity, it does have to have, within its framework, the intention to confront power & privilege within your particular programming area or focus.

Additionally, there needs to be a way that your work looks to shift power. We believe that the solutions you seek, the issues you are fighting, and the problems you are looking to address should be generated, for the most part, by the people who are impacted by the work.

We will dispense a payment in the beginning of the fellowship of $25K. This is to reduce barriers to how you actually need to use funding support. The final $5K will be dispensed at the end of the fellowship when your team attends the culminating meeting.

There are limited funding restrictions, aside from those that are in accordance with the laws and legal status of your project, organization, or business.