When we say equity, we mean ownership. Thriving Black communities require control and agency over land. We prioritize Black land acquisition as a foundational pillar to our work.

Take action in support of youth-led Black education solutions including community-owned schools, restorative justice, Black studies, building youth achievement and family empowerment centers in South Seattle and more.

Black wealth in 2020 remains near zero due to centuries of systemic anti-Black racism. Persistent anti-Black barriers keep the Black community from gaining equitable access to capital. Tap in to learn more and take action to stop it.

We advocate strongly to divest from policing and invest directly in the Black community toward self-determined, pro-Black safety solutions.

Seattle, Martin Luther King Jr. County boasts some of the most sophisticated, renowned hospitals and medical facilities in the world. The disparities in medical treatment received by the Black communities are appalling, with COVID-19 serving as just the most recent flashlight into this dark and disturbing reality. Read on to support a suite of initial health equity solutions to combat this.

Celebrate our latest advocacy win! With community, our advocacy helped protect an entire block in the Central District from market rate development. Instead, it will go to Black community ownership towards Bennu Community Homes! Bennu Community Homes will be a 24/7, enhanced shelter home offering culturally responsive, trauma-informed care & wraparound services incl. health, education, employment, and housing navigation resources. It will be the first Black community-owned, Black-led unhoused service provider of scale in WA State.

After seven years of Black community advocacy, the William Grose Center for Cultural Innovation and Enterprise is finally moving forward! The soon-to-be William Grose Center reflects a deep history of local Black activism to reclaim the property and other parcels of unused public land in the region. Read on to learn more and support this work.

Rising housing costs and predatory development have forced East African and other Black immigrant groups further and further south, outside of Seattle. Read on to support EACS in building the Family Empowerment Center to help create permanence and agency for East African refugee and immigrant youth and families in Othello!

In 2020, Black community mobilized tremendous community support to halt the predatory development of the Keiro site — nearly a full block in the heart of the Central District. Building on the legacy of the Liberty Bank Building, Africatown Community Land Trust is moving forward to purchase the building with plans to develop Black community-led and -centered affordable housing and wraparound and direct services! Read more and take action in support of this historic model below.

Nurturing Roots Farm is leading a collaborative effort to transform ~40 acres of vacant land into a Black-led farming, healing space, and foundation for youth empowerment. Organizing and working tirelessly with community partners for over a year, this incredible cause has gained thousands upon thousands of community allies in support. Read more and support this effort here.

The Petah Village project pilots an outdoor preschool located on 1.4 acres of green space, and a 2700 square-foot facility to serve 81 children. The expansion of Petah Villages serves as a pro-Black programmatic service within a continuum of care to address systemic inequitable barriers for Black, Brown and Indigenous communities toward accessible, high-quality early childhood education, housing stability, and economic, workforce development services. Click to learn more and support.

Spearheaded by The Ethiopian Community in Seattle (ECS), The Ethiopian Village Project will provide many critical services including after school programing, senior meal programs, health workshops, social services, summer camps, coding training, cultural immersion courses and more along with 90 units of affordable housing for seniors in South Seattle. Learn more and support.

In the midst of a citywide affordable housing crisis, Catholic Housing Services and Equity Alliance of Washington, in partnership with the Rainier Beach Action Coalition (RBAC) seek to develop the community-oriented Elizabeth Thomas Homes Project in Rainier Beach.

There is a crisis in Black health in Martin Luther King Jr. County. Along with jarring statistics highlighted above, we underscore again that there are zero Black community-owned, federally qualified health clinics in the entire Pacific Northwest (OR, WA, ID, MT, WY). It’s no wonder that Black people in King County contracted COVID-19 at 3x the rates of whites yet received less than 2% of the federal COVID-19 recovery funding. We have to change this. We can change this. Tap in and take action to base-build the only Black community owned health clinics in the PNW.

Black community leaders, members, business owners, and elected officials came together to address the State of Black Community in COVID-19, and present the collective demand to invest at least $300 million dollars from the recently awarded American Relief Plan Act (ARPA) funding directly into the local Black community.