Advanced Racial justice and improving outcomes in Black and Brown communities
Advancing racial justice and improving outcomes in Black and Brown communities
Who We Are
The Croom Institute is a philanthropy-serving organization championing philanthropy that prioritizes, amplifies and invests in Black communities. We exist to strengthen the resilience of Black-led/focused nonprofits fighting to dismantle structural inequities and improve outcomes in Black and Brown communities. Through our efforts, we strive to reshape philanthropy to better serve and uplift those most impacted by systemic injustice.
WHAT WE DO
Healing Justice
Acknowledging and redressing the systemic harm inflicted on Black and Brown communities by racism, creating opportunities for people of color to heal and reclaim their freedom.
Healing Justice Retreats
Our Healing Justice Retreats unite Black and BIPOC women employed in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors who have experienced racial trauma. We cultivate a nurturing environment for individual and collective self-actualization, healing, and renewal, offering space for both vulnerability and empowerment to prioritize wellness.
Sabbatical Grants
Responding to the mental health pandemic of BIPOC leaders experiencing workplace racial trauma, we actively encourage these leaders to prioritize self-care. Through our Sabbatical Grants program, BIPOC nonprofit leaders can apply for grants ranging from one to three months, allowing them to take essential rest breaks from their demanding roles and focus on their overall health and well-being.
Building Resilience across theBlack Diaspora
We are committed to improving outcomes for Black and Brown communities across the globe that have been impacted by colonialism and structural inequities. We’re helping to build resilience and promote sustainable change in communities harmed by these long-standing systems of oppression.
02/ - Shape your future
Fundraising Resilience Building for Black and BIPOC-lednonprofits.
We partner with grantmakers and nonprofit incubators to serve nonprofit cohorts by offering culturally relevant technical assistance designed to strengthen their fundraising resilience (we abhor the word "capacity"). This equips them to raise the necessary funding to advance their missions and movements.
Our cohort organizations benefit from the following services in an affirming community of Black-led and Black-focused nonprofits nationwide.
BIPOC
Technical Assistance Grants
Technical Assistance
Web-based Asynchronous Fundraising Education
Fundraising Coaching
Fundraising Coaching
Peer Community Building
03/ - Journey With Numbers
Advocating for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
The Croom Institute is deeply disturbed by the ruling by the 11th Circuit stating that the Fearless Fund's Strivers program violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866. This verdict is one of many efforts being used through the courts to dismantle diversity and widen the wealth gap that overwhelmingly harms Black people and communities.
We stand with the Fearless Fund and countless other organizations fighting to address the structural inequities that harm Black and Brown people.
We refuse to be bystanders as courts make rulings and lawmakers enact policies that dismantle diversity and roll back the rights and civil liberties of historically minoritized racial groups. We’re pushing back against the all-out war on DEI and advocating for programs and policies that uplift the voices of Black and Brown people.
If you feel as strongly about this ruling as we do, I encourage you to #takeaction and tell Congress to protect The Right to Fund Historically Minoritized Groups where Racial Disparities Exist pursuant to the Section 1981 of The Civil Rights act of 1866.
FEAT
Our Why
Because Black and Brown communities bear the brunt of structural inequities in education, health, justice, and more due to policies and systems that create advantages for Whites and disadvantages for Blacks. We’re working to improve outcomes and to raise the vibration in Black and Brown communities because when Black and Brown communities thrive, we all thrive.
