BTM | Resources

BIPOC PHYSICAL & MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES FOR BIPOC

• Therapy For Black Girls Podcast

• 19 Black Therapists and mental health experts to follow on Instagram

• Dear Black Women Project website

• The Loveland Foundation Therapy Fund

• National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network

• The Trevor Project: Supporting Black LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health Guide

• We R Native Organization

• Black Mental Health Matters Resources Cardd

PHYSICAL WELL-BEING RESOURCES FOR BIPOC

• Ethel's Club: A Black-owned social and wellness club designed to celebrate people of color: website | Instagram

• Liberated Moves: A free 4-week series for BIPOC to feel and heal together. Sundays at 9:30am EST from June 14-July 5 on zoom:

• Liberate Mediation app (and website)

  FINANCIAL AID FOR ACTIVISTS & BAIL FUNDS

• Freedom Fighters Fund

  This fund is unapologetically designed to pour into Black girl activists on the frontlines. New applications opening beginning July 1. For updates, please follow @justice4blackgirls on Instagram for updates, application info, or to donate (paypal.me/justice4blackgirls).

• Emergency Release Fund

  Mutual aid getting LGBTQ+ and medically vulnerable individuals out of Rikers Island and ICE detention. In response to COVID-19, the Emergency Release Fund has expanded their mission to raise and post bail for pretrial medically vulnerable individuals and anyone who identifies as LGBTQ.

  • Donate at bit.ly/DonateERF

  • For more information, contact info@emergencyreleasefund.com
     

• Youth to The Front Fund

• Created to support and fund under 30-year-old BIPOC youth activists, youth-led organizations, projects, innovations and creative solutions that are at the forefront of fighting systemic racism, inequality, inequity and injustice in the United States and around the world. (link)

• $2.5k Art Supply Scholarship for a BIPOC artist (link)

  There is no age-limit, nor does one need to be in school to apply. My only requirement is that you are a BIPOC human artist with epic positive vibes! If you have questions, please refer to our F.A.Q.’s page.

  To be considered for scholarship, please submit up to 3 images of your artwork (traditional mediums only / not digital art). Include your name, social media account, and website or online portfolio if you have one. Also with a few paragraphs, let us know a little about yourself and why you are applying for the scholarship. Submissions are due by July 31, 2020. Award will be given on August 1st, in the form of a credit in your name or gift card to Art-Supply store of your choice. (IG post: @Anniefree.art)

• TransLifeLine grants for updating/correcting names + gender markers on legal id docs

  75% of microgrant awards will be reserved for TBIPOC (Trans Black, Indigenous, People of Color). The next Microgrant application cycle opens on July 15th at 6:00PM Eastern here.

  Monthly Application Timeline:
  1st of the month at 9am PST / 12pm EST and 15th of the month at 3pm PST / 6pm EST

• Black Creative Endeavors Grant (IG post)

  We are committing $15,000 USD in funding to Black-led initiatives: $3,000 USD will be disbursed to five creators to support their creative endeavors. This includes but is not limited to, projects or initiatives in design, architecture, fashion, music, visual arts, community arts, writing, photography, and film or other. In addition, we are offering our resources and services to grant recipients, if desired.
  
  Grant submissions are open to US and International candidates. You can submit your proposal to team@somethingspecialstudios.com by July 31. Please include your Category in the subject line of the email submission. We will reply to all submissions by August 14. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to DM us or e-mail team@somethingspecialstudios.com
  
  We’d like to reiterate that if we can be of any assistance in providing our resources and services to Black-led organizers working for structural change, we are keeping our email open to listen and participate in action.

• List of Bail Funds for Protestors across the US (link)

• LGBTQ Freedom Fund posts bail to secure the safety and liberty of individuals in U.S. jails and immigration facilities (link)

• Haitian Immigrant Bail Assistance Project: bail/bond payment for Haitian Immigrants (link)

• Undocumented CA Residents COVID Relief Fund (link)

• Black Trans Travel Fund (link)

• The Bail Project (link)

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES & ALLYSHIP

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES:

• Decolonize All the Things Hub

• Black Lives Matter Action Cardd

• 87 Ways to help the Black Lives Matter Movement (post)

• Master Petition Cardd

• AIGA Curated BLM Resource List, Suggested Art + Design Education

• Tishman Design Center BLM Resources Hub

• 20 Black LGBTQ+ orgs and funds to support (list)

READINGS, BOOKS & PODCASTS LISTS:

• Alchemy Magazine’s Black Revolutionary Reading Guide 

• Alchemy Magazine’s Abolition Resource Guide

• 50 books by Black authors (list)

• Drive with free pdfs of books written by black activists (link)

• BLM Reading List- Feminist Press (list)

ALLY-SHIP RESOURCES:

• Justice in June Resource Document

• 7 Weeks of Anti-Racist Action

• Anti-racist Allyship Starterpack

• ADHOC Resource Hub

• Anti-racist Resource Hub (emphasis on photography/videography)

• Anti-racist FAQ + Document

• 10 steps to non-optical allyship (post)

• Deliberate & Unafraid Book Club

• Campaign Zero (link)

ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES IN SPANISH

• Recursos Antirracistas en Español (link)

• Spanish-Language Anti-Racist Resource Guide

Resources

University of Maryland

Nyumburu Cultural Center
Office of Multicultural Involvement & Community Advocacy
Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct
Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Education
President’s Commission on Women’s Issues
President’s Commission on LGBT Issues
UMD Multicultural Student Organizations
Office of Civil Rights and Sexual Misconduct: Responding to Discrimination, Harassment & Hate Bias Incidents Brochure

General University

American Association of University Faculty Diversity
The National Association for Multicultural Education 
Big 10 Academic Alliance’s Diversity and Recruitment
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
The PhD Project
MinorityPostdoc.Org
LatinosInHigherEd.com
Asian-American/Asian Research Institute
American Council on Education’s Center for Policy Research and Strategy
American Indian College Fund
National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education
Preparing Future Faculty

National Resources

IMDiversity
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Hispanic Organizations and Periodicals
The Lawndale News (Chicago, IL)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Native American Culture
Federally Recognized Indian Tribes and Resources for Native Americans
Institute on Race and Justice

OMSI - Now a part of ODI
 

OMSE REJOINS ODI OMSE is rejoining the Office of Diversity & Inclusion or ODI. OMSE was part of ODI until 2017 at which time it moved to Undergraduate Studies. The OMSE team remains committed to supporting the academic excellence of more than 12,000 multi-ethnic undergraduate students and upholding our motto of "High Expectations, High Standards, Excellence" as part of the Office of Diversity & Inclusion. We will remain headquartered in Hornbake Library.

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