FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Contact: Christian Harris, Executive Director
Email: [email protected]
Detroit, MI
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan awarded Reparation Generation a $75,000 grant to support its pilot programs in Detroit. The Organization will use these funds in combination with other funds from individuals around the US to build Reparation Generation’s capacity to execute its current programs and plan for expansion and scaling of its models.
RepGen embraces a four-part understanding of reparations as outlined by the United Nations, which includes:
● Acknowledge the truth of the harm
● Heal from the harm
● Financial redress for the harm
● Ensure non-repeat of the harm
With this holistic understanding of reparations, RepGen is taking action, creating iterative models that focus on many of the historic issues of racial disparities, through the unique lens of reparations. Reparation Generation’s programs include community engagement & activation, restorative genealogy, and reparative wealth transfers. The goal is to promote healing, reduce the racial wealth gap and collect data on the efficacy of reparative justice that can be used to build a case for a comprehensive federal program. Additionally, we hope to ensure an equitable future where communities can thrive together and we all heal from past harms.
“Rep Gen is grateful to the Community Foundation for seeing the value in our innovative model projects and providing Rep Gen this unrestricted grant,” said Kiko Davis Snoddy, Co-Chair of Reparation Generation. “This grant will be used to springboard our efforts and position the organization to accelerate our mission forward,” she added.
RepGen’s fourteen-member National Advisory Board is comprised of national business executives, community activists, investors, educators, and authors. Many NAB members and Founders have a strong connection to Detroit.
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Reparation Generation is a multi-racial non-profit organization with the mission to be the generation of Americans who will achieve federal reparations for slavery and the unjust systematic denial of constitutional rights of Black Americans well into the 20th century. Our vision is to achieve an equitable and secure democracy that works for all Americans. RepGen advances and demonstrates models for racial healing and reparative wealth transfers to Black American descendants of chattel slavery for intergenerational wealth-building. For more information please visit www.reparationgeneration.org.
The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan is a full-service philanthropic organization leading the way to positive change in our region. As a permanent community endowment built by gifts from thousands of individuals and organizations, the Foundation supports a wide variety of activities benefiting education, arts and culture, health, human services, community development, and civic affairs. Since its inception, the Foundation has distributed more than $1.1 billion through more than 74,000 grants to nonprofit organizations throughout Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, Washtenaw, St. Clair, and Livingston counties. For more information, please visit www.cfsem.org.