The Denver Black Reparations Council (DBRC) mission is to:
We have been conditioned to be frightened by the word “Reparations” because the definition has been restricted to only giving out money. We see Reparations as a process, not just a financial transaction. The heart of Reparations is to repair a community that has suffered for centuries. Financial compensation is one of several restorative processes that includes changing an educational system that is based on supremacist ideology, creating a system of security and policing that is not based on controlling Black bodies, fast-tracking home and land ownership, which is a foundation for wealth accumulation, and connecting Black people to a history that was taken from them.
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DBRC grants funds to benefit communities of Coloradans whose ancestors experienced hardships under chattel slavery and Jim Crow.
Your donation helps us to provide the funding.
We fund organizations that:
- Build economic strength, generational wealth acquisition, and financial literacy.
- Preserve, provide access to, and expand the history, culture, knowledge, and awareness of communities in Colorado shaped by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow.
- Enhance mental and physical health access and increase public health education.
- Provide quality education from early childhood through adulthood, including reimagination of career options and pathways.
- Enhance community building and advocacy that responds to the needs of Colorado residents living in communities shaped by the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow.
- Provide access, including transportation, to critical life-sustaining services.
- Create openings for transformative change that are both systemic and relational.