Evidence library

In March 2021, Baobab launched its first research with a series of conversations which reflected on funder perspectives on the issues and steps needed to bring about change in our funding systems. 

This was produced alongside and in collaboration with the Ubele Initiative, Future Foundations UK and the Funders for Race Equality Alliance. 

The report authors made six key calls to action to the funding community:

• Deliver on large scale, sustained (5 years +) and flexible funding to organisations led by and for Black and Global Majority people and communities experiencing racial injustice in the UK.
• Address the significant disparities in funding provision for groups outside London and those tackling intersectional oppression at multiple levels.
• Build strategic partnerships with organisations led by Black and Global Majority people and communities experiencing racial injustice to tackle structural inequities across a range of social justice priorities.

• Adopt transformative policies and practices to address inequities in large-scale fund distribution and to take ethical investment portfolios to the next level, focusing on anti-racist investing.
• Improve cultural competency, representation and trauma-informed practices across funding to reduce harm, including fully acknowledging the leadership and labour of Black and Global Majority people in making this happen.
• We need to prioritise transformative justice models integrating reparative and restorative approaches to funding and investments in our strategies and practices.