Reparations, Accountability & Healing

Program Mission

The Reparations, Accountability and Healing Program supports work to broaden public understanding and increase accountability for historical and ongoing structural racism and state violence experienced by Black and Indigenous communities in the United States.

Program Goals:

Greater accountability through truth-telling, redress/repair, and prevention of future harms

Narrative shifts that expand public consciousness of the impact of structural racism

Narrative shifts that generate support for addressing and repairing the harm of structural racism

To reach our program goals we currently target our grantmaking within this program on five specific areas:

    1. Promoting truth-telling and acknowledgement of harms 
    2. Addressing the trauma experienced by impacted constituencies
    3. Promoting redress for those harmed through restitution, financial compensation, meaningful increases in economic and political power, etc.
    4. Working towards reconciliation through healing processes
    5. Preventing future harms through systemic changes, such as policy changes, guarantees of non-repetition, etc.