Black Resilience Fund is creating change through the power of the village, neighbors working together with neighbors | Volunteers contribute through eight diverse teams that work together to provide bureaucracy-free relief to Black Portlanders |
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Inspired by the resilient spirit of this community, we will always be there whenever our Black neighbors are in need | At BRF, one person can make a powerful difference |
While Portland is a city with a somber history of discrimination, we are also known as the City of Bridges.
23Wells JUST Data Lab, which collected feedback from 284 BRF recipients through electronic surveys and focus groups | |
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Black Resilience Fund is a program of nonprofit Brown Hope and is dedicated to fostering healing and resilience by providing immediate and direct financial assistance to Black Portlanders | Every single day, we work with Portlanders of all backgrounds to foster the healing our communities need and deserve |
In the face of persistent systemic inequities, we lift up community solutions for reparations-inspired action— free from bureaucracy and honoring the vital contributions of our Black communities.
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