The Black Seed Fund (BSF) is Headwaters’ newest grantmaking fund. BSF makes general-operating grants to Black-led groups and supports their organizational development and capacity-building needs. The Black Seed Fund supports organizations whose work amplifies the political, cultural, and economic power of Black communities.

This year’s grantee organizations are leading work throughout Minnesota that advances Black liberation through creating access to Black land stewardship; community-led safety and care; reparative and just public policy; and increasing political power for working class, formerly institutionalized, disabled, and LGBTQ+ Black Minnesotans.

The Fiscal Year 2022 Black Seed Fund grantees are: 

• Black Civic Network 
• Black Disability Collective 
• Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition 
• Divine Natural Ancestry 
• Divine’s Urban Gardens (D.U.G) 
• Healthcare Reparations Cooperative 
• Humanize My Hoodie 
• Kilimo Minnesota 
• Love First Community Engagement 
• Million Artist Movement 
• Project for Change 
• Relationships Evolving Possibilities
• Somali American Farmers Association 
• The Fields at Rootsprings 
• T.O.N.E. U.P. 
• Urban Farm & Garden Alliance 
• YO MAMA’S House 

To read more about this year's Black Seed Fund community-led grantmaking process, click here.