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Social Justice Institute at Philander Smith College Receives $25K Grant from Building Black Communities Fund

Social Justice Institute at Philander Smith College Receives $25K Grant from Building Black Communities Fund
Posted By: Kennedy Williams on July 07, 2021

Philander Smith College recently announced that the Arkansas Community Foundation and the Arkansas Black Philanthropy Collaborative have awarded $25,000 to the institution’s Social Justice Institute.

“We are excited to be named a recipient of the Building Black Communities Fund and look forward to this new funding being used to support our programs and initiatives that play an important role in impacting the greater Little Rock community,” said Christopher L. Harvey, Interim Associate Director, Social Justice Institute Philander Smith College.

According to Heather Larkin, President and CEO of Arkansas Community Foundation, Facebook, Inc.



provided the funding which went to 40 Black-led and Black-serving nonprofit organizations in Central Arkansas.

In collaboration with Auburn Theological Seminary and Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the College reimagined and reinvigorated the SJI with a vision for global impact. Themed “Justice Reimagined,” the Institute seeks to embrace and catalyze work in social justice across multiple domains: education, health, environment, community, economics, politics, identity, civil, criminal, religious, racial, gender, age.

To learn more about the SJI, please visit http://rethinksocialjustice.org/.

SOURCE: Philander Smith College
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