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Freeman’s Final Quilts
Silent Auction Fundraiser Roland L. Freeman (July 27, 1936 – August 7, 2023) was a world-renowned photographer of Black folk culture. The largest collection of his photographs is housed at the University of North Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection at the Wilson Special Collections Library. He was also a quilt designer and collector. Many of his quilts were gifted to the Mississippi Museum of Art and displayed at a recent exhibition, Of Salt and Spirit. In fact, the project on which Freeman was earnestly working at the end of his life was a quilt project about Black women freedom fighters around…
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Fiscal Partnerships
Many people know about fiscal sponsorships, where entities that are not nonprofit organizations (but may be intending to become nonprofits later) are sponsored by organizations such as ours. This is often a temporary agreement that exists while the smaller entity grows and develops, ultimately meeting the criteria to receive grants and tax-exempt donations. We appreciate that model and we want to build up on it. With fiscal partnerships, we are looking at longer term relationships that build into the structure of SAEDi Collective more permanent support individuals and small groups that may have no interest in becoming a nonprofit. We…
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Nonprofit Popular Education Series
SAEDi Collective is now in its second year. While we still have a lot to learn, we are eager to connect with other (potential) nonprofit organizations. What can we learn together? How can learners teach one another in a non-hierarchical education space? This is the idea behind popular education; everyone has something to contribute! Registration is recommended.
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Gift of Gratitude
On this final day of our first year of operation, at the end of our GivingTuesday (Extended) campaign, SAEDi Collective is preparing to start the new year focused on gratitude. During the first weeks of the new year, we will be sending hand-written notes to our supporters. In the aftermath of all the requests for engagement or financial support, it is useful to remind ourselves, “The gift of gratitude costs us nothing!” The Gift of Gratitude costs us nothing! First, we want to thank you! If you are reading this post, then you are engaging with us. You are reading…
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The Art of Freedom
A core part of our work is supporting the art of creatives who are helping us to imagine abolitionist futures. In the first months of 2025, we are excited to host a special “abolition installation” of our “Aiming for Freedom: Race, Reparations & Right Paths” traveling exhibition of Black feminist art with core artists Kimberly Love Radcliffe, Destiny Palmer, Darrell Ann Gane-McCalla, Marla McLeod, and (most recently) Anthony Peyton Young. Over the summer 2024 months, artist Kimberly Love Radcliffe created quilts with daughters of (formerly) incarcerated persons from Sisters Unchained. Similarly, artist Marla McLeod taught an arts course (with Anthony…
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GivingTuesday Extended
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End-of-Year Founder Reflections We are almost at the end of our first year, and I am still catching my breath on my mid-year reflections. As we approach what is referred to as GivingTuesday (when people are encouraged to donate to nonprofit organizations and other charitable causes) in the United States, I am conflicted about how a transnational Black feminist organization with anti-capitalist values presents itself in a way that is both honest and opening. Here is where I’ve landed: “Feel free to give us money, but what we want even more is your engagement!” Feel free to give us money,…
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EBB: Another Sojourner Looking for Truth
This month, we launch our Engaging Black Books (EBB) series with an opening blog from Millicent E. Brown, Ph.D., author of Another Sojourner Looking for Truth: My Journey from Civil Rights to Black Power and Beyond. Please join the conversation here by adding your reflections. We are offering free autographed copies of the book to individuals who comment on the blog (and then email founder@saedicollective.org), while copies last. Please also register for our April 26 virtual conversation at 1pm EST. Why did you write this book at this time? Very honestly, as corny as it may sound, it dawned on…
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“Meet the Founder” Event
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Today (July 23, 2024) would have been my grandmother’s 103rd birthday. Mrs. Beulah Quick was born on 1921 and transitioned to the realm of ancestors in September 25, 2023. During six years of caregiving (2017 – 2023), I learned so much from my grandmother that informs how I am building SAEDi Collective. Here are some of the lessons: I will talk about how these lessons from my grandmother are informing how we are embodying our values and advancing important social movements. You can listen to my interview with Dwight Dunston (of Pendle Hill’s “The Seed” podcast) for more background information…
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Building Our Base
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SAEDi Collective is a new organization with deep roots. We seek the support of a grassroots base that will show fuel our work with small monthly donations (of $5 or $10). SAEDi Collective community members will have access to quarterly conversations with founder K. Melchor Quick Hall about the work and vision of the organization. This allows accountability to folks who are interested in our work. We are especially interested in having radical Black and Indigenous artists, educators, activists, and academics support our burgeoning work with a regular donation. Also, we extend a special invitation to folks connected to Black…