Case study
Black Food Fund
A website redesign with a grantmaking system built in, from application to impact reporting.
$200,000+
Moved
50+
Black farmers
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Platform, five roles
Collective Reparations redesigned the Black Food Fund website and built a grantmaking system inside it, end to end: an application portal, committee scoring, grantee selection, capital distribution, and impact reporting. The system has moved over $200,000 to 50+ Black farmers, and counting.
Scope
Website redesign, application portal, committee scoring, grantee selection, capital distribution, impact reporting.
Roles served
Applicant, reviewer, grantee, donor, and staff, one login each.
The walkthrough — five screens, one system
Everything above runs inside blackfoodfund.org. No Submittable, no Salesforce, no per-seat bill.
How it supports repair
Black land ownership fell from 16 million acres to under 3 million after decades of USDA loan denials, the discrimination the Pigford settlements later acknowledged. The fund's own platform now moves capital back to the farmers still working that land: over $200,000 to 50-plus Black farmers, with no grants software vendor between them and the money.
“Collective Reparations built us a grantmaking system we actually own, one where our community decides who gets funded. It has moved real capital to Black farmers, and it answers to us.”
Jamese Kwele, Co-Founder, Black Food Fund
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