<h4>Promoting Anti-Racist Leadership and Inclusion within Social Skateboarding</h4>

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<p>We are very excited to announce the establishment of the Pushing Against Racism Fund, which aims to financially support greater diversity and inclusion within the social skateboarding community worldwide.&nbsp;</p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>A total of $12,000 in grants in 2022 will be awarded to non-profits across six continents, with input from an expert jury. The Pushing Against Racism Fund is being organized by the Goodpush Alliance and a dozen skateboarding-based organizations around the world, who previously launched the </span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://antiracism.goodpush.org/"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Commitment to Anti-Racism in Skateboarding</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><span> last May.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Fund is now open for applications. Keep reading to find out how to apply!</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p><span><span><span><strong><span><span>Why Are We Starting This Fund?</span></span></strong></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Nonprofit organizations around the world continue to perpetuate, and even accelerate, institutional and structural racism. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The leadership of many social skateboarding projects is predominantly white, mirroring trends in a wider non-profit sector that has historically relied on inequitable practices such as unpaid interns, volunteers, and centralizing positions of power in Western countries. On top of this, </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span>access to funds is one of the top issues facing social skateboarding projects worldwide —&nbsp;particularly for smaller projects in less-developed countries or poorer communities.&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>The Pushing Against Racism working group proposed to create a fund to financially support greater diversity and inclusion within the social skateboarding community. As working group member, Yash Presswalla (Impact Skate Club), states:</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
