Shifting Power & Resources to Communities From Policing: An Anti-Racist Community Development Demand

A version of this article was published in The People’s Practice Issue 08: Safety Isn’t a Privilege, It’s a Prerequisite. which investigates the intersection of community development and safety, and what true community safety might look like.

May 25, 2025 marks the five-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. And in that time, as the Program Director of the Communities Transforming Policing Fund (CTPF) at Borealis Philanthropy, I’ve had the great honor of supporting dedicated and strategic movement organizers across the country who are working tirelessly to move us from daily tragedy to new lived reality.