Conversations on Change
Conversations on Change
Conversations on Change
is a virtual event series that puts our grantee partners in conversation with each other. Click here to watch the latest installment.
The Africa Center
provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa, educating the world about Africa and its diaspora, and advancing thought and action around Africa’s global influence and impact on our shared futures.
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
develops innovative programming designed to use culture and the arts to foster human, community, and economic development, while creating opportunities for the curation, exhibition, and commission of folk, fine, and fine-folk art of the African Diaspora.
Overtown Youth Center
provides academic, wellness, and development services to more than 1,500 youth and family members in Miami’s historically Black Overtown community and the surrounding neighborhoods.
REFORM Alliance
aims to transform probation and parole by changing laws, systems and culture to create real pathways to work and wellbeing.
Conversations on Change
Conversations on Change
Conversations on Change
is a virtual event series that puts our grantee partners in conversation with each other. Click here to watch the latest installment.
Bard Prison Initiative
transforms the negative impacts of the criminal legal system by creating radical inroads of access to higher learning and pathways to personally meaningful fulfillment through educational and professional opportunities.
Girls Make Beats
Girls Make Beats (GMB) is a nonprofit organization that empowers girls by expanding the female presence of music producers, DJs, and audio engineers.
Gender Amplified
is a non-profit organization that aims to celebrate women in music production, raise their visibility and develop a pipeline for girls and young women to get involved behind the scenes as music producers.
Manos Visibles
or Visible Hands, is a globally recognized Afro-Colombian NGO that strengthens urban youth organizations and communities of women, with an emphasis on high-risk communities on Colombia’s Pacific Coast through programs in education, leadership development, urban planning, community organizing and public policy.
We Support
The Africa Center
Overtown Youth Center (OYC)
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
REFORM Alliance
Black Cultural Archives (BCA)
Black Futures Lab
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC)
Howard University
Rhythm & Blues Foundation
We Support
Black Lives in Music
Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI)
Girls Make Beats
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Save The Music
Unlock Her Potential
Universal Hip Hop Museum
A New Way of Life
Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC)
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ARRAY Alliance
Bard Prison Initiative
Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI)
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)
Borealis Philanthropy
Brazil Human Rights Fund
Diversify the Stage
Gender Amplified
Grantmakers for Girls of Color
The Hidden Genius Project
Highlander Research and Education Center
Manos Visibles
West Africa Vocational Education (WAVE)
The Africa Center
Overtown Youth Center (OYC)
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
REFORM Alliance
Black Cultural Archives (BCA)
Black Futures Lab
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC)
Howard University
Rhythm & Blues Foundation
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About Us
The $100 million Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund was established in June 2020, in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and the killings of countless other Black and marginalized individuals at the hands of people in positions of privilege and power.
Our Mission
The Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund invests in organizations around the globe that build more just and equitable communities and create real change in the lives of historically underserved and marginalized people. We focus our investments on organizations that are led by and work to benefit affected populations, principally Black populations, in their intersectional dimensions.
Our sustained, long term investments focus on our three key strategic pillars: education, arts and culture, and criminal justice reform, with the belief that work in these areas will aid in dismantling structural racism and advancing equity and justice for all people.
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Our Partners
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Executive Director
Lorelei Williams
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Lorelei Williams
Executive Director
Lorelei Williams currently serves as Executive Director of the Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund (WMG/BFF SJF). The WMG/BFF SJF drives racial justice at the intersection of culture and systemic change. Previously, Lorelei served as SVP of Grant Programs at Comic Relief U.S., a nonprofit that leverages the power of entertainment to help address child poverty. Prior to this, Lorelei spent 15+ years advising non-profit and philanthropic clients in the U.S., Brazil, and South Africa. She is a graduate of Yale and Harvard universities
Advisory Board
Temi Adeniji
Managing Director, WM South Africa / SVP, Sub-Saharan Africa Strategy and SVP, Special Projects at WMG
Mark Baker
SVP, Public Policy & Government Relations at WMG
Alex Blavatnik
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Val Blavatnik
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Tanya Coke
Director of Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice at the Ford Foundation
Austin Daboh
EVP at Atlantic Records UK
Shawn Gee
President of Live Nation Urban / Principal and Partner at Live Nation’s Maverick Management
Camille Hackney
Chief Partnerships Officer at Atlantic Records / Head of Global BrandPartnerships at WMG
Paul Henderson
Executive Director at the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability (DPA)
Alencia Johnson
Advocate & Political Strategist / Chief Impact Officer & Founder of 1063 West Broad
Michael Lynton
Chairman at Snap Inc.
Riggs Morales
SVP, Urban A&R at Atlantic Records
Julian K. Petty
EVP and Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Warner Records
Ryan Press
President, A&R, U.S. at Warner Chappell Music
Maurice Stinnett
Global Head of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at WMG
Mona Sutphen
Senior Advisor at The Vistria Group LLC
Advisory Board
Temi Adeniji
Managing Director, WM South Africa / SVP, Sub-Saharan Africa Strategy and SVP, Special Projects at WMG
Mark Baker
SVP, Public Policy & Government Relations at WMG
Val Blavatnik
Blavatnik Family Foundation
Tanya Coke
Director of Gender, Racial and Ethnic Justice at the Ford Foundation
Austin Daboh
EVP at Atlantic Records UK
Shawn Gee
President of Live Nation Urban / Principal and Partner at Live Nation’s Maverick Management
Camille Hackney
Chief Partnerships Officer at Atlantic Records / Head of Global BrandPartnerships at WMG
Paul Henderson
Executive Director at the San Francisco Department of Police Accountability (DPA)
Alencia Johnson
Advocate & Political Strategist / Chief Impact Officer & Founder of 1063 West Broad
Michael Lynton
Chairman at Snap Inc.
Riggs Morales
SVP, Urban A&R at Atlantic Records
Julian K. Petty
EVP and Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Warner Records
Ryan Press
President, A&R, U.S. at Warner Chappell Music
Maurice Stinnett
Global Head of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at WMG
Mona Sutphen
Senior Advisor at The Vistria Group LLC
Peter L. Thoren
Executive Vice President, Access Industries, Inc.

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