Help build the Black-led institution our communities deserve.

Over the past eighteen months, Sanctum Foundation has grown from conversations around a dinner table into a national community exploring wealth, ownership, leadership, and belonging.

We create spaces where Black people can gather honestly, imagine expansively, build meaningful relationships, and develop new possibilities for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Now, we are building the foundation that will allow this work to last.

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Sanctum creates space for Black people to connect, imagine, and build together.

What we’re building

This next chapter is about turning momentum into durable infrastructure.

Through Re:Wealth Live—our public gathering for exploring how Black communities participate in, create, and steward wealth—along with new public programs, intimate gatherings, and collaborations, Sanctum is bringing people together to turn powerful conversations into relationships, resources, and collective action.

At the same time, we are strengthening the organization behind that work: supporting our team, investing in the systems that keep our community connected, and creating the capacity to deliver thoughtful programming consistently.

Sanctum community gathering
Our gatherings turn conversations about wealth and ownership into relationships and new possibilities.

What your gift builds

Your contribution gives Sanctum the people, tools, and opportunities required to grow responsibly.

People: a living wage for our staff

The people who imagine, organize, facilitate, communicate, and care for this community deserve to be supported by the work they sustain. Your gift helps us pay our staff a living wage, retain strong Black leadership, and build an organization where people can lead for the long term.

Infrastructure: tools that keep us connected

Our technology and operating systems power the work people rarely see: communicating with our community, managing registrations, producing virtual experiences, stewarding donors, measuring our reach, and keeping the organization running. Your support helps us invest in reliable tools instead of asking our team to build around constant limitations.

Possibility: events and collaborations

Sanctum gatherings create space for knowledge exchange, honest reflection, relationship-building, joy, and new collaboration. Funding helps us secure venues, compensate facilitators and creative partners, provide hospitality and materials, and keep experiences accessible to the people they are designed to serve.

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Re:Wealth centers the knowledge, experience, and leadership already present in our communities.

What we’ve already set in motion

This campaign is not funding an idea that begins someday. It is helping a growing community meet the opportunity already in front of us.

10,000+ people reached across events, membership, subscriptions, and our thought-leadership platforms
4 gatherings and workshops produced to create space for learning, connection, and collaboration
20+ cities represented globally through our growing community

Sanctum community gathering
Re:Wealth Live brings community voices and lived expertise into the conversation about building and stewarding wealth.

Why now

Sanctum has reached a meaningful inflection point. The community is growing, the ideas are resonating, and opportunities to create programs and partnerships are expanding. But momentum alone does not create sustainability.

To meet this moment well, we need to invest in the people and systems that make the visible work possible. That means moving beyond doing more with less and building the stable foundation a lasting Black-led institution requires.

This campaign is about more than funding a single event or season. It is about creating the conditions for Black ideas, leadership, connection, and collective possibility to thrive.

“The future we are building begins with relationship—and with the courage to imagine what becomes possible when we build together.”

Sanctum community gathering The future we are building begins with relationship.

Help us build what’s next

We are raising $100,000 by December 31, 2026 to strengthen Sanctum’s team, infrastructure, events, and collaborations.

Every contribution—whether $25, $250, or $2,500—moves this work forward. Your gift helps transform the momentum already underway into lasting infrastructure, meaningful opportunities, and a stronger future for our community.

Give today. Share this campaign. Invite someone you know to help build what’s next.

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Choose your impact

$250 — Welcome someone in: Help make Sanctum programming more accessible.
$500 — Keep the community connected: Support the communication and technology tools behind the work.
$1000 — Create a thoughtful gathering: Help provide materials, hospitality, and participant support for in-person gatherings
$5000 — Sustain the people: Support staff time to design, organize, and deliver our Re:Wealth Fellowship programming.
$10,000 — Underwrite an event: This amount can cover an in-person event, facilitation or speaking fees, and fellowship fees for > 2 fellows.
$15,000+ — Invest in what lasts: Goes directly towards Sanctum's monthly operating overhead.

Building What's Next - Sanctum Foundation 2026 Fundraiser

Help build the Black-led institution our communities deserve.

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