Bank freezes Portland nonprofit Brown Hope’s account, delaying income payments promised to 25 Black families

Bank freezes Portland nonprofit Brown Hope’s account, delaying income payments promised to 25 Black families

Brown Hope founder and CEO Cameron Whitten acknowledged in a Dec. 8 interview with The Oregonian/Oregonlive that he had concerns that the 25 families who were supposed to receive the guaranteed basic income grants wouldn’t receive their money on time. The embattled racial justice nonprofit Brown Hope delayed the $2,000 monthly stipends that it promised to 25 Black families after its bank froze its account, an email obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive shows.

Black Resilience Fund Program Manager Alexandrea Wilson wrote in the Dec. 21 email to grant recipients that Brown Hope’s bank was requesting an official letter from the nonprofit’s […]

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