$2M racial healing fund launched

The Deaconess Foundation has launched a $2 million fund to invest in community organizing and arts it says will heal trauma and change conditions that reinforce systemic racism. Forward Through Ferguson and Missouri Foundation for Health are also collaborators on the St. Louis Regional Racial Healing Fund. They said $1.4 million has already been committed to the effort, thanks to a matching grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Other funders include Incarnate Word Foundation, Lutheran Foundation…