YouTube Black Voices Fund

The YouTube Black Voices Fund is a three yearhttps://blog.youtube/news-and-events/introducing-youtubeblack-voices-fund/ fund dedicated to empowering, growing, and spotlighting Black creators on YouTube by giving them the necessary resources and training to grow and sustain their platforms on YouTube.
==About==
The Black Voices Fund was announced by Susan Wojcicki in her June 2020 mid year updatehttps://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/susan-wojcicki-my-mid-year-update-youtube-community/, in light of the George Floyd protests and the Black Lives Matter movement, as a way to educate audiences about racial equality. The money dedicated to the fund is set towards Black creators and projects, including some documentaries and YouTube Originals. The first creators to benefit from the fund were selected in 2021. The fund welcomed 132-133 grantees in 2021, and 135 in 2022. A predecessor to the fund was the YouTube Africa Creator Week, from November 23-27, 2020, hosted on Google Africa by Asah Bants.https://www.iol.co.za/saturday-star/news/nicolette-mashile-rises-to-the-occasion-on-youtube-f9c3e8d6-c1b1-4649-9962-6cb4b8db6af4https://africa.googleblog.com/2020/11/youtubeblack-africa-creator-week.html
===Eligibility===
Members of the fund must be Black, members of the YouTube Partner Program, and located in eligible markets.https://www.youtube.com/creators/black-voices-fund/ Eligible markets as of July 27, 2022 are:
*Australia (musicians only)
*Brazil
*Canada
*Kenya
*Nigeria
*South Africa
*United Kingdom
*United States
The fund aims to notify the selected class by no later than October, and usually announces the selected class in a video on their official channel in January of that year.
==Notable Beneficiaries==
*TERRELL (2021)
*Asia Jackson (2022)
*The Glam Twinz (2022)
==Links==
*Class of 2021
*Class of 2022
==References==
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