New Legacy Collective launches the Future Tend Fellowship
A community of practitioners building the conditions for repair and healing in the United States.
New Legacy Collective is proud to introduce the Future Tend Fellowship, a community of 15 organizations creating the conditions for repair and healing in the United States. The fellowship brings together practitioners working across a wide range of approaches, from land healing and Indigenous language revitalization to public safety reimagination and media reparations. Fellows learn from and with each other, building the relationships, shared strategy, and solidarity that individual grants don’t often produce.
The fellowship gathered in San Diego this April for its inaugural three-day convening, organized around the themes of belonging, becoming, and bridging. The gathering marked the beginning of a year of shared work that will include virtual sessions, peer coaching, and a closing convening in October.
Below is a complete list of Future Tend Fellowship organizations:
Abolition Dream Lab (Los Angeles, CA) cultivates collective and individual healing for Black abolitionists through accountability practices, mutual aid, and self-governance.
Barred Business (Atlanta, GA) builds dignified pathways to economic mobility for justice-impacted people, advancing policy and narrative justice that recognizes them as a protected class.
Cambridge HEART (Cambridge, MA) reimagines public safety through community-centered emergency response rooted in collective conflict resolution.
Creative Reaction Lab (St. Louis, MO) positions Black and Latino youth as architects of equitable systems, building open-source frameworks for community-led transformation.
The Descendants Project (New Orleans, LA) transforms sites of plantation slavery and industrial pollution in “Cancer Valley” into spaces of spiritual restoration, cultural preservation, community care and self-determination.
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces / DJDS (Oakland, CA) designs built environments that create an ecosystem of care to imagine and practice liberatory futures.
Equity & Transformation Chicago / EAT (Chicago, IL) advocates for Black workers in the informal economy through community-led healing and advocacy for guaranteed income and reparations for the lasting harms of the War on Drugs.
Kinfolk Tech (Brooklyn, NY) uses augmented reality to bring Black, Brown, and Queer histories to life in public spaces, making communities active shapers of our histories.
Ko'ihonua (O'ahu, HI) reclaims and restores Native Hawaiian lands and practices through cultural revitalization, healing and moving Hawaiian lands into Hawaiian hands.
Land Justice Futures / LJF (National) accompanies Catholic sisters in creating land transitions rooted in racial and ecological healing for material and spiritual transformation.
Media 2070Project (National) builds the cultural and institutional scaffolding for media reparations, centering journalists and storytellers as truth-tellers and healers.
National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition / NABS (Minneapolis, MN) cultivates healing from 150 years of federal Indian boarding school policy, balancing data sovereignty with truth-telling, community care, and Indigenous cultural and spiritual traditions.
Resonance Network (DMV) creates visionary spaces to imagine and practice living into a world beyond violence, working at the intersection of personal healing, cultural norms, and systems change.
Tsuru for Solidarity (National) centers Japanese American survivors of WWII incarceration ending state violence through activism, cross-community solidarity and intergenerational healing.
Words of the People (Tulsa, OK) amplifies creative writing in Indigenous ancestral languages to heal people and land, deepening connection to culture, community, and place.
The Future Tend Fellowship grew out of the Cultivating Repair Catalyst Initiative (CRCI), a participatory learning cohort launched at Omidyar Network in 2023. An open call that year surfaced over 700 organizations working toward healing across sectors and communities—confirming both the demand for repair and the fragmentation limiting its impact. The Future Tend Fellowship builds on that foundation, expanding the cohort from 10 to 15 organizations and deepening the conditions for peer learning and collaborative strategy.
Over the course of 2026, fellows will deepen their work together through ongoing virtual sessions and pods—small working groups organized around shared themes and questions. Fellows will also participate in shaping NLC's participatory grantmaking process, holding genuine decision-making power over how resources are allocated to foster ecosystem-wide community and collaboration.
NLC is excited for the work within the Future Tend Fellowship to connect and strengthen the broader repair ecosystem.