Black Parent Innovation Lab

The Black Parent Innovation Lab is an opportunity for Black parents to experiment, iterate and hone new strategies to help their communities thrive.

Design Fellowship

The Black Parent Innovation Lab is P4L’s flagship program. Each year Parenting for Liberation awards $5,000 in funding and wrap-around support for up to 10 Black Parents Fellows for testing their innovative ideas which aim to create solutions to problems impacting Black families.

Through intentional community building and hands-on design intensives, California-based Fellows embark on a 6-month journey anchored in liberatory design and healing justice that sparks innovation, radical abundance, joy and play rooted in the power and possibility of Blackness.

2025-2026 Application

Applications for Cohort 2025-26 opens on Juneteenth and closes July 19th at midnight PST.

Join our Information Webinar on Wednesday, July 9th at 4pm PST to hear from past innovation fellows, learn more about the design lab and application process.

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Meet the Fellows

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Meet the 2024-25 Innovation Fellows

Culminating Celebration

Enjoy our closing 2023-2024 Cohort's culminating Celebration event highlighting our panel discussion and Fellows' projects.

I LOVED being in community with other Black parents, being playful and creative together, being dragged through my process and facing my fears of the unknown and doing ALLLLL of that on a foundation of love for Blackness and commitment to our healing and thriving into the future.

Program Participant
The Black Innovation Lab was an amazing way to learn about how we can bring our Ideas to fruition by examining our mindsets, strengthening our creative and critical thinking skills as a collective and individually.

Program Participant
I loved all of the many ways that we could learn and participate throughout our weekend together and the valuable mentorship and guidance received the whole P4L facilitation team. I loved the altar space as well as all of the materials and resources available to make sure we could maintain good health. Super thoughtful!

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Our current fellowship program is closed for the year. Applications will open in June 2025. Sign up for our newsletter for the application drop.