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Grantee Spotlight

2015, 2013

Decarcerate PA

Philadelphia, PA

Decarcerate PA is a coalition of organizations and individuals seeking an end to mass incarceration and the harms it brings our communities. Decarcerate PA seeks mechanisms to build whole, healthy communities and believes that imprisonment...

Grantee Spotlight

2014

Faith Voices for Jefferson City

Jefferson City, MO

Missouri Faith Voices gathers and equips a diverse and non-partisan, state-wide network of congregations and faith based community organizations to positively impact issues affecting Missouri’s communities. We believe in the potential for transformation - of...

Grantee Spotlight

2015, 2014, 2013, 2011

Student / Farmworker Alliance

Immokalee, FL

Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in alliance with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW),...

Grantee Spotlight

2018, 2017

Love Not Blood Campaign

San Jose, CA

The Love Not Blood Campaign, (LNBC) is a grassroots social justice organization that bring families together that have been traumatically impacted by police violence or communal violence. The LNBC provides compassionate holistic care by creating...

Grantee Spotlight

2017

Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom

Kansas City, MO

It is the mission of the Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom to create opportunities for workers to learn and exercise their rights, realize their collective power, and develop the leadership skills necessary to advocate...

Grantee Spotlight

2013, 2012

Queerocracy

Brooklyn, NY

QUEEROCRACY is an activist organization cultivating the leadership of queer folks and people living with HIV/AIDS in NYC. Through direct action organizing, membership led advocacy campaigns, educational trainings and political art and media we challenge...

Grantee Spotlight

2018, 2015, 2014

Peaceful Uprising

Salt Lake City, UT

Peaceful Uprising is committed to defending a livable future through empowering nonviolent action. We seek to change the institutional and social status quo at the root of the climate crisis, and move toward a just...

Grantee Spotlight

2017

Youth Rise Texas

Austin, TX

Youth Rise Texas is an Austin, Texas based organization, largely comprised of young women and queer youth of color, who have been impacted by the incarceration or deportation of a parent or caregiver. Through popular...

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News

Connor Wist

September 19, 2018

Who Has Rights to Public Space in Downtown Denver?

DENVER — Potentially one of the most complicated questions in downtown Denver is how to balance business with the homeless population that resides in public spaces. Homeless advocates gathered in...

Michael Lyle

September 17, 2018

Activists See Double Standard in Laxalt’s Traffic Tickets

Not all traffic stops play out the same way. For Alicia Moya her unpaid traffic violations, including driving without a license, resulted in jail time and spending weeks in an...

Rob Beschizza

September 17, 2018

Pennsylvania to End Prison Book Donations, Forcing Inmates Onto Pricey eBook Platform

Pennsylvania's Department of Corrections is planning to ban free book donations to inmates by mail , claiming that this is a "primary avenue for drugs" to enter prisons. But the...

Maya Smith

September 17, 2018

Bus Riders Concerned With MATA's Proposed Service Cuts

The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is proposing service cuts this fall that would affect almost 30 routes, and Memphis bus riders aren’t happy. Pending a vote by the MATA...

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