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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

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, 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

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

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...

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...

Announcement: Next Grant Deadline is December 7th, 2018 6pm EST

News

Betsey Piette

October 15, 2018

In Philadelphia, A Protest of Draconian State Prison Policies

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is backing draconian measures to restrict mail, books and periodicals available to prisoners. On Oct. 10, over 100 protesters in Philadelphia demonstrated against the new policies,...

October 12, 2018

Violence Against Transgender People is On The Rise

Twenty years ago, two men brutally beat and tortured Matthew Shepard, a 21 year old gay college student in Laramie, Wyoming. Shepard died six days later — on October 12th,...

Xander Peters

October 12, 2018

As Hurricane Michael Makes Landfall, 15 Florida Prisons Haven't Been Evacuated

As Hurricane Michael approaches the Panhandle and is expected to make landfall this afternoon, the Florida Department of Corrections still hasn't evacuated at least 15 state prisons in mandatory evacuation...

Rachel Frazin

October 12, 2018

National Teachers Academy Community Goes to Court to Save School

Elisabeth Greer relies on the low-cost after-school childcare provided at the National Teachers Academy, where her kindergarten and third-grade children are students. But that service could become less affordable to...

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