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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

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

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

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

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

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),...

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News

Samantha Melamed

June 5, 2018

Should Philly Keep Holding Kids in Its Adult Jails?

David Harrington was 17 when he was charged as an adult and held in Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, a city jail. Then, after 8 months — basically his entire sophomore...

Isabel Darmon-Weiss

June 5, 2018

Activist Gather in Springfield to Support Poor People’s Campaign

Historic Court Square was filled with almost 200 people on Monday, June 4, in downtown Springfield, where one of many rallies for the Poor People’s Campaign was launched . The...

Steve Ahlquist

May 25, 2018

We Need Nurses, Social Workers and Mental Health Workers in Our Schools, Not Police Officers, Testifies Student

“Students, including myself, don’t feel safe around police officers because they carry guns and I have to constantly watch my back instead of feeling safe,” said Aleita Cook , a...

Ana Radelat

May 23, 2018

Connecticut Advocates Blast DeVos for Saying Schools Can Welcome ICE

Immigration advocates in the state and the Connecticut office of the ACLU blasted Education Secretary Betsy DeVos for saying that a school can chose to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

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