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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, 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

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

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, 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, 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

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

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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Alison Cohen and Emily Mattheisen

November 16, 2018

Food Insecurity: A Denial of Human Rights

As the 39th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) came to a close in Geneva, the U.S. government was conspicuously absent. When the U.S. pulled out of...

evin G. Andrade

November 14, 2018

Syrian Refugees in R.I. Feel Strain of Family Separation

Mental stress is escalating for the 136 Syrian refugees resettled in Rhode Island as hope of bringing their loved ones to the U.S. fades under the Trump administration’s increasingly hard-line...

HUNTER PAULI

November 13, 2018

Montana Judge Blocks Construction of Keystone XL Pipeline

The proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline in northeastern Montana. Sources: USGS, U.S. Census Bureau, Montana DEQ (Eric Dietrich/for Montana Free Press) (Montana Free Press) A Great Falls federal...

Catherine McGloin

November 7, 2018

Council Probes Boston Jobs Policy

The City Council Committee on Jobs, Wages and Workforce Development, chaired by Councilor Frank Baker, representatives from the Boston Employment Commission (BEC) and other city officials met last week at...

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