Home | RESIST

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

2019

Bayan USA

Portland, OR

BAYAN USA is an alliance of 26 progressive Filipino organizations in the United States and serves as a center for educating, organizing, and mobilizing anti-imperialist and progressive Filipinos.

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...

Youth Rise Texas holding power with their fists in the air.

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

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

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

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

2019

Don’t Shoot Portland

Portland, OR

Don’t Shoot Portland is a Community Action Plan that incorporates activism, education and strategic partnerships to foster community liberation from violence and oppression.

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...

Announcement: Check out Resist's 2018 Annual Report

News

October 14, 2019

Ecuador Protests End After Deal Struck With Indigenous Leaders

President cancels austerity package that sparked weeks of violent street demonstrations [Ecuadorians celebrate on the street after the government agreed to repeal an austerity law. Photograph: Carlos García Rawlins/Reuters] Ecuador’s...

October 8, 2019

“We Have to Mass Mobilize”: Laverne Cox and Chase Strangio Sound the Alarm on Major LGBTQ SCOTUS Cases

At the start of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in three cases to determine whether LGBTQ people can be fired from their jobs...

Kathy Lebron

September 17, 2019

Resisters in Action, Our 2019 August Cycle

Dear Resister, There is no question that grassroots movements are growing stronger by the day. This past grant cycle is proof of just that. [Click the infographic to enlarge] This...

Dr. Melissa Rosario

September 17, 2019

A Letter From Resist Grantee CEPA

Dear Resist Supporter, I don’t really know you, and you don’t know me… but I know we have a lot in common. I believe, like me, you care deeply about...

View all