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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

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

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

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, 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...

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News

August 13, 2019

Help us Reach Our Goal: Five More Commitments This Month!

Dear Resisters, So many of you have stepped up for Resist this month by including a gift to power our work in your will. Resisters have committed nearly $100,000 to...

August 5, 2019

The Movement is for Everyone: Celebrating #AccessibilityAugust

“Disability Justice is simply another term for Love” - Mia Mingus, Access is Love Dear Resister, Here at Resist, we intimately understand the impact that movements for justice and liberation...

Johnathan Silver

July 31, 2019

Unaffordable Rent Forces Influential Austin Bookstore to Begin New Chapter

An icon of Austin's literary scene is facing a new chapter after being priced out of its current location. Red Salmon Arts, which runs East Austin-based Resistencia Bookstore, announced earlier...

Patricia Mazzei and Frances Robles

July 25, 2019

Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests

SAN JUAN, P.R. — Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation on Wednesday night, conceding that he could no longer credibly remain in power after an extraordinary...

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