Grants, 2020 Fall
350 Seattle Seattle, WA, US |
350 Seattle’s Pledge of Resistance training series equips everyday people with the skills and knowledge to safely engage in peaceful direct action to build grassroots power and effect change. $10,000.00 |
https://www.350seattle.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
alQaws East Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel |
The Palestinian Queer Movement & alQaws History – An Archive Project is a multi-faceted organizational and community project that seeks to research and document the history and the personal narratives of the Palestinian Queer Movement and key figures that contributed to its foundation and leadership $10,000.00 |
http://www.alqaws.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Camp Equity St. Louis, MO, United States |
Camp Equity is a virtual camp where K-12 students explore social justice movements with on-the-ground leaders of impacted communities while also connecting with diverse - peers from around the country. $10,000.00 |
http://www.campequity.com 2020 Fall Education |
Collective Action for Safe Spaces Washington, District of Columbia, United States |
Collective Action for Safe Spaces’ (CASS) transformative justice hub is creating an ecosystem of community-based support that serves as an alternative to the criminal legal system for survivors of patriarchal violence. $10,000.00 |
http://www.collectiveactiondc.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Emergency Workplace Organizing Project Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , United States |
This grant would fund in-depth training cohorts, that will build on the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's (EWOC) existing infrastructure to arm frontline workers with the skills and resources to organize for their demands and teach volunteers the skills to support workers’ organizing. $10,000.00 |
https://workerorganizing.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Epsilon Spires Brattleboro, VT, USA |
Epsilon Spires and the Zinn Education Foundation will host a curriculum-building workshop that will empower local educators and activists to teach Reconstruction, so their students may understand this historic movement toward racial equity and learn how to critically examine American history. $3,100.00 |
https://www.epsilonspires.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
Equity Legal Services Inc. Belleville, IL, United States |
This program will conduct damage assessments of Centreville residents' homes to ascertain the costs of repairs due to decades of storm water flooding and sewage overflows. $20,000.00 |
http://www.equitylegalservices.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Gente Organizada Pomona, CA, USA |
Gente’s Teach-In/Heal-In project is an intergenerational initiative that will train local parents and youth as organizers while promoting healing and grounding practices to help them sustain their work. $12,300.00 |
http://www.genteorganizada.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
In Cultured Company Brooklyn, New York, USA |
Provide experiences, facilitate workshops, and promote educational tools and resources that will address peace, conflict resolution, collaboration, healing, and dialogue for the Haitian and Dominican diaspora within the US in order to move from a divided past towards future. $5,000.00 |
http://www.inculturedco.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
Inner City Youth Tutoring Inc. ST LOUIS, Missouri, United States |
The Sparkplug grant will fund math and language arts manipulatives for students hands-on instruction during online in-home schooling and weekly tutoring to get the best education possible in this virtual school-age of teaching due to COVID. $2,000.00 |
https://icyt123.org 2020 Fall Education |
Kalliope Reed Quintet Lexington, MA, USA |
After one year together the Kalliope Reed Quintet creates their first album! Consisting of a diverse and eclectic collection of entirely original works, this album furthers their mission to expand and diversity the reed quintet repertoire and redefine the future of 21st century chamber music. $8,500.00 |
https://kalliopereedquintet.com 2020 Fall Music |
Katal Centr for Health Equity and Justice Brooklyn, NY, U.S. |
To produce a report about the impact of COVID-19 on individuals on parole and those re-incarcerated due to technical violations.The report will: a) highlight the racial disparities inherent in these practices; b) share personal stories from impacted people; and c) emphasize the need for reform in NY $5,000.00 |
https://www.katalcenter.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
Kayan-Feminist Organization Haifa, Haifa District, Israel |
Kayan will launch a social/digital media training program for Jusur Forum, women leaders of our grassroots Palestinian women’s activist movement, to build technical skills that will enhance their community organizing work and to encourage self-confidence and self-expression for Palestinian women. $15,000.00 |
https://kayanfeminist.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Nashville Sunrise Movement Nashville, TN, US |
The Nashville Sunrise Movement will organize a state-wide conference and training to strengthen existing and emerging Sunrise Movement hubs across the state of Tennessee and build necessary skills in youth activists to effectively combat climate change and fight for social justice. $10,000.00 |
https://sunrisenashtn.carrd.co/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance Flagstaff, Arizona, United States |
This is a collaborative initiative between NAZCCA and Indigenous Vision to establish a reciprocal, ally partnership with Indigenous leaders in the northern Arizona frontline communities of the Navajo and Hopi Nations to strengthen our mutual climate justice and environmental agendas.
$10,000.00 |
http://www.nazcca.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Our Climate Voices Washington, District of Columbia, USA |
In Conversation: A Listening Series on Climate Justice and Collective Liberation $13,815.00 |
https://www.ourclimatevoices.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Palestinian Youth Movement White Plains, New York, USA |
This grant will support a retreat for members of our network of Palestinian and Arab feminists, at which we will collectively develop a strategy, implementation plan, and timeline for uplifting women’s voices and achieving gender justice in Palestinian and Arab American communities. $15,000.00 |
http://www.pymusa.com 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
Parents Against Chid Detention Jerusalem, Jersusalem, Israel |
A social media and public action campaign targeted towards the Israeli public, regarding the oft-hidden issue of human rights violations suffered by Palestinian children arrested and in detention. $10,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/ChildDetention/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Parole Illinois Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Leveraging Impacted People will engage the organizing, communication, and leadership skills of five impacted people whom we have recently trained, so as to advance Parole Illinois efforts to mobilize impacted communities while also cultivating new leaders. $15,000.00 |
http://ParoleIllinois.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
Providence Student Union Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
Youth activists demanding the total removal of school resource officers in Providence Public Schools and the hiring of more mental health professionals. $10,000.00 |
https://www.pvdstudentunion.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
The Cooperative of the Prison Abolition Community New Haven, CT, US |
The Cooperative of the Prison Abolition Community is a collective of currently and formerly incarcerated people and allies in Connecticut working to join abolitionist organizing & political education to cooperative economics and the creation of community-led pathways for economic liberation. $10,000.00 |
2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
The Niles Foundation Culver City, CA, United States |
10 New Urban Agriculture Sites For Fresh Food Access & food Sovereignty! $15,000.00 |
https://www.thenilesfoundation.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
The Siraj Center Bethlehem , West Bank, Palestine |
The purpose of the project is to conduct COVID-specific capacity building training so that local communities can again welcome tourists and thereby continue to raise awareness of the need to protect Palestinian environment, heritage and unique communities. $10,000.00 |
http://www.sirajcenter.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
The Women's Justice and Freedom Initiative Burlington, Vermont, United States |
Through a new abolitionist grassroots campaign, WJFI will organize to close Vermont’s only women’s correctional facility, stop the state from investing in new prison construction and re-direct money to community-based alternatives to incarceration, mental health, housing, and public education. $15,000.00 |
https://www.wjfi.org/ 2020 Fall Community Organizing |
Western Regional Advocacy Project-WRAP San Francisco, CA, USA |
The Legal Defense Clinic (LDC) Project is a crucial addition to our national House Keys Not Sweeps campaign. WRAP’s homeless-led member groups are partnering with legal service organizations to establish nationally-coordinated, locally-focused LDCs to end the criminalization of homelessness. $15,000.00 |
http://www.wraphome.org 2020 Fall Community Organizing |