Past Grants
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Western Regional Advocacy Project-WRAP San Francisco, CA, USA |
Hiring a half-time organizing position to support the development of a regional anti-homeless sweeps campaign, led by WRAP core members across the U.S. West. $15,000.00 |
https://wraphome.org/ 2019 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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What's Next Washington Seattle, WA, USA |
Through the collective leadership talents in our community, we will launch the JI Leadership Collaborative in order to provide nonprofits led by directly impacted individuals in Washington State the skills, support and resources they need to lead the transformation of the criminal legal system. $15,000.00 |
https://whatsnextwashington.org/ 2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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Who Profits Research Center Ramat Hasharom, Israel, Israel |
Who Profits Research Center will launch an enhanced version of its online database containing over 500 profiles of both Israeli and international companies commercially involved in the continuing Israeli control over Palestinian and Syrian land. $7,500.00 |
https://whoprofits.org/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Wildfire Project New York, New York, United States |
National convening of front-line groups organizing around economic, social, and ecological justice $10,000.00 |
http://www.wildfireproject.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Will Work 4 Kids Ringgold, GA |
Youth-created jazz curriculum and monthly radio program $5,710.00 |
http://work4kids.com 2008 Fall Music |
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Williamsport Guardian, Inc. Williamsport, PA |
Training for WXPI Williamsport Community Radio volunteers $3,616.00 |
http://www.williamsportguardian.com 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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WNC Workers Center/Latinas al Centro Morganton, NC |
Woman-centered organizing and leadership network $10,000.00 |
http://workersunitedwnc.org 2010 Spring |
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Women Drummers International San Leandro, CA |
Oral histories of women master drummers $5,000.00 |
http://womendrummers.org 2008 Spring Music |
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Women in Transition-WIT Louisville, Kentucky, USA |
Part-Time Fundraiser $5,000.00 |
http://www.witky.org 2013 Fall Community Organizing |
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Woodstock International Woodstock, NY |
social justice newspaper $5,250.00 |
http://woodstockinternational.us 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Worcester Green Low Income Housing Initiative Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
A community organizer will continue to link together energy efficiency programs and funding sources with the aging building stock of the extremely low-income. This will include advocacy efforts on energy programs, direct work helping housing partners, research, and publication of replicable results $10,000.00 |
https://www.facebook.com/WorcesterGreen?skip_nax_wizard=true 2014 Spring Community Organizing |
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Worcester Homeless Action Committee Worcester, MA, US |
A community organizer will push for the introduction of restorative justice practices into Massachusetts sentencing efforts. $10,000.00 |
http://www.greaterworcesterhomeless.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Workers Dignity Project/Dignidad Obrere Nashville, TN |
Leadership and tech training for immigrant workers $9,000.00 |
http://tnimmigrant.org/workers-dignity 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Workers' Center of Central New York Syracuse, NY , USA |
The WCCNY will galvanize the New York Dairy Worker Campaign, a public education effort, by convening three regional meetings of farmworkers, with trainers in organizing and campaign development, to help workers define their goals, hone base building strategies, and engage in leadership development. $15,000.00 |
http://workerscentercny.org/ 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Workers' Dignity Project Nashville, TN, United States |
The Sparkplug Foundation grant will fund a short-term salary to train Nashville-area housekeeping workers in organizing worksite committees, developing demands, and developing strategy to improve wages and conditions through the Construction-to-Cleaning campaign. $10,000.00 |
http://www.workersdignity.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Write for Your Freedom/Youth Movement Records Oakland, CA |
Youth-led workshops on literacy and building skills for incarcerated and non-incarcerated youth $4,425.00 |
http://youthmovementrecords.org 2006 Spring Education |
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Writer Warriors Chicago, IL |
Veterans Empowerment Communities program $7,420.00 |
http://ivaw.org/warrior-writers-chicago-war 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Writers in Baltimore Schools Theatre Club Baltimore, MD |
Playwriting project for middle-school students $3,079.00 |
http://writersinbaltimoreschools.org 2010 Spring Education |
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Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing-XITO Tucson, AZ, United States |
XITO and MECA’s Teach Palestine Project will help K-12 teachers develop, implement and share curriculum that explores connections between Palestine and the US/Mexico border region. We want students to think critically about the impact of militarized border zones on youth, families and environment.
$10,000.00 |
https://www.xicanoinstitute.org 2019 Fall Education |
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Young Singers of Orange County Newport Beach, CA |
Institutional needs for choir $3,635.00 |
http://youngsingersoc.org 2010 Spring Music |
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Young Women's Empowerment Project Chicago, IL, United States |
This is for our grassroots organizing campaign Street Youth Rise Up $10,000.00 |
http://www.youarepriceless.org 2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Youth Council for Positive Development St. Louis, MO |
project on anger management $3,000.00 |
http://positiveyouthdev.com/ 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Youth Resistance Project Minneapolis, MN |
Youth-led military counter-recruitment program in Minnesota $9,450.00 |
2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Youth Rise Texas Austin, TX, USA |
Youth Rise Texas is developing the leadership and organizing capacity of youth directly affected by parental incarceration and deportation. Youth Rise uses popular education, mentorship, organizing, and creative cultural production to challenge mass incarceration and immigrant criminalization. $10,000.00 |
http://www.youthrisetx.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Zochrot Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel |
Training Israeli teachers to use Zochrot materials about the Nakba $7,837.00 |
http://zochrot.org/en 2008 Fall Community Organizing |
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Zochrot Tel Aviv, Israel/ Palestine, Israel |
To promote a movement of Israelis supporting the implementation of the return which will support the movement of young Palestinians, who are raising the issue of the right and implementation of return, and change Israeli perception about the conflict. $10,000.00 |
http://www.zochrot.org 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Zochrot Tel Aviv-Yaffa, Israel/Palestine, Israel/Palestine |
Organizing a new local Tel Aviv – Yaffa community of activists working to promote public awareness to the Nakba and push forward a discussion about the return of Palestinian refugees, $15,000.00 |
http://www.zochrot.org 2019 Fall Community Organizing |