Past Grants
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Eco-Garden Bellingham, WA |
Capacity-building in local Kenya communities for sustainable food-farming and natural resource management $5,000.00 |
2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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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 |
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Empowerment Congress of Dona Ana County Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States |
Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County will expand its popular education informed, leadership development program and community organizing workshops with low-income, marginalized rural (colonia) and urban communities. $10,000.00 |
http://www.empowernm.org 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Energy Democracy Project Oakland, CA, US |
A consortium of several groups, The Energy Democracy Project is a mutual aid structure that serves as a collaborative resource and strategy center for creating programs and initiatives that advance the work of organizations struggling to democratize energy in the United States. $50,000.00 |
2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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Environmental Justice Coalition for Water Sacramento, California, United States of America |
Grassroots community organizing, capacity- and coalition-building toward the realization of the human right to water and sanitation in California. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ejcw.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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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 |
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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 |
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Esperanza del Barrio New York, NY |
Neighborhood-based membership organization promoting the self-empowerment of Latino immigrants of El Barrio $2,500.00 |
http://www.harlemonestop.com/organization.php 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Everyone Is Gay Brooklyn, NY, USA |
We are seeking funding to design and distribute a curriculum that will augment Everyone Is Gay’s in-person presentations at middle and high schools. $6,000.00 |
http://everyoneisgay.com 2012 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA) Worcester, MA |
Ban the Box campaign (compliance by landlords and employers with new state law) $4,000.00 |
http://exprisoners.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Eyak Preservation Council Cordova, ALASKA |
Outreach campaign among Athabascan tribes re: destructive development and preservation of culture and wild salmon habitat $5,000.00 |
http://redzone.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
FFLIC's goal is to build a movement to stop the school to prison pipeline. We are requesting funding to support our 50-2017 Campaign. We will work to reduce out-of-school suspensions of our children across LA increasing our membership base to enhance education and juvenile justice reform efforts. $10,000.00 |
http://www.fflic.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing |
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Families for Freedom New York, NY, United States |
Update our public education materials for Families for Freedom members and directly affected community members who are at risk of detention and deportation. $15,000.00 |
http://familiesforfreedom.org/ 2018 Spring Community Organizing |
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Families For Justice As Healing Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States |
Implementation of Block-by-Block, an organizing tool which brings forward the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in dialogue about what criminal justice reform should look like and, once engaged, enables them to work for strategic change. $10,000.00 |
http://www.justiceashealing.org 2015 Fall Community Organizing |
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Families United for Racial and Economic Equality Brooklyn, NY |
Childcare organizing project $5,000.00 |
http://furee.org 2003 Winter Community Organizing |
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Family Arts Bridge Camp Berkeley, CA |
Leadership and training for counselors in camp for GLBTQ families $4,600.00 |
http://ourfamily.org/programs/fab-camp 2009 Fall Education |
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Fifth Avenue Committee Brooklyn, NY |
Union de la Communidad Latina project for worker and immigrant leadership development $4,000.00 |
http://fifthave.org 2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Filipino Migrant Center Long Beach, CA, United States |
Organizing Filipino workers and immigrant families to win Sanctuary Policy in Long Beach, California $10,000.00 |
https://filipinomigrantcenter.org/ 2017 Fall Community Organizing |
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Firelands Seattle, WA, United States |
Firelands builds multi-racial, working-class power in rural WA. This funding will support Firelands to host a Rural Movement School for community leaders, popularize our rural Green New Deal platform, and wage dynamic local campaigns led by a multi-racial working-class rural constituency. $15,000.00 |
https://firelandswa.org/ 2019 Fall Community Organizing |
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Fitchburg Artistree Fitchburg, Massachusetts, USA |
Vacant 2 Vibrant, an Experiment in Economic Recovery Through Creative Re-use $4,000.00 |
http://fitchburgartistree.com 2012 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Flushing Workers Center Flushing, NY, United States |
The Wage Law Enforcement Project will organize workers who are victims of wage theft, to be the cornerstone of labor law enforcement measures, and to win back stolen wage and prevent wage theft from happening in future. $15,000.00 |
http://flushingworkerscenter.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Foglight Collective Portland, ME |
Fostering critical thinking on social justice issues among youth $7,500.00 |
http://megperrycenter.org 2007 Fall Education |
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Folk Songs and Recreational Center Aspen, CO |
Record Sri Lankan folksongs $2,000.00 |
2004 Fall Music |
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Food Chain Workers Alliance Los Angeles, California, United States |
The pilot four-day training program of the new Food Justice Education Project will develop 8 worker-leaders, who will then train others in their workplaces and communities to broaden worker participation in the food justice movement in order to positively transform the food system for all. $10,000.00 |
http://foodchainworkers.org/ 2014 Fall Community Organizing |
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Force-Upsetting Rape Culture Baltimore, MD, USA |
An educational program to train leaders to mobilize their communities in publicly supporting survivors of sexual abuse and rape as part of The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced public art project to help survivors reconnect with their communities and provide public healing space $10,000.00 |
https://themonumentquilt.org/ 2014 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
The pilot phase of the Just Transition Reinvestment Program will partner student climate justice organizers at 5 colleges with off-campus groups, in order to move university money out of fossil fuels, and into community-led solutions at the frontlines of poverty and pollution. $12,250.00 |
http://www.studentsdivest.org/ 2015 Spring Community Organizing |
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Free Mind Media Santa Rosa, CA |
Building community-based funding strategies for new alternative media and community center $4,000.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Free103point9 (WGXC) Acra, NY |
Hands on radio youth programming $5,000.00 |
http://www.free103point9.org 2010 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Freedom Archives San Francisco, CA, us |
The Williams Legacy - preservation and restoration of the Williams Family Legacy of resisting the KKK and police violence against Black communities in the South and the organization of community self-defense in the face of racist violence. $5,000.00 |
http://www.freedomarchives.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Freedom Archives San Francisco, CA, usa |
The Robert and Mabel Williams legacy – community self-defense against the Klan: preserving the invaluable lessons of the Black Liberation Movement of the South $5,000.00 |
http://www.freedomarchives.org 2017 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Freedom Food Alliance-Victory Bus Project Germantown, New York, United States |
Funds will help us formalize our alliance of farmers, organizers, students, prisoners and prison families and purchase a green vehicle that will provided transportation and food to familiesfriend of people incarcerated. $15,000.00 |
http://freedomfoodalliance.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing |
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Friends of Farmworkers Philadelphia, PA, United States of America |
FOF’s defensores training institute – the first of its kind in Pennsylvania – seeks to strengthen the power of community leaders by equipping them with the legal knowledge and tools they need to combat common injustices in their communities. $10,000.00 |
http://www.friendsfw.org/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Friends of Justice Arlington, TX |
Interfaith outreach to build "Common Peace Agenda" $6,500.00 |
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com 2008 Spring Community Organizing |
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From the Ground Up Farms Inc. Chico, CA, United States |
Gardening and Nutrition Education Programs $5,000.00 |
http://fromthegroundupfarms.org 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Fuerza del Valle San Juan, TX |
Jumpstarting grassroots participation of fledgling workers' center $10,000.00 |
http://lupergv.wordpress.com/category/economic-stability-and-jobs/fuerza-del-val… 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Fuerza Laboral Central Falls, RI |
Immigrant community organizing for justice in the workplace $5,000.00 |
http://fuerza-laboral.org 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Fuerza Latina Fort Collins, CO |
Training of organizers for all-volunteer immigrant justice organization $3,000.00 |
http://cjpe.org/Fuerza_Latina.html 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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Fund for Empowerment Phoenix, AZ, United States |
COVID 19 response for homeless participants--advocacy and mutual aid. Changing policies related to housing in the time of the pandemic. $5,000.00 |
https://fundforempowerment.org 2020 Spring Community Organizing |
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FUREE New York, NY |
For FUREE Institute for Resistance and Equality (FIRE), training community members in political analysis and organizing skills $2,000.00 |
http://furee.org 2004 Spring Community Organizing |
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G-8 Inc. San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States |
Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (LIJAC) is one of the twelve community-based organizations within the G-8, Inc. aiming to develop leadership skills in youth from ages 11 to 21 and ensure continuity and sustainability of G-8, Inc through educational activities. $10,000.00 |
https://g8incpr.wordpress.com/%C2%BFquienes-somos/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Gary Freedom School Gary, IN |
training for community organizers $6,815.00 |
http://garyfreedomschool.org 2010 Spring |
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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 |
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Georgia Avenue Community Development Task Force Washington, DC |
Organizing for equitable development in Washington DC $6,000.00 |
http://georgiaave.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Gideon's Army, Grassroots Army for Children Nashville, TN |
Organizing project to dismantle the prison pipeline $6,000.00 |
2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Global Exchange San Francisco, CA |
Corporate involvement in Israeli occupation $10,000.00 |
http://globalexchange.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Grassroots Leadership/The Women's Campaign Charlotte, NC |
research on incarcerated women $4,000.00 |
http://grassrootsleadership.org 2010 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Grassroots Organizing Works Amherst, MA |
Leadership capacity-building for low-income and people of color communities moving toward social justice $10,000.00 |
2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Great Small Works New York, NY |
Create the Palestinian National Theater at the 2005 International Toy Theater Festival $3,000.00 |
http://greatsmallworks.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Great Small Works New York, NY |
Development of "The Rapture Project" theater work on religious fundamentalism and outreach to groups working on anti-fundamentalist activities $5,000.00 |
http://greatsmallworks.org 2006 Fall Community Organizing |
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Green Action: Wadi Fukin Fair Trade Project Tel Aviv, Israel |
Israelis and Palestinians developing the Wadi Fukin Women's Association Fair Trade pickle collective $7,700.00 |
http://peacoil.blogspot.com 2007 Fall Community Organizing |