Past Grants
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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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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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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 |
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Green Mountain Crossroads Brattleboro, Vermont, USA |
Community assessment, organizing and training for rural LGBTQ community in Windham County, Vermont, and contiguous towns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. $8,000.00 |
http://www.greenmountaincrossroads.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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GreenRoots Chelsea, MA, United States |
Empowering the Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO) youth crew to develop and teach an environmental justice curriculum to their peers which will culminate with a youth assembly to garner the youths’ visions for a revitalized Chelsea Creek waterfront. $15,000.00 |
http://www.GreenRootsChelsea.org 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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H.O.P.E. Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality Memphis, Tennessee, United States |
Development of a co-operative screenprinting business to empower and employ individuals experiencing homelessness $10,000.00 |
http://www.midsouthpeace.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Habitat Map New York, NY |
Technical support and outreach for community mapping workshops $6,000.00 |
http://habitatmap.org 2009 Fall |
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Hagar's House New Orleans, LA |
social justice advocacy $4,000.00 |
http://www.hagarshousenola.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hand in Hand-The Domestic Employers Association Oakland, California, United States |
The Domestic Work Innovation project seeks to improve worker and employer relationships in the domestic work industry through organizing domestic employers and working to create spaces for dialogue between domestic workers and their employers. $7,000.00 |
http://www.domesticemployers.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Hannah Mermelstein Glenside, PA |
"Flowers Against the Occupation, collaboration between Palestinian girls and professional musicians $1,000.00 |
2005 Fall Music |
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Haqel-In Defense of Human Rights Jerusalem, Other..., Israel |
Haqel requests funding to set up and maintain a website which will provide basic information about the organization and details of our legal representation, describe our successes and challengers, increase awareness of human rights violations and raise funds going forward. $10,000.00 |
2018 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action Kapaa, HI, U.S. |
The Hawai`i People’s Congress is building intersectional solidarity to forward social, environmental, and economic justice in Hawai`i. We enhance the power of resistance through a collaborative, multi-directional approach. $10,000.00 |
http://www.hapahi.org/ 2017 Spring Community Organizing |
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Hawaii Island Sustainability Organization Pahoa, HI |
seed money to enable fund-raising $9,900.00 |
http://islandinnovation.org/concepts/thehawaii-island-sustainability-organizatio... 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Healing to Action Chicago, IL, United States |
Pilot a sustainable worker leadership development model with three grassroots organizations in Chicagoland, building their capacity to give low-wage workers a collective healing space, resources and organizing support to ignite solutions to fight gender violence in their communities. $10,000.00 |
2016 Fall Community Organizing |