Past Grants
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Lents Strong Housing Team Portland, OR, United States |
Housing Stabilization: During a housing and gentrification crisis, educating and organizing poor, working poor and working class renters and homeowners on how to advocate for local anti-displacement policies and practices, including a compassionate response to homelessness. $10,000.00 |
https://www.greenlents.org/housingteam.html 2019 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation New York, NY |
archival software to manage photo collection $10,000.00 |
http://lesbianherstoryarchives.org 2007 Fall Community Organizing |
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LGBT Resource Center for the Seven Rivers La Crosse, WI |
leadership training program $4,000.00 |
http://7riverslgbt.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice Oakland, California, United States |
A 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship fiscally sponsored by Transgender Law Center, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project uses leadership development and organizing to address the targeting of our community by the criminal law and immigration system, and our marginalization within broader social justice movements. $10,000.00 |
http://www.transgenderlawcenter.org 2017 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Liberation in Truth Social Justice Center Newark, NJ |
project to organize against hate crimes $4,360.00 |
http://litsjc.org 2010 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lifelines-Voices Against the Other Death Penalty Philadelphia, PA, United States |
LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty is a media/cultural project working to end Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania by highlighting the voices and analysis of people serving LWOP sentences. $9,000.00 |
http://lifelines-project.org/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Linking the Children of the Motherland New York, NY, USA |
Provide an opportunity for high school Filipino youth have a paid internship and training in community organizing. $10,000.00 |
http://www.ugnayanyouth.org 2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Local Clean Energy Alliance Oakland, California, USA |
Building a strong stakeholder association of organizations in communities that are most impacted by climate change to advocate for and help shape a Community Choice energy program that provides economic, environmental, and social justice benefits to East Bay communities. $12,500.00 |
http://www.localcleanenergy.org/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing |
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Locked Up: Keys to Prison Change Philadelphia, PA |
Production of printed resource guide to prison organizing and support in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware $5,000.00 |
http://justicemonth.org/registrationform.doc 2006 Fall Education |
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Lod Storefront Advocacy Project Jerusalem, Israel |
Organizing Israeli and Palestinian Lod residents for access to resources and democratic participation $5,000.00 |
http://advocacy.org.il 2005 Fall Community Organizing |
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Long Island Jobs with Justice Hauppauge, NY, U.S.A. |
We are launching a project to organize Long Island disaster recovery workers from Superstorm Sandy, and to ensure that workers’ rights are respected on Sandy-related job sites. $10,000.00 |
http://longislandjwj.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN) Los Angeles, CA |
"Safer People" initiative for homeless and housed area residents in community planning $5,000.00 |
http://cangress.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Louisiana Bucket Brigade New Orleans, LA |
Organize refinery neighbors around environmental justice $8,000.00 |
http://labucketbrigade.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Lower Brule Research Lower Brule, SD, United States |
This pilot project supports kids, parents, and community members on a rural Native American reservation in South Dakota as they use their skills and abilities to rethink, reclaim, and rebuild their educational system. $10,000.00 |
http://lowerbruleresearch.org 2018 Spring Education |
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Lysander Puccio New York, NY |
Video equipment distributed to Palestinian Christian populations to produce a community-led documentary film $5,000.00 |
2005 Spring Community Organizing |
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Madera Vox Beacon, NY |
Recording original music-telling performance piece $4,650.00 |
http://maderavox.org 2009 Spring Music |
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Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition Blue Hill, ME, United States |
We would like support for our campaign to reinstate parole in Maine. $10,000.00 |
http://www.maineprisoneradvocacy.org/ 2018 Fall Community Organizing |
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Mariposa and the Saint Brooklyn, NY, USA |
We are seeking funding for the national tour of our play: “Mariposa & the Saint; From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters,” which connects audiences to one woman’s story through her own words, then inspires them to take collective action to end solitary confinement in their state. $10,000.00 |
http://juliasteeleallen.com/mariposa 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center Oakland, CA |
Teach-ins on popular economics and education $7,500.00 |
http://www.mlkfreedomcenter.org 2011 Spring Community Organizing |
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Maryland Justice Coalition Baltimore, MD |
State-wide organizing and advocacy training of formerly incarcerated people and their families $5,000.00 |
http://resources.childhealthcare.org 2004 Fall Community Organizing |
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Mashjar Juthour Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine |
Mashjar Juthour seeks to engage and empower Palestinian communities to learn clean, green environmental practices, therefore integrating learned methods into the domestic sphere and becoming exemplary models for a sustainable Palestine. $9,960.00 |
http://juthour.org 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
Grassroots organizing and mobilization of domestic workers in Massachusetts be selected worker leaders $10,000.00 |
http://www.massdomesticworkers.org 2015 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities Lexington, MA |
First annual statewide conference, organizer and outreach, on sustainable food and renewable energy systems $4,500.00 |
http://masschc.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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MataHari-Eye of the Day Boston, MA, US |
Women's Cooperative Academy & Startup Incubator $10,000.00 |
http://eyeoftheday.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Maura Ellyn High Falls, NY |
Artist-initiated, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural chamber music production of the Celtic Deidre myth $5,000.00 |
2006 Spring Music |
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Mayday Community Space Brooklyn, NY, USA |
Although Mayday is still in its startup phase, we’ve been working to provide movements and grassroots groups with a supportive space to organize, create, build community and maximize their impact.
$10,000.00 |
https://maydayspace.org/ 2016 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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ME2orchestra Inc Burlington, Vermont, U.S. |
Funding will be used to create and distribute a professionally-designed brochure and website for ME2/orchestra, the world's only classical music organization that uses exhilarating performances to erase the stigma surrounding mental illnesses. $7,700.00 |
http://www.ME2orchestra.org 2013 Spring Music |
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Media Mobilizing Project Philadelphia, PA |
Spanish-language education and media program $10,000.00 |
http://mediamobilizing.org/ 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Media Mobilizing Project Philadelphia, PA |
Radio Unidad, Spanish-language education and media program $10,000.00 |
http://mediamobilizing.org 2010 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Melissa Fogarty New York, NY |
First solo recording for soprano $5,000.00 |
http://melissafogarty.com 2003 Winter Music |
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Men's Resources International Springfield, MA |
Feminist men providing training on ending gender violence in Zambia and Nigeria $5,000.00 |
http://mensresourcesinternational.org 2006 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Metrowest Worker Center-Casa del Trabajador Framingham , MA, USA |
To develop a membership structure, worker-owned co-ops and an ally support network $10,000.00 |
2012 Spring Community Organizing |
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Mighty Writers Philadelphia, PA, United States of America |
Philadelphia teens create an Internet radio station to report on their communities, broadcast their writing and express their thoughts. $8,334.00 |
http://www.mightywriters.org 2012 Fall Education |
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Migrant Justice Burlington, Vermont, USA |
The Human RIghts Promoters (Promotores) program will provide farmworker-to-farmworker educational sessions to workers in Vermont’s dairy industry. Migrant Justice will train promotores to travel to dairy farms and educate workers on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program.
$10,000.00 |
http://www.migrantjustice.net 2014 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Migrant Justice Burlington, Vermont |
The Human Rights Promoters program will travel to dairy farms providing farmworker-to-farmworker education to workers in Vermont’s dairy industry on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program. $15,000.00 |
2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |
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Mijente Phoenix, AZ, USA |
Start-up support for Mijente to serve as a hybrid digital and grassroots organizing hub with the goal of driving immigrant and U.S. born Latinx and Chicanx people to take action for racial, economic, climate and gender justice.
$10,000.00 |
http://mijente.net 2016 Spring Community Organizing |
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Milwaukee Area Time Exchange Milwaukee, WI |
training and stipend for organizers $10,000.00 |
http://mketimeexchange.org 2010 Fall Community Organizing |
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Milwaukee Water Commons Milwaukee, WI , USA |
This grant will support the Milwaukee Community Water Assembly, a community engagement program being incubated by MWC to bring community stakeholders together to build community participation and commitment on water issues affecting Milwaukee’s low-income communities and communities of color. $12,000.00 |
http://www.milwaukeewatercommons.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Min Ajliki (Awareness for You) Kuffr Qara, Israel |
Research on status of Arab women citizens of Israel $1,900.00 |
2010 Spring Education, Community Organizing |
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Mirabal Sisters Cultural and Community Center New York, NY |
Citywide strategy conference for tenants' associations $5,000.00 |
http://mensresourcesinternational.org 2006 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missouri Association for Social Welfare Jefferson City, MO |
Human rights task force for immigrants and LGBT people $5,400.00 |
http://masw.org 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates St. Louis, MO |
Know Your Rights presentations and raid response teams $6,000.00 |
http://mira-mo.or 2009 Spring Community Organizing |
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Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Kansas City, MO, USA |
We seek to educate Missourians about the ramifications of serving on a capital jury, by strategically targeting regions in which potential jurors are disproportionately likely to face death penalty cases, and to empower all communities to access their constitutional right to serve on a jury. $5,000.00 |
http://www.madpmo.org 2018 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Workshops for Mizrahi Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel, POB 11518, Tel Aviv 6115, Israel |
New Israel Fund, 330 Seventh Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001-5010 $5,667.00 |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wikik/Miazrahi_Democratic_Rainbow_Coalition 2010 Spring |
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Momenta Quartet Bronx, NY, United States |
The Momenta Quartet will commission Elizabeth Brown to compose “Babel” for string quartet, electronic sound, and video/sculpture installation, and Frances White to compose “The book of evening” for string quartet and shakuhachi. $10,000.00 |
http://www.momentaquartet.com 2018 Fall Music |
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Mondoweiss Jackson Heights, NY |
Capacity-buiding for educational and news analysis website on the Middle East $10,000.00 |
http://mondoweiss.net 2009 Fall Education, Community Organizing |
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Mosaic Makers Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
Collaborating with impoverished W. Baltimore neighborhoods to create murals as a strategy to control their community and redirect the drug trade by creating mosaic murals $5,000.00 |
http://mosaicmakers.org 2013 Spring Community Organizing |
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Movement for Justice in El Barrio New York, NY, USA |
A new organizing project to defend immigrants’ rights in the wake of the xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic campaign/election of Trump & increased hate crimes against immigrants in E Harlem, bringing together targeted communities including immigrant women, women of color & LGBTQI folks citywide. $15,000.00 |
2017 Spring Community Organizing, Education |
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Movement for Justice in El Barrio New York, NY, USA |
To initiate the first community organizing institute with a fully bilingual/bicultural curriculum and practicum. |
2012 Fall Community Organizing |
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Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania-MILPA Yeadon, Pennsylvania, United States |
Our principle focus is changing the law to allow drivers licenses for undocumented Pennsylvanians, and building the community network infrastructure (local committees, statewide coordination, community sustainership and education program) that is the foundation of our collective power. $15,000.00 |
https://milpa.nationbuilder.com/ 2016 Fall Community Organizing, Education |