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2022 Grants

Economic Justice

Awood Center - $30,000

Minneapolis, MN

Renewed support of grassroots efforts to build leadership and power in Minnesota's East African working community


Comité de Apoyo para Trabajadores Agrícolas - $25,000

Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Support of efforts to empower farmworkers and immigrant workers to organize for safe, fair, and just living conditions


Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee - $25,000

Pittsburgh, PA

Fiscal sponsor: UE Research and Education Fund

Support of an innovative organizing model that trains workers and volunteers to organize for improved wages and working conditions


Hawai'i Workers Center - $20,000

Honolulu, HI

Support for organizing campaigns for living wages and improved working conditions in Hawai'i


North American Marine Alliance - $35,000

Gloucester, MA

Renewed support for organizing and advocacy efforts in fishing communities


Sunflower Community Action - $25,000

Wichita, KS 

Renewed support of community organizing for good jobs in Kansas 


Venceremos - $25,000

Fayetteville, AR

Fiscal sponsor: NEO Philanthropy

Support for immigrant women-led efforts to adapt the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility model to the poultry supply chain 


Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy - $35,000

Richmond, VA

Renewed support to build and strengthen state policies to stop wage theft and promote good jobs with living wages


Workers Center for Racial Justice - $35,000

Chicago, IL 

Renewed support of efforts to promote sustainable and living wage employment for Black workers in Chicago


Workers' Dignity - $30,000

Nashville, TN 

Renewed support for efforts to improve wages and working conditions for construction workers in Nashville 

Environmental Justice

Center for Earth, Energy, and Democracy - $30,000 

Minneapolis, MN 

Renewed support of work to strengthen grass roots environmental justice organizing in Minnesota and the Midwest


Defend the Sacred Alaska  - $35,000

Fairbanks, AK

Fiscal sponsor: Native Movement

Renewed support for a coalition of women-led organizations that are mobilizing to protect the Arctic


Indigenous Peoples of the Coastal Bend - $20,000

Corpus Christi, TX

Fiscal sponsor: Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund

Support of Indigenous-led efforts to preserve Native culture and prevent expansion of fossil fuel industry


Just Transition Northwest Indiana  - $15,000

Michigan City, IN

Support for grassroots organizing efforts to demand complete cleanup of coal ash


NC Climate Justice Collective - $30,000

Durham, NC

Fiscal sponsor: NC WARN

Support for efforts to engage low-income and BIPOC communities in North Carolina to advance a just transition to a regenerative economy


Owe Aku - $25,000

Manderson, SD 

Renewed support to protect Lakota sacred water and land


RISE St. James  - $30,000

St. James, LA

Fiscal Sponsor: Earth Island Institute

Renewed support for St. James Parish residents in their efforts to protect the air, water and health of their community 

 

Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM) - $30,000

Knoxville, TN 

Renewed support of statewide, grassroots organizing on environmental justice issues

 

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services - $30,000

Houston, TX  

Renewed support for grassroots environmental justice organizing in Texas and the U.S. gulf region


We the People of Detroit - $30,000

Detroit, MI

Support for grassroots efforts to educate and empower Detroit residents to take action on issues related to land, water, and the democratic process

Movement Building

African-American Roundtable - $25,000

Milwaukee, WI  

Fiscal sponsor: Hmong American Women's Association

Support for year-round civic engagement opportunities for Black Milwaukeeans


Center for Third World Organizing - $25,000

Oakland, CA 

Renewed support for training programs to expand and strengthen organizing in communities of color


For All - $25,000

Phoenix, AZ

Support for nonviolent direct action and grassroots organizing to protect voting rights 


Georgia STAND-UP - $25,000

Atlanta, GA

Support for voter engagement and issue-based organizing in Georgia


Instituto - $25,000

Phoenix, AZ

Support of efforts to build civic engagement infrastructure in Arizona


Seeding Change - $25,000

San Francisco, CA

Fiscal sponsor: Chinese Progressive Association

Support to develop Asian and Pacific Islander American organizers and build grassroots organizing infrastructure


Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative - $35,000

Jackson, MS

Fiscal sponsor: Children's Defense Fund

Renewed support of efforts to improve the long-term economic outcomes for Black women, children, and families in the rural South


Youth Rise Texas - $30,000

Austin, TX

Renewed support for youth organizing and civic engagement efforts in Texas

Discretionary Grants

Arizona Center for Empowerment - $5,000

Phoenix, AZ

Special grant from Norman Foundation's Next Generation


Black Male Voter Project Education Fund - $20,000

Atlanta, GA

To support nonpartisan civic engagement activities


Comité de Apoyo para Trabajadores Agrícolas - $5,000

Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

Special grant from Norman Foundation's Next Generation


Fuerte Arts Movement - $5,000

Phoenix, AZ

Fiscal sponsor: Arizona Center for Empowerment

To support cultural organizing and efforts to integrate into policy advocacy campaigns


Georgia Alliance Education Fund - $30,000

Atlanta, GA

To support non-partisan civic engagement activities in Georgia


Jolt Initiative - $10,000

Austin, TX

To support plans to expand civic engagement program to the Rio Grande Valley


Mi Familia Vota Education Fund - $9,000

Phoenix, AZ

To support non-partisan civic engagement activities


Native Movement - $10,000

Fairbanks, AK

To support the 2022 Alaska Just Transition Collective's summit


NC Climate Justice Collective - $5,000

Durham, NC

Fiscal sponsor: NC WARN

Special grant from Norman Foundation's Next Generation


North American Marine Alliance - $4,000

Gloucester, MA

To support a website revision, including creating new language for history, programs, goals, and national campaigns


RISE St. James  - $30,000

St. James, LA

Fiscal sponsor: Earth Island Institute

Special grant from Norman Foundation's Next Generation


Seeding Change - $25,000

San Francisco, CA

Fiscal sponsor: Chinese Progressive Association

To support summer fellowship retreat


West Virginia Fund for the Environment - $5,000

Charleston, WV

To support the 2022 Environmental Summit


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