In Detroit and Milwaukee — two majority-Black cities where political disinvestment and economic inequality had long suppressed civic participation — two organizations were building something different: year-round, membership-based civic engagement programs rooted in community relationships rather than election-cycle mobilization. Founded…
The Jolt Initiative (Norman grantee 2016–2019) was founded in 2016 by Cristina Tzintzun — the co-founder of Norman grantee Workers Defense Project — to build the civic power of the nearly 11 million Latinos who call Texas home. They engage…
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB, Norman grantee 2004–2013) is an environmental justice organization founded in 2000 to train fenceline residents in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley — the 85-mile stretch of petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton…