Grantee Highlights

Here are Some Recent Media Hits

2025

African American Roundtable – Measure to let Milwaukee residents decide how to spend $600,000 of city budget advances, heads to full council

CATA Farmwork Support Committee – A Big Win for Immigrant Workers in Maryland: Chicken Catchers Reclaim Over $650,000 in Unpaid Wages

Memphis Community Against Pollution – “We Are the Last of the Forgotten”: Inside the Memphis Community Battling Elon Musk’s xAI

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services – A Houston Couple’s Decades-Long Fight Against Environmental Racism

2024

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee – Drunk Shakespeare Actors, Bartenders Win Tipsy Union Contract

Just Transition Northwest Indiana – EPA announces new rules to increase oversight, regulation of toxic coal ash waste in Indiana

Southern Movement Assembly – The South Is Building a New Kind of Power

Tennessee Environmental Council – East Tennessee Hydrogen Hub Leaves Community in the Dark

2023

Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center – Appalachia’s Fight for Disability Benefits Is a National Crisis

Colorado People’s Alliance – Colorado became the first state to bar insurers from using credit scores to set home insurance rates

Connecticut Voices for Children – Study: Hartford among cities where families live in poverty despite full-time work

Food & Water Watch – EPA Cancels $20 Million Grant for Tainted Water in East Palestine, Ohio

Illinois Environmental Council – Illinois: Where the Environment Meets Politics

Just Transition Northwest Indiana – South Side of Chicago Gets New Grocery Store After Years Without

Maine People’s Alliance – One Year Ago, Maine Voters Became the First in the Nation to Reject a Corporate Takeover of Their Electric Grid

Montana Environmental Information Center – Montana’s Big Climate Win in Court

Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center – Gov. Shapiro proposes $48.3B budget, including expanded tax credits, new transit investments

Rio Grande International Study Center – Victory: Multinational Mining Conglomerate Withdraws Eagle Ford Permit Applications

Tennessee Environmental Council – Tennessee is behind on clean air

Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid – How Texas Went From ‘Model’ For Prison Reform To Ground Zero For Inmate Deaths