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