2023 Grants

Economic Justice

Awood Center – $35,000

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 – $30,000

Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

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

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee – $30,000

Pittsburgh, PA

Fiscal sponsor: UE Research and Education Fund

Renewed support of training for workers organizing for improved wages and working conditions

Hawai’i Workers Center – $25,000

Honolulu, HI

Renewed support for organizing campaigns for living wages and improved working conditions

North American Marine Alliance – $35,000

Gloucester, MA

Renewed support for organizing and advocacy efforts in fishing communities

Venceremos – $25,000

Fayetteville, AR

Fiscal sponsor: NEO Philanthropy

Renewed 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

Environmental Justice

Alaska Just Transition Collective – $30,000

Fairbanks, AK

Fiscal sponsor: Native Movement

Support for statewide efforts to transition toward healthy and regenerative economies

Indigenous Peoples of the Coastal Bend – $25,000

Corpus Christi, TX

Fiscal sponsor: Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund

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

Just Transition Northwest Indiana – $20,000

Michigan City, IN

Fiscal sponsor: Warehouse Workers for Justice

Renewed support for grassroots campaigns organizing for the protection of water and complete cleanup of coal ash

Memphis Community Against Pollution – $25,000

Memphis, TN

Support for environmental justice campaigns in Memphis

NC Climate Justice Collective – $30,000

Durham, NC

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

Owe Aku – $30,000

Manderson, SD

Renewed support to protect Lakota sacred water and land

RISE St. James – $25,000

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

Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services – $30,000

Houston, TX

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

Movement Building

African-American Roundtable – $30,000

Milwaukee, WI

Fiscal sponsor: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs

Renewed support for year-round civic engagement and participatory budgeting opportunities in Milwaukee

Arizona Coalition for Change – $25,000

Phoenix, AZ

Renewed support of efforts to build civic power in Black communities in Arizona

For All – $25,000

Phoenix, AZ

Fiscal sponsor: Nonviolence International

Renewed support for nonviolent direct action and grassroots organizing

Georgia STAND-UP – $30,000

Atlanta, GA

Renewed support for voter engagement and grassroots organizing in Georgia

Instituto – $30,000

Phoenix, AZ

Renewed support of efforts to build civic engagement infrastructure in Arizona

Seeding Change – $25,000

San Francisco, CA

Fiscal sponsor: Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund

Renewed support of efforts to build the organizational capacity and leadership of Asian and Pacific Islander American organizers

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

NC Climate Justice Collective – $10,000

Durham, NC

Support for the 2023 NC Climate Justice Collective Summit

For All – $5,000

Phoenix, AZ

Fiscal sponsor: Nonviolence International

Support For All’s climate justice actions in Washington DC and New York City