Betti Ono
Oakland, CA
2018
Betti Ono is an experimentally minded hub for art, culture, and community headquartered in Oakland, California that serves as cultural anchor and a safe space for artists of...
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Black Love Convergence
Durham, NC
2019
Black Love Convergence activates African Diasporic wisdom as a tool for restoration, innovation, and possibility within movements, communities and the lives of those fighting for their freedom.
Blights Out
New Orleans, LA
2018, 2017
Blights Out is a collective of artists, activists, and architects working to imagine and design a new model for housing development centered outside the for-profit market; we generate...
BMORE Awesome Inc.
Baltimore, MD
2018, 2017
Bmore Awesome is an independent, socially conscientious record label committed to music by young Baltimore musicians who are empowering others and inspiring change that: 1. Uses music as...
Boston Mobilization
Boston, MA
2018
Boston Mobilization was founded in 1977 as part of a national movement for workers rights and smart green energy. Since then we have taken leadership and support roles...
Boston-area Youth Organizing Project
Boston, MA
2016
We are an organization of youth, led by youth and supported by adults, who are united by a common purpose: to increase youth power and create positive social...
Center for Artistic Revolution
Little Rock, AR
2012
Center for Artistic Revolution is a LGBTQ/SGL centric statewide organization working with diverse communities and allies on Fairness and Equality for ALL Arkansans.
CEPA (Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action)
San Juan, PR
2018
CEPA offers a physical space of praxis which nurtures our collective and individual capacity to heal from the legacies of colonialism and capitalism. CEPA’s purpose is to build...
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago, IL
2018
Chicago United for Equity works with civic leaders in schools, neighborhoods, and citywide organizations to activate racial equity throughout Chicago. We work with school leaders and local school...
Chocolate Soul Revival
Durham, NC
2019
A healing justice initiative for Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming people, centering the lives and voices of those most marginalized amongst us, particularly, LGBTQ, low income/ working...
CIRCA Pintig
Chicago, IL
2018
CIRCA Pintig is a community arts organization dedicated to the development and popularization of community arts. Pintig which means pulse in Pilipino, was founded in April 1991, with...
Coalition for Educational Justice
Los Angeles, CA
2013, 2011
Coalition for Educational Justice (CEJ) is a grassroots, multiracial, membership organization whose purpose is to advocate for the needs of students, parents, and teachers with a focus on...
Community Education Project of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
2013
Community Education Project of New Orleans is a diverse collective of families, students, teachers, and community allies nurturing the movement for education justice through grassroots organizing, transformative workshops,...
Community Ready Corps (CRC)
Oakland, CA
2019
Community Ready Corps (CRC) is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively supports self determination in the Black community in nine specific areas. Their use of...
Contact Center
Cincinnati, OH
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
Located in one of Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods, the Contact Center has a forty one year history of community service and organizing. We work on the local, state and...