Grantees

The Root Social Justice Center

Brattleboro, VT
2018, 2016
The Root's Purpose: The Root SJC provides a physically and financially accessible space to support and bring together communities working for social justice. We operate collectively to sustain...

The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth!)

New Market, TN
2017, 2014
The STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth) is a diverse regional network of young people throughout Central Appalachia who are working together to advocate for and actively participate...

Tits and Sass

Holyoke, MA
2018
Tits and Sass is a media site exclusively by and for sex workers, providing a voice for our community on cultural representation, politics, and policy, honing community media...

Trans(forming)

East Point, GA
2018, 2017
Trans(forming) is an intergenerational metro Atlanta membership-based organization led primarily by and for trans, intersex, and gender non-conforming people of color, assigned female at birth. Through advocacy, education,...

United Community Development of North Carolina

Asheville, NC
2018
United Community Development of North Carolina is dedicated to improving life for under-served communities of Asheville in order to mirror proven practices of success in economic development, re-entry...

United Mountain Defense

Knoxville, TN
2011
UMD utilizes volunteers, community members, lay scientists, and legal and environmental professionals to achieve three crucial goals: 1) Identify, document, and publicize environmental impacts in TN, 2) Educate...

Urban EpiCenter

Nashville, TN
2012, 2013
EpiCenter is a multi-racial, grassroots organization in Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee. The term, EpiCenter, describes the focal point of a disturbance or activity. The Urban EpiCenter is grounded in...

Urban Survivors Union

Greensboro, NC
2018, 2017, 2016
The Urban Survivor’s Union (USU) is a grassroots coalition dedicated to insuring respect, dignity, and social justice for our community. We contest the dominant culture’s misguided attitudes and...

Venceremos

Fayetteville, AR
2019
Venceremos is a worker-based grassroots organization that works to protect the fundamental human rights of poultry workers to achieve long-term systemic change in the poultry industry. They seek...

Vermont Fair Food Campaign

Burlington, VT
2013
The Vermont Fair Food Campaign (VFFC) is a worker/community organization formed to address the urgent need of Vermont’s food chain workers for justice on the job. While much...

Vermont Workers' Center

Burlington, VT
2012, 2011
The Vermont Workers' Center is a democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for the human rights of the people in Vermont. We seek an economically just and democratic...

Witness for Peace - Southeast

Raleigh, SC
2011
Witness for Peace Southeast (WFPSE) is a politically independent grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFPSE’s mission is to support peace,...

Witness for Peace Southeast

Raleigh, NC
2018
Witness for Peace Southeast (WFPSE) is a politically independent grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. WFPSE’s mission is to support peace,...

Women Encouraging Empowerment

Revere, MA
2015, 2011
Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc ("WEE") is a responsive and member lead organization that seeks to support its members to understand US society, to take the needed steps to...

Women in Transition

Louisville, KY
2012, 2015, 2014
Women in Transition is a grassroots organization operating within an economic justice framework. We use the language of human rights to address the issue of poverty in our...

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