ABO Comix
Oakland, CA
2019
ABO Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art.
Grantees
Beantown Society
Boston, MA
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
The vision of Beantown Society is to unite youth in Boston across race, class, culture, and neighborhood to end youth violence. We believe in changing youth's oppression, neglect-ion,...
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...
Creating Freedom Movements: More Justice, More Joy
Richmond, CA
2018
Creating Freedom Movements is a year-long popular education program that nurtures visionary grassroots leaders who build beloved community, cross-issue solidarity and infrastructures of justice & joy. Bringing together...
Critical Resistance Oakland
Oakland, CA
2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe. We believe...
Forced Trajectory Project
Las Vegas, NV
2018
Forced Trajectory Project is a media organization dedicated to investigating excessive-use-of-force cases through primary sources such as witnesses and family members of police homicide victims, and uncovering the...
Intelligent Mischief
Boston, MA
2017, 2015, 2014
The work of Intelligent Mischief is to connect the skills, technology, and innovation of the "creative class" to the skills, strategies, and innovation the "creative roots" through social...
L.A. Rooted
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
L.A. Rooted is a grassroots summer youth program which aims to cultivate youth leadership in the areas of environmental stewardship, community empowerment, food sovereignty and self-care. L.A. Rooted...
LibroMobile
Santa Ana, CA
2018
LibroMobile is a literary project that integrates literature, visual exhibits, year-round creative workshops, and live readings to cultivate diversity in Santa Ana.
N-CITE Community Media
Worcester, MA
2014
N-CITE is a Media Collective based in Worcester, MA that employs the media arts to develop, produce and showcase counterstories to disrupt dominant media narratives. We work with...
Practicing Freedom Collective
Oakland, CA
2014
Practicing Freedom supports communities to generate and enact their own solutions while strengthening their relationships through Popular Education practices. We amplify the liberatory, participatory and humanizing potential of...
Qilombo
Oakland, CA
2017, 2015
The project, which was initially called The Holdout, was started in 2011 by a group of mostly white anarchists as a social space, events space, bookstore and bike...
Reclaim Ugly
San Leandro, CA
2019
Reclaim UGLY spreads awareness about uglification; how it’s been used to service white supremacy, patriarchal religious dogma, imperialism, fatphobia, and hetero-cissexism; how it validates bullying; and how we...
Reflect and Strengthen
Boston, MA
2012
Reflect and Strengthen's (R&S) mission is for young, working-class women, ages 14-30 from Boston's urban neighborhoods to create and nurture environments for positive social change through creative expression,...
Survivor Theatre Project
Cambridge, MA
2018, 2017
Survivor Theatre Project brings survivors themselves into the center of the effort to break silence and end sexual violence through empowerment, creativity, and public performance. Performances are engaging,...