Soul City Movement
Brooklyn, NY
2019
To empower a diverse collective of artists and youth to explore creativity as a tool for personal and community development.
Grantees
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.
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...
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...
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...
CulturalWorker
Silver Spring, MD
2019
CulturalWorker creates a series of musicals for popular education, including The Moment Was Now in 2019 and beyond, to help build movements of resistance.
Educated Little Monsters
Brooklyn, NY
2018
Educated Little Monsters is a local grassroots arts organization and movement dedicated to providing an artistic outlet for Brooklyn youth of color while empowering them to become socially...
For the Gworls
Brooklyn, NY
2019
For the Gworls hosts monthly community events — such as healing spaces, panel discussions, and rent parties — to fundraise to assist Black transgender people with rent and gender-affirming surgeries.
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...
Garden of Peace Project
Pittsburg, PA
2018
Garden of Peace Project was created to uplift, uphold, and empower the narratives and lived experiences of queer and/or trans folks of color. We work to manifest spaces...
Healing Justice Podcast
Millerton, NY
2018
Healing Justice Podcast is an audio project to democratize access to inspiring stories, leaders, and practices to support our liberation. A story-mapping of the experiments of courageous and...
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.
Movement Netlab
New York, NY
2017
The Movement Netlab is a practice-centered ‘think-make-and-do tank’. We are comprised of movement-based activists, organizers, and researchers whose goal is to help develop powerful conceptual and practical tools...