Grantees

Arise for Social Justice

Springfield, MA
2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
We're a Western MA low-income rights organization which believes we have the right to speak for ourselves. Our members are poor, homeless, at-risk, working, unemployed and people pushed...

Brazilian Women’s Group

Boston, MA
2011
The Brazilian Women’s Group was created in 1995 by a group of women interested in discussing the issues of being an immigrant woman from Brazil in this country...

Collaborative for the Research on Black Women and Girls

Providence, RI
2017
The Collaborative, through this leadership and advocacy training project, seeks to organize around issues impacting Black girls and women and to develop and advance political education and strategy...

Families for Justice as Healing

Boston, MA
2016, 2015, 2014
At Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH) we organize formerly incarcerated women to join the movement toward creating alternatives to mass incarceration. Our membership advocates for community wellness,...

Journey to Free

Hartford, CT
2017
Journey to Free's mission is "To empower Afro-Caribbean women to challenge and change the misogynous social, legal and economic systems that support and fuel the sexual abuse of...

Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending

Worcester, MA
2016, 2011
The Mass. Alliance Against Predatory Lending (MAAPL) consists of a coalition of nearly 70 member organizations, as well as a number of endorsing organizations. Among the member organizations...

MataHari: Eye of the Day

Boston, MA
2012, 2011
MataHari: Eye of the Day is a Greater Boston organization where women of color, immigrant women, and families come together as sisters, workers, and survivors to make improvements...

National Alliance of HUD Tenants

Boston, MA
2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011
Founded in 1991, National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) is the first national membership organization of resident groups advocating for 2.1 million lower income families in privately-owned, HUD-assisted...

New Beginnings Reentry Services

Brockton, MA
2019
New Beginnings Reentry Services works to reduce recidivism by advocating for and building the capacity of women who are reentering local communities during and after incarceration.

Olneyville Neighborhood Association

Providence, RI
2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012
The Olneyville Neighborhood Association began informally in the 1990s in the basement of a local church, as a forum for neighbors in one of Rhode Island's most marginalized...

Prison Birth Project

Northampton, MA
2015, 2014, 2013
When the gender-specific jail opened in Chicopee in 2008, co-founders Lisa Andrews and Marianne Bullock understood that incarcerated women are not offered the full spectrum of reproductive options,...

Radical Advocates for Cross-Cultural Education-RACCE

Hartford, CT
2018, 2017
RACCE's mission is to challenge systems of oppression by advocating for culturally competent educational practices. Therefore, we believe the most effective way to triumph over systemic forms of...

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,...

Resilient Sisterhood Project

Boston, MA
2015, 2014
The Resilient Sisterhood Project’s mission is to educate and empower women of African descent regarding common but rarely discussed diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect them...

Sahiyo

Cambridge, MA
2019
Sahiyo’s mission is to empower Asian communities to end female genital cutting and create positive social change through dialogue, education, and collaboration based on community involvement.

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