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
Beet Street Gardens
Washington, DC
2018
Beet Street Gardens cultivates gardens and gardeners in partnership with organizations that have long-standing relationships working in communities facing significant barriers to safe, peaceful outdoor space, and healthy,...
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...
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.
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...
Interlocking Roots
Brooklyn, NY
2018
Interlocking Roots is a group of queer and transgender Black Indigenous People of Color (QTBIPoC) who understand food and land work as anti-oppression work and a pathway to...
Milk Not Jails
Brooklyn, NY
2012, 2013
Milk Not Jails is a volunteer-run, grassroots campaign working to build a new urban-rural alliance in New York State. We are urban and rural residents, prison justice activists,...
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...
P0STB1NARY
Washington, DC
2019
P0STB1NARY is a Washington, DC based arts collective working to destroy all cistems by uplifting the safety, autonomy, wellness, and creative development of trans and gender expansive people.
People's Climate Arts
Brooklyn, NY
2016
It takes vision to build a movement. It takes creativity to transform society, and ourselves. We invite you to join us in building bold, innovative and vibrant artists...
Power Street Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
2018
Power Street Theatre Company (PSTC) is home to a collective of fierce multicultural and multidisciplinary artists dedicated to connecting communities through the performing arts by sharing powerful stories...
Rematriation Magazine and Sisterhood
Awkesasne, NY
2019
Rematriation Magazine and Sisterhood is linking like-minded Indigenous women in cultural gatherings and our digital platform, to support the resurgence of healing and unity, and to reinstate the...