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
Activist San Diego
San Diego, CA
2015
Activist San Diego is a social justice organization that promotes and facilitates the development of an active, inter-related, progressive community in San Diego through networking, culture and electronic...
Al-Awda San Francisco, Right to Return Coalition
Oakland, CA
2018
Our name, “Al-Awda,” or “return,” refers to the central cause of the Palestinian movement – Palestinian refugees’ right to return home to all of their lands and properties...
All of Us or None – Riverside
Corona, CA
2017, 2016, 2014, 2012
All of Us Or None is a national organizing initiative of prisoners, formerly incarcerated people, friends and loved ones that organize and take action to end the discrimination...
Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA)
San Francisco, CA
2014, 2011
ASATA, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, is a San Francisco Bay Area all-volunteer group working to educate, organize, and empower the Bay Area South Asian communities...
BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth
Oakland, CA
2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011
BAY-Peace supports and empowers Bay Area youth to confront militarism and other forms of violence through youth organizing and artistic resistance. We are the only group of our...
California Coalition for Women Prisoners
San Francisco, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by...
California Families Against Solitary Confinement
Inglewood, CA
2014
Born from the first July 2011 hunger strike initiated in the Pelican Bay SHU, a movement of family members came together in September 2011 to support efforts to...
California Prison Focus
Oakland, CA
2016, 2015
California Prison Focus works to abolish the California prison system in its present condition. We investigate and expose human rights abuses with the goal of ending long term...
Civilian Soldier Alliance - Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
2012
Founded in 2007, the Civilian Soldier Alliance is an organization of civilians working with veterans and active-duty service-members to build a GI resistance movement towards a just foreign...
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)
Irvine, CA
2014, 2013
CIVIC works to end the isolation and abuse of people in US civil immigration detention through structured visitation combined with nationwide detention monitoring and advocacy. CIVIC was founded...
Courage to Resist
Oakland, CA
2011
"Supporting the troops who refuse to fight." Courage to Resist is motivated by a "people power" strategy that we believe can weaken the pillars that maintain war and...
Critical Resistance Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 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...
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...
CURE – Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
2014
We are a support- and advocacy group of people whose life has been negatively affected by Nevada’s criminal justice system.We offer compassionate caring and information to help prisoners,...