Grantees

Heartspark Press

Olympia, WA
2019
Heartspark Press is a volunteer-led, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting, developing, and amplifying the creative voices of transgender girls, transgender women, and CAMAB (coercively assigned-male-at-birth) nonbinary people everywhere.

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.

#NoCopAcademy

Chicago, IL
2019
An effort led by young Black folks in Chicago to stop the construction of a $95 million police academy, and fund communities and youth instead.

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.

All Real Radio

Houston, TX
2019
Since June 2014, All Real Radio has worked to establish a strong base to bring poignant, diverse, and socially-responsible commentary and events, along with positive music, to the...

Black Lives Matter Sacramento

Sacramento, CA
2019
The mission of Black Lives Matter Sacramento is to end police violence in Sacramento, create spaces of racial healing and Black joy, and build systems that make way...

Black Love Convergence

Durham, NC
2019
Five Black folks sitting and playing instruments
Black Love Convergence activates African Diasporic wisdom as a tool for restoration, innovation, and possibility within movements, communities and the lives of those fighting for their freedom.

Chocolate Soul Revival

Durham, NC
2019
A healing justice initiative for Black women, femmes, and gender non-conforming people, centering the lives and voices of those most marginalized amongst us, particularly, LGBTQ, low income/ working...

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.

Detroit Women of Color

Detroit, MI
2019
Detroit Women of Color's mission is to integrate film, social justice and collaboration to advance dialogue and community engagement to radically challenge oppressive systems, and to raise the...

Don't You Feel It Too?

Minneapolis, MN
2019
The mission of Don't You Feel It Too? (DYFIT) is to create a participatory public dance practice that reconnects people to the wisdom of their bodies, cultivates our...

Don’t Shoot Portland

Portland, OR
2019
Youth from Don't Shoot Portland raising fists in air
Don’t Shoot Portland is a Community Action Plan that incorporates activism, education and strategic partnerships to foster community liberation from violence and oppression.

For the Culture

Minneapolis, MN
2019
For the Culture holds multigenerational spaces of resistance and decolonization through rest, relationship building, and resource sharing among ‘healers’ and bodyworkers.

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.

Interaction Initiative Inc.

Mishawaka, IN
2019
Interaction Initiative Inc. cultivates and advances young people of color and their counter-narratives to build more just and equitable communities through education, activism, and healing.

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