4ward Miami, Inc
Miami, FL
2018
4Ward Miami was founded in 2015 to promote LGBTQ+ diversity, economic status and civil rights through the creation of the Gay8 Festival and other programs that promote community...
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Action4Ashley
Winston-Salem, NC
2018
Action4Ashley's mission is multi-dimensional and focused on fully obtaining an equitable education for students. Action4Ashley began in the Spring of 2018 in response to parent and teacher concerns...
adé Project
Asheville, NC
2018
adé [aahh day] [Acronym] artists designing evolution. adé is a multi-generational, intersectional grassroots cooperative bringing together la indígena and artists of color that actualize equity, spark creative inquiry...
Barrio Writers
Austin, TX
2018
Barrio Writers (BW) is a creative writing program founded by author Sarah Rafael García, which provides free college level writing workshops to teenagers in underserved communities. In the...
Beantown Society
Boston, MA
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
The vision of Beantown Society is to unite youth in Boston across race, class, culture, and neighborhood to end youth violence. We believe in changing youth's oppression, neglect-ion,...
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...
Blights Out
New Orleans, LA
2018, 2017
Blights Out is a collective of artists, activists, and architects working to imagine and design a new model for housing development centered outside the for-profit market; we generate...
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...
Boston Mobilization
Boston, MA
2018
Boston Mobilization was founded in 1977 as part of a national movement for workers rights and smart green energy. Since then we have taken leadership and support roles...
CEPA (Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action)
San Juan, PR
2018
CEPA offers a physical space of praxis which nurtures our collective and individual capacity to heal from the legacies of colonialism and capitalism. CEPA’s purpose is to build...
Chicago United for Equity
Chicago, IL
2018
Chicago United for Equity works with civic leaders in schools, neighborhoods, and citywide organizations to activate racial equity throughout Chicago. We work with school leaders and local school...
CIRCA Pintig
Chicago, IL
2018
CIRCA Pintig is a community arts organization dedicated to the development and popularization of community arts. Pintig which means pulse in Pilipino, was founded in April 1991, with...
Contact Center
Cincinnati, OH
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014
Located in one of Cincinnati's poorest neighborhoods, the Contact Center has a forty one year history of community service and organizing. We work on the local, state and...
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...