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
Aloha Dream Team
Honolulu, HI
2015
Aloha DREAM Team is a youth advocacy group with members who have benefited from the DACA program and focuses on outreach efforts and support of immigration policy reform.
Assata's Daughters
Chicago, IL
2015
Assata's Daughters is a grassroots, intergenerational, organizing collective of Black women who love and support each other. Inspired by the Radical Monarchs, Assata’s Daughters was started to hold...
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...
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,...
Connecticut Students for a DREAM
Bridgeport, CT
2015, 2014
Connecticut Students for a DREAM is a statewide organization of DREAMers and alies that seek to empower undocumented students and their families by advocating for their rights and...
Countywide Family Development Center
Laurel, MS
2017, 2015, 2012, 2011
Countywide Family Development Center addresses zero tolerance and similar policies in the local schools that push kids into the juvenile justice system.
Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan
Detroit, MI
2019
Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan (DAYUM) fights for accountability from leaders, justice for our communities, and a seat at the table for all marginalized youth. They see young...
Detroit REPRESENT!
Detroit, MI
2015
Detroit REPRESENT! is a small collective of LGBTQ youth of color from Detroit, Michigan. We use media-organizing to creatively transform the oppression faced by Detroit’s LGBTQ youth of...
Don’t Shoot Portland
Portland, OR
2019
Don’t Shoot Portland is a Community Action Plan that incorporates activism, education and strategic partnerships to foster community liberation from violence and oppression.
Hearing Youth Voices
New London, CT
2018, 2015
We are a youth-led social justice organization in working to create systemic change in the education system in New London, Connecticut. We do this by supporting the development...
Immigrant Youth Coalition
Los Angeles, CA
2015
The Immigrant Youth Coalition (IYC) is an organization led by undocumented immigrant youth. We work to empower immigrant youth to stand up against oppression.
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.
L.A. Rooted
Los Angeles, CA
2017, 2015, 2014
L.A. Rooted is a grassroots summer youth program which aims to cultivate youth leadership in the areas of environmental stewardship, community empowerment, food sovereignty and self-care. L.A. Rooted...
Life In My Days, Inc
Waterbury, CT
2019
Life In My Days, Inc is a peer and youth led international non-profit built on a foundation of peer support, disability justice, racial justice, divestment from capitalism and...