Alianza Agrícola is a member-led organization of immigrant farmworker leaders in the Western and Finger Lakes regions of New York. Our group was formed to create a better future for NY’s migrant farmworker families and communities. Members of Alianza Agrícola are empowered to advocate for our own good and develop and improve our leadership skills. Members participate in efforts to educate the community about farmworkers and our work in this region. We are supported by groups of allies as well as individuals who fight alongside us for justice for the immigrant farmworker community.

The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are the largest joint war exercises in the world, conducted biannually in Hawai'i. The US uses RIMPAC to strengthen the abilities of 26 of its allies’ militaries to wage wars of aggression around the world, as threats of war between major military powers continue to rise. Through weapons testing and war-making, defense contractors and fossil fuel corporations reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. The US military occupation of Hawai'i is a violation of native Hawaiian sovereignty and turns Hawai'i into a place where “future wars are in develo

The Democracy Trailblazers Ambassador Program offers an immersive school season experience combining training, mentorship, and networking opportunities for high school students aged 16-18. This program is designed to deepen students' understanding of the democratic process and highlight the critical importance of voting, especially in underserved communities. Students will create sustainable civic engagement teams in their school and trained on community organizing in the community they live in. Goal is engaging young people early in the electoral process.

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The current situation in Palestine has increased the need and demand for education around Palestine, history and current. Directly impacted individuals are seeking ways to get information and get involved. Our programming brings Palestinian voices directly from the ground to people's computers, countering the misinformation from the mainstream media. We provide an online platform at a moment where the censoring of journalists is at an all-time high and travel for our delegations is precarious. We are seeking funding for virtual delegations as well as our "Gaza Speaks Out" series.

Movement for Justice in El Barrio is a majority-immigrant women community organization based in in East Harlem, NYC, that fights for immigrant justice, housing justice and gender justice and, following our unique model, consistently challenges multiple forms of oppression, including xenophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, and homophobia. The organization expanded to address the devastating health & economic impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

This video project aims to educate people about the discriminatory double-punishment that refugees face in the justice system, activate the community through screenings and organizing sessions, and advocate for the thousands of refugee prisoners who are risk for similar deportation.

Phoeun You came to the U.S. as a Cambodian refugee when he was 4 years old. He committed a crime and served 27 years in prison. During his incarceration, he turned his life around, and committed his life to Restorative Justice. But when he was released, he was transferred to ICE, and deported.

In 2024, the OPF will focus on the exchange of strategies of resistance and methods for mobilizing civil society to achieve self-determination. The 2024/2025 Occupied People's Gathering will give leading activists the opportunity to reflect on their struggles, explore commonalities, and build new methods of resistance. This grant will cover funding for the educational materials distributed before, during, and after the 2024/2025 Occupied People's Gathering to ensure a deeply strategic exchange, sharing best practices and challenges to current movements for justice, freedom, and human rights.

The Philly Black Worker Project's mission is to (1) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower marginalized Black workers to advance their rights and improve the quality of jobs in key employment sectors; (2) to provide education about the impacts of low-wage work and unemployment on Black communities; and (3) to prevent all forms of discrimination against all Black workers in hiring and other employment practices and policies and (4) to connect people to resources that can help them overcome barriers to high quality employment.

Our overall goal is to build the power needed to overcome the challenges of our location in the deep south, in states that are deeply historically invested in white supremacy and carceral systems and currently under extreme right wing political leadership, in order to win successful shut down campaigns against ICE. In this phase, we will focus on leadership development of immigrants who were formally detained, developing rapid response capacity to support currently detained immigrant organizers, and strengthening partnerships in order to move targeted elected officials to active engagement.

The Mission of Twin Cities Nonviolent is to reduce violence in all its forms, increase awareness and engagement in nonviolent policies and practices, bring together local community organizations, including nonprofits, religious institutions, educational institutions, and government agencies and dismantle the structures and systems that lead to violence throughout the Twin Cities and beyond.
We envision a Twin Cities community that is free from violence.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School teaches aspiring organizers how to understand the world and how to change it. By providing movement leaders from those communities most impacted by poverty, policing, and mass incarceration—primarily young and formerly incarcerated people—with a strong grounding in the theory and practice of of social change, we build their capacity as individual organizers, strengthen the organizations they participate in, and help shift prevailing narratives about abolition and the urgent need for a broader process of social reconstruction.

Beyond These Walls will be facilitating several leadership development programs for transgender women who are currently incarcerated. Our movements and organizations need leadership from transgender people who are justice-involved. We believe in developing these leaders before they are released and empowering them to organize in their prisons and communities.

We plan to organize a mass-turnout, nonviolent direct action at the UN General Assembly meeting in NYC in September of 2023. This is a great opportunity to highlight President Biden's fossil fuel hypocrisy in front of world leaders.

The Super Bowl’s annually revived sex trafficking myth presents a highly concentrated example of how disinformation, combined with stigma, leads to the criminalization, arrests, and incarceration of sex workers. Stop the Raids uses a labor rights analysis to train and organize 100 sex workers and allies around the decriminalization of sex work through online and in-person activist capacity building in anti-oppression work and leadership, leading up to direct action that educates the public, media, and policymakers about decriminalization at Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, NV in 2024.

Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) is working with the Zinn Education Project to mobilize professional historians to oppose the right-wing’s lies and distortions about what is and what is not being taught in schools and to stand up for educational freedom. Toward that end, we have created the “Historians-on-Call” network to identify when and where the historians can support local efforts.

We aim to oppose US-backed human rights violations and war crimes by the Philippine government against human rights defenders, poor and impoverished people, and civilians in the Philippines and abroad. People who have faced this repression will travel across the US, sharing their personal stories and education on the worsening political and economic crises in the Philippines. We aim to build a movement to oppose US military aid to the Philippines, defend the rights of activists against political repression, and build long-lasting international solidarity to fight for a just and lasting peace!

STREET LAW BOOTCAMP is a two-day long, culturally relevant, trauma-informed workshop series, offered by JUSTUS JUNKIE, INC. SL BOOTCAMP teaches the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution to African-American teens ages 13 – 18 on the Southside of Chicago. Sessions are taught by licensed criminal defense attorneys, police torture survivors, activists, and restorative justice practictioners. The linchpin of the program is the original educational board game about police encounters created by JUSTUS JUNKIE CEO, April Preyar, called Trials & Triumph.

Organizers from across the issue spectrum are always able to accomplish more. That’s why the county cohort training program is so critical. New Endeavor Texas training programs build connections among organizers from different backgrounds and issue spaces, all within the same county. Well-trained and well-supported organizers are needed to make lasting change in Texas, and at the end of our cohort training programs, organizers have built up a county-wide organization that can support ongoing work at all levels of local and state government.

We currently have two special actions organized to provide solidarity and support. ICWA Education and Mutual Aid and Harm Reduction

TBR will hold workshops which build marginalized community members’ capacities to resolve conflict, access support resources and prevent crises. We will engage participants in dialogues drawing on and validating their experiences with racism, police aggression, incarceration, homelessness, and other types of marginalization while equipping them with concrete methods to address harm outside of policing. We seek to increase capacity for agency among Black, Brown, and other marginalized people—to improve their life conditions and mobilize participation in political action related to abolition.

ARTE’s Youth Voices Lead program is a paid, digital community training program for 12+ youth organizers to strengthen their artistic tools and human rights knowledge to advocate for racial justice change. For around 12 weeks, these young leaders (ages 14-18) will bravely come together from diverse neighborhoods throughout New York City to learn about the important issues directly impacting their communities, including the right to housing, the right to health, the impact of mass incarceration, and the right to education, through an interactive art + activist (artivism) curriculum.

Back from the Brink (BftB) is a grassroots coalition managing a national campaign to mobilize the public and build the political will needed to prevent nuclear war and fundamentally change nuclear weapons policy in the United States. By growing our national network of community-based organizing hubs in support of nuclear weapons abolition, BftB is building and mobiziling a powerful constituency around a call for the US to initiate negotiations with the other nuclear weapons states for a verifiable, enforceable time-bound agreement to eliminate their arsenals.

A mobile screening collective that uses film to stimulate political awareness, support local organizing, and build real community solidarity.

These funds will support youth-led campaigns on issues ranging from Covid response safety and equity to the school to prison pipeline. By the 2023 school year, we hope to abolish the Detroit school's archaic, racist, and sexist uniform policy which distracts from learning time and pushes students into the prison system. Student direct actions may also include climate change marches, advocacy for mental health support systems in our schools, and other issues directly impacting Michigan youth.

During the pandemic, as our people were dying, evictions rose and the housing crisis fueled by gentrification and white settlement in Nashville came to a head. We started our survey of a particular slum in Nashville that houses many Arabs and Latinx and Black immigrants in January-June 2021; we released the results and did press interviews throughout 2021, and we hosted two legal clinics on housing and three livestreams in Arabic/Spanish/English. Now, in 2022, we are gearing up to fight, with a coalition, the License Plate Readers initiative that will further displace our people.

The State of Hawai’i leased more than 40,000 acres to the Army in 1965, for just $1 for 65 years, which are set to expire in 2029. As a result, the Army is trying to retain these lands beyond the lease. HPJ in coalition with Kanaka Maoli organizations, are building a grassroots campaign with the communities directly harmed by the military presence and who have been denied access to their ancestral lands to demand that the State refuse to renew the Army leases because in the midst of the climate crisis military pollution and violence is causing irreversible environmental harm to Hawaiʻi.

Movement conducted a community-driven consultation process in El Barrio and the following were the priorities chosen by our community:

1) Organize to cut funding to ICE and CBP 2) Organize for the closing of immigrant family detention centers 3) Organize for the release of immigrants in detention due to COVID-19 4) A pathway to citizenship 5) Continue strengthening immigrant community defenders, on-the-ground, who lead immigration policy change campaigns

This project we are seeking funding for will focus on the first 3 aforementioned priorities listed.

Injured Workers vs Multinational is the podcast chronicle of a group of South American autoworkers who decided to take on General Motors when they were fired after developing disabling injuries at work. Told as part radio play and part social justice suspense thriller, this non-fiction narrative weaves heartwarming moments, humorous travails, and creative nonviolent resistance into the high stakes reality of being an organizer in Colombia-- death threats and all. Will their scrappy determination and grassroots support from international allies be enough? Tune in to find out!

Our vision is a Vermont where prisons no longer exist, and all people thrive. WJFI’s “No New Prisons” campaign is organizing to close the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility, oppose building a new women’s prison and revamp reentry procedures. Our goal is to reimagine our communities by addressing the devastating impact of incarceration, harmful child welfare policies, physical health/mental health/addiction issues, and violence in our communities.

The proposed fellowship project will include (a) a scan of criminal justice and police reform strategies that professional athletes and athlete coalitions have engaged in, (b) the development, refinement, and pursuit of coalition-building strategies for athletes and athlete coalitions, and (c) the development and implementation of tools to evaluate the effectiveness of coalition building and outcome achievement in criminal justice and policing reform efforts.

We’re creating a follow-up training series to our wildly successful Racial Equity Fundamentals series. This new training series will be a part of our two-pronged approach to community organizing and will complement our Building Stronger Communities series. Our main focus is building a bottom-up, intersectional movement that shifts power to the people of Chatham County. We are an available resource for both community members to train as community organizers and to institutions seeking to adapt a racial equity lens within their organizations.

Real Stories will be a virtual online art space to raise awareness and incite action towards college homelessness. The project will aim to address the misconceptions and lessen the effect of bias for those experiencing homelessness. Through the development of this online space and hosting public exibitions, we will use this as a vessel to celebrate the students experiencing homelessness and create a more informed public. Our project will aid CoAct in recruiting student champions and passionate community members to our steering committees to aid in creating impact.

Houseless-led organizing for Phoenix with leadership trainings, meetings, demonstrations, media and other contributions such as rights restoration. We aim to decriminalize houselessness and also to stop enforcement of the urban camping law. We will also seek to have a voice in increasing city budgets. We are working on legal strategies but this would be for our houseless led organizing and trainings. We will speak at relevant city council meetings, at least biweekly generally, depending on the schedule. We will hold 6 protests and 24 feedings. We will restore the voting rights of 30+ persons.

Growing from nearly a decade of low-wage worker organizing in Kansas City, the Missouri Workers Center will build off this foundation. Aiming to bring together workers from fast food, retail, warehouse, and e-commerce industries, the workers center will utilize online resources and tools to connect with and organize workers across the state of Missouri. Through digital organizing, leaders will be able to reach out to workers in rural areas, bringing them into the base, and supporting their fight for better wages, healthcare and insurance benefits, and job security.

It is the tenth anniversary of PAFNYS’ Student Organizer Program, which began in 2011 with one campus chapter and now has 21 active chapters across the state. The Former Student Organizer Engagement Project will connect with alumni of the program in order to re-engage the participants in activism, to share their experiences with the current student organizers and community activists, and to provide pathways for the alumni to take on leadership and key roles in the peace and social justice movement.

The Shut Down ICE campaign arose in 2018 out of the need to take action against the growing presence of ICE in our communities. We have since targeted the institutions and ICE agreements that allow for the separation of families and terrorization of undocumented people at large. This grant will assist us in the utilization of direct action, public demonstration, and media campaigning to pressure counties in Massachusetts to end their IGSA and 287(g) agreements with ICE.

We will put out a call to all member groups for possible participants, and select 3 possible participants per site, and conduct educational and organizing sessions online to support each group's plan to hold events based on issues that are pressing where they are.This leadership development process will centralize community building, anti-oppression, and conflict resolution, connecting peace issues to the local issues that affect their communities every day. UFPJ’s project will produce young leaders excited about the future, who see activism and organizing as a vehicle to build power.

Reimagine, redevelop and relaunch the Center on Conscience & War Website: Redesign project to make the website mobile friendly.

Youth Neighborhood Organizing Teams will organize and activate youth and millennials in Miami-Dade County neighborhood by neighborhood to build a more powerful and more connected community working for a just, democratic, and sustainable Miami.

Through this funding, Gente Unida will provide advocacy for the immigrant community in the US/Mexico border. We will bring awareness of immigration issues and fight the negative narrative that exists against the immigrant community. Through Gente Unida’s podcast, speakers will be invited to highlight and provide educational background in regards to the needs of the immigrant community. Gente Unida will also provide advocacy at detention centers promoting “no kids in cages”, and strengthen our art program to provide healing and therapy to children who have been affected by immigration policies.

As a new initiative for Little Egypt Productions, “Cairo Memory Project” seeks to empower local youth in Cairo, IL, a post-industrial locale maligned by outsiders’ negative perceptions. We share the tools of media production and historical inquiry with Cairo High School students to create original content and raise both historical and contemporary social awareness. The program puts the tools and the impetus for media-making directly in the hands of Cairo youth through intensive workshops that not only offer technical training but also enable participants to connect with history through recording interviews with local individuals who directly participated in their hometown’s rich history of civil rights struggle, and some of whom are activists engaged in the community today.

Create three focus groups, each consisting of five young activists who would inform the creation of a 3 and 5-year Strategic Plan for NWTRCC outreach and growth. Participants would be activists under age 30, who are not active in the WTR movement but are active in other justice movements. This project would also instill in the participants greater respect for war tax resistance and anti-militarism.

Grassroots organizing program in NJ consisting of two components – parliamentary initiative “Back from the Brink” (flyer included) urging local elected official to support the adoption of the UN Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons modeled after NJ Assembly res 230 and a Voter Registration initiative on targeted college/university campuses in North Jersey.

The Queer Liberation March, hosted by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, is a truly grassroots, people’s political march – no corporate floats and no police – that mobilizes the LGBTQIA2+ community to address the many social and political battles that continue to be fought locally, nationally, and globally.

This ongoing series of public talks about Environmental Protection & Wabanaki Tribal Sovereignty educates Maine community members about pressing environmental & Indigenous rights issues happening in their own backyard. Through education comes understanding and from understanding comes respect & solidarity. The experienced activists & historians speaking at these events will educate, inspire, and empower Mainers by providing them with ways to become directly & actively involved in local grassroots initiatives. This Speaker Series also provides Mainers with opportunities to talk directly with Wabanaki Tribal people who are leaders at the forefront of Maine environmental protection & social justice movements.

Our program will organize beekeeping workshops that are free and open to the public. Through these workshops, participants will understand the essential role honeybees play through pollination and gain hands-on experience in beekeeping and urban gardening. Urban beekeeping is proven to lead to healthier bee colonies and can protect against the effects of colony collapse disorder. Organizing these workshops will also produce a community garden map showcasing the presence of bee colonies and beekeepers in Lower Manhattan. Including issues of food justice, this project will highlight the importance of community gardens and will, ultimately, make urban beekeeping more accessible.

With a focus on Arctic indigenous voices and Alaska’s own nuclear legacy, this project aims to create a network of young activists from nuclear-armed and nuclear-impacted states to promote the aims of nuclear disarmament and world peace. To launch the network, 40 high school students from Alaska and overseas will participate in a weeklong Youth Congress held in Sitka, Alaska from April 6-10, 2020.

Create animated YouTube videos for distribution on social media. Each short video will dispel a commonly held belief about the death penalty.

Nazdeek seeks to conduct legal empowerment trainings with tea plantation workers in Nepal to inform them of their rights under Nepal’s new constitution, Labour Act, 2017, and related laws/policies.

A delegation of Palestinian youth organizers to Johannesburg, South Africa in April 2019. Selected participants will include a total of 18 Palestinian youth delegates from Latin America, the United States, Palestine, the Arab Region, Europe, and Africa (including South Africa). The delegation will be ten days long, during which, the Palestinian delegation will be meeting with South African youth activist and community organizations to learn and how South African communities engaged various methods for community advocacy, youth empowerment, and post-apartheid healing work.

To raise awareness about the plights of women and girls in prison/detention centers in order to call attention of the government, policymakers, the civil society and international community.

Sane Energy Project will work with groups throughout New York State to plan and execute six meetings at which our You Are Here map will be used to help activists working at the grassroots to understand the scope of the aggressive fracked gas infrastructure buildout taking place throughout the state. We will offer training in nonviolent direct action to help local groups take their struggles to the next level. Following these meetings, we will provide guidance and support to these communities as they take direct action to stop the development of toxic infrastructure projects in their communities.

This project is a result of findings on how savings and cooperatives have uplifted the welfare of several post-conflict households in once war-torn countries. It seeks to actualize the consolidation of resources from persons previously affected by war and coerce them to bring change in their respective communities during the post-war reconstruction and development processes. Instead of the conventional over-reliance on the transitioning governments to support entrepreneurship, the peace ‘savers’ (comprising peace researchers, refugees, and returnees) enjoined together financially may support small-scale projects in the grassroots.

This grant goes for Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center's TPS Youth Organizing Committee (Comité TPS Nevada Camino a la Residencia) for its education and organizing work with young people facing the cancellation of the U.S. government's Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program.

Our goal is to eliminate police enforcement from being part of street safety. BKIOS covers the African diaspora. Our focus is on transportation. We discuss the challenges Black people face across the world which include harassment by the police, poorly designed streets, and urban planning which disproportionately kills Black people. Our project Space is the Place will document in video, writing, and photos 10 of the most dangerous streets for people of the African diaspora in the US. We will take into account police violence, urban planning, gentrification, and transportation engineering. It will launch at unTokening in Detroit. Transportation intersects health, the police, urban planning, and transportation. Our number one goal with Space is the Place is to extract the police completely from the equation of keeping people safe in regards to transportation. We want zero police enforcement and involvement in transportation and we want infrastructure and education of drivers to be the sole focus of keeping Black people safe and comfortable on the streets. The project is designed to amplify the concerns of the Black community, the most hyper-segregated community in the United States in regards to transportation, to educate professionals in transportation about options other than police, to inform politicians, and to highlight to the general public the racist practices in urban planning and transportation engineering. We will through media shine a light on the importance of good infrastructure and how transportation and the limiting of movement is the number one tool used to oppress Black and other marginalized communities.

In Kenya, oil, gas, minerals, forests, wildlife and other natural resources are found in abundance. However, indigenous communities who depend on these ecological environments are often disregarded by corporations and governments who exploit these resources. Out of this situation, a network of Journalists, Bloggers, Human Rights Defenders(HRDs) and Activists emerges. Nonetheless, the HRDs work is plagued by threats, assaults, arbitrary-arrests, detention, kidnappings and murder. Their rise on online activism has prompted the government to develop/deploy surveillance technologies in monitoring communications, censoring digital-information and cracking-down on HRDs. Given these challenges, Journalists, Bloggers and HRDs are asked to enhance their Digital Security.

This grant goes for Gays Against Guns' transportation and materials expenses to bring members and allied activists to Fairfax, Virginia and Washington, DC on February 14, 2019, the 1 year anniversary of the Marjorie Stoneham Douglas massacre in Parkland Florida, to bring attention to the need for gun violence prevention.

MFSO seeks to highlight the stories of military families that oppose the wars in the Middle East with support from media coaches and media interns.

Explore timely opportunities for families to speak to the media, update media contacts, write press releases, provide talking points, coach volunteers on how to speak to the media, post all media coverage on social media, and on the websites of like-minded organizations. Peace, United for Peace and Justice, Win Without War, About Face, On Earth Peace, The Poor People's Campaign, US Labor Against the War, CodePink, and United National Anti-War Coalition and World Beyond War.

Our project is to organize a workshop with a selection of young and older leaders from a diversity of activist groups among First Nations in the US.

We are expanding our "Protection Network", or mutual support and organizing network, for undocumented workers and families. Our members train undocumented families to stop deportation by understanding their rights and building a response network of other community members in case of detention. They host house meetings and small gatherings. The network is mobilized when a member is detained by law enforcement or Border Patrol. They organize to stop the separation of members from their families through non-violent direct action, public pressure campaigns, pro-bono legal support, and fundraising for bond and immediate needs all led by undocumented workers and families.

For low-income youth and youth of color, the alternatives to military service are obscured by the culture of militarism in our schools. Building on 15 years of countering the dominant narrative by tabling in schools, the Whatcom Peace & Justice Center is now deepening conversations around resisting militarism with supportive adults and young people. This project will establish an accessible local network of mentors, a physical handbook, and a complementary website, in order to open young people's eyes to the alternatives to military service in this area and the community willing to support them here.

The project involves Palestinians from the Bethlehem area in the West Bank to protest illegal settlement building as well as the Israeli occupation in general, now in its 50th year. The activities will include a public campaign led by 60 Palestinian women and made up of training workshops, an information package, choir performances, the making of story posters, games, and media outreach. Special emphasis will be given to the Separation Wall around Rachel’s Tomb and a threatening land expropriation in north-Bethlehem.

An organizing project rooted in building a powerful coalition to lead the collective charge of building a local food movement (in Baltimore) with a vision to achieve Black Food Sovereignty. The coalition, in this phase, will include ten organizations/companies. Representatives will work together to draft a “movement plan,” which will be vetted by our larger community through a series of participatory forums. After this process, the leaders and other stakeholders will organize a Black Food Sovereignty Conference.

AOM 2.0S Info-Activism and Info-Security Workshop: Integrating Information Security in Activism in the Age of Surveillance and Big Data. A two-day workshop for people's organizations and grassroots movements from all over the Philippines, focusing on the integration of information security best practices for activists amid an age of massive surveillance and big data collection.

Funding to accompany and facilitate the convergence of grassroots movements from Latin America, Asia, Africa and North America in the convocation of the First Ecosocialist International, October 31-November 3, 2017.

Internship stipend for 9 months with North America Rojava Alliance (NARA) a solidarity group based in NYC.

As an organization we have made centering racial justice in our work a priority that we will need to devote significant resources to in the coming years. Funding would allow us to begin work that will help establish racially equitable organizing spaces. Rather than seeking funding for a single event, program, or training we are seeking funding to work in collaboration with other groups that are doing social justice organizing to bring anti-racism front and center throughout our diverse projects in a deliberate way.

The Social Justice Sewing Academy is requesting funding to begin an ambassadors program of young social justice leaders who will work together to engage and educate communities through activist art. By actively engaging youth, the SJSA Ambassadors program will draw attention to, mobilize action toward, and attempt to intervene in, systems of inequality of injustice from the perspective of the youth most affected by these systems.

In Mexico, tens of thousands of people are disappeared. Families and communities come together, risking and sacrificing their lives, to find and rescue their missing family members with no protection or support from the state. Our project aims to help these groups adopt tools and practices that will enable them to better protect themselves from surveillance, repression and violence while they continue the search for their disappeared.

SMWC's Healthcare is a Human Right (HCHR) committee is building the collective power of low-income people to win a universal, publicly-funded healthcare system in Maine. During Phase I of the campaign SMWC established a grassroots base by collecting 1000 surveys documenting people's healthcare experiences and conducting free clinics. SMWC is seeking support for Phase II campaign activities including: 1) printing a report that summarizes the results of the surveys, profiles members' stories, and makes policy recommendations; 2) organizing a series of HCHR People's Report townhall meetings; 3) implementing a media strategy that will raise the profile of the campaign.

ANEC with Department of Education, Central Tibetan Administration have initiated to introduce Nonviolence Strategies in school curriculum via many means such as translating short stories of nonviolence in Tibetan, organizing seminars, debates and workshops in respective schools. We are going to translate and publish three illustrative story books based on nonviolence into Tibetan language, which contains eight short stories. We are going to conduct five days training on nonviolence principles and practical for forty seven Teacher Training Students, who are going to be teachers in Tibetan schools in which we are going to introduce nonviolence curriculum.

The Campaign to End Unnecessary Custodial Arrests and Police Profiling of Homeless People, is using participatory research to uncover patterns of police interactions with homeless New Yorkers and applying that research to expand the rights of homeless people.

Work with grassroots organizations on enhancing their digital security preparedness.

Nuestras Escuelas addresses racial disparities and structural racism within the public schools of Buncombe County, NC, focusing first on organizing with parents and students within the Erwin District. These disparities are reflected not only in student achievement gaps, but also in many barriers to parent and student involvement, leadership, and inclusion within the schools system. Nuestras Escuelas organizes with parents and students to advocate for their own communities within institutions that have traditionally excluded and marginalized their voices. This request is for a workshop series to increase the capacity of parent and student leaders in the project.

La Esperanza, Honduras: a special emergency grant of $2,500 to defend the rights, health, and culture of the Lenca people, to protect indigenous territorial rights against the threats of extraction and expropriation, to promote gender equality and respect for sexual diversity, and related efforts.

The Accountability and Justice in the Indonesian Archipelago Campaign raises awareness among the U.S. public about the U.S. government's overt and covert roles in major human rights violations in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and West Papua; pursuing the official release of classified records documenting U.S. complicity; and supporting efforts to win justice for the victims of these violations, and to hold the violators accountable for their actions.

Fort Collins Homeless Coalition Decriminalization Campaign: education, empowerment, and action for homeless activists and their allies.

Host 5 skill-building workshops for our volunteer community of approximately 40 active volunteers.

The Laundromat Organizing Campaign is a multi-phase project that seeks to empower laundry workers by improving the living and working conditions in the industry through the organizing process, and via the documentation of the working conditions of retail-coined laundromats. The phases of this campaign are based on a) research, b) organizing, c) leadership development and d) public education. Through mystery shopping, workers' interviews at 110 selected laundromats in NYC, leadership training sessions and public consumer education, LWC will elaborate a report on the industry that will serve as an organizing tool for workers, policy-makers and consumers to change some of the exploitative conditions that permeate this industry. LWC sought funding from AJ Muste Foundation for the first phase of the project: the research (worker interviews), LWC members were trained to visit Laundromats to observe and document the working conditions, after mystery shopping is complete, LWC members will conduct interviews with workers. While observations give us a baseline for conditions, the heart of the research lies in worker experiences.

The July 2016 End Poverty NOW! March for Economic Justice, seeks to raise awareness of the causes and impact of poverty, to demand attention to the structural issues that perpetuate poverty and inequality, and to strengthen ongoing collaboration among grassroots social justice groups in the Cleveland area.

The Young Activist Leaders Program is developing the leadership, skills, analysis, and relationships of young activists to increase their success and longevity as social justice leaders, to build the capacity of local youth-led campaigns, and to center young people in leading our inter-generational social justice movement.

The Peace Development Fund for movement building, fundraising, and capacity strengthening for efforts to effectively demonstrate to policymakers and the public how the prison system harms people and communities.

Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities (Project YANO) will use the Muste Institute's Counter Recruitment Fund for student and community organizing that challenges militarism and addresses the socio-economic factors that make low-income youths vulnerable to military recruitment and militarization. Specifically, the grant goes for an internship through which a student intern will build organizing and leadership skills, do community outreach, and give presentations to high school students; and for production and distribution of educational materials to increase student awareness of the realities of war and inform students about non-military college and career alternatives.

The production and distribution of educational materials and other expenses of a pop-up photography installation drawing attention to the effects of the March 2011 nuclear energy disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Bike Around the Bomb, and related efforts to raise public awareness of the dangers of nuclear power and promote sustainable alternatives.

This project aims to create a movement of international peace cultural practitioners for conflict mediation/resolution, based on well researched, effective and appropriate indigenous practices; to develop trainings to further the work of the published findings on the shared similarities of traditional peace building initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America; and to complement government efforts in boosting peace building initiatives within the communities hence enhancing social cohesion and peaceful co-existence.

A Gandhian experiment in nonviolent transformation of violence and radicalization in the conflict area of Jammu and Kashmir, including engagement and dialogue with youth, affected groups and communities at the grassroots; building of nonpartisan nonviolent civil society infrastructure; and deployment of community-based nonviolent peacekeepers and peacebuilders.

December to train young people in co-op and campaign organizing, so they can more effectively other young people to take action in a national campaign for expanding racial justice within the co-op movement.

To build an anti-militarism bureau that will develop and sustain a strong and diverse base of activist reporters around the world to produce original stories and web-based resources on nonviolent resistance to war and militarism.

The Center for Peacebuilding used this grant for the International Peace Week Campaign, a week-long event to raise awareness of the need for peacebuilding activism in modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in September 2015.

A series of holiday organizing, informational and mutual support meetings among families of death row prisoners in California.

A program to train twenty individuals in the traditions of nonviolent social change at a retreat center in the Black Hills of South Dakota from August 2 - 22, 2015.

Project expenses and staff support of volunteer leadership. U4C is an immigrant-led community group focused on fighting racial profiling and discrimination, advocating for inclusive access to housing and services, and working toward increased cooperation among diverse immigrant and non-immigrant residents.

The New Israel Fund will create an anti-violence training course for social justice activism and leadership development in the Bedouin city of Rahat, to address police violence and ethnic, social, political, and economic tensions.

The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice (RCF) officially supports the call from Palestinian civil society for boycott, divestment, and sanctions until Israeli occupation ends and Palestinians enjoy equal rights. We have endorsed and supported BDS campaigns and engaged in BDS education, networking, and action. This month, we have formed a BDS Committee, with the goal of invigorating and deepening our commitment to BDS. We request resources to provide for review of existing BDS outreach materials and creation of our own outreach tools to be used for our organization's BDS efforts and by partner groups, as well.

The Wage Theft Community Monitor Project seeks to train a core group monitors in the greater Madison area to help identify and address issues of wage theft in specific high violator industries. These community monitors will help initiate action with the support of the WRC and its allies to eliminate instances of wage theft by specific employers. This will put more money in workers' pockets and train low wage workers in collective action strategies in the workplace.

The WESPAC Foundation will use the funds for the release tour for the "Business of Backlash" report, exposing the funders and organizations who attack anti-occupation activists and organizers in the U.S. and building collective response strategies.

The Western Shoshone Cradle-to-Grave Radioactive Waste Awareness Project, protects Western Shoshone lands, environment, and culture by providing information from a Native perspective on the effect of the nuclear cycle on the health and well-being of all life, and promoting effective comment and action around issues of nuclear testing, weapons and waste on Western Shoshone Treaty land. The grant provided us with the opportunity to reach out across the country, to build a network, and to tell the story of how nuclear waste from nuclear reactors and military installations eventually impacts the culture and lifeways of our Native people, the group said.

Community programming to engage the public in the rich histories of social movements and to build connections between activists working in movements today. Projects supported by this grant include "Self Determination Inside/Out," an exhibit and related film screenings, panel discussions, community dialogues and other public programs designed to spark dialogue about the history and future of grassroots resistance to the prison-industrial complex.

Movimiento de Victimas de Crimenes de Estado (Movement of Victims of State Crimes) aims to generate collective spaces and materials for memory and against impunity, in order to strengthen organizing and mobilizing by relatives of victims of forced disappearance in Buenaventura, Colombia.

This grant will help women's empowerment groups to collectively address issues including interpersonal violence, the roots of violence, intersecting oppressions, safety and trust, and liberation and gender justice.

Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of the Elders of Dheisheh Refugee Camp, a specialized oral history initiative of audio and video interviews with survivors of the 1948 Nakba (the expulsion of Palestinians from their villages), with the goal to inspire, empower and fortify the Palestinian young people's nonviolent resistance movement to 65 years of occupation.

Eastern Mediterranean Conscientious Objectors Network strategic gathering, bringing together activists from antimilitarist movements in Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Greece, Turkey and elsewhere to exchange experiences and strengthen collaborations.

<p>To educate Minnesota residents about the need to reduce government funding of the military industrial complex and redirect funds to serve the basic needs of people in local communities.</p>

<p>For The Cost of War: A Focus on Drones, a campaign to educate the public in Vermont about the consequences of the military use of unmanned aerial drones.</p>

To organize a new, youth-led PSU chapter at E-Cubed Academy, providing students with an opportunity to get involved in an accessible youth organizing after-school program, where they can organize for a greater voice in school-level decisions that impact them, and mobilize with other youth beyond their school around education and other social justice issues.

For a campaign to educate community leaders and families in the Ssenge, Kasengejje and Naluvule communities about gender-based violence and human rights, and to train women in these communities as change agents to reduce gender-based violence and seek justice.

<p>Challenging&nbsp;the collaboration between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement through political education, leadership development, and building strategic alliances to expand the power of grassroots social action.</p>

<p>For stipends for community organizers of the &ldquo;Under Tents&rdquo; campaign for housing rights in Haiti.</p>

<p>For the Truth Tour, taking traditional grassroots Lakota elders and activists from the Pine Ridge Reservation to New York, Washington and other cities to present evidence and educate the public about the ongoing genocide of the Lakota people.</p>

<p>Grassroots organizing and education to build a statewide movement in Rhode Island to demand that local police stop holding and transferring immigrants to federal immigration custody.</p>

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<p>For the mailing and promotion of &ldquo;Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough,&rdquo; an anthology of stories from prisoners serving life sentences without possibility of parole.</p>

<p>For a series of nonviolence trainings teaching the history and strategies used by Martin Luther King during the civil rights movement. COPA organized trainings throughout the region, helped create a &ldquo;Peace Warriors&rdquo; after-school program at a local high school, and hosted an Art &amp; Peace Activity Center for kids at the Annual Tucson Peace Fair.</p>

<p>For an internship program to mobilize public support for redirecting federal funding from nuclear weapons toward a sustainable future for New Mexico. By distributing well-researched informational materials and organizing community meetings and actions, LASG recently won a victory: the federal government postponed plans to build a plutonium manufacturing complex &mdash; a flagship nuclear warhead project &mdash; at Los Alamos.</p>

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<p>The Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition is a membership-based coalition of immigrants, allies and organizations promoting human rights, dignity and social and economic justice for immigrants. The Coalition formed in the spring of 2006 as immigrants were mobilizing across the U.S. in response to repressive national legislation. This grant goes for the Human Rights Promoter Project, training immigrant leaders to organize in defense of their rights under the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and to educate others through the creation of human rights committees.</p>

<p>Since 1986, this network has been mobilizing grassroots community-based activists to educate and organize the Connecticut public in opposition to capital punishment. This grant goes for the &quot;Voices of Experience Tour,&quot; in which family members affected by violent crime speak out about their opposition to the death penalty in public events and through the media.</p>

<p>MASE is a coalition of community-based organizations from communities adversely impacted by uranium mining. In a region that produced almost half of the uranium used by the U.S. from 1948 to 1988, many former mine workers are still sick, and communities are devastated by contaminated air, water and soil. This grant goes for the Mount Taylor Sacred Sites Prayer Run, an action to unite and reinvigorate people who have been working to stop new uranium mining in the region, and let the mining companies know that these communities will not allow uranium mining to resume.</p>

<p>The National G.I. Coffeehouse Support Network works to build up existing G.I. coffeehouses as organizing hubs for active duty soldiers and recent veterans challenging militarism and injustice, and to support the formation of new coffeehouse initiatives. This grant goes for an internship program to support the core functioning and long-term sustainability of the network&rsquo;s existing coffeehouses: <a href="http://underthehoodcafe.org">Under the Hood Caf&eacute;</a>, near Fort Hood, Texas; <a href="http://coffeestrong.org">Coffee Strong</a>, near Fort Lewis, Washington; and <a href="http://offbase.ning.com">Norfolk OffBase</a>, located in Norfolk, Virginia near 14 major military installations.</p>

<p>This committee began in 1977 as the Greater St. Louis Latin America Solidarity Committee, focusing on disappearances and human rights cases in Chile and Argentina. As liberation struggles and US intervention intensified in Central America, ecumenical groups deepened their involvement, forming the St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America in 1981. This grant goes for the Sweatfree Community project, educating and mobilizing St. Louis area residents to press local municipalities to apply fair labor standards to their purchasing policies.</p>

<p>Operating out of a state prison in Los Angeles County since 2000, the Honor Program gives imprisoned people an opportunity to work on specific self-improvement and rehabilitative goals and projects which benefit the community. Our grant goes for the Other Death Penalty Project: led and comprised solely of prisoners serving life without the possibility of parole, this project organizes prisoners to raise awareness about how life without parole sentences comprise an unjust &ldquo;other death penalty.&rdquo;</p>

<p>For a campaign to build public opposition to construction of a new juvenile jail in Fresno, California.</p>

<p>For media trainings to help Greater Birmingham Ministries carry out the Constitutional Reform Initiative, an effort to build public opinion toward eliminating codified economic and racial inequalities in Alabama.</p>

<p>To distribute the Birthright Crisis video among Dominican and Haitian communities in New York City and beyond, with the goal of building opposition to racism and discrimination.</p>

For the "Free the M35 Bus" campaign, fighting the unfair ticketing of homeless bus passengers by police.

<p>For a meeting to inform women workers in assembly-for-export factories (maquiladoras) about their rights and support their efforts to organize for better conditions</p>

<p>For an educational tour in the US in conjunction with the release of Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca, a book of photos and testimonials of Oaxacan activism.</p>

<p>For &quot;How Did They Do That?&quot;, a project encouraging social justice groups to share and replicate innovative social justice education projects.</p>

<p>For distribution of legal resources and trainings for family members and allies of capital defendants.</p>

<p>For outreach and educational efforts in connection with The Heartland Speaks, a three-day anti-militarism conference held in Salina in October.</p>

<p>To challenge new nuclear projects, advocate for responsible solutions to nuclear waste and contamination, and promote safe and sustainable energy alternatives.</p>