Past Grants
Grant Year: 2022
Basebuilding and Outreach for Campaign to Defund the Police and Invest in Communities
Organization: Youth Justice and Power Union
Beyond the Bill - Drivers Licenses For All
Organization: Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance - AMOR
Capacity Building Training for Nonviolent Campaign Organizer
Organization: Nonviolent Education and Research Association (NERA),
Driving Without Fear
Organization: Dignidad Inmigrante de Athens
Enhancing the skills of stakeholders in active nonviolence for a better campaign against the high cost of basic necessities in Cote d’Ivoire
Organization: Action et Humanisme (AeH),
Housing is A Human Right Leadership Development Program
Organization: Freedom ROC
Injured Workers vs Multinational
Organization: Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)
Koa Futures Initiative: Stop the Leases Campaign
Organization: Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice
Movimiento’s Immigrant Justice Program
Organization: Movement for Justice in El Barrio
National Network of Organizing Hubs for Nuclear Weapons Abolition
Organization: Back from the Brink
No New Prisons - Vermont
Organization: Women's Justice and Freedom Initiative, Inc.
Reimagining National Security
Organization: Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC)
SASS - Special Assets Safety & Security
Organization: Movement Training Network
Save Millwood
Organization: Elmahaba Center
UTIMCO Divest
Organization: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency
Youth Organizing for Social Justice
Organization: Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan
Youth Voices Lead
Organization: Art and Resistance Through Education, Inc.
Grant Year: 2021
Creating Bridges for a Nuclear Free, Carbon Free Future
Organization: Citizens Awareness Network
Dairy Worker Organizing
Organization: Workers Center of Central New York
Former Student Organizer Engagement Project
Organization: Peace Action Fund of New York State (PAFNYS)
Houseless Leadership Project
Organization: Fund for Empowerment
Imagining A Future Beyond Oppression Workshop Series
Organization: 540WMain, Inc.
Immigrants Are Essential
Organization: United Action Connecticut Inc.
Missouri Workers Center - Digital Organizing
Organization: Missouri Workers Center
PJSA PeaceCast
Organization: Peace and Justice Studies Association
Professional Athletes, Coalition Building & Criminal Justice Reform
Organization: Athletes & Advocates for Social Justice in Sports
Real Stories | College Homelessness
Organization: CoAct
Seeding Young Peacemakers
Organization: United for Peace & Justice (UFPJ)
Shifting Power Training Series
Organization: Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity (CORE)
Shut Down ICE
Organization: The FANG Collective
Training Rural Organizers to Build Power in the Timber Belt: a bilingual full-year program
Organization: Firelands Workers United Trabajadores Unidos
Grant Year: 2020
#FutureFirst Conversations Campaign
Organization: Beyond the Bomb
Afirmando tus Derechos / Asserting your Rights
Organization: Voz Latina Broadcasting
Buzz About Bees
Organization: Time’s Up!
Cairo Memory Project
Organization: Little Egypt Productions LLC
Chesapeake Informal Workers Organizing Project
Organization: The United Covenant Union
Copwatch College Online
Organization: WeCopwatch
Court Watch
Organization: DecARcerate, Inc.
Developing Movement Leaders through Political Education
Organization: Vermont Workers Center
Don't Kill for Me: Stories of Life Over Death Phase II: Voices of Florida
Organization: Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Expansion of its Organizing Tool Kit
Organization: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
Grassroots Organizing Program 2020
Organization: New Jersey Peace Action
Milk with Dignity
Organization: Migrant Justice
National JROTC Textbook Analysis Project
Organization: Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
NC Stop Human Trafficking
Organization: NC Stop Human Trafficking
No Kids in Cages
Organization: Gente Unida
Point Hope: Alaska’s Youth Congress for the Global Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
Organization: Veterans For Peace (Chapter 100)
Queer Liberation March
Organization: Reclaim Pride Coalition
Wabanaki Sovereignty and Environmental Justice — Speaker Series
Organization: Sunlight Media Collective
Youth Neighborhood Organizing Teams (YNOT)
Organization: Engage Miami Civic Fund
Youth War Tax Resistance Focus Group
Organization: National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC)
Grant Year: 2019
2019 Student Peace Conference
Organization: Peace Action Fund of New York State (PAFNYS)
Border Accompaniment - Agua Prieta
Organization: Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
Direct Action Tour
Organization: Sane Energy Project
Empowering Rohingya immigrants to document their life stories through Grassroots comics to ensure their rights
Organization: World Comics India
Environmental Defenders Collective Security Programme
Organization: Not1More
Legal Awareness and Empowerment of Tea Plantation Workers in Nepal
Organization: Nazdeek, Inc.
Mobile Screenprinting for Grassroots Organizing & National Movements
Organization: The Sanctuaries
Not in my Country
Organization: AfriRemedy Trust
Palestinian Youth Delegation to South Africa: Joint Struggle and Community Building
Organization: Palestinian Youth Movement
Peace Sacco Champions Move
Organization: South-South Network Engagement - Africa
Promoting the Rights of Women and Girls in Detention
Organization: PEP Liberia
Public Education Events with "In the Executioner's Shadow"
Organization: Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP)
Resisting Israel’s home demolition policy: Challenging JCB
Organization: Shoal Collective
Short Animation Project
Organization: Death Penalty Focus
Grant Year: 2018
“Seeing is believing?” - critical approach to news
Organization: Dom Otwarty (The Open House)
American Indian Retreat
Organization: Resistance Studies Network (RSN)
Amplifying the Voices of Military Families
Organization: Military Families Speak Out
Anishinaabe Healing Stories on Racial Justice
Organization: Native Justice Coalition
Campaign for the Human Rights of Landless People
Organization: Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Community Supporters
Organization: Awood Center
Gays Against Guns
Organization: Gays Against Guns
Kween Culture Initiative
Organization: Kween Culture Initiative
Live Your Life handbook on nonviolent survival after high school
Organization: Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
My Shadow: Access, Privacy and Digital Security Tactics for Rights Defenders in Kenya
Organization: Enduring Voices Foundation
North America Rojava Alliance (NARA) Capacity Building Project
Organization:
North America Rojava Alliance (NARA) is a small solidarity group made up completely of volunteers. Though we know many other people in the New York area are interested in the vision of Rojava (also known as the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria), we have had no staff and no capacity to reach sympathetic parties in a systematic and ongoing way. We feel we could have a much broader reach and greater impact if we had a part-time staff person or intern to handle logistics, communications, and outreach. Our goal is to double our active membership (which has fluctuated between five and fifteen members), which we hope to do by starting a study group and having occasional events. Our project timeline is as follows:
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Hire an intern in January 2018 to work 5+hours per week and oversee communications, logistics, monitoring and responding to inquiries on social media and email, and consolidating and enlarging our email subscription lists.
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Begin monthly study group meetings and/or events beginning in February.
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Establish a press list and send regular news briefings on the situation in Rojava.
Protection Network Expansion
Organization: Southside Worker Center
Rehabilitation of females and elderly male inmates at Zomba Central Maximum Security Prison
Organization: Women’s Innovations Centre
Resisting ICE in Massachusetts
Organization: The FANG Collective
Rise and Resist
Organization: Rise And Resist
Space is the Place
Organization: Black Kids in Outer Space
Strengthening a United Advocacy with Grassroots Organizations(SUGO) Project
Organization: Kartekri Organization
TPS Youth Organizing Committee (Comité TPS Nevada Camino a la Residencia)
Organization: Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center
Trans Voices
Organization: Garden of Peace, Inc.
YSAT: Youth Scientist-Activist Training Camp
Organization: Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (AGHAM)
Grant Year: 2017
Advocating for rural women’s land use, ownership and access rights
Organization: Ufanisi Women Group
AOM 2.0S Info-Activism and Info-Security Workshop
Organization: Computer Professionals’ Union (CP-Union)
Arts of Resistance Convening
Organization: Adelante Alabama Worker Center
Centering Racial Justice in Our Movements
Organization: Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine
Council for Black Land and Food Sovereignty
Organization: Black Yield Institute
Eritrea and the Ongoing Refugee Crisis – Hearing and Strategy Meeting
Organization: Connection e.V.
Gender and Youth Militarisation
Organization: War Resisters International
Independent Media Project
Organization: Bakeneko Collective
It’s Time to Listen: A Multimedia Resource Highlighting Voices of People Affected by Systemic and Racialized Violence
Organization: The Truth Telling Project
Leadership Development among Brazilian Immigrant Women
Organization: Brazilian Women's Group
NEPPC Community Education Initiative
Organization: Northeast Political Prisoner Coalition (NEPPC)
North America Rojava Alliance Internship
Organization: North American Rojava Alliance
Palestinian Advocacy vs Israeli Settlement Building and Occupation
Organization: Arab Educational Institute
Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
Organization: Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP)
SJSA Ambassadors Program
Organization: Social Justice Sewing Academy (SJSA)
Southern Arizona Congregational Organizing for Immigrant Rights
Organization: Southern Arizona Sanctuary Coalition
Strengthening security conditions in search of disappeared persons in Mexico
Organization: Técnicas Rudas
The Cry of Mother Earth: Call to the First Ecosocialist International
Organization: Ecosocialist Horizons
Youth Empowerment Program (YEP)
Organization: New York State Youth Leadership Council
Youth Intern Project
Organization: The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice
Grant Year: 2016
Accountability and Justice in the Indonesian Archipelago Campaign
Organization: East Timor and Indonesia Action Network
Demilitarization of territories and bodies: annual gathering of the Latin American and Caribbean Antimilitarist Network (RAMALC)
Organization: SERPAJ-Paraguay
Health Care is a Human Right People’s Report: Phase II Release and Mobilization
Organization: Southern Maine Workers Center
Nuestras Escuelas (Our Schools) workshop series
Organization: Center for Participatory Change
“Education, Not Segregation: Advancing the Human Right to Education for Undocumented Students in the U.S. South”
Organization: Freedom University
“NO HUMAN INVOLVED”: the criminalization of sex work, the violence of incarceration and public education strategies to create change
Organization: Moral High Ground
#OurHistoryMatters Campaign for Ethnic Studies
Organization: Providence Student Union
Bridging the Americas: Brown and Black Lives Presente!
Organization: FOR Peace Presence
Career Builders Program
Organization: Chico Peace & Justice Center
Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
Organization: Civic Council of Popular & Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)
Community Organizer Training for Transnational Solidarity
Organization: Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera
Cyber Security Trainings and Protests Rapid Response
Organization: Black Movement-Law Project
End Poverty NOW! March for Economic Justice
Organization: Organize! Ohio
Fort Collins Homeless Coalition Decriminalization Campaign
Organization: Fort Collins Community Action Network
Heartland Leadership Project
Organization: Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom, Inc.
IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Organization: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)
Inclusion of Non-violence Strategies in Tibetan School Curriculum
Organization: Active Nonviolence Education Center
Interference Archive Capacity Building Workshops
Organization: Interference Archive
International Campaign for Land Rights and Food Sovereignty in Haiti
Organization: Other Worlds
Laundromat Organizing Campaign - Worker Interviews
Organization: Laundry Workers Center
MAPEO (Mapeo para Activistas y Pueblos En Oaxaca)
Organization: SURCO A.C
Migrant Justice//Justica Migrante
Organization: Migrant Justice
New Profile
Organization:
Pacific Northwest Pledge of Resistance
Organization: 350Seattle.org
Peaceful Vocations Poetry Slam, Literature to use in schools and at civic events
Organization: Peaceful Vocations
Picture the Homeless
Organization:
Prison Birth Project
Organization: Prison Birth Project
Project Hajra
Organization: Allied Media Projects
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
Organization: Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
Remembering Hiroshima,Imagining Peace
Organization: Remembering Hiroshima
South-South Network Engagement - Africa
Organization: South-South Network Engagement - Africa
Swaraj Peeth Trust
Organization: Swaraj Peeth Trust
Texas Caregivers Campaign
Organization: Domesticas Unidas
The Movements of Movements: Listening, Learning, and Seeding the Future
Organization: CACIM India Institute for Critical Action: Centre in Movement
Tri-Valley CAREs
Organization: Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
USA Cooperative Youth Council
Organization: USA Cooperative Youth Council
Voice of Women Uganda
Organization: Voice of Women Uganda
Waging Nonviolence
Organization: Waging Nonviolence
We Cannot Walk Alone
Organization: Prison Justice League (PJL)
Women in Black
Organization: Women in Black
Young Activist Leaders Program
Organization: Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane
Grant Year: 2015
Popular Communicators for Autonomy
Organization: Comunicador's Populares por la Autonomía (Popular Communicators for Autonomy)
A New Dawn in the Negev
Organization: New Israel Fund
Africa Awake NPC
Organization: Africa Solidarity Network
Africa Awake will use the grant to create a training workshop in collaboration with the Africa Solidarity Network, helping diaspora activist leaders from Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda living in Durban, South Africa guide their communities to apply nonviolent means in seeking democratic change.
Burundi Nonviolence Initiative
Organization: Center for Peacemaking Leadership
Centar za izgradnju mira
Organization: Center for Peacebuilding
Families United Against the Death Penalty
Organization: Community Resource Initiative
Freedom Friday
Organization: Everyday Rebellion
Arbi Harnet (Freedom Friday), will have a nonviolence training with Eritrean diaspora activists on campaign building, cohesion and training of trainers.
Human Rights Education & Action2015
Organization: Unidad Latina en Accion
Inside the Activist Studio
Organization: Campaign to Bring Mumia Home
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Organization: WESPAC Foundation, Inc.
IVAW Speakers Bureau
Organization: Iraq Veterans Against the War (National Office)
Military CourtWatch
Organization: Women’s Fund for Human Rights – MachsomWatch
Mobilization to Free Oscar Lopez Rivera
Organization: National Boricua Human Rights Network
Rise Up 2015 Criminalization Leadership Development Program
Organization: Rise Up Georgia
Satyagraha Institute
Organization: Creative Nonviolence Center
Undocumented Youth Accessing College
Organization: New York State Youth Leadership Council
Unity for the Community/Unidad por la Comunidad
Organization: Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates
Wage Theft Community Monitor Project
Organization: The Workers' Rights Center
Why BDS? What It Can Do?
Organization: Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
Youth Organizing Institute
Organization: Youth Rise Texas
Grant Year: 2014
Ogoni Smallholder Farmers Leadership Training on Nonviolent Struggles
Organization: Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
The Ogoni Smallholder Farmers Leadership Training on Nonviolent Struggles, building the capacity of local female farmers to carry out effective nonviolent resistance to government land grabbing policies.
Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of the Elders of Dheisheh Refugee Camp
Organization: Shoruq Organization
A Non-violent Struggle to End the Occupation
Organization: Combatants for Peace
“A Non-violent Struggle to End the Occupation,” scheduled to take place in Tul Karem, Palestine, Tel Aviv Israel, and Beit Jalla, Palestine in early 2015, with the goal of training Israeli and Palestinian members in the principles of nonviolence and to become leaders in a Theater of the Oppressed action program.
Active Nonviolence Program
Organization: Chemchemi Ya Ukweli
The Active Non-violence Movement in Kenya will expand the Active Nonviolence Program through a “Train the Trainers” Training, preparing 20 new trainers from 17 different communities in Nairobi County to lead nonviolence trainings and to play a leadership role in addressing community conflicts.
Cost of War to Virginia Project; a subproject of the larger "Alternatives to Militarism" program
Organization: Richmond Peace Education Center
Eritrean Antimilitarist Initiative
Organization: Eritrean Antimilitarist Initiative
Training for trainers with Eritrean exile activists, focusing on the concept, strategies and actions of nonviolent campaigns and learning from the experiences of other countries.
Interference Archive
Organization: Interference Archive
International Campaign to End Apartheid in the Dominican Republic
Organization: Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Marginalized Grassroot Leaders’ Training on Nonviolence and Social Empowerment
Organization: Swadhina
A "Marginalized Grassroot Leaders’ Training on Nonviolence and Social Empowerment” with members of Panchayats (local self-government bodies) and local community leaders in Jharkhand state, with the goal of developing their capacity to implement nonviolent action for good governance and social justice.
MOVICE Valle de Cauca
Organization: MOVICE: Movimiento de Victimas de Crimenes de Estado (Movement of Victims of State Crimes)
No Escpape: Exposure to Toxic Coal Waste at State Correctional Institution Fayette
Organization: Abolitionist Law Center
Nonviolence Training for Women and Youth in East Pokot, Kenya
Organization: Amani Peoples Theatre
A Nonviolence Training for Women and Youth in East Pokot, Kenya, uses participatory theater and forum theater to equip participants with nonviolent action skills and knowledge that they will use to mobilize their communities in nonviolent action and crisis intervention.
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission
Organization: Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission
Prison Reform Public Education Project
Organization: Coalition for Effective Public Safety
Project Hajra
Organization: Project Hajra
Race Circus Project
Organization: makeShift Circus Collective
Resisting Occupation, Learning from the Palestinian Experience, Nonviolence Strategies
Organization: Sahrawi Center for Media and Communication
Via Nonviolence International,a four-day training in Sahrawi territory on “Resisting Occupation, Learning from the Palestinian Experience, Nonviolence Strategies.”
Revitalization Project and Restoration Mechanisms for Community Cooperation in Building Peace in the Highlands Means of Fizi in Democratic Republic of Congo
Organization: Femmel Rurales Amies de la Paix et Developpment (Friendly Rural Women of Peace and Development)
Truth Speakers
Organization: Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Network
War Resisters' International
Organization: War Resisters International
Western Shoshone Cradle-to-Grave Radioactive Waste Awareness Project
Organization: Corporation of Newe Sogobia
Grant Year: 2013
Black Priorities Project
Organization: People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)
For the Black Priorities Project, to carry out listening sessions with low-income Black residents in the San Francisco area to identify key forces displacing Black families, and to develop a comprehensive policy agenda that will help Black residents stay in or return to San Francisco.
Dispatches from Solitary
Organization: Solitary Watch
Intern stipends to facilitate Dispatches from Solitary, which seeks to inform, support, and enrich the growing movement against solitary confinement while giving those directly affected a voice in the movement.
Eastern Mediterranean Conscientious Objectors Network strategic gathering
Organization: Connection e.V.
Educate Minnesota residents about reducing government funding of military
Organization: Minnesota Arms Spending Alternative Project
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.
Educate the public about the role of Cornell NYC Tech and its sponsors
Organization: New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT)
To educate the public about the role of Cornell NYC Tech and its sponsors—Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Cornell University and Google Inc.—in developing and deploying communication surveillance technologies used in drones by military and police forces around the world.
Education about gender-based violence and human rights
Organization: Voice of Women Uganda
Lhakar Academy - Tibetan School of Leadership and Change
Organization: Tibet Action Institute
In April 2013, the Muste Institute's International Nonviolence Training Fund (INTF) granted $4,000 to Tibet Action Institute for Lhakar Academy - Tibetan School of Leadership and Change, a three-week training program in nonviolent campaigns, strategies, leadership and skills.
New, youth-led PSU chapter at E-Cubed Academy
Organization: Providence Student Union
Popular Education Institute for Grassroots Peer Advisors
Organization: Center for Participatory Change
Pressure TIAA-CREF to divest
Organization: We Divest Campaign
To educate and mobilize a grassroots base to pressure financial services company TIAA-CREF to divest from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestine.
Rural Engagement Internship Project
Organization: Georgia Women's Action for New Directions
For a Rural Engagement Internship Project promoting cleanup and environmental monitoring at the Savannah River Site nuclear weapons facility and challenging the expansion of the nuclear Plant Vogtl.
Solidarity Uganda
Organization: Solidarity Uganda
Trainings in Amuru District, Uganda, to equip residents with knowledge of nonviolence theories and the ability to utilize nonviolent tactics to protect land rights.
The Cost of War: A Focus on Drones
Organization: Peace & Justice Center
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.
War Resisters' International
Organization: War Resisters International
Grant Year: 2012
Bridging Common Voices Against the Death Penalty in Idaho
Organization: American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho Foundation
A campaign to educate, organize and mobilize Idaho residents to challenge the use of the death penalty.
Bringing People Together for Education Justice
Organization: Education for Liberation Network
For Education for Liberation Circles, bringing together people from across the country who are involved in education justice issues to determine how the work they are doing in their own communities can be more effectively connected.
Building Nonviolent Activism in Korea
Organization: Korea Solidarity for Conscientious Objection (KSCO)
A Training for Trainers, scheduled for October 2012, to build a local network of nonviolence trainers and increase popular awareness of nonviolent activism in Korea.
Grassroots challenging of collaboration between federal immigration authorities and local law enforcement
Organization: Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition
Challenging 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.
Grassroots Organizing Against Federal Immigration Custody
Organization: Olneyville Neighborhood Association
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.
Hibakusha Stories Project
Organization: Youth Arts New York
For Hibakusha Stories, involving survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings in Japan in a series of interactive workshops, seminars and public conversations at New York City area high schools and universities about the dangers of nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel.
Nonviolence Training in Cairo
Organization: Refugees United for Peaceful Solutions (RUPS)
"The Practice of Active Nonviolence: Training for Trainers," a 10-week program in Cairo empowering 12 trainers with practical organizing skills to help their communities engage in nonviolent campaigns. The participants are refugees from Sudan, Eritrea, and Somalia.
Organizing Against Transportation of Plutonium Bomb Cores
Organization: Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
Outreach and education among military families
Organization: Military Families Speak Out, Metro Chapter
For outreach and education among military families, deployed members of the military, veterans, peace activists and the general public, with the goal of uniting and strengthening efforts to end war and redirect resources to social needs.
Promoting Stories from Prisoners Serving Life Sentences
Organization: Steering Committee for the Honor Program/The Other Death Penalty Project
For the mailing and promotion of “Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough,” an anthology of stories from prisoners serving life sentences without possibility of parole.
Regeneration
Organization: Regeneration Association
A nonviolent direct action (NVDA) training with the aim of improving the abilities and skills of 20 Re.Generation activists from Bucharest and Cluj Napoca to carry out nonviolent campaign actions for social justice and a safe environment.
Stipends for community organizers of the “Under Tents” campaign
Organization: Fòs Refleksyon Ak Aksyon sou Koze Kay (Force for Reflection and Action for Housing, FRAKKA)
For stipends for community organizers of the “Under Tents” campaign for housing rights in Haiti.
Supporting community leaders of color in advancing human rights in the criminal justice system
Organization: Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty
For the Grassroots Initiative for Organizing and Transformation Project, supporting community leaders of color in developing local policy campaigns, educating the public, and building a membership base to advance fairness and respect for human rights in the criminal justice system.
Supporting Student Interns Working For Nonviolent Activism
Organization: Peace Action Fund of New York State (PAFNYS)
For stipends to support two student interns working to develop and promote nonviolent activism for peace and justice among New York students.
Truth Tour
Organization: Lakota Solidarity Project
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.
Grant Year: 2011
Balkan Youth Peace Actions
Organization: Mladinski Inicijativi (Youth Initiatives)
“Balkan Youth Peace Actions”, a five-day nonviolence training bringing together young activists from the region and giving them an opportunity to explore the ways and means of mutual regional peace activism.
Indigenous/Pastoralist Communities Training
Organization: Frontier Indigenous Network
An Indigenous/Pastoralist Communities Training, building capacities and skills among women and youth peacebuilders from warring communities to nonviolently engage their communities in resolving resource conflicts.
Internship Program Mobilizing Public Support Against Federal Funding Of Nuclear Weapons
Organization: Los Alamos Study Group (LASG)
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 — a flagship nuclear warhead project — at Los Alamos.
Leadership Development Internship In "Re-Routing the Prison Pipeline" Campaign
Organization: Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
For a leadership development internship, part of the “Re-Routing the Prison Pipeline” campaign. Last year EPOCA helped win a state law barring employers from asking job applicants about their criminal history. Now the group uses a “Ban the Box Hotline” and outreach posters to ensure that the law is respected.
Mobilizing Wisconsin Residents To Press For Redirecting Military Spending Toward Social Needs
Organization: Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice
For “Bring the War $$ Home,” educating and mobilizing Wisconsin residents to press for redirecting military spending toward social needs. WNPJ develops key resources for the campaign, supports communities in presenting local “war $$ home” resolutions, and shares a digital “cost of war” counter for high-profile public displays.
Nonviolence Skills Training in Uganda
Organization: Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE)
A nonviolence skills training with active members and leaders of political parties and other stakeholders in Uganda’s political process.
Organizing And Mobilizing The Underemployed And Unemployed Within Louisiana
Organization: A Community Voice (ACV)
To organize and mobilize the underemployed and unemployed within Louisiana through community labor partnerships. ACV has held leadership trainings, created a hiring hall matching unemployed people to employment options, held community meetings and actions that led to new jobs for local residents, and engaged with local churches to support union organizing campaigns.
Promotion of Youth of Peace Into The Atsinanana Region Of Madagascar
Organization: Mouvement International pour la Réconciliation à Madagascar (FIEFA / MIR-MAD)
For the “Promotion of youth of peace into the Atsinanana Region of Madagascar” training project, strengthening the capacity of young leaders and peace promoters of Toamasina, Brickville and East Fenerive in peacekeeping and conflict prevention.
Teaching The History And Strategies Used By Martin Luther King
Organization: Culture of Peace Alliance (COPA)
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 “Peace Warriors” after-school program at a local high school, and hosted an Art & Peace Activity Center for kids at the Annual Tucson Peace Fair.
Training in Basic Active Nonviolence
Organization: Minyiri Development Group
A four-day training in Basic Active Nonviolence in May 2011 with 30 local community leaders, with the goal of increasing their understanding of the value and effectiveness of nonviolence and encouraging them to initiate alternative dispute methods.
Training With Women At the Sumud Story House
Organization: Arab Educational Institute
A training with women at the Sumud Story House to help them prepare for an open air art installation (Wall Museum) challenging the Israeli Wall around Rachel’s Tomb in the north of Bethlehem. Sumud means resilience in Arabic.
Grant Year: 2010
Da Force—the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Task Force on Racial Disparities
Organization: Reflect & Strengthen
Reflect and Strengthen was started in 2001 by eight young women who were survivors of violence, sexual abuse, incarcerated family, absent fathers, and loss of loved ones to preventable diseases. This grassroots collective now has a core membership of up to 36 working-class women ages 14-30 who take a holistic approach to organizing in order to create personal and social transformation. Our grant goes for Da Force—the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Task Force on Racial Disparities—a group of community members working since 2007 to eliminate unfair treatment of youth of color and to expand the use of alternatives to detention.
Active Nonviolence Strategies with Tibetan refugees
Organization: Active Nonviolence Education Center
Campaign supporting the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions
Organization: Minnesota Break the Bonds: Divest for Justice in Palestine!
Minnesota Break the Bonds is made up of Palestinians, Jews, Christians, Muslims, students, professionals, parents, community members and allies, working together to educate and mobilize Minnesota residents to press Israel to comply with international law and end its occupation of Palestine. This grant goes for a campaign supporting the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions by building public pressure on the state of Minnesota to divest from Israel bonds.
Center for Strategic Alternatives Political Action Training, helping Palestinian community members
Organization: Palestine Solidarity Project
For the Center for Strategic Alternatives Political Action Training, helping Palestinian community members to develop autonomous strategies of nonviolent resistance to displacement and violence.
Community Honor and Resistance Nonviolence Training
Organization: Whatcom Peace & Justice Center
Community Organizing and Awareness Project
Organization: Alternatives to Incarceration Council (ATIC)
Formed in July 2008, ATIC addresses the reality that half of Florida's more than 100,000 incarcerated residents are jailed for nonviolent, victimless third degree felonies. Our grant goes for the Community Organizing and Awareness Project, building public support for reassessing nonviolent crimes, limiting mandatory sentencing and encouraging alternatives such as diversion programs.
Disarmament Summer project
Organization: Think Outside the Bomb
Think Outside the Bomb started in 2005 as a project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Youth Empowerment program, and became an autonomous youth collective in 2009. This grant goes for the Disarmament Summer project: a cross-cultural alliance of youth working in partnership with indigenous communities in New Mexico to build a grassroots, consensus-based, nonviolent direct action movement. Their goals: stop the expansion of the nuclear weapons industry and achieve healthcare and environmental justice for communities directly affected by the nuclear industry.
gender rights of orphans and widows affected by HIV/AIDS
Organization: Nansana Women Development Association (NWDA)
Founded in 2004, Nansana Women Development Association (NWDA) is a community-based development organization that seeks to improve living conditions and alleviate human suffering in Wakiso district, which surrounds Uganda’s capital, Kampala. This February 2010 grant, held over from the Social Justice Fund’s December cycle, goes for a campaign seeking protection and support for the property and gender rights of orphans and widows affected by HIV/AIDS.
Human Rights Promoter Project
Organization: Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition
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.
Internship program of G.I. Coffeehouse
Organization: National G.I. Coffeehouse Support Network
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’s existing coffeehouses: Under the Hood Café, near Fort Hood, Texas; Coffee Strong, near Fort Lewis, Washington; and Norfolk OffBase, located in Norfolk, Virginia near 14 major military installations.
Mount Taylor Sacred Sites Prayer Run
Organization: Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE)
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.
Non-violent resistance training with Combatants for Peace members
Organization: Combatants for Peace
For a Training in Non-Violent Action – Learning the Comprehensive Meaning of Effective Non-violent Resistance, an educational and participatory workship to be held with Combatants for Peace members in Beit Jalla, East Jerusalem.
Nonviolence Training Involving Croatian War Veterans
Organization: Miramida Centar – Regional Peacebuilding Exchange
A nonviolence training involving Croatian war veterans in a campaign to create a nongovernmental voice in a truth and reconciliation process to help document and investigate war crimes.
Sweatfree Community project
Organization: St. Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America
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.
Three-day active nonviolence training with Kwale Interfaith
Organization: Kwale Interfaith Youth Association
For a three-day active nonviolence training with 25 leaders from this youth association.
Voices of Experience Tour
Organization: Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty
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 "Voices of Experience Tour," in which family members affected by violent crime speak out about their opposition to the death penalty in public events and through the media.
Yo Soy Testigo (I am a Witness) Campaign
Organization: Coalición de Derechos Humanos
Coalición de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coalition) is a grassroots organization founded in 1993 to oppose the militarization of communities along the southern U.S. border and promote respect for human rights. This grant goes for the Coalition’s Yo Soy Testigo (I am a Witness) Campaign, a collaborative effort to encourage community participation in documenting and educating about law enforcement abuses, particularly local authorities’ collaboration with U.S. Border Patrol.
Grant Year: 2009
“Getting it together in the Global Economy,” an event
Organization: - PICA – Peace Through InterAmerican Community Action
PICA is a grassroots, member-based organization in Bangor, Maine which has been working for more than 20 years for human rights and a fair economy. This grant goes for “Getting it together in the Global Economy,” an event scheduled for April 2010 which will bring together labor, immigrant and community activists, people of color, educators and students to build broader alliances in Maine for worker and immigrant rights and fair trade. The event is part of “kNOw US AND THEM,” a program of education and grassroots organizing connecting immigrants, displaced workers, and their allies.
Building capacity in nonviolence for social movements in Oaxaca
Organization: Grupo de Reflexión
To build capacity in nonviolence for social movements in Oaxaca. An intensive training involved 50 participants from Catholic base communities, indigenous and campesino communities organizing for territorial and resource rights, organic farmers, unionized teachers and other social movements. A follow-up public discussion of nonviolent strategies was attended by 85 people, including students, professors, activists and leaders, in the city of Oaxaca.
funds for the Other Death Penalty Project
Organization: - Steering Committee for the Honor Program / The Other Death Penalty Project
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 “other death penalty.”
grassroots nonviolence training for women group leaders of villages
Organization: Peace Makers Society Cameroon
For a participatory grassroots nonviolence training for women group leaders of villages involved in inter-tribal conflicts.
international conference investigating the links between local nonviolent livelihood struggles and global militarism, to be held in India in late January 2010
Organization: War Resisters International
nonviolence training with Forthspring staff and community activists
Organization: Forthspring Inter Community Group
For a nonviolence training with Forthspring staff and community activists, designed to develop skills within the group and local community to address the legacy of conflict.
nonviolent action and encouraging leadership development among women in kolkata
Organization: Swadhina
For a training promoting awareness about nonviolent action and encouraging leadership development among women to help them organize nonviolently for justice.
pastoralist communities to use nonviolent strategies
Organization: Kenya Pastoralist Journalist Network
For a training to build the capacity of pastoralist communities to use nonviolent strategies to confront and prevent violence and armed conflict in their areas.
Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future, a national gathering
Organization: Nukewatch
Founded in 1979, Nukewatch is an environmental and peace action group dedicated to the abolition of nuclear power and weapons. This grant goes for Resistance for a Nuclear Free Future, a national gathering scheduled for the July 4th weekend, 2010, with the goal of increasing awareness and action around nuclear issues through discussions, workshops, nonviolence training, celebration and direct action. The gathering will be hosted by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, another past Muste Institute grantee.
training for activists and community workers from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro
Organization: RAND – Regionalna Adresa za Nenasilno Djelovanje (Regional Address for Nonviolent Action)
For a training for activists and community workers from Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro, to provide them with tools to strengthen nonviolent action and group conflict transformation throughout their communities and the region.
training on nonviolence in seoul
Organization: Korea Solidarity for Conscientious Objection (KSCO)
For a training on nonviolence and conscientious objection.
Training with 20 young activists from Dora
Organization: Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow - New Discourse
For a training with 20 young activists from the ethnically mixed Dora neighborhood, who are organizing themselves to change the current academic system because it creates and perpetuates economic inequalities between ethnic groups and limits educational options. The training came out of a longterm awareness process facilitated by Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow-New Discourse, in which community members learn about the root, structural causes of the social injustices they face and build campaigns for change.
Grant Year: 2008
Asociación de Mujeres para la Integración de la Familia en Nicaragua
Organization: Asociación de Mujeres para la Integración de la Familia en Nicaragua
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
Be The Media
Organization: Be The Media
To provide inner-city at risk youth with creative tools to examine the media and tell their own stories, building on the success of the Arlington West Film and Speakers Program in getting young people to talk about alternatives to war.
Blue Veins
Organization: Blue Veins
To inform women working in Peshawar area factories of their labor rights and maternity protections in the workplace.
California Prison Moratorium Project
Organization: California Prison Moratorium Project
For a campaign to build public opposition to construction of a new juvenile jail in Fresno, California.
Casa—Colectivos de Apoyo, Solidaridad y Acción
Organization: Casa—Colectivos de Apoyo, Solidaridad y Acción
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.
Centro de Políticas Públicas por el Socialismo (CEPPAS)
Organization: Centro de Políticas Públicas por el Socialismo (CEPPAS)
For collaboration with the Central Zone Council of the Neuquén Mapuche Confederation and the Indigenous Advisory Council of Río Negro to nonviolently resist oil company activity in indigenous territory in western Argentina.
Colombia Support Network
Organization: Colombia Support Network
For workshops on autonomous community development and active nonviolence with the Emberá Chamí community in the Lower Putumayo region of Colombia.
Community Media Organizing Project
Organization: Community Media Organizing Project
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.
Food and Medicine
Organization: Food and Medicine
To foster student activism around labor issues at the University of Maine Orono campus.
Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
Organization: Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees
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.
Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty
Organization: Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP)
For the “Road Trip for Justice” project, organizing speaking events in five Missouri cities to raise awareness about and build public opposition to the death penalty.
National Death Row Assistance Network
Organization: National Death Row Assistance Network
For distribution of legal resources and trainings for family members and allies of capital defendants.
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
Organization: Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
For a youth-led film project and screening program building awareness among Asian-American youth around issues of war and militarism.
Northwest Workers’ Justice Project
Organization: Northwest Workers’ Justice Project
To expand the Oregon Immigration “Myth-Buster” Conversations Project, a series of community discussions seeking to dispel fear and misconceptions around the issue of immigration.
Picture the Homeless
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Salina People for Peace
Organization: Salina People for Peace
For outreach and educational efforts in connection with The Heartland Speaks, a three-day anti-militarism conference held in Salina in October.
Snake River Alliance
Organization: Snake River Alliance
To challenge new nuclear projects, advocate for responsible solutions to nuclear waste and contamination, and promote safe and sustainable energy alternatives.
“Initiative for Nonviolence in Russia (including Chechnya)”
Organization: House for Peace and Nonviolence
For the “Initiative for Nonviolence in Russia (including Chechnya),” a nonviolence training for young activists.
Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders
Organization: Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders
Association of Human Rights and Torture Defenders (AHURTOD) has a “training for trainers” workshop for 30 University of Buea student leaders.
Educational efforts in connection with The Heartland Speaks
Organization: Salina People for Peace
Salina People for Peace works to educate the public about peace and justice issues, provide a forum and support for people working on these issues, and promote peaceful resolutions to conflict. This grant went for outreach and educational efforts in connection with The Heartland Speaks, a three-day conference held in Salina in October.
Family Mediation and Conciliation-FAMEC
Organization: Family Mediation and Conciliation-FAMEC
A nonviolence training for university student leaders in Nairobi.
GI Rights and Resistance project
Organization: War Resisters League
War Resisters League has worked since 1923 to end war and defeat injustice. This grant goes for the GI Rights and Resistance project, providing military service members and veterans with information about their rights and distributing educational resources to help soldiers, veterans, their families and civilian supporters speak out about the realities of war.
How Did They Do That?
Organization: Education for Liberation Network
For "How Did They Do That?", a project encouraging social justice groups to share and replicate innovative social justice education projects.
Love Thy Neighbor
Organization: Love Thy Neighbor
The Living Nonviolence Training and Summer Camp in Ramallah,West Bank, Palestine, teaching Palestinian children and teenagers the skills and principles of nonviolence, and training Palestinian young adults as nonviolence trainers.
Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement Between People
Organization: Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement Between People
The Young Advocates Program, training young Palestinians in nonviolence, conflict resolution, advocacy, human rights, communication and other skills, in order to help them lead a successful nonviolent movement to end the Occupation.
Stories of Life
Organization: Asociación de Ex Internos Penitenciarios de El Salvador
For the “Stories of Life” project, involving prisoners and former prisoners in circles of reflection where they can discuss their rights and duties and put forward proposals for a more humane and effective system.
WESPAC Foundation
Organization: WESPAC Foundation, Inc.
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Organization: Amani Communities Africa
Organization: Community Initiative for Change (CIC) Trust
Organization: Union of Minority Neighborhoods