Social Justice Fund Grants from our Spring 2024 Cycle
Grant Year: 2024
About Face: Veterans Against the War (formerly IVAW)
We are Post-9/11 service members and veterans organizing to end a foreign policy of permanent war and the use of military weapons, tactics, and values in communities across the country. As people intimately familiar with the inner workings of the world’s largest military, we use our knowledge and experiences to expose the truth about these conflicts overseas and the growing militarization in the United States.
BAYAN USA
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
Impact Appalachia
At Impact Appalachia it is our mission to build power through ground to root community organizing in the Greater Ohio Appalachian region. We are about bringing positive change and stability through social justice initiatives, leadership development, and voter engagement.
Meaningful Movies Project
The Meaningful Movies Project (MMP) is a non-profit organization that assists neighborhoods, groups and individuals, organize, educate and advocate using the power of social justice documentary film and relevant conversation to build positive and meaningful community and a more just and peaceful world. It is the organizing arm of the Meaningful Movies Network, a collective of autonomous neighborhood and community Meaningful Movies groups that have agreed to work together and support one another to meet these ends.
Newtown Florist Club Inc.
ReCONNECT US is a community organizing capacity building project designed to organize inside twelve marginalized communities facing the decentralizing impact of gentrification. Using a neighborhood response strategy to strengthen local coalition building efforts by organizing inside communities we will incorporate skills and capacity building using a “boots on the ground” approach inside neighborhoods. Our plan of action for building this strong, lasting neighborhood response team model has four main components: relationship building, multi-issue organizing, training grassroots leaders, social
Occupied People's Forum
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.
One Community United
To seek racial harmony and the melding of distinct and separate communities into a more united community. We seek a community where peace and harmony prevail and fear and mistrust are dispelled. To be a source of information and outreach to our communities through community events, dialogue and communications leading to improved relationships between communities and educational programs within communities.
Philly Black Worker Project
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.
Project on Youth and Non-Military Opportunities
Project YANO’s mission is to address the socio-economic factors that make racialized and low-income youth vulnerable to recruitment and militarization by facilitating greater grassroots youth activism around issues that directly affect them. We seek to increase student awareness of the realities of war and how the war machine intersects with other structures of violence and oppression domestically and abroad. We also work to inform young people about non-military college and career alternatives through veteran volunteers, classroom presentations, and other outreach opportunities.
SouthEast Dignity Not Detention Coalition
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.
Stop Forever WIPP Coalition
SFW Coalition works to resist the ongoing nuclear military complex’s colonization of NM. Linking proposed fabrication of the next generation of nuclear weapons triggers (pits) to the expansion of waste disposal at WIPP, is key to protecting our majority minority communities. Facing a plethora of DOE proposals, we are building on past victories with a series of statewide strategic events, actions, and the dissemination of easy to understand materials, to create an upwelling of grassroots activity to stop the environmental injustice of using NM as national, military, nuclear sacrifice area.
Western Regional Advocacy Project
WRAP was created to expose and eliminate the root causes of civil and human rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness in our communities.