Creating Inclusive Communities

Kind Hearted Women’s Society (Cante Waunsilpi Wi Ta Ominiciye – Lakota name)

• Spring 2025
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•   1st Grant

South Dakota

Kind-Hearted Women Society (Cante Waunsilpi Wi Ta Ominiciye) is an Indigenous-led nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing Lakota cultural practices, empowering Native women and girls, and fostering long-term systemic change. Rooted in the Lakota values of respect (Wóohola), cultural revitalization (Lakȟól’iyapi), healing (Wówaŋyaŋg Wicákȟ’e), empowerment (Wichóni), and community (Tiospaye), Kind Hearted Women Society provides a safe, culturally […]

Altagracia Faith and Justice Works

• Spring 2022
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• Spring 2024
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• Spring 2025
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•   3rd Grant

New York

New York. 

Altagracia Faith and Justice Works started through the leadership and efforts of lay women of faith in New York to bridge the faith community and the broader Manhattan community. It is located in a majority Hispanic/Latine immigrant community of Northern Manhattan and is dedicated to empowering community leaders to put their faith into action and promote social […]

CLUTCH Inc.

• Spring 2025
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•   1st Grant

Idaho

CLUTCH is a female-founded, female-led, grassroots team of volunteer queer adults and allies working to provide a safe, inclusive and supportive community for teens ages 14-20 in the small town of Nampa, Idaho. Nampa’s LGBTQ+ youth and their families are faced with increased restrictions and messages of silence and dismissal. To keep Nampa’s youth safe, […]

Project Rainbow Utah

• Spring 2024
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• Spring 2025
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•   2nd Grant

Utah

Project Rainbow Utah envisions a Utah where every LGBTQ+ individual feels they belong and are safe. The organization fosters visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community through flag campaigns, promotes inclusivity through civic dialogue and training, and provides crucial funds and other development support through a Community Fund. Initiatives focus on addressing systemic injustices, particularly those faced […]

South Asian Women Project

• Spring 2025
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•   2nd Grant

New York

The South Asian Women Project (SAWP) supports survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and their families through culturally sensitive support groups, trauma-informed counseling, and financial empowerment. South Asian Women Project’s goal is to create a space for women and their children, who have suffered IPV, to feel safe and comfortable to talk about their traumatic […]

Project Rainbow Utah

• Spring 2024
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•   1st Grant

Utah

Project Rainbow Utah envisions a Utah where every LGBTQIA+ individual feels they belong and are safe. Project Rainbow Utah fosters visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community through flag campaigns, promotes inclusivity through civic dialogue and training, and provides crucial funds and other development support through a Community Fund. Initiatives focus on addressing systemic injustices, particularly those […]

Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together (GREAT)

• Spring 2024
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•   1st Grant

Pennsylvania

Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together (GREAT) is a grassroots neighborhood organization located in Northwest Philadelphia that works to connect Germantown neighbors to one another, to build a stronger sustainable community, to share resources and information, and to prevent neighbors from being displaced. GREAT members use their collective resources to grow food, share tools, support […]

Creating Freedom Movements

• Spring 2024
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•   1st Grant

California

Creating Freedom Movements is a training program that teaches participants to build community, cross-issue solidarity, and infrastructures of justice and joy by moving from cultures of separation and domination to cultures of connection and reciprocity. CFM‘s 18-month cohort was designed for emerging and established grassroots leaders, fostering deep relationships and providing participants with resources supporting sustainability […]

The Empowered Fe Fes

• Fall 2023
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•   2nd Grant

Chicago, Illinois

As a disability justice group of self-identifying folks with cross disabilities, The Empowered Fe Fes utilizes collective support and care as resistance to claim presence and highlight women’s issues. As disabled women, they bring their unique perspective to mainstream conversations that have historically excluded disabled Black and Indigenous women of color. Through peer support groups, […]

Creating Freedom Movements

• Spring 2023
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•   2nd Grant

California

Creating Freedom Movements is a training program that teaches participants to build community, cross-issue solidarity, and infrastructures of justice and joy by moving from cultures of separation and domination to cultures of connection and reciprocity. CFM’s 18-month cohort fosters deep relationships and provides participants with resources supporting sustainability while promoting self-care and joy to keep […]