Creating Inclusive Communities

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 […]

Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together

• Spring 2023
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•   1st Grant

Pennsylvania

Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together, GREAT, is a grassroots neighborhood organization, primarily volunteer-operated, that works on building community and addressing social justice in various ways. GREAT supports its members around housing, such as deed-related issues, and creates a culture of fighting displacement and other injustices. GREAT also has a Food & Seeds program, which […]

The Empowered Fe Fes

• Spring 2022
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•   1st 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 providing a disabled perspective in mainstream conversations where women with disabilities, especially Black and Indigenous women of color, are historically excluded. Through peer support groups, career […]

The WomanHOOD Project

• Spring 2022
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•   2nd Grant

Bronx

New York

The WomanHOOD Project (HOOD: Helping Ourselves Overcome Discrimination) is an after school mentorship program for girls, femmes, and trans/gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth of color in the Bronx. Their mission is to celebrate womanhood through a racial and gender justice lens by building the next generation of grassroots leaders. This means equipping a generation of young […]

Native Justice Coalition

• Spring 2021
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•   2nd Grant

Michigan

Native Justice Coalition has four key foundations of their work: healing justice, racial justice, restorative justice, and gender justice. The Anishinaabe Healing Stories on Racial Justice Program works to break down the invisibility Native peoples’ experience in racial justice and social justice work. These story-sharing sessions are grassroots community-based events that have a strong cultural […]

The Don’t Look Back Center

• Fall 2020
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•   1st Grant

Aurora

Working with justice-involved women and trans women, The Don’t Look Back Center believes everyone is fighting their own battle to be free from their past in order to live in the present and create a meaningful future.  The organization’s mission is to engage in co-creative community work with women and trans women to build new […]

Heartspark Press

• Fall 2020
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•   2nd Grant

Washington

Heartspark Press is a volunteer-led, trans-led organization dedicated to supporting, developing, and amplifying the creative voices of transgender girls, transgender women, and (C)AMAB (coercively assigned-male-at-birth) non-binary people everywhere. They create, publish, and distribute anthologies, children’s storybooks, audio recordings, and videos that spotlight emerging (C)AMAB trans and non-binary artists. This work is an act of resistance […]

Native Justice Coalition

• Spring 2020
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•   1st Grant

Michigan

The Native Justice Coalition is a platform for healing, social, and racial justice for all Native American people.

EarthArt Institute

• Spring 2020
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•   2nd Grant

Colorado

EarthArt Institute organizes and conducts educational programs and cultural events in sustainable community living in the arts while promoting protection and regeneration of the natural rural environment.