Creating Inclusive Communities
Creating Freedom Movements
- Spring 2023 |
- 2nd Grant
Richmond, 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 […]
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National Equal Justice Association
- Spring 2023 |
- 2nd Grant
San Francisco, California
National Equal Justice Association secures equal justice for poor and minority workers and their families struggling to obtain fair wages, nutritional food, health care, clean and affordable water, and safe working and living conditions. Mary’s Pence’s second grant will advance NEJA’s Bayview Hunters Point campaign to raise awareness about the water contamination affecting The Hunters […]
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Dreams Are Possible
- Spring 2023 |
- 3rd Grant
Bloomington, Illinois
Dreams are Possible prepares women for economically sustainable employment by training them to be first-class, skill-based workers, enabling them to secure careers in the building trades and related fields that provide living wages, benefits, and dignity. Dreams are Possible classes focus on topics employers have identified as needed in their workforce. The organization’s goal is […]
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League of Women Voters
- Spring 2023 |
- 3rd Grant
Minneapolis, Minnesota
The League of Women Voters (LWV) Minneapolis is a women-run, non-partisan organization that encourages informed and active participation in all levels of government. LWV Minneapolis works to increase understanding of major policy issues and influences public policy through education and advocacy. They are partnering with local organizations, like A Mother’s Love and the Native American […]
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Ready to Launch
- Spring 2023 |
- Spring 2024 |
- 2nd Grant
Santa Monica, California
Ready to Launch equips women from historically marginalized communities with the opportunities and support to learn, grow, and launch careers in government and political spheres. Ready to Launch’s work seeks to counterbalance the impacts of generational wealth and expand access to many who have been previously locked out of these spaces. The fellowship program and […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together
- Spring 2023 |
- 1st Grant
Philadelphia, 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 […]
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The WomanHOOD Project
- Spring 2023 |
- 3rd 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. The organization hosts an after-school program and a […]
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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
- Fall 2022 |
- 3rd Grant
Berkley, California
The Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS) is dedicated to helping grassroots social justice groups fight male supremacism, convening women experts researching supremacists’ ideologies and movements, and educating the public about their work. They provide methods and strategies to properly equip organizations to push back against harmful ideologies and frameworks. After a successful virtual […]
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Cultivating Health and Well Being
Yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective
- Fall 2022 |
- 1st Grant
Seattle, Washington
Yəhaw̓ Indigenous Creatives Collective is an urban Indigenous women-led arts nonprofit, dedicated to improving Indigenous mental and emotional health outcomes through art-making, community building, and equitable creative opportunities for personal and professional growth. Yəhaw̓ cultivates opportunities for creatives at every stage of their careers and centers voices of women, two-spirited and young people. They provide […]
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