Sacramento Poderosas
- Fall 2024 |
- 1st Grant
Sacramento Poderosas uses art as activism in the service of building a more knowledgeable and equitable society by preserving imperiled Xicanx/Latinx herstories/histories and highlighting culturally responsive, gender-inclusive narratives. It works to counter the history of invisibility and create opportunities for reflection, to amplify community youth voices, create opportunities for personal reflection, and increase hope for […]
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The Curve Foundation (TCF)
- Fall 2024 |
- 1st Grant
The Curve Foundation (TCF) envisions a world where all lesbians, queer women, transgender and nonbinary people feel valued, supported, and connected. Rooted in the history of Curve Magazine, The Curve Foundation champions the stories and culture of lesbians, queer women, transgender and nonbinary people through intergenerational programming and community building. The Curve Foundation focuses on […]
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National Equal Justice Association (NEJA)
- Spring 2024 |
- 1st Grant
National Equal Justice Association (NEJA) is an all-volunteer organization that works to secure 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. NEJA’s efforts continue to inform and unite potential allies to demand implementation of […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Creating Freedom Movements
- Spring 2024 |
- 1st Grant
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 […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Creating Freedom Movements
- Spring 2023 |
- 2nd Grant
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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Ready to Launch
- Spring 2023 |
- Spring 2024 |
- 2nd Grant
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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Institute for Research on Male Supremacism
- Fall 2022 |
- 3rd Grant
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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Creating Freedom Movements
- Spring 2022 |
- 1st Grant
Creating Freedom Movements (CFM) cultivates holistic, healing-centered, visionary leaders as they collaboratively incubate social justice projects that nurture cross-issue solidarity to push our changing world in a liberatory direction. With their 1st Mary’s Pence grant CFM will support their 10-month cohort program and social justice project incubator that is designed for emerging and established grassroots […]
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National Equal Justice Association
- Spring 2022 |
- 1st Grant
National Equal Justice Association secures equal justice for poor and minority workers and their families struggling to obtain access to living wages, nutritional food, health care, clean and affordable water, and safe working and living conditions free from pesticide and other toxic poisoning. NEJA partners with grassroots, community-based, self-help organizations of farm workers, service workers, […]
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Ready to Launch
- Spring 2022 |
- 1st Grant
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. Their fellowship program helps women aspiring to work in fields of public service to find and secure internships. Through these experiences women gain hands-on experience and provide more diverse representation […]
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