POWER – Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights
Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights (POWER) is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a solid social safety net. POWER provides information to and advocates for low-income families navigating social programs. Unlike boot-strap self-improvement programs targeting poor people, they consider poverty a systemic problem and not an individual failing. They work […]
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Youth Activism Project
- Fall 2021 |
- 3rd Grant
Grounded in the belief that there is no minimum age for leadership, Youth Activism Project fosters teen-led advocacy campaigns and normalizes young people’s participation in decision-making processes. They accomplish their work by providing meaningful youth engagement in civic and political spheres through equal access to leadership and advocacy training and community-building resources for all teens. […]
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Youth Activism Project
- Fall 2020 |
- 2nd Grant
Grounded in the belief that there is no minimum age for leadership, Youth Activism Project fosters teen-led advocacy campaigns and normalizes young people’s participation in decision-making processes. They accomplish their work by providing meaningful youth engagement in civic and political spheres through equal access to leadership and advocacy training and community-building resources for all teens. […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Heartspark Press
- Fall 2020 |
- 2nd Grant
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 […]
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