National Equal Justice Association (NEJA)
- Spring 2022 |
- Spring 2023 |
- 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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Altagracia Faith and Justice Works
- Spring 2022 |
- Spring 2024 |
- 2nd Grant
Altagracia Faith and Justice Works (AFJW) started through the leadership and efforts of lay women of faith in New York to bridge the faith community and the broader Manhattan community. AFJW 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 […]
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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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Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition
- Spring 2022 |
- 3rd Grant
Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition is a grassroots community organizing campaign for residents living in public housing. Their mission is to protect public housing from privatization and to prevent the displacement of people who rely on public housing, the majority of whom are Black (immigrants, Muslims, East Africans), families with children, and people with […]
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Dreams are Possible
- Spring 2022 |
- 2nd Grant
Dreams are Possible prepares women for economically sustainable employment by training them to be first-class, skill-based workers and helping them to secure careers that provide living wages, benefits, and dignity in the workplace. Their 2nd grant from Mary’s Pence will allow Dreams are Possible to provide forklift and OSHA training, which women can include on […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
The Empowered Fe Fes
- Spring 2022 |
- 1st Grant
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 […]
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Fuerzas Unidas
- Spring 2022 |
- 1st Grant
Working throughout San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties in California, Fuerzas Unidas organizes some of the most vulnerable populations throughout the state to influence decision-makers and create long-term anti-racist institutional changes. Composed of members representing groups such as farmworkers, service workers, and monolingual Spanish-speaking immigrants, Fuerzas Unidas strives to develop the leadership of Latinx leaders to […]
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Accompanying Women Experiencing Incarceration
It Takes a Village Collaborative
- Spring 2022 |
- 2nd Grant
It Takes A Village Collaborative (ITAVcollab) cultivates thriving communities of color that focus on a holistic approach to wellness to encourage healing and the ability of people to reach their full potential. Their To Be Me Returning Citizens Program helps women navigate the challenges they face when exiting the prison system and reintegrating into society. […]
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Cultivating Health and Well Being
Mama to Mama
- Spring 2022 |
- 3rd Grant
Mama to Mama offers social support for mothers as they make the transition into parenthood. Their Community-Supported Doula Project provides doulas to women who are at very high risk for disparities in perinatal health outcomes. Recognizing that the doula profession suffers from a lack of cultural and racial diversity, Mama to Mama funds training costs for […]
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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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