Creating Inclusive Communities
Kind Hearted Women’s Society (Cante Waunsilpi Wi Ta Ominiciye – Lakota name)
- Spring 2025 |
- 1st Grant
Kind-Hearted Women Society (Cante Waunsilpi Wi Ta Ominiciye) is an Indigenous-led nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing Lakota cultural practices, empowering Native women and girls, and fostering long-term systemic change. Rooted in the Lakota values of respect (Wóohola), cultural revitalization (Lakȟól’iyapi), healing (Wówaŋyaŋg Wicákȟ’e), empowerment (Wichóni), and community (Tiospaye), Kind Hearted Women Society provides a safe, culturally […]
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Missouri Disability Empowerment Foundation
- Spring 2025 |
- 1st Grant
Born from their shared vision and fueled by a desire for a brighter future for their children with disabilities, six mothers came together in June 2018 with a simple yet powerful belief: that every individual deserves quality educational experiences and support, regardless of ability. Missouri Disability Empowerment Foundation wants to see IEP (Individualized Education Plans) […]
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National Women’s Defense League (NWDL)
- Spring 2024 |
- Spring 2025 |
- 2nd Grant
National Women’s Defense League (NWDL) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preventing sexual harassment and protecting survivors, particularly in political workplaces. NWDL serves as a movement backbone, developing national state strategies, coordinating advocates, and resourcing survivors. NWDL conducts research to help understand the breadth of the problem, provide education for the public and decision makers, […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Supporting Immigrants and Refugees
Altagracia Faith and Justice Works
- Spring 2022 |
- Spring 2024 |
- Spring 2025 |
- 3rd Grant
Altagracia Faith and Justice Works started through the leadership and efforts of lay women of faith in New York to bridge the faith community and the broader Manhattan community. It 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 and promote social […]
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Hattie B. BWIP
- Spring 2024 |
- Spring 2025 |
- 2nd Grant
Hattie B. BWIP empowers young girls from marginalized Black and Brown communities, with a focus on girls in rural and underserved areas of Cochise, Pima, Pinal, and Maricopa counties in Arizona. Hattie B. BWIP works with girls to transcend their immediate circumstances and envision a future filled with possibilities. During the Acacia B. Girls Confidence […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
CLUTCH Inc.
- Spring 2025 |
- 1st Grant
CLUTCH is a female-founded, female-led, grassroots team of volunteer queer adults and allies working to provide a safe, inclusive and supportive community for teens ages 14-20 in the small town of Nampa, Idaho. Nampa’s LGBTQ+ youth and their families are faced with increased restrictions and messages of silence and dismissal. To keep Nampa’s youth safe, […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
Project Rainbow Utah
- Spring 2024 |
- Spring 2025 |
- 2nd Grant
Project Rainbow Utah envisions a Utah where every LGBTQ+ individual feels they belong and are safe. The organization fosters visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community through flag campaigns, promotes inclusivity through civic dialogue and training, and provides crucial funds and other development support through a Community Fund. Initiatives focus on addressing systemic injustices, particularly those faced […]
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The Loretto Justice Fellowship
- Spring 2025 |
- 1st Grant
The Loretto Justice Fellowship was born of a commitment to de-colonize traditional approaches to faith-based service programs. The program operates in El Paso, Texas, at the intersection of many of the complex challenges that face our world and the systemic inequities that exacerbate the impact of these challenges on marginalized communities. Centering community-identified needs and […]
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Southern Project Hustle
- Spring 2025 |
- 1st Grant
Southern Project Hustle centers Black Women and Black Queer Femmes building liberated economic alternatives. It honors the legacy and resilience of the hustle economy, a space used to supplement incomes and meet the needs of Black families. A key part of their work is building worker cooperatives and collectives as an alternative economy, to share […]
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Creating Inclusive Communities
South Asian Women Project
- Spring 2025 |
- 2nd Grant
The South Asian Women Project (SAWP) supports survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and their families through culturally sensitive support groups, trauma-informed counseling, and financial empowerment. South Asian Women Project’s goal is to create a space for women and their children, who have suffered IPV, to feel safe and comfortable to talk about their traumatic […]
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