Creating Inclusive Communities

The Empowered Fe Fes

• Spring 2022
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•   1st Grant

Chicago, Illinois

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 […]

The WomanHOOD Project

• Spring 2022
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•   2nd 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. This means equipping a generation of young […]

Native Justice Coalition

• Spring 2021
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•   2nd Grant

Michigan

Native Justice Coalition has four key foundations of their work: healing justice, racial justice, restorative justice, and gender justice. The Anishinaabe Healing Stories on Racial Justice Program works to break down the invisibility Native peoples’ experience in racial justice and social justice work. These story-sharing sessions are grassroots community-based events that have a strong cultural […]

The Don’t Look Back Center

• Fall 2020
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•   1st Grant

Aurora

Working with justice-involved women and trans women, The Don’t Look Back Center believes everyone is fighting their own battle to be free from their past in order to live in the present and create a meaningful future.  The organization’s mission is to engage in co-creative community work with women and trans women to build new […]

Heartspark Press

• Fall 2020
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•   2nd Grant

Washington

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 […]

Native Justice Coalition

• Spring 2020
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•   1st Grant

Michigan

The Native Justice Coalition is a platform for healing, social, and racial justice for all Native American people.

EarthArt Institute

• Spring 2020
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•   2nd Grant

Colorado

EarthArt Institute organizes and conducts educational programs and cultural events in sustainable community living in the arts while promoting protection and regeneration of the natural rural environment.

Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition

• Spring 2020
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•   1st Grant

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition is a grassroots campaign of residents organizing to prevent the privatization of public housing in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Heartspark Press

• Fall 2019
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•   1st 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.

Stonewall Youth

• Spring 2019
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•   1st Grant

Stonewall Youth is an organization of youth, activists, and allies that empowers LGBTQ+ youth to speak for themselves, support each other, educate their communities, and work for social justice.