Grantee Partner Portfolio

The A. Philip Randolph Institute is an Organization of Black Trade Unionists who fight for racial equality and economic justice. Randolph and Rustin founded APRI in 1965 to continue the political struggle for all working Americans that they helped start. Today, led by President Clayola Brown, APRI continues to work to advance social and economic justice for working families through education, organizing voter registration drives, and many other political initiatives.

ACER engages individuals with a grassroots community-building approach thru cultural arts, youth leadership development, and multimedia justice. ACER divides its program of work into three major focus areas that reflect the work of the organization: 1. United Concerned Citizens is a coalition of parents and students working together (intergenerational model) in Montgomery, Grenada, Carroll-Vaiden and Webster counties in doing basic community organizing work to enhance civic participation. 2. Teens In Action is a youth leadership development program, consisting of 7 to 10 core management leaders that drive the training and organizing process of increasing the involvement of youth in the community ages 6 thru 26. Teens In Action is based on self-development and civic participation for a stronger democracy. Teens In Action takes a proactive approach in addressing issues of schools reform and criminal’ juvenile justice reform and through community research and weekly and annual trainings....

We’re a nonprofit and nonpartisan grassroots communications and messaging hub working to build civic awareness and community power in Alabama and across the South.

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas is the first national women farmworkers’ organization in the U. S. created by current and former women farmworkers, along with women who hail from farmworker families. Our mission is to unify the struggle to promote women farmworker’s leadership in a national movement to create broader visibility and advocate for changes that ensure their human rights.

The Alliance for Appalachia is a coalition of 18 member organizations and was founded in 2006 to strengthen the region’s effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining. Our mission is to promote a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction. Read more about our mission and values.

Arkansas United (AU) is a statewide immigrant advocacy group that operates regional Immigrant Resource Centers in Fayetteville and Little Rock and connects immigrants to services through 47 navigators in 14 communities across Arkansas.

Our mission is to serve the Bay Area communities by providing decent housing that is affordable to low- and moderate- income persons providing safer urban communities and providing consistent community support and services through educational and cultural programs to enhance the equity of housing, education, voter representation, nutritional foods, and health to all in our surrounding urban communities.

The mission of the Ben D. Johnson Educational Center is to build community in Natchitoches and give access to social and economic success to all its residents. “We provide an option for young adults and set them on the path towards a sustainable life, free of barriers. The BDJ Center’s staff provides a safe place for individuals to learn and to grow. We meet students where they are, then help to guide them to where they need to be for success. Everyone deserves a chance.”

Black Leadership Action Coalition of Kentucky (BLACK) is an inclusive network of Black organizers and activists across the Commonwealth of Kentucky who are abolitionists, anti-capitalist, and believe in representative and collective decision-making. BLACK organizes to transform and realign current systems of power to meet the needs of all people through the belief that we can work together to build just, equitable, and inclusive socio-economic systems by building relationships with one another, growing in our leadership, and expanding our base.

Established in 2019 and headquartered in Uniontown, Alabama, Blackbelt Women Rising, is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to serving individuals of African American descent and other individuals dealing with crisis.  The focus areas are domestic violence and sexual assault, HIV awareness, poverty, and the environment. We will be providing culturally specific sensitive services through prevention education, court advocacy, as well as our training workshops and presentations for other shelters, members of the LGBTQ+ community, other community organizations, health, legal, and law enforcement professionals.

Casa Azul de Wilson provides a homebase for Wilson’s Latinx families to feel valued so that they may own their power and ascend in their educational, leadership and civic pursuits. We build community through culturally affirming events, programs and campaigns that allow us to celebrate our complex and diverse identities.

The Charleston Area Justice Ministry (CAJM) is a growing network of faith-based congregations who are culturally, economically, geographically and religiously diverse who come together to make the Charleston area a more just place to live, work, and do business.

CivicTN is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit civic engagement coalition that envisions a future where underrepresented communities of color, single women and young people — the rising American electorate — have a greater voice and influence in shaping state policy and choosing leaders who affect their lives.

The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.

The Community Action Association of Alabama envisions a strong, committed partnership of Community Action Agencies in Alabama empowered to produce measurable outcomes and results eliminating poverty. Our Mission is to empower our member agencies to eliminate poverty by providing resource development, coordination of efforts, technical and training assistance.

Community Care Development Network is comprised of leaders in the community to help develop and maintain local programs. Community Care Development Network is a   faith-based non-profit 501c3 Organization that specializes in healing and helping the whole family. Our purpose is to help heal the whole family through our community-based programs.

The Core Community Coalition seeks to elevate the quality of life for minority and needy citizens through shared advocacy, collaborative leadership, education, and access to opportunities. The coalition shall provide resources and advocacy to solve critical problems facing our community.   

Somos un grupo mujeres inmigrantes, que decidimos levantar nuestras voces y actuar; uniéndonos para lograr un cambio en nuestra comunidad.

Our mission is to educate, advocate and organize for quality jobs with living wages and benefits, with an explicit commitment to build worker power within BIPOC communities in Northeast Georgia. We accomplish this through voter registration & civic engagement, case management for workplace grievances, incubating cooperatively-owned businesses, and collective action to support organizing workers. By empowering workers to connect their working-conditions and living-conditions directly to the policy and legislation impacting them, we are bringing about positive change in our communities.

Emancipate NC was founded on the knowledge that mass incarceration and structural racism harm all of us. Prison is state-sponsored violence. We are all complicit in its harms. As an organization, we are dedicated to shifting the narrative on racialized mass incarceration through community education and mobilization. The mainstream narrative that criminalizes Black and Brown people must be transformed—so that we can all get free. Emancipate NC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and was previously known as the Carolina Justice Policy Center.

EveryBlackGirl Inc. organizes and provides programming to address the conditions leading to BlackGirls being pushed out of schools and becoming at risk for arrest, confinement and incarceration.

“Faith in Action Alabama is a multi-faith, multi-racial organization that works to honor God by achieving systemic change to create pathways of opportunity for all Alabamians. With local congregational hubs in Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery, create a statewide grassroots interfaith, interracial faith-rooted organization that will build and wield power that leads to bold public decisions at the local and state levels that honor the dignity of all of God’s children. A collaborative leadership model will anchor this organization. Only an interracial, interfaith organization committed to shared leadership will possess the needed strength and wisdom to spearhead systemic change in Alabama.”

Farmworkers Self-Help, Inc. was organized in 1979 to find solutions to the problems of the farmworker population.

The mission of the Fertile Ground Food Cooperative is to serve as an intergenerational hub for Southeast Raleigh residents to build an alternative economy and foster personal and collective assets.

The Florida People’s Advocacy Center (Florida PAC) increases social and economic justice throughout Florida by facilitating and providing training in civic engagement at the state capitol. Our motto is “Get involved. The world is run by those who show up!”

Florida Rising Together is a 501c3 organization dedicated to advancing economic and racial justice across the state by building power in historically marginalized communities. Our organization develops leaders that will help shift power, so communities get to decide their own destinies.

At Georgia Shift, our mission is to engage, empower, amplify, and mobilize young voters in underrepresented communities across Georgia by fostering civic engagement, promoting social justice, and driving meaningful change. We believe in creating an inclusive environment where every voice is heard and valued, and where everyone has the opportunity to participate fully in shaping the future of their communities. Through education, advocacy, and grassroots organizing, we strive to build a more just and equitable society for all.”

Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc. (“Georgia WAND”) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our focus on quality of life issues, health hazards resulting from nuclear energy and weapons, and social justice are grounded in building racial equity. We understand the intersectionality between racism, poverty, and unjust environmental policies that burden minority and poor communities in Georgia. We work to defend people, underserved communities and our climate future together. Gifts to Georgia WAND Education Fund, Inc. are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

The Georgia Muslim Voter Project (GAMVP) was founded in 2015 in response to prevailing anti-Muslim rhetoric in mainstream politics. Muslim communities across Georgia were often overlooked and seen as disempowered or lacking influence in the political landscape and rarely outreached to during elections, leading to low rates of civic engagement across Georgia Muslim communities. Our mission is to activate Muslim voters in order to elevate our voices. We stand for equal representation and justice in all forms.

Get Loud Arkansas is a nonprofit organization working to register new voters, engage low propensity voters, and mobilize all eligible voters to utilize the power of their vote to shape the future of Arkansas.

The Glynn Environmental Coalition (GEC) was formed in 1990 by concerned citizens wanting to know how our community became so polluted, why we continue to have health-threatening pollution, and how we could develop an action plan to correct the problem. Since our organization’s inception, the Glynn Environmental Coalition has worked diligently to make Glynn County a safe and healthy place to raise our families.

The Glynn Environmental Coalition (GEC) was formed in 1990 by concerned citizens wanting to know how our community became so polluted, why we continue to have health-threatening pollution, and how we could develop an action plan to correct the problem. Since our organization’s inception, the Glynn Environmental Coalition has worked diligently to make Glynn County a safe and healthy place to raise our families.

El Futuro Es Nuestro (It’s Our Future, or EFEN) arose in 2021 out of a desire to transform the farmworker union FLOC into an organization that is once again led by its members and actually represents and protects workers. Workers covered under FLOC’s contract, the first and only H2A collective bargaining agreement, were not satisfied with the representation of the longtime president and founder Baldemar Velasquez and launched a campaign to take back their union. 

Kiran’s mission is to end the cycle of abuse and to serve and empower South Asian victims of domestic violence in North Carolina by providing culturally specific services and comprehensive economic, social and community resources.

LORI empowers refugees and immigrants to attain self-sufficiency through economic empowerment, social integration, and civic engagement. We connect Refugees and immigrants to critical services, help refugees develop as leaders, and organize our communities to advocate for issues that matter. LORI plays a vital role in promoting diversity, advocating for humane immigration policies, and fighting racism and injustice by building power, developing leadership, and driving structural change with and for Refugees and immigrants in Louisiana and the United States.

Migrant Equity Southeast is a Latinx and immigrant-led 501(c)(3) organization based in South Georgia. We’re here to advocate for immigrant rights and work directly with the migrant and refugee communities of South Georgia to bring them equitable access to resources available to citizens: health resources, educational resources, political resources as well as financial aid and food assistance!

The Mississippi Immigrants’ Rights Alliance (MIRA) uses advocacy, education, organizing and legal services to expand and protect the rights of immigrants and their families in Mississippi. MIRA envisions a Mississippi that supports, protects, and welcomes immigrants from across the globe working hand-in-hand to create a thriving community called home.

​Mississippi M.O.V.E. started in 2004 as a coalition of community-based organizations in Mississippi that advocated for students, people below the age of 35, and communities of low and moderate-income families by working on voter registration, Today, Mississippi MOVE the Vote is a nonpartisan organization which has the same objectives but is an independent organization which focuses on training and informing the community of important events, procedures, efforts and initiatives. and education and other social issues.

At NCCSC we are rooted in the principles, policies, and practices of environmental and climate justice for all North Carolinians. We work to protect the environmental landscape of NC by empowering communities to take action through education and grassroots campaigning. We work with decision-makers serving the public to promote knowledgeable decisions.  We serve as a resource for the public in mobilizing all communities, particularly BIPOC and the underserved who live, work, and play in North Carolina.

The NC Congress of Latino Organizations (aka The Latino Congress) is a statewide, membership led organization that builds power among Latino institutions and their leaders to advance social, racial and economic justice.  The Latino Congress Our membership consists of more than seventy congregations, community associations, unions and nonprofits in North Carolina representing more than 100,000 individuals works for the public good by coalescing training, and organizing Latinos across religious, racial, nationality, class, county and neighborhood lines. 

The North Carolina Sustainable Business Council is a statewide coalition of businesses and business partners who have a passion for creating purpose-driven businesses. Founded in 2014, its membership represents businesses from a wide range of industries. We believe that together businesses have the power to influence business policies today that ensure long-term profitability, protect the environment, and sustain communities.

NBN works tirelessly to bridge the gaps within communities, ensuring that residents have a voice in their future. We facilitate connections, provide resources, and champion the cause of those striving for a better neighborhood. Our initiatives encompass community-building efforts, from promoting digital equity to fostering economic development.

The mission of the Newtown Florist Club Inc. is to promote youth development and to organize for social, environmental and economic justice.

Nollie Jenkins Family Center, Inc., received its 501c(3) status on July 31, 2007. It remains a grassroots leadership development, education, and training organization, and is now located in Durant (Holmes County), MS. More so now than ever, NJFC is actively engaged in the life and death struggle for the moral center of our nation and local communities. Poverty remains an intended consequence of conscious policies, education is still a gatekeeper, and racism is woven into the entire fabric of our culture and compounds every problem. Low-wealth rural communities of color are struggling to become architects rather than objects of policy in order to cast off these contrived burdens and open the gates to all children regardless of race, class, national origin, language, status, culture or sexual orientation. To achieve these goals, it is not enough to be righteous; we must be organized with the capacity to impact the formation and implementation of policy in the public and private sectors.

North Florida Educational Development Corporation (NFEDC) is a grass-roots organization located in the panhandle of North Florida, committed to empowering individuals and families in Gadsden, Liberty, Jackson, Calhoun, and Gulf counties.  NFEDC also ensures that the needs of low-income communities are the top priority.  The organization’s by-laws require 51% of the Board’s input, who are low-income community residents.  

Organize Tennessee is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization driven to uphold safe, secure, and accessible elections for every eligible voter. We advocate for voting rights protections, build coalitions, provide legal support and prioritize grassroots organizing to eliminate barriers and empower disenfranchised Tennesseans.

Our mission services four counties (Peach, Crawford, Macon, and Taylor) and is aimed to reach all ethnic groups to inform, discuss issues and create a climate so everyone understands the importance of voting. The mission is also to improve the voter turnout by at least 15 percent over the past elections and voter turnout for all geographic areas and demographic groups especially the disabled, hard to reach and underrepresented which includes engaging ages eighteen to thirty-eight. 

Politisit addresses financial barriers to civic engagement for parents and caretakers of minors. In order to ensure institutions and government entities are serving our communities well, we need families to engage in community meetings, civic activities, and legislative discourse, and vote.

Recovery & Restoration House, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing services for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. At Recovery & Restoration House, Inc., one of our most important missions is to build hope and character in people. In finding hope a person becomes able to look past the tragedies in their background and find motivation in a bright future.

Rural Appalachian Improvement League, Inc (RAIL) was founded in 2001 by community volunteers to help build a new and sustainable social structure and economic base in the southern West Virginia coalfields. RAIL is a grassroots organization that believes the local people – especially the youth and young adults – must be directly involved in solving the social and economic problems that exist in the community. RAIL believes that competent, creative, energetic, and qualified leadership at the local level is essential to community building. RAIL also believes that a base of operations that allows interaction with all the people in the community is essential. These beliefs are based on over 20 years of experience working with the people, agencies, and others that offer assistance in local community building. RAIL’s efforts are focused around community and economic development, helping individuals in recovery from SUD, and promoting healthy lifestyles. RAIL operates out of the Mullens Opport...

The mission of Rural Community Alliance is to empower rural communities to effect change by creating opportunities in education, economic development, and youth empowerment to improve quality of life and place.

To improve the social disposition of underrepresented populations through community service, education, and other social services in our respective communities

The South Carolina Progressive Network Education Fund, a (501c3) nonpartisan resource hub, is host to the SC Progressive Policy Institute and the Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights. Contributions to the Fund are tax deductible. The Fund is managed by a Board of Directors nominated by existing board members from the Network’s general individual membership. Nominees are mentored for a year by the board member who nominated them. They are expected to be graduates of the Modjeska School and trained in the Board responsibilities they are to assume. This will create a stable and professional leadership for the Fund. There are no longer organizational members of the Fund, but organizations will have the same opportunity to partner in campaigns of mutual interest, as we have done in the past with electoral reforms and Medicaid Expansion.

State Voices Florida (SVFL) is a partner-focused civic engagement organization whose mission is to engage Florida’s historically underrepresented communities in the democratic process.

SOCM is a 50-year-old, member-driven organization dedicated to empowering Tennesseans in their efforts to have a greater voice in determining their own future. Throughout our history, our members have taken on local, state and national campaigns to make lives better for everyday people. We’ve found time and time again that real change requires long lasting groups that are rooted in relationship and built on our own experiences.

The Black School is a Black-Centered experimental art school teaching BIPoC and ally students to become agents of change in their communities through art & design education and programming based in radical African diasporic histories, prioritizing local community needs.

Tranzmission was founded in Asheville, NC on April 2nd, 2001. We quickly discovered that amazing things can happen when people come together! Our membership includes non-binary, genderqueer and gender fluid folks as well as trans women, trans men and our family, friends, and allies. Over the years our membership continues to change and evolve, and we continue to celebrate and nourish the incredible diversity within our community.

United Women of Color empowers girls, women, and their communities by uniting people across ethnicities to address civic and educational gaps for advancement. We believe that we have a responsibility to help build and shape the culture of our communities through educational programs, civic engagement, and advocacy.

The mission of Urban Outreach Association is to change the culture within our community and raise citizen’s awareness of independence, self-responsibility and community safety.

Venceremos is a worker-based grassroots organization that works to protect the fundamental human rights of poultry workers to achieve long-term systemic change in the poultry industry through building worker-driven solutions and engaging consumers and the public. 

The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR) is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.

VSPN envisions a future of collective liberation, in which all communities break free from policing and the carceral state, everyone has access to truly affordable higher education, and students, faculty, and workers have decision-making power within their lives – including their educational and governmental institutions.  

VOICE is a nonpartisan organization of over 40 faith communities that organize together to build power to improve the lives of our families, communities, regions, and nation.

Let us never forget the forced labor of our enslaved ancestors of the diaspora, who built the wealth of enslavers for generations. Specifically, ancestors of African descent. We honor your life and labor. Reparative Justice, that positively transforms our communities is our commitment.

We Are Family is South Carolina’s oldest nonprofit that provides life-affirming and life-saving programs for LGBTQ+ young people that have a lasting and measurable impact, with a focus on those who are BIPOC and/or low-income.

WE MUST VOTE is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization working to empower communities through civic participation and education. We are dedicated to increasing voter engagement, knowledge, and registration, especially in rural areas. Additionally, we are committed to supporting justice-impacted individuals in their reintegration into society by providing access to voting information and advocacy for their rights. By fostering an informed and inclusive democracy, we aim to create a fair and just society where every voice is heard, and every citizen can actively participate in shaping their future.

We are a movement for liberation, rooted in progressive Christianity and born in West Virginia. We follow the call of Jesus and the prophets to dismantle systems of oppression, speak truth to power, and move beyond acts of charity to practices of solidarity with people who have been historically excluded by Empire. We build power among people of faith and provide a platform for collective action, focusing primarily on racial and queer justice.

The mission of the Westside Sponsoring Committee is to develop relationships across the lines that have divided our community – the lines of race, political affiliation, denomination, geography, to strengthen the leadership capacity and effectiveness of our community members, and to take action on concrete issues to improve our community’s quality of life.

Our world is changing rapidly, and so are the needs of women. As Christians, we must be relevant to those we want to reach. Women of Purpose, a women’s ministry of the Abiding Word Ministries, emphasizes the unlimited opportunities open to women for ministry in churches and their respective communities. Our motto is that “Every woman should be ministered to according to her need, and every born-again woman should be encouraged to find her place of ministry within the body of Christ.”

Women Watch Afrika, (WWA) is a non-profit, grassroots, international, national, and local social justice organization focused on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls, the promotion of social and economic development and health equity of women, and the acculturation of immigrants and refugees (men and women) arriving to the United States from 23 African nations. In line with its goal, Women Watch Afrika provides Social Services; Civic Engagement; Voter Registration; Advocacy; Health and Legal Education; Know Your Rights workshops; Citizenship Preparation; Legal Services; Domestic Violence/FGM Prevention classes; Reproductive Rights Education; and Advocates against unjust, discriminatory laws that affect our community. It was established in November 1994 in Dakar, Senegal; and was established in Atlanta, GA in 1997 to address the unmet needs of underserved African refugee and immigrant population in Metro Atlanta and is located in DeKalb County that is h...

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