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The goal of Felony Murder Elimination Project is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law. FMEP believes in an equitable and proportionate justice system. They strive not only to bring an end to this draconian law, but to bring relief to those who are serving severe and manifestly disproportionate sentences by its use. They are committed to eliminating extreme sentencing in California, particularly the death penalty and life without the possibility of parole, through community outreach and organization, public awareness, comprehensive and accessible data, and legislative and political action.

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The goal of Felony Murder Elimination Project is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law. FMEP believes in an equitable and proportionate justice system. They strive not only to bring an end to this draconian law, but to bring relief to those who are serving severe and manifestly disproportionate sentences by its use.

Felony Murder Elimination Project

The mission of People's Action Institute is to advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people’s lives.

People’s Action Institute is a proud national network of 39 member-based, power-building organizations in 29 states with more than a million members and tens of thousands of national volunteers. They are from every background, speak many languages, and live in small towns, cities and rural areas. 

People's Action Institute

The Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People & Families Movement (FICPFM) is a network of over 50 civil and human rights organizations that are led by people who are living with criminal records, and their family members.

Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM)

Healthy and Free Tennessee is a network of agencies, organizations, and individuals working together to promote sexual health and reproductive freedom in the state of Tennessee.

Their organizational focus is on the intersections of racism, the criminal legal system, and reproductive justice. They fight to improve access to reproductive health care for marginalized communities and fight punitive policies that seek to criminalize reproductive outcomes.

Healthy and Free Tennessee (fiscally sponsored by NEO Philanthropy)

The Electoral Justice Voter Fund, of the Movement for Black Lives, marshals a cross-issue, transnational Black electoral-justice movement by building networks of local organizers and partners encompassing accountability, interventions, dismantling, and building anew.

The Electoral Justice Project (project of M4BL at Common Counsel Foundation)

The Center for Working Families (CWF) Fund at Tides Foundation supports economic fairness, racial justice, gender equity, climate sustainability, public safety and decarceration, and a democracy that is responsive to the needs of the many—not the greed of the wealthy and powerful few.

Center for Working Families Fund (fiscally sponsored by Tides Foundation)

Community Movement Builders (CMB) is a Black member-based collective of community residents and activists serving Black working-class and poor Black communities. CMB emerged out of a need to respond to encroaching gentrification, displacement and over-policing. CMB organizes to bring power to Black communities by challenging existing institutions and creating new ones that our people control.

Community Movement Builders

The mission of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) is to provide direct support to Asian and Pacific Islander (API) prisoners and to raise awareness about the growing number of APIs being imprisoned, detained, and deported.

Asian Prisoner Support Committee (fiscally sponsored by Chinese for Affirmative Action)

Creative Interventions provides vision, tools and resources to help anyone and everyone create community-based, collective responses to domestic, family, and sexual violence. The community-based approach centers those closest to and most impacted by harm, honors their expertise, and builds collective knowledge and power as the solution to violence.

Creative Interventions (fiscally sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs)

Movement for Family Power works to end the Foster System’s policing and punishment of families and to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported.

Movement for Family Power (fiscally sponsored by Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs)

The vision of African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is to have a world where all African women live in peace, with dignity and justice and where there is equality and respect for women’s rights. Their mission is to mobilise financial, human and material resources to support initiatives for transformation led by African women, women’s rights organisations and African women’s movements.

African Women's Development Fund (fiscally sponsored by Arican Women's Development Fund USA)

The Maria Fund envisions a Puerto Rico where we recognize ourselves as free, interdependent people who are interconnected among ourselves and with the rest of the world. We believe in and want to see a Puerto Rico liberated from colonialism, one that is diverse, plural, and horizontal and where public decisions reflect the will of our people. The mission of María Fund is to catalyze and support the growth of a network of movement leaders and organizers connected to groups/organizations with a shared nation-building vision and analysis to transfer wealth and power to the people of Puerto Rico.

The Maria Fund envisions a Puerto Rico where we recognize ourselves as free, interdependent people who are interconnected among ourselves and with the rest of the world.

Maria Fund (fiscally sponsored by Tides Center)

Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) is a philanthropic organization with a mission to cultivate and mobilize resources in support of girls* of color. G4GC's mission is to resource and support transformative organizing work that dismantles systems of oppression in the U.S. and territories is founded on an infrastructure that reflects our values, a culture of partnership, healing, reciprocity, and love.

Grantmakers for Girls of Color (fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)

Women’s Foundation California is a statewide, public foundation dedicated to achieving racial, economic, and gender justice by centering the experience and expertise of communities most impacted by systemic injustice.

Women's Foundation California

PODER’s mission is to organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just. PODER nurtures everyday people’s leadership, regenerates culture, and builds community power.

PODER’s mission is to organize with Latinx immigrant families and youth to put into practice people-powered solutions that are locally based, community led and environmentally just.

¡PODER! (fiscally sponsored by the Tides Center)

Equality Labs is an Ambedkarite South Asian power-building organization that uses community research, political base-building, culture-shifting art, and digital security to end the oppression of caste apartheid, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Through these methods, we provide practical tools for communities to make new interventions in longstanding systems of oppression and advocate for themselves. 

Equality Labs (fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas)

The Collective Future Fund brings together social justice movements, survivors, and donors to heal, resource, and mobilize to shape a collective future free from all forms of patriarchal violence.

Collective Future Fund (fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)

The Black Trans Fund is a groundbreaking endeavor: the first national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting and resourcing Black trans social justice leaders. BTF seeks to address the lack of funding for Black trans communities in the U.S. through direct grantmaking, capacity building support, and funder organizing to transform philanthropy.

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Black Trans Fund (a project of Groundswell Fund)

Free Hearts, founded in 2016, is a Tennessee state-wide organization led by formerly incarcerated women that provides support, education, and advocacy in organizing families impacted by incarceration, with the ultimate goals of reuniting families and keeping families together.

Free Hearts (fiscally sponsored by The Praxis Project)

Movement Voter Fund supports grassroots movements working to expand multiracial democracy by building power in Black, Latinx, AAPI, Native, immigrant, LGBTQ+, Muslim, and other communities.

Movement Voter Fund (fiscally sponsored by Tides Foundation)

Black Feminist Future (BFF) is a political hub focused on the dynamic possibilities of galvanizing the social and political power of Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people towards liberation. BFF does this by building and nourishing the leadership of fierce Black feminists, fortifying aligned organizations and movements, and shifting cultural norms.

Black Feminist Future

The first global institution of its kind, Black Feminist Fund is ambitiously funding movements doing powerful, transformative, and intersectional work. Black Feminist Fund supports movements that are fighting against systems of oppression and building another world that is affirming of Black women and gender expansive people.

Black Feminist Fund (fiscally sponsored by Freedom Inc.)

In partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union, Inc. (ACLU), the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation engages in a broad range of work to protect civil liberties, including litigation and public education efforts.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU)

A La Defensa is the Collective Action Fund (CAF) of La Defensa, both of which work to transform California’s punitive systems through public education and community empowerment to decarcerate California and bring loved ones home. A La Defensa acts as a fiscal sponsor for issue-aligned coalitions in the Los Angeles area.

A La Defensa (Fiscally Sponsored by Tides Foundation)

The Solutions Project funds and amplifies grassroots climate justice solutions created by Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and other people of color or women- led organizations across the US. 

Photo Credit: Maya Lilly, The Years Project

The Solutions Project funds and amplifies grassroots climate justice solutions created by Black, Indigenous, immigrant, and other people of color or women- led organizations across the US.

The Solutions Project

Momentum Community is a training institute and movement incubator committed to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice. Momentum gives grassroots organizers the tools to build social movements that shift the terrain under policymakers’ feet.

Momentum Community is a training institute and movement incubator committed to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

Momentum Community

Women’s Media Center is an inclusive and feminist organization that works to raise the visibility, viability and decision-making power of women and girls in media, thereby ensuring that their stories get told and their voices are heard.

Women's Media Center

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South, working with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, language justice, participatory research, cultural work, and intergenerational organizing, Highlander helps create spaces where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South, working with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny.

Highlander Research & Education Center

Seventh Generation Fund is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations. Seventh Generation Fund focuses on cultural revitalization, leadership development, tribal sovereignty, and culturally appropriate economic development.

Seventh Generation Fund is dedicated to Indigenous Peoples’ self-determination and the sovereignty of Native nations.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples, Inc.

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, RJOY, interrupts cycles of violence and incarceration by promoting restorative justice practices and policies in schools, communities, and the juvenile justice system.

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY)

Prism uses in-depth, thought-provoking journalism to reflect the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice. Prism is an independent, nonprofit newsroom led by journalists of color who tell stories that disrupt harmful narratives and inform movements for justice.

Prism Reports, Inc (d.b.a. Prism)

OLÉ is a grassroots member organization working to advance racial equity, using issue-based campaigns and electoral engagement to ensure that working families are playing a critical role in shaping New Mexico’s future, with a united voice.

OLE Education Fund

Network on Women in prison (or Legal Services for Prisoners with Children) organizes communities impacted by the criminal justice system and advocates to release incarcerated people, to restore human and civil rights and to reunify families and communities.

Network on Women in Prison (dba Legal Services for Prisoners with Children)

Survived & Punished is a prison abolition organization that focuses on criminalized survivors to raise awareness about the integrated relationship between systems of punishment and the pervasiveness of gender violence.

Photo Credit: Sarah-Ji Rhee

Survived & Punished is a prison abolition organization that focuses on criminalized survivors to raise awareness about the integrated relationship between systems of punishment and the pervasiveness of gender violence.

Survived and Punished (Fiscally Sponsored by Allied Media Projects)

Right To The City Alliance works to halt the displacement of low-income, Black, Indigenous, and people of color, LGBTQ communities, and youth of color and protect and expand affordable housing in tandem with a broader movement to build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.

Right To The City Alliance

The Southern Movement Assembly addresses the region’s biggest systemic challenges through organizing and asserting bottom-up people power to build shared power, expand democracy, and protect frontline communities from violence in all its forms.

Southern Movement Assembly (Fiscally Sponsored by Project South)

The New Breath Foundation offers hope, healing, and new beginnings for Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander (AANHPI) new immigrants and refugees, people impacted by incarceration and deportation, and survivors of violence.

New Breath Foundation

Native Voices Rising – a research, donor education, re-granting, and capacity-building project – serves as a mechanism to build broad-based philanthropic support for grassroots groups led by and for Native communities and to amplify Native voices elevating indigenous solutions to historic harms and society’s most pressing issues.

Native Voices Rising (Project of Common Counsel Foundation)

PICO California’s mission is to catalyze faith-based and spiritually-centered people power in California to create systemic change for the most vulnerable so that all Californians thrive.

Photo Credit: Faith in Action Bay Area

PICO California’s mission is to catalyze faith-based and spiritually-centered people power in California to create systemic change for the most vulnerable so that all Californians thrive.

PICO California

The work of Project South, founded as the Institute to Eliminate Poverty & Genocide, is rooted in the legacy of the Southern Freedom Movement and has a mission to cultivate strong social movements to contend with the most pressing social, economic, and political problems facing the South.

Project South (Institute for the Elimination Poverty & Genocide)

The Native Organizers Alliance (NOA) is dedicated to building the organizing capacity of tribes, organizers and community groups for transformational policy change.

Native Organizers Alliance (Fiscally sponsored by Alliance for a Just Society)

One Arizona works to improve the lives of Arizonans, especially people of color and young people, by building a culture of civic participation.

One Arizona

SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization whose purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities.

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective

The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls is committed to abolishing incarceration for women and girls.

National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

Piper Fund, an initiative of the Proteus Fund, connects and resources grassroots organizations dedicated to protecting our democracy and envisioning reforms to make it more inclusive and representative.

Piper Fund (a project of Proteus Fund)

The Southern Vision Alliance supports leadership development and base-building work for social, racial, and environmental justice, along with gender equity, LGBTQ rights, and education justice in the US South.

Southern Vision Alliance

Our Children’s Trust is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate.

Our Children's Trust

The Texas Organizing Project Education Fund (TOPEF) engages Black and Latino communities in the three largest metro areas in Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) through year round community organizing, leadership development, and civic engagement along a multi-issue agenda including: quality schools, access to healthcare, family-sustaining wages, benefits and job training, neighborhood infrastructure, housing justice, climate justice, criminal legal reform and immigrants’ rights.

Texas Organizing Project Education Fund

After more than a century, Planned Parenthood remains a trusted source of vital reproductive health information and services for everyone — no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn. Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) conducts public education, policy analysis, and litigation in response to threats to reproductive health and rights and provide research, training, and technology to ensure that Planned Parenthood affiliates can continue to deliver high-quality health care in communities nationwide. 

After more than a century, Planned Parenthood remains a trusted source of vital reproductive health information and services for everyone — no matter who they are, where they live, or how much they earn.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

SPARK builds leaders to engage and educate communities in shifting power, shifting culture, and uplifting Black Women and Queer and Trans Young People of Color by engaging Black Women and QTYPOC through programs, actions, initiatives and health advocacy efforts.

Spark Reproductive Justice Now Inc

Led by formerly incarcerated women, Operation Restoration’s (OR) mission is to support women and girls impacted by incarceration to recognize their full potential, restore their lives, and discover new possibilities.

Operation Restoration

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE) builds grassroots power to create social and economic justice for low-income, female, immigrant, black, and brown communities in Los Angeles.

Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE)

TGI Justice Project is a group of transgender, gender variant and intersex people–inside and outside of prisons, jails and detention centers–creating a united family in the struggle for survival and freedom.

TGI Justice Project

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) works for the respect, recognition, and rights for the nearly 2.5 million nannies, housecleaners, and home care workers who do the essential work of caring for our loved ones and our homes.

National Domestic Workers Alliance

Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA) places health and justice at the center of public policy, elevating the expertise of health care professionals to support transformative, community-led movements for environmental justice and nuclear disarmament.

Physicians for Social Responsibility Los Angeles (PSR-LA)

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice (Latina Institute) builds Latina/x power to fight for the fundamental human right to reproductive health, dignity, and justice- envisioning a society where Latinas/xs and their descendants are thriving regardless of their race, gender, environment, sexual preference, economic status, physical, mental, or linguistic abilities, and where they are free to make decisions about their own bodies and families.

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

RISE Together Fund, an initiative of the Proteus Fund, works alongside impacted communities to advance their civil rights, fight for full inclusion, and promote their contributions to democracy, culture, and society.

Rise Together Fund (a project of Proteus Fund)

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, impact investing, capacity-building and narrative change for sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms.

NDN Collective Inc.

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America works to create a just, thriving food system by partnering with those on the front lines — community-scale farmers, farmworkers, rural families with young children, Native peoples — to tackle the health, economic and environmental problems created by industrialized, chemical-intensive agriculture.

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America

SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing.

Southerners On New Ground (SONG)

Restoring Justice For Indigenous Peoples works to expose and address the disparities of California Indigenous people, especially women and youth in the carceral system using traditional and cultural lifeways and practices, community organizing and advocacy.

Restoring Justice for Indigenous Peoples (fiscally sponsored by Peace Development Fund, Inc.)

The Afiya Center transforms the lives, health, and overall wellbeing of Black womxn and girls by providing refuge, education, and resources to ignite the communal voices of Black womxn resulting in their full achievement of reproductive freedom.

The Afiya Center

SpiritHouse is a Durham-based cultural organizing non-profit organization that uses art, culture and media to support the empowerment of communities most impacted by racism, poverty, gender discrimination and the school to prison pipeline.

SpiritHouse (fiscally sponsored by Alternate Roots, Inc.)

Success Stories is alternative to incarceration that builds safe communities by delivering transformational feminist programs to people who have been caused harm.

Success Stories Program

IGNITE is building a national movement of diverse young women who are ready and eager to own their political power. Young women have unique knowledge of societal issues, having lived them, yet few are granted the opportunity to build their power. IGNITE's work nurtures this ability in every Gen Z woman, so each gains the skills, tools, and relationships to alter the shape of American democracy for the better, for generations. 

IGNITE is building a national movement of diverse young women who are ready and eager to own their political power. Young women have unique knowledge of societal issues, having lived them, yet few are granted the opportunity to build their power

Ignite

Justice for Migrant Women aims to ensure that all migrant women are guaranteed human and civil rights.

Justice for Migrant Women protects and advances migrant women’s rights through education, public awareness and advocacy.

Justice for Migrant Women (fiscally sponsored by Hispanics in Philanthropy)

The Kindred Collective is a network of grassroots energy, body and earth based healers, and medical practitioners seeking to create mechanisms for wellness and safety that respond, intervene and transform conditions of generational trauma and violence.

Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective (fiscally sponsored by Project South)

Leadership Counsel fundamentally shifts the dynamics that have created the stark inequality that impacts California’s low income, rural regions through community organizing, research, legal representation, and policy advocacy.

Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

VOTE is a grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people, their families and their allies, dedicated to restoring the full human and civil rights of those most impacted by the criminal (in)justice system.

Voice of the Experienced (VOTE)

MediaJustice is building a powerful grassroots movement for a more just and participatory media —fighting for racial, economic, and gender justice in a digital age.

MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice)

The Trans Justice Funding Project is a community-led funding initiative that supports grassroots, trans justice groups run by and for trans people organizing around their experiences with racism, economic injustice, transmisogyny, ableism, immigration, incarceration, and other intersecting oppressions.

Trans Justice Funding Project (fiscally sponsored by Tides Foundation)

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. Grist's goal is to use the power of storytelling to illuminate the way toward a better world, inspire millions of people to walk that path with us, and show that the time for action is now.

Grist Magazine, Inc.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent and humane.

The Marshall Project

CRPE is a national environmental justice organization providing legal, organizing, and technical assistance to grassroots groups in low-income communities and communities of color to achieve environmental justice and healthy, sustainable communities.

The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (CRPE)

The Drug Policy Alliance envisions a just society in which the use and regulation of drugs are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights, in which people are no longer punished for what they put into their own bodies, and in which the fears, prejudices and punitive prohibitions of today are no more.

Drug Policy Alliance

Color Of Change helps people respond effectively to injustice in the world around us. As a national online force driven by 7 million members, we move decision makers in corporations and government to create a more human and less hostile world for Black people, and all people. Until justice is real.

Color of Change Education Fund Inc.

Common Justice develops and advances solutions to violence that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.

Photo credit: Emilce Quiroz, graphic designer; Justin Essah, photographer, Analise Benevides, photographer, Sergey Filiminov, photographer

Common Justice, Inc.

Community Change builds the power of low-income people, especially people of color, to win changes on the issues that impact their lives. By fusing the power of organizing, ideas, and politics, Community Change fuels bold and enduring movements that win big.

Community Change

Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty by building a community institution that involves thousands in creating, influencing and changing public policy.

Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. CJA's translocal organizing strategy and mobilizing capacity is building a Just Transition away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and towards resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. CJA believes that the process of transition must place race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to make it a truly Just Transition.

Climate Justice Alliance

Demos pioneers bold progressive ideas, reinforces them with original research and analysis, and equipts grassroots partner organizations to move them into practical reality.

Demos

Freedom to Thrive’s work centers around combating crimmigration– the intersection of criminal-legal and immigration enforcement– using a Pro Black, gender-affirming lens.

Freedom to Thrive

The Green New Deal Network is a coalition of grassroots organizations, labor, and climate and environmental justice organizations growing a movement to pass local, state, and national policies that create millions of family-sustaining union jobs, ensure racial and gender equity, and take action on climate at the scale and scope the crisis demands.

Green New Deal Network Fund (fiscally sponsored by Tides Foundation)

GGJ is an alliance of 60+ US-based grassroots organizing groups comprised of and led by poor and working class multi-racial, Latinx, Black, Indigenous, Asian Pacific Islander, Arab, and white communities. GGJ works to strengthen movements for climate and gender justice, an end to the war at home and abroad and a Just Transition to a Feminist Anti-Racist Regenerative Economy. GGJ weaves and bridges together US-based groups and global social movements, and is taking that movement infrastructure to the next level by developing organizing schools and campaigns towards a Just Transition to a Feminist Anti-Racist Regenerative Economy.

Grassroots Global Justice

Essie Justice Group's mission is to harness the collective power of women with incarcerated loved ones to end mass incarceration's harm to women and communities.

Essie Justice Group

Grassroots International's mission is to connect people in the US with global movements that defend land, territory, water, food, seeds, and the earth. Collaboratively, Grassroots International addresses the root causes of injustice and oppression, and build alternatives that nurture human rights, ecological justice, and liberation. We do this through grantmaking, social action, and philanthropic leadership.

Grassroots International

Global Fund for Women envisions a world where movements for gender justice have transformed power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all. Their flexible funding meets urgent needs and invests in feminist movements for the long term to create change that will last for generations.

Global Fund for Women

Emergent Fund is a queer women of color-led, movement-aligned participatory grantmaker with intersectional, collective liberation values. We fund rapid response and emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and organizers of color with trust-based, no-string-attached grants. A nationally recognized philanthropy culture disruptor and praxis leader, Emergent Fund challenges power in who we fund as well as with how we fund. Our 100% women of color and Indigenous decision-making Advisory Council and our grantees all come from directly impacted communities committed to building movement and transforming crisis into change. Emergent Fund supports the work of communities under threat to build their own reality: the one that would emerge on the other side of crisis with a powerful new vision for what comes next.

Emergent Fund (fiscally sponsored by the Amalgamated Charitable Foundation)

The Detroit Justice Center (DJC) is a non-profit law firm working alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities.

Detroit Justice Center

The CLIMA Fund is a collaboration between Global Greengrants Fund, Grassroots International, Thousand Currents, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights — a like-minded community funding grassroots movements to cool the planet and build resilience around the globe. Working together, CLIMA gives influential funders a simple and effective way to invest in grassroots climate change movements. In short, CLIMA Fund mobilizes philanthropy by investing in on-the-ground leaders behind the most sustainable and effective solutions to our global climate crisis.

CLIMA Fund (fiscally sponsored by Thousand Currents)

Green 2.0 works to increase racial diversity on the staffs and boards of environmental foundations and NGOs. By gathering and reporting objective data on representation and diversity, Green 2.0 helps to ensure that the leadership of the environmental movement is as diverse as the problems it works to solve.