Grants List

Arab American Action Network // Chicago, IL

$40,000

Combines organizing, cultural tradition, and social services to engage members of the Arab American community in collective action and to build the power necessary to impact the policies affecting their lives.

Arise Chicago // Chicago, IL

$40,000

Builds partnerships between faith communities and workers to fight workplace injustice through education, organizing, and advocating for public policy changes.

Center for Worker Justice of Eastern Iowa // Iowa City, IA

$40,000

Unites low-wage workers across race, ethnicity, and immigration status to promote and defend workers’ rights on the job, tenants’ rights to safe and affordable housing, just immigration policies, and more equitable communities.

Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center // Cincinnati, OH

$40,000
Mobilizes, educates, and organizes low wage and immigrant workers to achieve positive systemic change.

Citizen Action Education Fund // Milwaukee, WI

$40,000

Employs an integrated strategy of grassroots organizing, educational programming, earned media, civic engagement, and political lobbying to advance progressive solutions and shape the public and political debate around health care, economic development, climate equity and racial justice.

Common Ground // Milwaukee, WI

$40,000

A non-partisan group of ordinary citizens of Southeast Wisconsin, dedicated to identifying problems facing our community and implementing creative solutions.

Detroit Action Education Fund // Detroit, MI

$40,000

Seeks to be a union for Black and Brown Michiganders to build power and defend communities.

Faith Coalition for the Common Good // Springfield, IL

$40,000

A coalition of faith communities, community organizations and individuals working collaboratively for racial equity, civic engagement, a fair economy and participatory decision-making.

Faith In Indiana // Indianapolis, IN

$40,000

Equips people to influence Indiana’s decision-makers so that they have a voice in the policies that impact our lives, our families, and our entire communities.

Greater Cleveland Congregations // Cleveland, OH

$40,000

Aims to be a catalyst for systemic change, promoting public, private and civic sector actions to
strengthen and improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

Lugenia Burns Hope Center // Chicago, IL

$40,000

Develops the civic engagement of residents in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood, and other communities, through education, leadership development, and community organizing.

Michigan Faith In Action // Flint, MI

$40,000

Brings people of faith, institutions, and organizations together to build community and address the root causes and results of poverty, violence and division.

Missouri Jobs with Justice // St. Louis, MO

$40,000

Organizing Missourians to build transformative power for social, racial, and economic justice, through strong relationships rooted in justice, equity, and solidarity.

Missouri Workers Center // St. Louis, MO

$40,000

A statewide organization of low-wage workers dedicated to fighting racism and winning good jobs for all.

ONE Northside // Chicago, IL

$40,000

A mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites diverse communities. We build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold & innovative community organizing.

Southside Together Organizing for Power // Chicago, IL

$40,000

Builds people power by organizing Black, poor, and working-class community members in Woodlawn, South Shore, Greater Grand Crossing, Park Manor and all adjacent neighborhoods, to secure economic stability and advance human rights.

Tending the Soil // Minneapolis, MN

$40,000

Imagines a Minnesota where every human being, regardless of zip code, race, gender or other socioeconomic status, has the ability to thrive at home and work, and live without fear of discrimination or violence. 

Workers Center for Racial Justice // Chicago, IL

$40,000

Works to eliminate barriers to sustainable employment for Black workers, foster economic security for Black families, end over-criminalization in Black communities, and advance a pro-worker agenda.