Building A Movement Grantees

Applied Research Center
$ 75,000

The Applied Research Center (ARC) is a public policy institute working to build the racial justice arm of a larger social justice movement through research, advocacy and journalism. ARC investigates the hidden racial consequences of public policy initiatives, develops theoretical frameworks to decode racially charged debates, and works to increase the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop and win policy alternatives.
    http://www.arc.org/


Black Alliance for Just Immigration
$ 45,000

The Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) aims to engage African-Americans and other communities in challenging U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it.  BAJI's goal is to develop a core group of African-Americans who actively support immigrant rights and build coalitions with immigrant communities and immigrant rights organizations to further the mutual cause of economic and social justice for all.
    www.blackalliance.org/

California Newsreel-Unnatural Causes
$40,000

California Newsreel, now in its 39th year, is the country's oldest non-profit documentary production and distribution center.  Today, California Newsreel is the nation's most widely used source of acclaimed film and video on racial justice, especially African-American life and history. California Newsreel’s Unnatural Causes is a film series exploring America’s racial and socioeconomic inequities in health.
    http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/

California Impact of Proposition 209 Coalition
$50,000

The California Impact of Proposition 209 Coalition is a strategic working group of advocates, organizations, academics, scholars and students formed to initiate analysis on the statewide educational and economic harms resulting from the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996.
    http://www.impact209.org

Center for Community Change
$ 75,000

The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power.  Founded in 1968, the Center is one of the longest-standing champions for low-income people and communities of color.
    www.communitychange.org/

Center for Media Justice (formerly Youth Media Council)
$ 75,000

Youth Media Council (YMC) is a media strategy and action center dedicated to building a strategic and collaborative movement for justice by strengthening the media strategy, capacity and action of organizations working for racial and economic justice in California and beyond.
    www.youthmediacouncil.org

Center for New Community
$ 60,000

Committed to building community, justice, and equality, the Center for New Community works nationwide to cultivate civic life and advance systemic change, in partnership with local leaders, organizations, congregations, and other institutions.  The Center effects racial justice and long-term systemic change through implementing strategic research, rapid response and field organizing commitments undertaken with organizations and communities in states strongly impacted by immigration.
    www.newcomm.org/


Center for Third World Organizing
$40,000

The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) provides training, strategic campaign development, and analysis to grassroots organizers in communities of color in the United States. CTWO has helped further the political participation and organizing efforts of hundreds of individuals and organizations working in communities of color across the country.
    www.ctwo.org/

Critical Resistance
$ 50,000

Critical Resistance is a member-run and -led national organization seeking to build an international movement to end the prison-industrial complex and its encroachment into virtually every area of daily life.  Critical Resistance focuses on reducing our reliance on imprisonment, shifting public opinion, and leadership development.
    www.criticalresistance.org

Equal Justice Society
$ 75,000

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) seeks to make critical thinking and progressive law the dominant paradigm within the law and policy formation.  This would lead to more socially responsible public institutions as well as a more engaged public with the intention of dismantling structural racism and promoting racial healing. EJS seeks to reshape jurisprudence, ensuring that the rights of all are expanded, rather than diminished, by our courts and policy makers.
    www.equaljusticesociety.org

Justice Now
$ 50,000

Justice Now partners with women in prison to challenge violence against women and to stop imprisonment.  In addition to policy advocacy and direct services, Justice Now finds innovative ways of combining cultural and media work to give people in prison a public voice in the movement to create a safe, compassionate world without prisons.
    www.jnow.org

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco
$ 50,000

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area uses a full range of legal techniques including litigation, preventive counseling, and administrative advocacy and oversight to advance the rights of people of color, poor people, immigrants and refugees, and other under-represented groups and individuals, while maintaining its historical commitment to providing legal advocacy for African Americans. The Committee's programs focus in three priority areas: race, poverty, and immigration.
     http://www.lccr.com/


Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV) California Collaborative
$ 40,000

The Mobilize the Immigrant Vote! (MIV) California Collaborative is a multi-ethnic coalition of immigrant and anti-poverty organizations across the state committed to building the capacity of community-based immigrant organizations across California to do progressive movement-building and electoral organizing. More than 150 community-based organizations across California participate in MIV's statewide campaigns.
    www.mivcalifornia.org

Movement Strategy Center
$ 50,000

Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement.  They help individual activists develop as leaders, and help activists and organizations build broad, cohesive alliances across issues, constituencies and geographies.  MSC emphasizes the leadership of base-building groups working to address the needs of young people, low income communities and communities of color.
    www.movementstrategy.org/

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
$ 75,000

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.  NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists.
    www.nnirr.org/    

The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity
$ 40,000

The Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity (PRE) seeks to build the amount and effectiveness of resources aimed at combating institutional and
structural racism. PRE provides opportunities for grantmakers to learn about racial equity issues and strategies and apply them in their grantmaking.
PRE also seeks to increase the capacity, coordination, and effectiveness of nonprofits addressing racial equity.

    http://www.racialequity.org 

Poverty & Race Research Action Council
$ 60,000

The Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) works to generate, gather and disseminate research on the relationship between race and poverty, and to promote policies and practices that alleviate conditions caused by the interaction of race and poverty. PRACC also convenes advocates and researchers to encourage and further their collaboration on race and poverty issues, and supports social science research linked to local, state and national advocacy strategies.
    www.prrac.org


Speak Out - Institute for Democratic Education and Culture
$ 40,000

Speak Out is a national non-profit organization that educates, inspires and empowers young people to become activists for social justice.  Committed to social, political, cultural, environmental and economic justice, Speak Out encourages critical and imaginative thinking about domestic and international issues through artistic and educational forums nationwide.
    http://www.speakoutnow.org

Third World Majority
$ 60,000

Third World Majority (TWM) is a new-media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and their allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing. Through collaborations with other organizations, TWM supports organizing for social change and global justice in real, representational and virtual worlds where communities of color are centered in the production, distribution and educational processes.
    http://www.thirdworldmajority.org/

Wildflowers Institute
$ 40,000

Wildflowers Institute works with communities to strengthen their collective "will" and to help build a strong sense of identity and meaningful self-organized activities so that young people, families, and networks can achieve many of their personal, social, and cultural aspirations.
    http://www.wildflowers.org/

Women of Color Resource Center
$ 40,000

The Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well being of women and girls of color in the United States.  WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women of color across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class, sexual orientation, physical ability and age.
    www.coloredgirls.org/

World Trust
$ 25,000 World Trust is a non-profit educational and arts organization whose broad vision and mission is to support the development of collaborative, equitable and socially just communities. World Trust employs a mélange of artistic and technological applications that create and utilize media, art, music and movement as supportive strategies for transformative learning related to race, gender, class, sexual orientation and other forms of identity-based oppression.
     http://www.world-trust.org/