Grant Partners


Proudly Announcing our 2022-2023 Grant Partners:
(for grants to be carried out in 2023)

 

ASODIGUA
(Asociación Para el Desarrollo  Integral de Guatemala Maya)
ASODIGUA is committed to strengthening the comprehensive development of the rural Mayan indigenous communities,  and eradicating extreme poverty in which they live.  They focus on education as a fundamental pillar in changing mindsets and attitudes, generating positive practices that favor full development of indigenous women.  
Sololá, Guatemala
www.asodigua.wordpress.com
2015-2017; 2019-2021

BADAEL
Badael fosters transformative justice as the foundation for real and sustainable peace in Syria, by supporting organic civil society development and promoting discourses and narratives within and around the Syrian context that are rights-based, pluralistic, inclusive and that facilitate holistic truth and understanding.  Badael is a growing NGO with a large vision and several ongoing programmes and research projects encompassing peacebuilding, conflict transformation, civil society, and women’s empowerment/rights.  We are supported them with general operating funds.
badael.org
2017- 2019; 2021, 2022

BLACKOUT COLLECTIVE
The BlackOUT Collective is a full-service, women-led, Black direct action collective that provides on the ground support, training, and opportunities for deep space visioning in communities that prioritize the liberation of Black people. They support grassroots organizations and campaigns in crafting strategies that address anti-Blackness, win policy reform, directly challenge unjust systems, and offer resilience-centered solutions. They work to build movement capacity by making sure people are highly-informed and well-trained while being grounded in theory and collective power.  Our support is for general operations.
Oakland, CA
https://blackoutcollective.org
2020-2023

CAMINOS DE ACCION
Caminos de Accion works in solidarity with Salvadorans to faciliate community organization in order to address locally identified challenges, including social, educational and health issues, with a focus on gender equality.  We will provide them with general operating funds, as well as funds for their Farming for the Future program.
Lander, WY
www.camino
sdeaccion.org

2013-2015; 2017-2019; 202, 2022

CLASSICAL UPRISING
Classical Uprising offers a bold rethinking of the classical music experience through immersive events, performances, and educational programs. Formed in 2020 as a merger between Oratorio Chorale and Portland Bach Experience, Classical Uprising is committed to community development, creative expression, inclusivity, lifelong learning, and artistic excellence.
https://www.classicaluprising.org/
2022

DARFUR WOMEN’S ACTION GROUP
Given its unique approach and high credibility among the served communities on both the national and international level, DWAG remains the only women-led, anti-atrocities organization in the field with focus on inclusion, empowerment and strengthening the voice of women. Therefore, in the next 3 years, DWAG’s top priority will be focusing on capacity building  for women both in the diaspora in the US and in Sudan and promotion of networking and alliance building, development of grassroots women movement, ultimately gearing up toward a unified women’s agenda for sustainable change in Sudan.
Washington, DC
www.darfurwomenaction.org
2017-2019; 2020-2022

FONDS POUR LES FEMMES CONGOLAISES (FFC)
FFC, the only women’s fund in this country,  is working to build communities in the Congo free from violence, where women and girls have rights to physical integrity and economic justice; where women participate in all levels of decision-making that affect their lives and communities. FFC is not only a funder of smaller CSOs but also serves to strengthen the technical and administrative capacity of beneficiary organizations.  We are supporting FFc with general operating funds.
Kinshasa, DRC
www.ffcrdc.org
2013-2015; 2021, 2022

FREEDOM LODGE, INC
For the healing and wellness of all indigenous people;   Freedom Lodge and The Black Hills Historical Trauma Research & Recovery Center has changed the conversation about health, healing and recovery in South Dakota and across Indian Country. We believe that each of us has a role to play in the health of tribal nations and Mother Earth. Each of us has wisdom and a contribution to make through a deep remembering of who we are.  Rapid City, SD
https://freedomlodge.org/
2022

GRASSY NARROWS WOMEN’S DRUM GROUP 
The focus of the Grassy Narrows Women’s Drum Group is to bring awareness to  local communities, as well as to the international community, about their ongoing struggle to protect the land, water, air, wild plants/animals and the Anishinabee (the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation).  
Grassy Narrows, Ontario, Canada
freegrassy.net
2015-2017; 2018-2020; 2022

ITINERANT UNIVERSITY OF HAITI
The mission of the Itinerant University of Haiti  (UNITE in their Spanish and Kreyol acronym) to help Haitians – especially Haitian women – break free from their literal and figurative island.  Their work addresses the problems of (a) mining and other damaging megaprojects; (b) Haitians’ historic and devastating isolation from Latin American movements; (c) the exclusion of Haitian women from political processes, both at the grassroots and nationally.  We will support their new women’s program, addressing the set of barriers that Haitian women face in being actors in movements for change.
Chiapas, Mexico and Haiti
no website yet; 
UniversityofResistanceinHaiti@gmail.com
2021, 2022

LOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE
For more than 20 years, the women-led Louisiana Bucket Brigade has partnered with communities just a fenceline away from industrial sites that pollute air, water and soil. Week after week, they are in these neighborhoods, helping residents amplify their voices and overcome challenges to create a healthier, pollution-free future.  For the past four years, their work has been focused on St. James Parish, the site of seven proposed facilities, including Formosa Plastics, South Louisiana Methanol, YCI and Syngas. Their primary frontline partner in this effort is RISE St. James, an organization led by African American women whose homes and ancestral land are slated to be brutally transformed into a petrochemical industrial zone.   We are supporting their general operations.
New Orleans, LA
https://labucketbrigade.org
2020-2022

MEDICINE BOWL
Medicine Bowl’s mission is to heal our relationship with the planet, the land and one another.  It is a relationship fueled queer and trans, Black and Indigenous led land-based strategy for liberation.  They are a constellation of organizers, farmers, medicine people and land stewards who believe they can nourish, feed, house & build alternative structures for for our communities and ourselves.
Western NC
https://www.medicinebowl.org/
2022

NUEVA ESPERANZA
The mission of the Salvadoran General Circle (El Salvador Based) is to heal ourselves and our communities from some of the deep wounds of systemic violence, by building and nurturing a sisterhood of transformative community leaders through formal and informal praxis-based education in healing, peacebuilding, and group facilitation. The mission of the Decolonized Relationships Circle (US-based) is to support young women in healing themselves and their communities from the deep wounds of systemic violence, by encouraging North American communities responsible for a great deal of this violence to channel resources towards the healing and resiliency building efforts deemed most effective by the community-based, Salvadoran team.  We are supporting their first salaried team member based in El Salvador.
Indiana and El Salvador
nuevaesperanzascholars.org
2021, 2022

OMID FOUNDATION, USA
The Omid Foundation strengthens the social, emotional, gender, educational, and economic competencies of marginalized young women in the Persian speaking world, providing them with opportunities to experience a full range of life options through self-empowerment, counseling, education, and training, so that they can overcome the traumas of their past, and not only rebuild their own lives but also play an important role in the transformation of the world around them.  We are supporting their program to improve the reproductive health  competencies of marginalized young women in Afghanistan.
Maryland, USA
https://omidfoundation.com
2018; 2021, 2022

OUR INDIGENOUS LIFEWAYS
Our Indigenous Lifeways is women-led and serves & supports the Diné people living on Navajo Nation lands with over 356,000 enrolled members.  They invest in women-led programs and are a force for justice and community support, addressing cultural & intergenerational trauma and providing education on renewable resources, climate change, sustainability, social justice and financial/food literacy, as well as fighting the negative impacts from uranium mining.   Our funds will support them to educate their communities about the impacts of uranium, compensate their staff and purchase educational materials and supplies.
Gallup, NM
https://ourindigenouslifeways.org
2020-2022

OWE AKU
Owe Aku works to bring back the Lakota way of life which includes humanity’s role in nature:  all are a part of it, not outside of it, not having dominion over it.  Owe Aku’s projects address the root causes of social and environmental injustice and are based in, led by, and accountable to communities that are most impacted.  All of their organizing efforts have always focused on women’s leadership in environmental justice, racial justice & indigenous rights.   Projects include a school, media projects and direct action efforts.  Our support is going to their general operating expenses.
Manderson, SD
https://oweakuinternational.org/index.html
2020-2022

PASO PACIFICO
Paso Pacifico works to restore and protect the Pacific Slope ecosystems of Mesoamerica, including the endangered dry tropical forest, mangrove wetlands, and eastern Pacific coral reefs.  By working with local communities, landowners, and partner organizations, they restore and protect the habitats that form building blocks for wildlife corridors.
Ventura, CA & Managua, Nicaragua
https://pasopacifico.org
2019-2021

PASTORAL WOMEN’S COUNCIL (PWC)
PWC is women-led and focused and finds ways to support, mobilize, and enable pastoral women and girls to achieve better lives for themselves, their families, and their communities. They have a passionate membership base of over 6,000 pastoralist women.  PWC addresses the root causes of poverty, exclusion, and injustice by empowering women to engage in the development of their communities as equals using a rights-based approach. Our support will go to general operations, two secondary schools to improve facilities for COVID-19 prevention and core support for one of these schools.
Arusha, Tanzania
www.pastoralwomenscouncil.org
2016-2018; 2020-2022

UNITING RESILIENCE
We are a safe, supportive and empowering space for the Native Two Spirit LGBTQ+ community.  It has always been the journey of the Native American Two-Spirit LGBTQ to encourage our people to get along and to love one another. Uniting Resilience continues that mission in the public square and in national discourse through education and community organizing, while positively addressing the wrong that has been inflicted on Two-Spirit LGBTQ.
https://www.unitingresilience.org/
2022

WECAN (WOMEN’S EARTH & CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK)
is supporting action initiatives to create a collective voice, action base and movement of women from across the United States and the world concerning climate justice, demanding action on climate change, supporting trainings and climate solution projects, and providing opportunities for women on the frontlines of climate change to tell their stories of struggle and solutions.
Mill Valley, CA
www.wecaninternational.org
2017-2019; 2022

WHERE ALL WOMEN ARE HONORED
The mission of Winyan Wicayuonihan Oyanke, Where All Women Are Honored, is to shelter and advocate for the LGBQT+ community and victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, teen dating violence and sex trafficking by providing culturally relevant programs and community outreach which will contribute to social change through intervention, prevention, education and community awareness.  We are supporting their program for their elder women  to share traditional knowledge and culture with young women in the  Rapid City/Pine Ridge Indian Reservation community.
Porcupine, SD
(Find on Facebook.com)
2020-2022

WOMEN ENABLED INTERNATIONAL
WEI envisions a world where women and girls with disabilities claim human rights, act in solidarity, and lead self-determined lives.  We are supporting the newly launched US Alliance of Women, Nonbinary Persons, and Other Gender Minorities with Disabilities (the Alliance) to fill a need for a national, cross-disability entity to focus on raising voices and asserting rights at the intersection of gender and disability in the U.S.
Washington, DC
https://womenenabled.org/
2022