Learn more about the past and current projects and organizations that have received Sparkplug grants.
| Grant Cycle | Project or Organization | Summary | Amount | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Spring | Migrant Justice | Migrant Justice will adapt and implement the Building Dignity and Respect Program in the Vermont construction industry, improving labor and housing conditions for hundreds of immigrant construction workers and presenting a model for expansion to other regions and sectors. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Final 5 Campaign | The Final 5 Campaign works to build collective power with directly impacted youth as we organize to shut down all youth prisons in the state of Illinois. This year, we plan to host community events and other outreach activities to engage formerly incarcerated youth in strategic campaign work. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Material Aid and Advocacy Program | Funding will support education, base building, and organizing led by and for people who are unhoused in the Boston area in response to recent policy initiatives aimed at criminalizing homelessness and survival. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Independent Black Lives Matter Chapter of Charleston (CHS BLM) *** NOTE: We are independent & not a BLMGN chapter | The Lowcountry Black Action Assembly is a quarterly gathering that centers and amplifies Black voices in Charleston’s Tri-County area. Hosted by the Low Country Black Cultural Network and partners, we leverage arts, culture, and advocacy to build community power and push forward solutions to pressing local issues impacting Black residents | $5,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | McCall Plus Pride | Funding will help McCall+ Pride expand programming, strengthen leadership, improve safety, and build long-term infrastructure to increase our ability to meet the urgent needs of rural Idaho’s LGBTQIA+ community. At a critical growth moment, this support will deepen our impact and sustainability in an increasingly challenging political and social environment. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Rockaway Neighbors Helping Neighbors | Funds will support a participatory action research project led by public housing residents, to document the impact of living near an industrial site. This is part of our Let Us Breathe campaign, which organizes public housing residents to fight against environmental racism in our neighborhood and across the city. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | The Right to Freedom Network | This project empowers domestic workers and survivors of labor trafficking in South Florida through education, organizing, and advocacy. We will train peer educators, develop self-sustaining protection circles, and distribute educational materials to ensure domestic workers understand their rights and can collectively challenge exploitation. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Look2Justice | Look2Justice will expand its inside-out civic empowerment model through peer-led civic education for system-impacted youth; trauma-to-prison pipeline trainings for prosecutors; and a survivor-led coalition advancing healing-based justice. All efforts are powered by incarcerated and formerly incarcerated leaders organizing for systemic change and community-defined justice beyond the criminal legal system. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Put People First! OH (PPF-OH) | Put People First! OH organizes poor and dispossessed Ohioans across historic lines of division, uniting around human rights struggles. Connected to the National Union of the Homeless and the Nonviolent Medicaid Army, we are working to launch a statewide poor people’s organization to create lives of abundance for all. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Never Again Action | Never Again Action will use this funding to strengthen and implement our immigrant solidarity rapid response procedure. This procedure will provide a set of criteria for evaluating emerging crises and a structured process to determine what resources and support we can offer in response. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Black Hills Clean Water Alliance | BHCWA will strengthen grassroots resistance to radioactive uranium mining in the sacred Black Hills of Western South Dakota. Funding will support local organizers, hold workshops, create educational outreach materials, and mobilize rural, Indigenous, and low-income residents to defend clean water, aquifers, and sacred Lakota territory. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Cultivate Charlottesville | Funding supports Cultivate Charlottesville’s Urban Agriculture Collective, which grows and distributes 10,000 pounds of fresh produce annually to public housing residents. The project expands urban farm infrastructure - including a new greenhouse - and strengthens food access, equity, and grassroots leadership through staff-led outreach and community partnerships in marginalized neighborhoods. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Philly Families Delegation to Palestine | In summer 2025, families from Philadelphia will travel to the West Bank to connect with Palestinian youth, families, organizations, and grassroots initiatives. We will bring our experiences back to Philadelphia to help amplify the work and stories of Palestinians on the ground and expand our work for justice and liberation. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | The Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR) | The Immigrant Defense Line is a rapid response network, which intervenes in immigration enforcement in Rhode Island. Trained volunteer “operators” answer calls and trained volunteer “verifiers” confirm the presence of immigration officers, connect with impacted individuals and, depending on circumstances, activate a network of hundreds of supporters for direct action. | $7,695 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | Bienestar Collective | Bienestar Collective es una organización sin fines de lucro dirigida por Promotoras de Salud y CHWs. Usamos Educación Popular para apoyar cooperativas de trabajadoras que brindan ingresos justos, fortalecen comunidades y transforman los sistemas de salud pública hacia un liderazgo comunitario. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2025 Spring | The #AIRS (#Abolish Incarcerated Reality Shows) campaign | Your support will fund the #AIRS Campaign, covering salaries for advocacy work, community outreach, and events that raise awareness and demand media accountability. | $10,000 | Website |