Learn more about the past and current projects and organizations that have received Sparkplug grants.
| Grant Cycle | Project or Organization | Summary | Amount | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 Fall | Mosquito Fleet PDX | Mosquito Fleet PDX centers sacred waterways as sites of resilience and resistance to climate injustice. Through strategic campaigning, movement-building, and a unique focus on democratizing access to public waters, we are helping to grow the frontline of a powerful, place-based movement for a fossil-free Rose City. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | HEARD | HEARD is launching a Movement Building program to meet current demand for workshops on ableism, disability justice, incarceration, and abolition. These workshops will be developed and offered in partnership with currently and formerly incarcerated deaf/disabled people. These offerings aim to foster disability solidarity with and within our communities. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | DecrimSexWorkCA(DSWCA) | DecrimSexWorkCA (DSWCA)aims to continue the necessary advocacy and policy change efforts after the vetoing of AB 1726 on October 8th, 2023. The vetoing of the bill represents a crucial opportunity to mobilize our members, community, and partners, and ultimately build equitable laws for our communities, mainly immigrant sex workers. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing - a program of the Center for Community Education | XITO and the Teach Palestine Project will offer a 3-day intensive field experience for educational leaders and K-12 teachers on settler colonialism, using the U.S.-Mexico border as a case study to compare the Palestine-Israel borders. Participants will develop decolonial, Ethnic Studies lessons that integrate settler colonialism and Palestine. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Hidden Voices | R3 is a community-based collaboration using story-sharing, portraiture, community gatherings, and restorative conversation circles to explore the challenges of rural reentry in four Tier 1 counties in NC and to build community education and engagement, capacity, and organizing tools for a new model of rural reentry support. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Bach Collegium San Diego | Bach Collegium San Diego will be creating the definitive recording of our commissioned piece, El Mesías: Handel's Messiah for a New World—the new and first ever complete Spanish translation of Handel's Messiah. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Laundry Workers Center | We seek funding to support and fuel our grassroots organizing, educational, base-building, leadership development, and systemic change work with our women and low-wage immigrant workers in New York City. This funding will support our Women’s Committee Mental Health Healing and Care workshops. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | All Of Us Community Action Group | The All Of Us Community First Initiative will enhance safety, economics, and educational opportunities within marginalized communities, showcasing their ability to flourish with support, resources, and civic engagement. Our project has an immediate positive impact in residents' lives and illustrates transformative power, combining access to information and community involvement. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Sông2Sea | We host community education programs in the spirit of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed to raise critical consciousness for poor and politically disempowered people. This has gained three times more participation since last year. The funding would help maintain and increase the educational quality we provide for more people. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Hindus for Human Rights | HfHR will expand initiatives unlocking the power of our community by focusing on healing collective trauma: a conversation series discussing polarizing topics in a safe space; a “Voices of Love” campaign connecting artists calling for peace to local events; and a bridge building program between Hindu and Muslim university students. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Black Families Love & Unite | Black Families Love & Unite (BLU) is hosting its 2024 Reparations Convening in partnership with the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law and Family Defense Practicum. Join us for in-depth discussions and explorations of reparations, community-building, and empowering ourselves against the harms of family policing. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) | Provide opportunities for isolated Palestinian scholars and their institutions to meet with US scholars to encourage exchange and joint projects, gain access to much-needed resources for Palestinian universities, and expand Palestinian opportunities to amplify their voices on US campuses, in US communities, among US scholars, and in US publications. | $11,700 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | The Colorado Springs Pro-Housing Partnership | The Colorado Springs Pro-Housing Partnership is a new organization working to build a housing-justice movement in Colorado Springs through grassroots organizing in low-income neighborhoods, apartment buildings, mobile home parks, and with the unhoused community. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | About Face: Veterans Against the War | Our program is designed to inform and train our veteran members on how to de-militarize their specific skill sets in order to meet the needs and requests of safety and security among our movement communities. As veterans, we hold specific skills in this area. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | Bushwick Housing Independence Project | This funding will be used to build a powerful multilingual tenants rights organizing movement in Bushwick in the post-pandemic era. The project aims to connect and support tenants to organize against landlord neglect, harassment, and abuse, and to link Bushwick tenants to city- and state-wide tenant advocacy campaigns. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Fall | The Vanguard Incarcerated Press of The People's Vanguard at Davis | The Vanguard Incarcerated Press publishes hard-hitting news and commentary from incarcerated persons depicting prison life, human rights issues, and commentary on the criminal legal system. We aim to expose some of the most forgotten corners of America’s criminal justice system and develop a community of prisoner writers. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | FARE | Food Access Raises Everyone | FARE will build a cross-city network of grassroots leaders who are working to address food apartheid in their respective neighborhoods. The network will create space for mutual support, collective advocacy, learning and innovation that will support these leaders as they identify solutions that support food justice in their communities. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | SOS Worcester | SOS (Self-Determination, Outreach, and Survival) is a collective of people experiencing homelessness and surviving the opiate pandemic, and their proven allies, based in Worcester, MA. We fight for survival and self-determination through mutual aid, direct action, and community building. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Encampment for Citizenship/Pesticide-Free Soil Project | The pesticide spraying campaign includes training parents (many of whom are farm workers) and junior and high school students on how to report pesticide drift as well as to advocate to the school board, city and state representatives and community members to eliminate toxic pesticide spraying near school sites. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Social Justice PolitiCorps | "Social Justice Where You Are" is the name of this campaign. We meet people where they are physically through our canvassing and online through an interactive experience that will guide people to the type of civic engagement that most works for them. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Wollman - Brea - Baitel Trio | The Wollman-Brea-Baitel Trio will commission five new works by composers from underrepresented racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds in order to start a conversation about the disconnect between the rhetoric of the U.S. (American Dream, Land of Opportunity, etc.) and the lived experiences of many Americans from marginalized groups. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Be A Hero Education Fund | Be A Hero is building a national grassroots base of healthcare consumers who will fight to make a more just, more equitable, and more humane health care system a reality in the United States. Through this project we will launch a new grassroots-powered campaign to protect Medicare from corporate greed. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Charlottesville Public Housing Association of Residents | PHAR will organize a tenant union in Crescent Halls; a public housing high-rise for predominantly Black seniors and people with disabilities. Residents were relocated for 18 months for rehab of their building and are now residents are eager to build a strong, supportive community organization to advocate for their rights. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Rawa Fund | This project supports Palestinian grassroots visions of a self-supportive, sustainable ecosystem for community work, liberated from donor conditions. Rawa will convene grassroots initiatives to “learn from the ground” at both a West Bank village with exemplary youth/community organizing, volunteerism, social solidarity, and community philanthropy, and a similar site in Gaza. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Capital Tea | Capital Tea is igniting Florida’s first and only Black Transgender Safety network and Safe House coordination plan. Our work mobilizes the Trans Community through deep relationship-building and strategic planning that will develop mutual aid circles and resource-sharing groups across the state and fill major gaps in income, wellness, and joy. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Land in Common | Land in Common is putting forward a statewide call for land redistribution. This work brings together many Black and brown communities working in solidarity, seeking gifts of land that will provide long-term housing, subsistence, and land connection for people of color in Maine. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | YA-YA Network | YA-YA's Action Committee organizers, ages 15-19, are helping school communities resist metal detectors installed by the NYPD. By protecting the rights of students to refuse scanning procedures, and collaborating with school staff, YA-YAs are helping replace carceral infrastructure with restorative justice and changing the narrative of what safety looks like. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition and Reconstruction | The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School seeks to make the promise of abolition—and the unfinished project of reconstruction—a reality, teaching young and formerly incarcerated organizers from communities impacted by police and mass incarceration across Philadelphia not only how to understand the world, but more importantly how to change it. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | People’s Justice Project | To provide intensive training, mentorship, resources, and support to PJP’s inaugural Relate, Organize, Act, Reflect (ROAR) Fellowship cohort, which will build capacity for sustainable, community-based leadership powered by Black/Brown people impacted by state-sponsored oppression while growing the scale of our work and depth of engagement with our Ohio communities. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | PODER Emma Community Ownership | PODER Emma seeks funding for part-time bilingual organizers to support ongoing community engagement and policy advocacy around the implementation of the 2023 Emma Community Plan (attached), which was developed through a participatory process. The organizers will also engage in outreach efforts to ensure an active, informed and strong community. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | UDW Resource Center | The UDW Resource Center is a new workers center that provides a space for direct care workers to develop their leadership, primarily in the private home care sector, and to organize themselves for better wages and working conditions and for social, racial, and economic justice.The UDW Resource Center (UDWRC) is | $10,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | Friends of Friendship Park | To stop the building of two 30-foot border walls in the San Diego/Tijuana area that will destroy theiconic location of Friendship Park. Stopping the walls is part of a long term effort to create a truly international park as is modeled at several parks across the US-Canada border. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2023 Spring | If Not Now Education Fund | The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) exploits Jewish fear to maintain unconditional US military funding for Israeli apartheid and divide progressive movements. IfNotNow is launching local campaigns across the country to make it clear AIPAC has no place in our Jewish communities. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Unity Circles | Unity Circles (UC) is building a Transformative Justice (TJ) Hub within Boston working towards the abolition of carceral systems. A new network of individuals and communities that center healing and transformation over punishment and crime, striving to build skills in order to replace cycles of violence with cycles of healing. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Maritsa | Funding supports the creation and launch of new work by Bulgarian-American musical artist Maritsa. Maritsa explores questions of belonging, inner transformation, combining intelligence and love, and making a difference through individual authenticity. Her vision is to artistically embody new perspectives of wisdom, drawing from the wisdom of her culture. | $11,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | National Students for Justice in Palestine | National Students for Justice in Palestine has prepared materials and refined internal structures to launch a new initiative: National Network. This will restructure the student movement to include a representative decision-making body, regional and national communication networks, and shared resources, unifying SJPs across North America for the first time. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Sol Underground | #SolutionsNotSweepsATL is a push for Atlanta to adopt a Housing First model to end the housing crisis, end the criminalization of poverty and support its poor, working class, and unhoused citizens and meet our first demand, housing justice. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project | Voz’s leadership school aims to deepen the pool of immigrant leadership in Oregon. Participants will learn how the political process works, key organizing skills like canvassing and actions, and leadership development. These new leaders will play key roles in the development of new advocacy efforts like enforcing workplace rights. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Calypsus Brass, inc. | Calypsus will commission, record, and perform works by emerging composers from diverse backgrounds. Our aim is to encourage equitable representation in chamber music by commissioning, recording, and promoting these new works. | $12,421 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions | Westchester Alliance for Sustainable Solutions works to end incineration and transition Westchester County, NY to zero waste. The county’s largest industrial air polluter is the aging Wheelabrator trash incinerator located in the predominantly Latinx and Black City of Peekskill, where they burn the county’s trash in this environmental justice community. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | First State Abortion Fund | In a post-Roe America, barriers to abortion access have increased. On top of new restrictions are existing barriers like an unsafe home, caring for additional children, and above all else - affordability. The First State Abortion Fund serves as a resource for abortion seekers previously depending on neighboring state funds. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Camden for Clean Air | We aim to close down the #1 air polluter in all of Camden City and County: the Covanta trash incinerator, which contributes to the health disparities we face in our environmental justice community. We’re organizing our city and municipalities throughout the county to steer trash away from the incinerator. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Urbe Apie, Inc. | Urbe Apie, Inc. is a BIPOC, low-income community organization in Puerto Rico working on the permanence of our community. We will use the funding to decide on an affordable housing and community ownership model, prepare outreach and presentation materials and create a solidarity and support network. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Kokua Na Aina (help the land) | Hawaii faces ongoing threats of incineration schemes (burning our trees, trash, sewage sludge, and recyclables) all in the name of "renewable" energy, as well as new plans to turn wastes into aviation fuel with toxic, polluting technologies. We’re working to stop these threats and promote clean energy and zero waste. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Reality Speaking Inc. DBA Reuniting Family Bail Fund | The Reuniting Family Bail Fund supports families who are fighting criminal cases. Through courtwatching, weekly meetings and case strategy, families are getting the best outcomes for their loved ones. Purely Speculation is a live biweekly broadcast hosted by directly impacted people telling their stories of triumph and trauma. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Poder Casas Móviles–a project of the Tucson Alliance for Housing Justice | Poder Casas Móviles–a project of the Tucson Alliance for Housing Justice–builds the power of Mobile Home Park resident leaders to defend their rights and to advocate for systemic change. We provide political education training, base building support, legal services training, and facilitation to support resident-led campaigns. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Chainless Change, Inc. (CCI) | Chainless Change will strengthen our CAMP organizing program through trainings for our team and organizers, most of whom are BIPOC. With a seasoned trainer, we will host workshops on campaign planning, tactics, power mapping, recruitment, communications, and security culture. We will also contract technical support to develop campaign infrastructure. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees | HWHR seeks support for research and organizing efforts to support advocacy to counter the fact that recently arrived Haitian refugees are put in a cruel and heartbreaking position: entering the country with no pathway to work-authorization and significantly restricted access to other resources forcing them to accept informal unprotected . | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Return Strong! | In the upcoming year, Return Strong will use a grassroots organizing model centered on “Envisioning a New Normal” based on the core belief that prison does not need to be dehumanizing as we build an expectation of restorative rehabilitation that is healthy, effective and focused on holistic wellness. | $12,500 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Saginaw Community Alliance for the People | Saginaw CAP is building capacity to complete several projects and serve the city of Saginaw through public advocacy, education, and empowering residents through civic engagement. Our main project- the United Power Training School- will develop and implement a curriculum to turn concerned citizens into powerful community advocates. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Equality for Flatbush | Alternatives to Calling 911 is a project by Equality for Flatbush (E4F) that is reducing contact, and therefore violent confrontations, between cops and BIPOC people in central Brooklyn and across the borough. E4F will build this project’s capacity by hiring a director, training responders, and designing a dispatch system. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Palestine Writes Literature Festival | Support for the second Palestine Writes Literature Festival, the only literature festival in North America dedicated to celebrating Palestinian literature and other cultural productions. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Fall | Far From Home Intiative | Our goal is to build a coalition of diverse people who use their voices and lived expertise to raise awareness of the collateral consequences and discrimination that public housing authorities (PHAs) have on communities of color. Far From Home (FFH) has taken significant steps since releasing the FFH report earlier | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | National Students for Justice in Palestine | NSJP will use Sparkplug funding to advance the creation of the first-ever Students for Justice in Palestine National Network via supporting the 2022 NSJP Steering retreat. This retreat is vital to our organization’s ability to plan, organize, and strategize the launch of the National Network project in the coming year. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | IntegrateNYC | Responding to COVID-19 and political changes in NYC, IntegrateNYC youth leaders designed and carried out a youth-led Listening Tour to hear students’ needs in school. Student leaders will compile, share and implement learnings from the Listening Tour into a youth-led campaign to advance the movement for school integration. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Palestine Resource Hub | The Palestine Resource Hub (PalHub) will deliver a curated, continuously expanding, user-friendly search engine & database of resources on Palestine including infographics, videos, articles, fact sheets, podcasts, primary sources, books, etc. PalHub will be fully filterable by type of resource, intended audience (ie. academic, general education),language, and topic. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | LunART Chamber Music Collective | The LunART Chamber Music Collective is a high octane group dedicated to performing music by women composers embodying LunART's mission of supporting and promoting women's creativity in the arts! This group produced a full-length album by women composers whose works were premiered at the annual LunART Festival 2022. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Arab American Action Network (AAAN) | The AAAN’s Youth Leadership Team’s (YLT's) Campaign to End Racial Profiling is a mass, community-based, direct-action campaign led by high school youth. It focuses on ending the tools and policies that federal, state, and local law enforcement use to target members of the Arab and Muslim communities of Chicagoland. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Visualizing Impact | Visualizing Palestine’s Outreach Program will explore new visibility opportunities of its data-led educational resources that advance a rights-based narrative on Palestine. The Outreach Program will focus on exploring different types of content, testing online and offline strategies to grow VP’s audience, and building a network of partners, influencers and members. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Youth Activism Project | Youth Activism Project’s (YAP) program Maryland Students for Educational Equity (MSEE) is a student-led movement to ensure all Maryland public schools are a liberatory space where all students, regardless of background, can build critical consciousness about the world around them and reach their full potential. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Xicanx Institute for Teaching & Organizing | XITO and the Teach Palestine Project will collaborate with K-12 teachers on the development of site-based Ethnic Studies curriculum that links US history and current reality to Palestine. We will also share grassroots organizing skills critical to strengthening the struggle for antiracist, decolonial and liberatory classrooms that include Palestine. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Firelands Workers United / Trabajadores Unidos | “Building Narrative Leadership in Rural WA” is a new collaborative project to develop grassroots narrative leaders and local media platforms to reclaim our story in the rural West by elevating the stories of rural workers uniting to build a just, resilient and green economy in rural WA state. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | SACA - Seattle Arts & Culture for Anti-racism | SACA exists to dismantle how white supremacy shows up in the arts and culture sector by advancing and supporting anti-racist learning, action and accountability in Seattle and beyond. SACA provides intersectional, anti-racist programming for 40+ regional organizations including monthly discussion groups, affinity groups, panels, workshops, and mutual aid. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | I'lam - Arab Center for Media Freedom, Development, and Research | “Shufo Ma’ana” is a platform which promotes the critical and active consumption of media among Arab students. It provides Arab students with educational and entertaining content when it is lacking in the education system in Israel, and provides them with practical tools to produce their own content. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Health Justice Commons | Health Justice Commons’ political education and leadership development work centers health and disability justice and exposes the Medical Industrial Complex’s oppressive histories and current practices. We bridge education and action by preparing new leaders, engaging in cross-sector movement building, and recruiting for our mutual aid project, the Radical Telehealth Collective. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice | Our organizers are implementing a new training curriculum that uses popular education to facilitate discussion and learning around voting rights history, U.S. governance, and the impact of civic engagement. Workshops will be conducted with Latinx, African, and Afro-Caribbean immigrant communities across the state. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Worcester Youth Cooperatives | Worcester Youth Cooperatives runs a peer-leadership program in which young people train one another in the skills and methods of organizing cooperative solutions to social issues they care about. In doing so, they form a community of practice demonstrating that youth are the PRESENT, not just the future. | $10,776 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Comunidades Enraizadas Community Land Trust, Inc. | Comunidades Enraizadas Community Land Trust (CE-CLT)resists displacement and builds power through community land ownership and permanent affordability. Funding from the Sparkplug Foundation will be used to support CE-CLT as we develop the infrastructure and capacity to acquire property, partner in development, and build a strong membership base. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | FANG Community Bail Fund | The FANG Community Bail Fund is seeking to prioritize the leadership and organization of formerly incarcerated people by paying them stipends to organize with us. We are also planning a mass bailout action, incorporating post-release support organizations to demonstrate our community’s ability to care for itself without prisons. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Tenant Education Network | Tenant Education Network (TEN) believes that tenant unions can be organized like labor unions, winining collective bargaining agreements with landlords, bringing power to the progressive movement. TEN is developing a webapp to support our organizing process, which combines rigorous documentation of issues with tried and true labor organizing tactics. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Shoruq Organization | The project aims to develop the knowledge, research and critical-thinking skills of refugee youth through various mediums, including open discussions and public debates. Also, to provide them with tools to analyze policies and assess their political, social implications, and prepare them to propose solutions that can improve their status quo. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2022 Spring | Teachers Unite | A project to win a multi-pronged advocacy campaign and grow student access to restorative, robustly staffed public schools. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Education and Training Institute Inc. (New Labor) | Wage theft clinic and training program designed to address the epidemic of stolen wages in low wage industries and to empower workers across industries, languages, and national origin to come together to organize beyond single wage theft cases and into system wide organizing campaigns that challenge division and win big. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Teens Take Charge | We will use this funding to build a new initiative that engages our program alumni in continued skill-building, advocacy, and career-oriented opportunities. We will hire three Teens Take Charge interns for two semesters (a total of 10 months), to provide support in operations and in programming. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Housing Justice League | Around 800 evictions are filed against tenants every week in Fulton County, Georgia. In response to this eviction crisis, these funds will be used to support our eviction defense programming. These programs include community discussion on our Tenant Bill of Rights, Canvassing in high-need neighborhoods, and mass direct mailing campaigns | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Tallahassee Community Action Committee | TCAC will use Sparkplug funding to improve the organizing power of its committees, introduce its People’s Budget to city commissioners, and produce and distribute its documentary. TCAC’s committees include the: Police Accountability Committee (PAC) Free Them All Committee (FTAC) LGBTQIA+ Committee Medics and Marshals Committee Progressive Parent-Teacher-Student Alliance (PPTSA) | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Grassroots Al-Quds | This project joins 9 partners working to promote tourism in marginalized Palestinian communities in Jerusalem, strengthening local economy and delivering the Palestinian perspective on the city. This is important within the colonial context where Israeli occupation propaganda in tourism systematically hides the Palestinian presence from the tourist experience here. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | PRISM Ensemble, Inc. | After going into hibernation due to COVID, PRISM choral ensemble is excited to reemerge with a concert celebrating revitalization and rebirth. This hour-long concert will feature early choral music of the Renaissance with a 17-singer conductorless, professional ensemble. | $6,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Camp Migizi | Camp Migizi seeks to become a permanent locale for training youth leadership, prioritizing Indigenous youth. Educators will provide crucial decolonization and land back workshops for Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, BIPOC, and queer community members, along with accomplices. Migizi will facilitate cross-generational and cultural sharing, deepening cultural connection and decolonized community building. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc. | Sparkplug Foundation funding will support the collaborative composition and performance of original music for Queendom. Written by artist-scholar Dr. Juhanna Rogers, Queendom is an interactive outdoor performative experience that explores the dream and possibility of reparations for Black Americans. Dr. Juhanna Rogers is writing and developing Queendom as a 2021-2022 visiting artist at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park. Grant funding will support Black artists composing and performing original music for this seminal work. Young composer, Ebun Oguntola will write three original songs. The premier of Queendom will unfold across 40 acres at Stone Quarry in the fall of 2022 with audience participation and follow-up conversations around the historical traumas and the realities of race, gender, and opportunity. Final performance dates are dependent on the status of COVID-19 and public gathering restrictions. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Pierce County GrassRoots Organizing | We are recruiting and training leaders from our community to address the greatest needs identified by our community: climate change and the environment. First step is to participate in an organizing training to gain skills, identify the goal and create a strategy. Second step is to implement. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Proyecto Faro | Proyecto Faro’s Count Every Kid Campaign develops leadership and builds power among immigrant students and parents who, because of racism and classism, have little power in school board decisions. We facilitate a stakeholders’ alliance, provide training and stipends for grassroots leaders, and work in coalition to galvanize winnable campaigns. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Hindus for Human Rights - USA | This grant will enable HfHR to strengthen and expand three initiatives tackling caste-based discrimination in the United States: a virtual conference, an essay contest for South Asian American students, and a public campaign about exploitation in the US-India temple building industry. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Elephant Circle | The comprehensive 2021 Colorado Birth Equity Bill Package establishes the Protection of the Human Rights of Pregnant People in the Perinatal Period. Elephant Circle is mobilizing community members to ensure facilities understand these new laws and increase access to reproductive healthcare and education for incarcerated people during the perinatal period. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | finEQUITY | finEQUITY advances the financial futures of those impacted by long-term incarceration. We co-create free financial justice tools with justice-impacted community members. Our New York State in-prison correspondence course will cover strategies for avoiding extractive financial services and first-hand experiences on navigating financial barriers after incarceration. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | School Board School | At School Board School, we are activating a diverse network of aspiring school board members and education advocates, and equipping them with the knowledge and network to drive systemic change. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition | Athens Immigrant Rights Coalition’s (AIRC) organizing work is centered around housing rights, driver's licenses for all, and higher education access for immigrant youth. We achieve this through coalition-building locally, state-wide, and nationally. AIRC serves to coordinate the actions of our coalition members and ally organizations to achieve maximum collective impact. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Missouri Workers Center | The Missouri Workers Center is organizing a multi-racial movement of low-wage warehouse workers in the St. Louis area to reverse a decade of decline in wages and working conditions driven by Amazon's race to the bottom in the rapidly expanding e-commerce sector. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Troy 4 Black Lives | T4BL is catalyzing movement for Black life by nurturing Black organizers, building critical mass and leading a coalition to increase police accountability and transparency. We’re igniting a new infrastructure for Black leadership by mentoring Black youth, hosting community events that offer healing, connection, education, and developing sustainable mutual aid networks. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Detroit Disability Power | DDP will lead a disability-focused power/landscape analysis in Michigan in partnership with a coalition of disability organizations. We will collect, analyze and synthesize information about decision makers’ values, priorities and commitments to disability rights. This will benefit our collective power, allowing us to chart paths to winning policy victories. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2021 Fall | Elmahaba Center | The funds will go towards building a Justice School to launch in the summer of 2022 that will be SWANA-centered and based in the South. Specifically, the funds will support the making of a dynamic curriculum and paying facilitators and speakers, while connecting SWANA peoples across the US. | $10,500 | |
| 2021 Fall | Dissenters | We will use the funding to support the expansion and further development of Dissenters’ leadership development program, which includes these five key elements: our training program, our coaching program, tool development, the introduction of a detailed ladder of engagement, and evaluation mechanisms as we scale. | $15,000 | |
| 2020 Fall | The Siraj Center | The purpose of the project is to conduct COVID-specific capacity building training so that local communities can again welcome tourists and thereby continue to raise awareness of the need to protect Palestinian environment, heritage and unique communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Nashville Sunrise Movement | The Nashville Sunrise Movement will organize a state-wide conference and training to strengthen existing and emerging Sunrise Movement hubs across the state of Tennessee and build necessary skills in youth activists to effectively combat climate change and fight for social justice. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | The Cooperative of the Prison Abolition Community | The Cooperative of the Prison Abolition Community is a collective of currently and formerly incarcerated people and allies in Connecticut working to join abolitionist organizing & political education to cooperative economics and the creation of community-led pathways for economic liberation. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Providence Student Union | Youth activists demanding the total removal of school resource officers in Providence Public Schools and the hiring of more mental health professionals. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Palestinian Youth Movement | This grant will support a retreat for members of our network of Palestinian and Arab feminists, at which we will collectively develop a strategy, implementation plan, and timeline for uplifting women’s voices and achieving gender justice in Palestinian and Arab American communities. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | alQaws | The Palestinian Queer Movement & alQaws History – An Archive Project is a multi-faceted organizational and community project that seeks to research and document the history and the personal narratives of the Palestinian Queer Movement and key figures that contributed to its foundation and leadership | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Gente Organizada | Gente’s Teach-In/Heal-In project is an intergenerational initiative that will train local parents and youth as organizers while promoting healing and grounding practices to help them sustain their work. | $12,300 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | The Women's Justice and Freedom Initiative | Through a new abolitionist grassroots campaign, WJFI will organize to close Vermont’s only women’s correctional facility, stop the state from investing in new prison construction and re-direct money to community-based alternatives to incarceration, mental health, housing, and public education. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Emergency Workplace Organizing Project | This grant would fund in-depth training cohorts, that will build on the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee's (EWOC) existing infrastructure to arm frontline workers with the skills and resources to organize for their demands and teach volunteers the skills to support workers’ organizing. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Parole Illinois | Leveraging Impacted People will engage the organizing, communication, and leadership skills of five impacted people whom we have recently trained, so as to advance Parole Illinois efforts to mobilize impacted communities while also cultivating new leaders. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | 350 Seattle | 350 Seattle’s Pledge of Resistance training series equips everyday people with the skills and knowledge to safely engage in peaceful direct action to build grassroots power and effect change. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Western Regional Advocacy Project-WRAP | The Legal Defense Clinic (LDC) Project is a crucial addition to our national House Keys Not Sweeps campaign. WRAP’s homeless-led member groups are partnering with legal service organizations to establish nationally-coordinated, locally-focused LDCs to end the criminalization of homelessness. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Kayan-Feminist Organization | Kayan will launch a social/digital media training program for Jusur Forum, women leaders of our grassroots Palestinian women’s activist movement, to build technical skills that will enhance their community organizing work and to encourage self-confidence and self-expression for Palestinian women. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Kalliope Reed Quintet | After one year together the Kalliope Reed Quintet creates their first album! Consisting of a diverse and eclectic collection of entirely original works, this album furthers their mission to expand and diversity the reed quintet repertoire and redefine the future of 21st century chamber music. | $8,500 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Northern Arizona Climate Change Alliance | This is a collaborative initiative between NAZCCA and Indigenous Vision to establish a reciprocal, ally partnership with Indigenous leaders in the northern Arizona frontline communities of the Navajo and Hopi Nations to strengthen our mutual climate justice and environmental agendas. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Our Climate Voices | In Conversation: A Listening Series on Climate Justice and Collective Liberation | $13,815 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Camp Equity | Camp Equity is a virtual camp where K-12 students explore social justice movements with on-the-ground leaders of impacted communities while also connecting with diverse - peers from around the country. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Equity Legal Services Inc. | This program will conduct damage assessments of Centreville residents' homes to ascertain the costs of repairs due to decades of storm water flooding and sewage overflows. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Collective Action for Safe Spaces | Collective Action for Safe Spaces’ (CASS) transformative justice hub is creating an ecosystem of community-based support that serves as an alternative to the criminal legal system for survivors of patriarchal violence. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | In Cultured Company | Provide experiences, facilitate workshops, and promote educational tools and resources that will address peace, conflict resolution, collaboration, healing, and dialogue for the Haitian and Dominican diaspora within the US in order to move from a divided past towards future. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Inner City Youth Tutoring Inc. | The Sparkplug grant will fund math and language arts manipulatives for students hands-on instruction during online in-home schooling and weekly tutoring to get the best education possible in this virtual school-age of teaching due to COVID. | $2,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Epsilon Spires | Epsilon Spires and the Zinn Education Foundation will host a curriculum-building workshop that will empower local educators and activists to teach Reconstruction, so their students may understand this historic movement toward racial equity and learn how to critically examine American history. | $3,100 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Parents Against Chid Detention | A social media and public action campaign targeted towards the Israeli public, regarding the oft-hidden issue of human rights violations suffered by Palestinian children arrested and in detention. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | Katal Centr for Health Equity and Justice | To produce a report about the impact of COVID-19 on individuals on parole and those re-incarcerated due to technical violations.The report will: a) highlight the racial disparities inherent in these practices; b) share personal stories from impacted people; and c) emphasize the need for reform in NY | $5,000 | Website |
| 2020 Fall | The Niles Foundation | 10 New Urban Agriculture Sites For Fresh Food Access & food Sovereignty! | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Serve Your City | The #DCMutualAid tutoring program will provide trained mentors to students in Ward 6 who are engaging in school via distance learning. Mentors will provide guidance on educational assignments as well as social connections via virtual meetings and pre-recorded video content. | $8,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Kassia Ensemble | Kassia Ensemble commissions renowned composer Judith Shatin to write Kassia’s Song, music for seven, the first ever piece for 2 violins, viola, cello, bass, harp and clarinet. | $6,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Hudson Catskill Housing Coalition | Hudson/Catskill Housing Coalition (HCHC) is a Black-led initiative that empowers public housing and low income residents to fight for housing justice. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Asian American Resource Workshop | South Asian young adult organizing training & COVID19 summer online organizing pilot | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Brandworkers New Jersey | With the support of the Sparkplug Foundation, Brandworkers NJ will connect food factory workers with organizing training to launch a first campaign for workplace justice. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Guy Mendilow Ensemble-GME | History and emotionality collide as The Forgotten Kingdom’s theatrically projected sand animation, riveting musical score, and radio-theatre stories bring to life a travelogue of an unraveling, multi-ethnic Ottoman world, as glimpsed through Ottoman Sephardi women’s songs and tales. | $12,500 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | University of Orange | We are raising awareness that Main Street in Orange, NJ, is threatened by a massive urban renewal plan that will displace working people and small businesses and destroy historic architecture. We are also promoting an alternate proposal, grounded in grassroots research and organizing. | $15,175 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Interfaith Peace-Builders dba Eyewitness Palestine | A delegation of Black DC Youth and Mentors to Palestine/Israel | $15,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Immigrant Worker Project | Work with community organizers to form committees to deal with workplace justice issues, especially safety issues. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Palestine Writes Literature Festival | Support for the first ever Palestinian literature festival in North America | $12,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Fund for Empowerment | COVID 19 response for homeless participants--advocacy and mutual aid. Changing policies related to housing in the time of the pandemic. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Lakota Language Consortium Inc. | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will be transitioning our annual Lakota Summer Institute to an online format. We will need to purchase and set up workstations for our language instructors, and train them in distance learning pedagogy. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2020 Spring | Austin Justice Coaltion | Higher Learning envisions youth of color who are inspired, encouraged, and supported in building a strong community, understanding their history and their rightful place in this world. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Lower 9th Ward Homeownership Association | The L9WHA will support homeownership creation by and for neighborhood residents, using broad-based community advocacy to obtain equal and adequate services for the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Community Alliance of Lane County | The BIPOC Capacity-Building Initiative creates affinity spaces for healing, connection, and community-building by and for People of Color, to build toward a vision of collective power, strength and leadership locally within Black, Indigenous and People of Color communities of Lane County. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Alliance for Fair Food | Help launch a new, digital front in AFF organizing to unleash the power of millions of consumers for farmworkers’ rights. Using the latest tools, we will develop fluent, responsive messaging and digital actions to complement and translate the power of face-to-face organizing. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Prison Health News | Prison Health News is a free, quarterly print newsletter for people in prisons across the United States, with lifesaving information on chronic illnesses, mental health and trans health care and strategies people in prison use, individually and collectively, to advocate for quality health care. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | The Awood Center | Funds from this grant will support organizing as we expand our community outreach and overall operations in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. | $13,200 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Parole Illinois | We respectfully request a grant to fund a new organizer to train formerly incarcerated people as well as family members, friends, and loved ones of incarcerated people to share with legislators and the broader public how extreme sentencing policies have affected them and their families. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Firelands | Firelands builds multi-racial, working-class power in rural WA. This funding will support Firelands to host a Rural Movement School for community leaders, popularize our rural Green New Deal platform, and wage dynamic local campaigns led by a multi-racial working-class rural constituency. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Stop US Arms to Mexico | A skills training day in southern Arizona to stop US arms to Mexico in March-April 2020, will bring together activists, researchers, Mexican and US human rights defenders, victims, and peace groups, as part of a weekend of workshops on border imperialism with School of Americas Watch. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Dissenters | To launch Dissenters, a new national anti-militarism youth organization. This grant will go to train student members to lead decentralized, nonviolent direct action campaigns to reclaim millions of dollars from the war industry. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Creating Freedom Movements | Creating Freedom Movements is an intensive year-long program that brings together over 40 Bay Area social and environmental justice leaders to train new organizers, incubate grassroots projects, & build community across multiple lines of difference under a framework that prioritizes justice & joy. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Energy Democracy Project | A consortium of several groups, The Energy Democracy Project is a mutual aid structure that serves as a collaborative resource and strategy center for creating programs and initiatives that advance the work of organizations struggling to democratize energy in the United States. | $50,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Zochrot | Organizing a new local Tel Aviv – Yaffa community of activists working to promote public awareness to the Nakba and push forward a discussion about the return of Palestinian refugees, | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | 350 New Hampshire | Youth Climate Organizing: The next generation of activists and leaders | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing-XITO | XITO and MECA’s Teach Palestine Project will help K-12 teachers develop, implement and share curriculum that explores connections between Palestine and the US/Mexico border region. We want students to think critically about the impact of militarized border zones on youth, families and environment. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | Western Regional Advocacy Project-WRAP | Hiring a half-time organizing position to support the development of a regional anti-homeless sweeps campaign, led by WRAP core members across the U.S. West. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Fall | What's Next Washington | Through the collective leadership talents in our community, we will launch the JI Leadership Collaborative in order to provide nonprofits led by directly impacted individuals in Washington State the skills, support and resources they need to lead the transformation of the criminal legal system. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Arise for Social Justice | Creating a youth led, adult supported organizing program in Springfield | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing | Creation of a Community Land Trust that will adequately address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification (slumlords, rising rents, lack of community control), and that is shaped, developed and implemented by those same residents. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Movimiento Cosecha | Cosecha’s “Drive Without Fear” campaigns are developing immigrant leaders through local legislative battles that are mobilizing the undocumented community nationwide. Cosecha circles in 5 states are fighting to win both licenses and no arrests for driving sans license on the state and county levels. | $16,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | People Power Solar Cooperative | Organize members of the frontline East Oakland community -- disproportionately impacted by the harms of an extractive economy -- to build a community-owned and controlled solar project as a way to build wealth, political power, and resilience | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Empowerment Congress of Dona Ana County | Empowerment Congress of Doña Ana County will expand its popular education informed, leadership development program and community organizing workshops with low-income, marginalized rural (colonia) and urban communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | The BlackOUT Collective | The Training for Trainers will teach direct action practitioners how to coordinate and implement direct actions and prepare them to train fellow organizers in new tactics and liberatory theories, and lead processes to generate creative ways to collectively address anti-Blackness. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | La Casita Center | Development of an outreach program and resource network to empower immigrants, asylum seekers, and TPS holders enrolled in Intensive Supervision Appearance Program (ISAP). Vulnerable individuals are regularly exploited due to their lack of resources and knowledge about the system and their rights. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Black Love Resists in the Rust | Reduce impact of law enforcement on/in communities of color in Buffalo NY. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Connecticut Students for a Dream | We are seeking funding for our Summer Program, “Youth Organizing in Action,” that seeks to create and foster leadership through raising critical consciousness and engaging youth in community organizing strategies in Harford, CT. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Lents Strong Housing Team | Housing Stabilization: During a housing and gentrification crisis, educating and organizing poor, working poor and working class renters and homeowners on how to advocate for local anti-displacement policies and practices, including a compassionate response to homelessness. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Communities United for Police Reform-CPR | A grant would be used towards start-up costs of CPR’s new Alternatives & Budget area, to deepen and expand programmatic approaches to reduce public reliance on policing and challenge increasing public financing and legitimacy of expanding criminalization infrastructure. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Austin Community Law Center | The Austin Community Law Center seeks funding to start an organizer training program (our "Leadership Institute"), to train leaders from among our client community at Title I schools, who will advocate for systemic change at the city, county, and school district. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Welcome Back | Sustain and grow a community organization providing peer mentoring to currently and previously incarcerated individuals, then training and empowering those individuals to advocate for improved re-entry conditions within the community, all building to a community-wide reintegration event in 05/20. | $10,390 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Release Aging People in Prison-RAPP | With support from Sparkplug, we will expand our organizing and leadership development of formerly incarcerated elders and impacted communities across New York to achieve statewide advocacy initiatives that promote the release of aging people from prison across all categories of crime and sentence. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Palestine Action Committee of Texas-PACT | To build a sustainable pro-Palestinian agenda in Texas, leveraging national resources to provide a series of comprehensive education workshops. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Vocal Village Inc. | Renaissance is a debut solo album featuring soprano, Tyenne Sillekens. | $10,035 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | Arbeit Opera Theatre | AOT presents a new production of Benjamin Britten’s Rape of Lucretia at the historic Southern Theater in Minneapolis. This production will serve as a social platform addressing sex trafficking, the #metoo movement, the physical/mental effects of shame, and the societal role of women through history. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2019 Spring | NorCal Resist | The building of a community and impacted-person oriented and led solidarity network, to ensure that trans and queer asylum seekers have culturally competent homes, and access to legal, medical, educational, and emotional support and assistance. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Direct Action for Rights and Equality | DARE's Tenant and Homeowners Association is seeking funding for a Rent Stabilization campaign for Providence aimed at preventing arbitrary rent increases and landlord abuses that are causing an eviction epidemic in Providence and Rhode Island. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | Upgrading technological infrastructure to better deal with political changes and increase access to detainees for recruitment and organizing. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | U.S. Palestinian Community Network-USPCN | The U.S. Palestinian Community Network’s Youth Leadership Development Institute is a national educational hub focused on training the next generation of young activists in grassroots organizing principles and strategies to win justice for the Palestinian people. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Momenta Quartet | The Momenta Quartet will commission Elizabeth Brown to compose “Babel” for string quartet, electronic sound, and video/sculpture installation, and Frances White to compose “The book of evening” for string quartet and shakuhachi. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | ADELANTE Student Voices | Adelante Student Voices is a network of undocumented students in rural areas and towns in New York. Members teach one another how to self-advocate for education, and take action to create structural changes at institutions and within policies that will widen opportunities for others. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Choose Yourself | Open a safe space for young immigrants to collectively find themselves in their new city | $8,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Al Shabaka-The Palestinian Policy Network | This grant will support Al-Shabaka's first-ever in-person staff retreat in Amman, Jordan. In this 3-day retreat, we will rely on collective brainstorming, participatory methods, and facilitation to develop our forthcoming strategic plan and strengthen our organizational development. | $11,400 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Alianza Agricola | Alianza Agrícola is a farmworker-led organization dedicated to creating a better future for immigrant farmworker families and communities in Western New York. Funds will be used toward the development of our membership and on grassroots organizing against deportation and for driver's license access. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Stop Solitary CT | Stop Solitary CT is creating an organizer training program for those directly impacted by solitary confinement and a survivors' storytelling project to end the silence around the use of solitary. | $13,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition | We would like support for our campaign to reinstate parole in Maine. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Citizens for Local Power | CLP engages grassroots groups, city leaders, and the land bank to ensure that renovation of foreclosed homes in Kingston NY maximizes green energy tech while training & employing residents, and to avoid gentrification & foster democratic knowledge and skills for a locally based clean energy economy. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | E. Harlem-El Barrio Community Land Trust | Funding will be used to support organizing activities of the EHEBCLT throughout distressed buildings in E Harlem to educate residents about the option of forming large scale coops on a Community Land Trust (CLT) and to mobilize to demand the City turn over vacant city owned property to the CLT. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Mycelium Youth Network | Mycelium Youth Network educates young people on building sustainable communities using holistic, sustainable, and ancestrally grounded hands-on training in order to maintain personal and environmental health in the face of climate change. We empower future ecological leaders, today. | $6,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Rise Up Kingston | Community organizing and leadership development to develop strategy for housing justice in the city of Kingston. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Zochrot | To promote a movement of Israelis supporting the implementation of the return which will support the movement of young Palestinians, who are raising the issue of the right and implementation of return, and change Israeli perception about the conflict. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Haqel-In Defense of Human Rights | Haqel requests funding to set up and maintain a website which will provide basic information about the organization and details of our legal representation, describe our successes and challengers, increase awareness of human rights violations and raise funds going forward. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Alliance for Fair Food | This grant would power the student-led Boot the Braids Campaign to cut Wendy’s contracts on key university campuses, demonstrating students (Wendy’s target market) demand Wendy’s uphold farmworkers' human rights by joining the proven, farmworker-designed and monitored Fair Food Program. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Dalia Association | Ensuring sustainability of Dalia Association's communications. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Bimkom-Planners for Planning Rights | We work with communities and train community members to add their villages to virtual mapping platforms and to incorporate data about them in Wikipedia. We also inform the Israeli public and international community of threats of demolitions and displacement of Palestinian unrecognized communities. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Fall | Kulaniakea | The funding will support professional development and internal capacity/traditional knowledge building for a Native Hawaiian-led and serving organization. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Families for Freedom | Update our public education materials for Families for Freedom members and directly affected community members who are at risk of detention and deportation. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Pioneer Valley Workers Center | PVWC’s Pa’Lante los Derechos de Inmigrantes (PDI) program will build community capacity to organize for immigrant rights, by training 30+ new organizers to challenge unjust immigration law and launching popular education immigration legal clinics to teach one’s rights for their individual case. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty | We seek to educate Missourians about the ramifications of serving on a capital jury, by strategically targeting regions in which potential jurors are disproportionately likely to face death penalty cases, and to empower all communities to access their constitutional right to serve on a jury. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Milwaukee Water Commons | This grant will support the Milwaukee Community Water Assembly, a community engagement program being incubated by MWC to bring community stakeholders together to build community participation and commitment on water issues affecting Milwaukee’s low-income communities and communities of color. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | BronxPOWER | Work to support a lawsuit against the department of education for unjustly closing schools in black/brown communities, impacting some of the most vulnerable students in NYC. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | PANIC-Prison Abolitionists of Nassau Inciting Change | Mobilize communities harmed by the criminal justice system, build political power through civil participation, while demanding the inclusion of formerly incarcerated persons within local power-making structures, and the removal of the “exception clause” permitting slavery as punishment for a crime. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Rockaway Youth Task Force | RYTF seeks to engage its 480+ membership and its citizens journalism project, the Rockaway Advocate, to educate its community on the negative implications for youth of color of proposed gun safety reform measures, as well as advocate for the community-driven Supportive Schools Act. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | The Southern Organizer Academy | A leadership development and capacity building organization, The Southern Organizing Academy hosts a three month organizing intensive incorporating eight units of community organizing and healing justice competencies in the City of New Orleans. | $1,500 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Ohio Community Rights Network | Our Organizing Workshops are part of our Growing Roots & Rights for Just Communities Project to advance democratic and environmental rights across the state. The Workshops will empower residents, providing them with organizing skills and tools to create the just communities they envision. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | BAY-Peace | Drop the MIC is a youth-led educational campaign and Theater Production highlighting the ways that Oakland youth are experiencing militarization while still building resilience to heal from and take action against it. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Crossing Borders Music | Renowned sitarist Gaurav Mazumdar, a student of Ravi Shankar, joins Crossing Borders Music to record "Crossing Cultures: India and the West" for sitar, violin, cello, and tabla. The music depicts different stages and emotions associated with collaborating with people from different backgrounds. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative | JPNSI is building a housing justice movement focused on increasing legal rights for tenants, increasing access to permanently affordable housing, and strengthening the security of tenure for renters in our city. | $7,800 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | The Picture the Homeless Oral History Project | The Picture the Homeless Oral History project documents the origins, organizing and leadership of the only homeless led group in NYC through the analysis of long time leaders, staff and Board, using oral history interviews, analysis and preservation of archival material. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Lower Brule Research | This pilot project supports kids, parents, and community members on a rural Native American reservation in South Dakota as they use their skills and abilities to rethink, reclaim, and rebuild their educational system. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | City Roots Community Land Trust | City Roots Community Land Trust (CRCLT) stewards the permanent affordability of property and facilitates its best use as determined by community residents. A primary focus of our organization is securing permanently affordable homeownership and rental opportunities within our city. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Dave Meder | A debut album that seeks to synthesize new American music from classical, jazz and folk traditions. | $6,530 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Legal Defense for Palestine | Retainer to a legal office to act as movement lawyers for a collection of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank struggling against the Israeli occupation. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | VOX PRESS | On the Road to Parchman: an Evening of Mississippi Prison Art and Writing, will showcase over 160 paintings from men, youth, women inmates, as well as a visual display of inmate hand writing. | $4,805 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Puentes New Orleans | On behalf of board and staff at Puentes New Orleans, we are requesting a $10,000 grant to support the launch and development of a new grassroots, multi-racial immigrant youth coalition. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | Southeast Seattle Education Coalition | Funding supports the education, engagement and empowerment of voices from underrepresented communities to advocate for systemic changes that promote educational equity and justice that close the achievement and opportunity gaps for children of color in SE Seattle schools. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2018 Spring | People's Alliance for Transportation Housing and Employment | Will fund the People’s Alliance for Transit, Housing, and Employment (PATHE) to build the power of low-income tenants, workers, and public transit riders to win affordable housing, good jobs, and equitable transit. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network | WA Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN) will develop a web of organizations and communities in cities, small towns and rural areas around the state to train and prepare communities against Immigration and Customs Enforcement attacks and raids. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Connecticut Bail Fund | Building Sanctuary Now is a community organizing model that brings together and educates the individuals who have been released from pretrial and immigration detention by our community bail funds. Participants learn to fight their own cases while identifying and mobilizing around broader injustices. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Cidadao Global | We will focus on organizing know-your-rights workshops, political empowerment and leadership building workshops, and trainings on how to organize the community and why it is important to organize. We will focus on the Brazilian immigrant community, especially low-income women and youth. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Centro de Trabajadores Unidos - Immigrant Workers Project | CTU will develop a worker-owned cooperative incubator serving Chicago’s southeast side, with a focus on supporting immigrant women. This will be incorporated into CTU’s broader labor organizing strategy as an alternative for those who are systemically excluded from formal, dignified employment. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Cantanti Project | Tabula Rasa, a jazz opera by Felix Jarrar and Brittany Goodwin, explores the real-life impulse and heartbreak of Kiki de Montparnasse and her escapades with the fictional character of ‘Man’, an artist who represents her dreams and desires, at the expense of her freedom and image as the modern woman. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Who Profits Research Center | Who Profits Research Center will launch an enhanced version of its online database containing over 500 profiles of both Israeli and international companies commercially involved in the continuing Israeli control over Palestinian and Syrian land. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Portland Equity in Action | A mutifaceted public campaign highlighting racial disparities in access to power structures and policies, and media coverage and representation within institutions throughout the Portland area | $7,830 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Filipino Migrant Center | Organizing Filipino workers and immigrant families to win Sanctuary Policy in Long Beach, California | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | B'Tselem USA | B’Tselem USA seeks funding to produce and distribute specialized video programming for Americans as a critical way of exposing the Israeli occupation and advocating for change. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Robert Daniel Jones Refugee Center | The project will train 3 asylum seekers to be community organizers. Organizers will identify a problem in the asylum community and organize support among allies and other asylum seekers. They will also work with leaders in the tech field to build an offline/online communication platform. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Stand Up Louisville | The Healing Team of Black Lives Matter Louisville will be able to provide accessible holistic, creative and healing practices that support our overall community well being. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Warehouse Workers for Justice | The E-Commerce Strategy Center helps workers in online retail distribution centers build power to win good jobs, fair schedules, living wages and dignity at work. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | School of the Americas Watch Educational Fund | Utilizing our extensive national network, constituency base, and resources, SOAW will expose the contemporary Israeli role in U.S-backed militarization and state violence in the Americas by original reporting and fact-gathering, followed up by advocacy to end its U.S. support. | $5,860 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Black Love Resists in the Rust | Abolish "The Strike Force", Buffalo Police Department's most deadly police unit, and invest in the community's safety. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | The Sustainabe Port Chester Alliance | The Alliance is launching a comprehensive, grassroots campaign for voting rights and electoral reform to change the antiquated, discriminatory voting system in Port Chester, and thus challenge the political and economic power structure in the village. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Corrections Accountability Project | Development of advocacy resources to expose and reduce the harms caused by the commercialization of our criminal legal system | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Undeterred | Funds will transform Undeterred, a border justice documentary film, into an organizing resource, creating a website and toolkit for educating and organizing against border militarization and a screening/ speaking tour to connect community leaders featured in the film with organizers across the US. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Freedom Archives | The Robert and Mabel Williams legacy – community self-defense against the Klan: preserving the invaluable lessons of the Black Liberation Movement of the South | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | Building Wings | Providing support, resources, and community to the loved ones of people in prison; advocating against the prison industry and campaigning for changes; breaking down statistics and stereotypes about the people impacted by the prison industry through personal stories. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Fall | LGBTQ Black Immigrant Justice | A 2017 Soros Justice Fellowship fiscally sponsored by Transgender Law Center, Black LGBTQ Migrant Project uses leadership development and organizing to address the targeting of our community by the criminal law and immigration system, and our marginalization within broader social justice movements. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Hoosier Action | Grassroots community organizing in small town Indiana to work toward economic and racial justice. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Voces Ciudadanas Inc | The Defensorxs de Derechos Migrantes is a project that will contribute to build leadership within immigrant communities, will help connect immigrant families to resources and legal services and will create opportunities for organizing. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | G-8 Inc. | Líderes Jóvenes en Acción (LIJAC) is one of the twelve community-based organizations within the G-8, Inc. aiming to develop leadership skills in youth from ages 11 to 21 and ensure continuity and sustainability of G-8, Inc through educational activities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Prison Birth Project | To create our first 3-year strategic plan to strategize our organizational growth and prepare to apply for our own 501c3 status. | $9,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Columbia County Sanctuary Movement | CCSM will launch a Family Preparedness Plan (FPP) and Know Your Rights Campaign which includes the printing, distribution, and completion of FPPs, expanding our network of legal services, and organizing Know Your Rights Trainings to empower immigrant families in Columbia County, NY. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | ShoutHouse | CityScapes, a recording and live performance project that brings together musicians and dancers from hip-hop, jazz, and classical communities to reflect on New York City, past and present, in a fully integrated style of expression. | $7,350 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Chainbreaker Collective | Funding would be used to support our Organizer Boot Camp pilot program, which will deep dive into the theory, skills and tactics of community organizing to prepare Chainbreaker members to be leaders for our Development Without Displacement civil rights and housing justice campaign. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Visualizing Impact | Visualizing Palestine seeks funds to apply data, technology, and design to strengthen human rights organizing in Palestine and Israel via a new Thematic Visualization program that focuses on rapid production and release around 3 themes: inequality, solidarity, and collective action. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Juvenile Justice Coalition | Creating an internship program for youth organizing leaders who are at-risk of involvement or involved in the juvenile court system to transition our organization from adult-led to youth-led/adult-supported. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Duo Odeon | Violinist Hannah Leland and pianist Aimee Fincher, together Duo Odéon, record their debut album featuring rare, never-before-recorded works by the American composer George Antheil and violinist Werner Gebauer. | $4,500 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | New Labor Education and Training Institute | The Temp Tows for Justice Campaign will fight to improve conditions for temp workers in NJ by developing leaders to police the local temp/warehouse market through worker councils, creating worker health and safety committees with temp workers, and passing statewide legislation of temp agencies. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Asian American Resource Workshop | The Activist Training Institute (ATI) is an organizing training and praxis program for Asian Pacific American (APA) young adults to gain skills and experience to become social justice and movement leaders. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Immigrant Youth Leadership Team | Immigrant teen leadership research and curriculum development | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action | The Hawai`i People’s Congress is building intersectional solidarity to forward social, environmental, and economic justice in Hawai`i. We enhance the power of resistance through a collaborative, multi-directional approach. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Release Aging People in Prison- RAPP Campaign | Initiation of two new initiatives, i.e. (1) project focusing on the families of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people-i.e. galvanizing them for direct action; and (2) project initiating "town hall' meetings in the five boroughs of New York City to educate impacted communities. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Alliance of Families for Justice | Alliance of Families for Justice seeks to end mass incarceration by supporting, empowering and mobilizing families of incarcerated people and people with criminal records to marshal their advocacy and voting power to end human rights abuses in prisons and jails and bring about systemic reforms. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Contact Center | The Food Security Through Jobs Campaign will organize for paid job training and jobs for food stamp recipients funded through the food stamp (SNAP) program at local, state and federal levels. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Movement for Justice in El Barrio | A new organizing project to defend immigrants’ rights in the wake of the xenophobic, racist, sexist, homophobic campaign/election of Trump & increased hate crimes against immigrants in E Harlem, bringing together targeted communities including immigrant women, women of color & LGBTQI folks citywide. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Restorative Justice Initiative | Restorative justice community capacity-building in the Bronx to reduce violence and promote healing. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Read Muskegon | Read Muskegon will establish a new program, training and employing a corps of our former adult learners to provide outreach into our local community in places like shelters, feeding programs, health clinics and churches to encourage more low literacy adults to participate in Read Muskegon programs. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Black Bottom Archives | Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through journalism, art, business, and community organizing with a focus on preserving local Black history & archiving our present. | $2,000 | Website |
| 2017 Spring | Academic Peer Education Project | The Academic Peer Education Project (APEP) will develop a professional development program wherein incarcerated educators and public school teachers work to develop effective strategies for engaging the students most often pushed out of public schools and caught up in the criminal justice system. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City | CEANYC believes those most impacted by systemic oppression should lead, thus our focus is to develop the leadership skills and culture of our members. Our primary vehicle for advancing this focus is the Cooperative Leadership Institute. | $13,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Cosecha | Our mission is permanent protection, respect and dignity for all immigrants. We are working to build our base by growing a decentralized network of members in Cosecha villages across the country. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Movement of Immigrant Leaders in Pennsylvania-MILPA | Our principle focus is changing the law to allow drivers licenses for undocumented Pennsylvanians, and building the community network infrastructure (local committees, statewide coordination, community sustainership and education program) that is the foundation of our collective power. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Washington Community Action Network and Research Fund | As part of our “Ending Mass Incarceration” project, we will organize with formerly incarcerated people and family members of those incarcerated to build support for passing an innovative, restorative parole system called a “Community Review Board.” | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Lifelines-Voices Against the Other Death Penalty | LifeLines: Voices Against the Other Death Penalty is a media/cultural project working to end Life Without Parole in Pennsylvania by highlighting the voices and analysis of people serving LWOP sentences. | $9,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Local Clean Energy Alliance | Building a strong stakeholder association of organizations in communities that are most impacted by climate change to advocate for and help shape a Community Choice energy program that provides economic, environmental, and social justice benefits to East Bay communities. | $12,500 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Friends of Farmworkers | FOF’s defensores training institute – the first of its kind in Pennsylvania – seeks to strengthen the power of community leaders by equipping them with the legal knowledge and tools they need to combat common injustices in their communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | IMPRUVE | Organizing disabled paratransit riders and paratransit drivers, to form a Rider-Driver Alliance to improve the quality and accountability of transportation for people with disabilities in Illinois. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | Funding will cover administering and facilitating program for our Miami Youth Leaders Board (YLB) and our new Jackson, Mississippi YLB. YLB members craft program design, organize with local coalitions, choose campaign topics, lead social action projects and co-facilitate workshops. | $8,200 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Westchester Coalition for Police Reform | We would educate ourselves and others, and organize around, establishing independent civilian oversight review boards with subpoena power for Westchester's police departments, beginning in White Plains. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | GreenRoots | Empowering the Environmental Chelsea Organizers (ECO) youth crew to develop and teach an environmental justice curriculum to their peers which will culminate with a youth assembly to garner the youths’ visions for a revitalized Chelsea Creek waterfront. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Alhuquq Center | one stop site for all information about and for Bedouin | $5,200 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Alliance for Global Justice | Research, inform, and organize to stop the US export of its prison model of mass incarceration with a focus on Latin America. We call the US model Prison Imperialism. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2016 Fall | Healing to Action | Pilot a sustainable worker leadership development model with three grassroots organizations in Chicagoland, building their capacity to give low-wage workers a collective healing space, resources and organizing support to ignite solutions to fight gender violence in their communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Mayday Community Space | Although Mayday is still in its startup phase, we’ve been working to provide movements and grassroots groups with a supportive space to organize, create, build community and maximize their impact. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Flushing Workers Center | The Wage Law Enforcement Project will organize workers who are victims of wage theft, to be the cornerstone of labor law enforcement measures, and to win back stolen wage and prevent wage theft from happening in future. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Damayan Migrant Workers Association Inc. | Our project will establish a team of “anti labor-trafficking champions”, composed of pro-bono labor attorneys and labor trafficking survivors, to ensure newly found labor trafficking victims have increased chances to win their legal cases and the support needed to become leaders against trafficking. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Philly Thrive | Philly Thrive is launching a base-building and leadership development drive in Wilson Park, a public housing neighborhood downwind of the largest oil refinery on the east coast, to build the leadership of community members fighting against refinery expansion and for a sustainable economy for all. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Virginia Student Environmental Coalition | A weekend long convergence for education, communication, and strategic planning for the Fall of 2016. | $825 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Muslim Justice League | Cultivation of action committees -- focusing on health justice, education justice and other sectors -- to advocate against so-called "Countering Violent Extremism" (CVE) campaigns which target Muslim and other marginalized groups and police dissent. | $13,338 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Direct Action for Rights and Equality | DARE requests funding for a new organizing campaign led by directly affected people to reduce barriers to prisoner re-entry and to challenge mass incarceration, by ending the discriminatory ban of individuals with a criminal record from subsidized housing by the Providence Housing Authority. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Workers' Dignity Project | The Sparkplug Foundation grant will fund a short-term salary to train Nashville-area housekeeping workers in organizing worksite committees, developing demands, and developing strategy to improve wages and conditions through the Construction-to-Cleaning campaign. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Southside Worker Center | Equipping undocumented workers to found a wage theft and barrio defense clinic to recover back-wages, stop deportations and grow our base of migrant workers and organizers in Tucson, Arizona. | $9,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Ohlone Profiles Project | Native Plants _and_ Native Culture: Ohlone tribal song groups will learn to restore native plants and bring their planting songs and dances to Candlestick Park, near 16 village sites, and take a step towards inclusion in Park and Rec. jobs with a tribal economic development plan for San Francisco. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Shoruq Organization | Shoruq Organization will to bring a group of 18 young "debka" dancers and a girls' hip-hop group to tour the US in 2017 to educate people in the U.S., connect Palestinian refugees with U.S. social justice activists, build leadership skills, and raise funds for Shoruq. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons | The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) is organizing at the intersections of environmental injustice, climate change, pollution and mass incarceration by challenging the construction and operation of prisons with grassroots organizing, litigation and direct action. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Brooklyn Movement Center | The work to be funded is the Police Accountability Working Group (PAW). PAW is a leadership group of BMC members working to resist abusive policing and the criminalization of Central Brooklyn residents, while building an alternative peace-keeping culture on the streets of Central Brooklyn. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Southern Arizona BDS Network | Exposing the design and policy framework of the trilateral (US-Israel-Mexico) homeland security complex on the US-Mexico border, named Global Advantage, along with its military-corporate leaders,. | $4,700 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | The Parole Preparation Project | The Parole Preparation Project seeks to address the crisis of mass incarceration by collaborating with and advocating for the release of people serving life sentences in New York State (NYS) prisons. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | DC Consumer Utility Board | Educating, informing, organizing and mobilizing DC’s utility consumers to represent their interests to the utilities and regulatory commission, and that regulators hold utilities accountable to the ratepayers. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Urban Survivors' Union | With these requested funds we will host the first annual Urban Survivor's Union- Leadership Summit. We will highlight the importance of drug user unions and hold a training for people who work with drug users. This will be a one of a kind opportunity for North Carolina professionals and drug users. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | Mijente | Start-up support for Mijente to serve as a hybrid digital and grassroots organizing hub with the goal of driving immigrant and U.S. born Latinx and Chicanx people to take action for racial, economic, climate and gender justice. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | From the Ground Up Farms Inc. | Gardening and Nutrition Education Programs | $5,000 | Website |
| 2016 Spring | The Freedom Summer Teaching Fellowship | This amount will allow us to send two teachers to one of our four learning sites. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | New Start Project | Mentor and move re-entry residents and allies to action using their first hand experience to organize for increased access to housing and employment resources and advocate for the creation of just re-entry policies. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Hearing Youth Voices | My Black is Beautiful is a space for New London to engage in critical analysis and celebration of Blackness, and eventually develop a platform and organizing strategies to work towards Black safety in our city. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Voces Ciudadanas Inc | We seek support from the Sparkplug Foundation to intensify the efforts of our grassroots campaign to end school overcrowding in Sunset Park, Brooklyn by broadening local leadership support, increasing our resident base, and organizing an event to engage in dialogue and strategize on this issue. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | 972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism | 972 – Advancement of Citizen Journalism is a non-profit grassroots journalism initiative aiming to expose local and overseas audiences to underreported events and perspectives in Israel and Palestine. It maintains two digital magazines: +972 Magazine (English) and Local Call (Hebrew). | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts-PHENOM | PHENOM is launching a three-year campaign to win free, accessible, and high-quality public higher education in Massachusetts by uniting and mobilizing students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the larger community. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Thrive Communities of Massachusetts | Thrive will use funds to develop a 2 day restorative reentry training for CoSA program volunteers.and organize a leadership team among adults who have been incarcerated to advise Thrive's board, plan activities to engage the larger community, and work to change the stigma of incarceration. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | TransParent | TransParent will: work toward increasing the visibility of the Transgender Community by the development of 5 TransParent Chapters; provide support to the parents in order to help them move from a place of isolation to a place of advocacy in each of their communities; and implementation of Medical | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Colibrí Center for Human Rights | Providing training in organizing, leadership, and media to family members of migrants who have died or disappeared attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. | $12,305 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development | Building and launching a citizens' organization for energy democracy in Knoxville, Tennessee | $9,900 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Lawrence Dream Network-LDN | LDN will expand a series of workshops to young, underemployed, underutilized,or underachieving adults and groups to address unpacking the cumulative effect of social and environmental injustices, and its impact on the current functioning of individuals, groups, and the broader community. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale | Our Tutti Behind Walls project will teach guitar lessons to women who are incarcerated in the Montana State Women's Prison in Billings, MT, giving the residents a chance to gain a basic understanding of guitar techniques, which will provide the groundwork for more advanced playing upon release. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Release Aging People in Prison- RAPP Campaign | The work involved grassroots organizing, building collaborations with community-based organizations, and general education on the issues. This entails doing workshops, presentations, legislative hearings, and lobbying key players. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Families For Justice As Healing | Implementation of Block-by-Block, an organizing tool which brings forward the voices of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in dialogue about what criminal justice reform should look like and, once engaged, enables them to work for strategic change. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Racial Justice NOW | RJN! seeks to continue the work of strategically centering the most impacted parents as leaders in transforming educational outcomes for their children in the state of Ohio and Dayton community in particular. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2015 Fall | Amy LaCour | Any Place But Here is a song cycle, composed for alto voice and string quartet, and using African American poetry as lyric, that tells the story of a fictional African American man leaving the rural South and heading to an unnamed city during the years of the Great Migration. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | The Art of the Early Keyboard-ARTEK | ARTEK will present multi-media, semi-staged performances based on the life and poetry of the celebrated Italian Renaissance poet, Torquato Tasso: Melancholia/Follia. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Freedom Food Alliance-Victory Bus Project | Funds will help us formalize our alliance of farmers, organizers, students, prisoners and prison families and purchase a green vehicle that will provided transportation and food to familiesfriend of people incarcerated. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | New Energy Economy | A new organizing and advocacy campaign to develop a unique model of energy choice in NM that will transform and enable communities to exercise their rights to pursue renewable energy alternatives through a combination of municipal energy policy and statewide community choice aggregation legislation | $15,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Before It's Gone-Take It Back | BEFORE IT’S GONE // TAKE IT BACK: Documenting Brooklyn - Fighting Gentrification (B4G) is the only Brooklyn-wide anti-gentrification neighborhood and online organizing campaign | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Mariposa and the Saint | We are seeking funding for the national tour of our play: “Mariposa & the Saint; From Solitary Confinement, A Play Through Letters,” which connects audiences to one woman’s story through her own words, then inspires them to take collective action to end solitary confinement in their state. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | The Persist Health Project | This grant will fund Persist Health Project's leadership and membership development, as well as political education workshops, for people with experience in the New York City sex trades. These efforts will focus on health & human rights issues for people in the sex trades. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Iraq Veterans Against the War | IVAW will establish a Veterans Speaker's Bureau to aid in the development of our veteran community while educating and providing tools to the public to counteract U.S. militarism at home and abroad. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Youth Rise Texas | Youth Rise Texas is developing the leadership and organizing capacity of youth directly affected by parental incarceration and deportation. Youth Rise uses popular education, mentorship, organizing, and creative cultural production to challenge mass incarceration and immigrant criminalization. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Workers' Center of Central New York | The WCCNY will galvanize the New York Dairy Worker Campaign, a public education effort, by convening three regional meetings of farmworkers, with trainers in organizing and campaign development, to help workers define their goals, hone base building strategies, and engage in leadership development. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Amistad Law Project | Co-creation of an organizing training by incarcerated and outside organizers to inform the family members and loved ones of people serving life without parole sentences of the current movement and political landscape, and teach them basic and intermediate organizing skills. | $13,753 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Massachusetts Coalition for Domestic Workers | Grassroots organizing and mobilization of domestic workers in Massachusetts be selected worker leaders | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | IJAN | IJAN would use Sparkplug funding to print and tour our just released and highly acclaimed 120 page report, The Business of Backlash: The Attack on the Palestinian and Other Movements for Justice, and to complete and print an accessible primer on the politics and history of Jewish anti-Zionism. | $4,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network | The pilot phase of the Just Transition Reinvestment Program will partner student climate justice organizers at 5 colleges with off-campus groups, in order to move university money out of fossil fuels, and into community-led solutions at the frontlines of poverty and pollution. | $12,250 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | California Coalition for Women Prisoners | Spitfire provides speaking opportunities for formerly incarcerated women and transpeople to share about incarceration and re-entry challenges. As those most impacted by the PIC, their personal stories and perspectives are central in our movement to foster change toward social justice for all people. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Aid Watch Palestine | Aid Watch Palestine is an independent, civil society initiative to make international aid accountable to Palestinians—starting with reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. We invite critical and constructive scrutiny of aid so we can liberate ourselves from aid that harms and focus on long-term solutions. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Nawa for Culture and Arts Association | To purchase children library materials for the children library in Deir el Balah, mid of the Gaza Strip in Al-Khidr Monastery (1700 years) which is expected to be restored by the Riwaq Center in May 2015. Nawa for Culture and Arts already guaranteed the financial resources for the furniture. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Transforming Lives | A program created by three inmates at Eastern Prison to help other inmates get in rehabilitation and journal about it so that they have a record of their activities when they go before the parole board and then go for jobs. Currently rehab is not happening, for most, because of prison politics. | $6,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | People for Community Recovery | Organizing for the Preservation of Public and Low Income Affordable Housing in the Riverdale Community Area of the City of Chicago. Our goal in the creation of a tenant assoication for the neighborhood of Concordia Place Apartment and to force the renvation of 648 vacant unit in Altgeld Gardens. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Palestinian Youth Movement | This summer, PYM will host the first ever "Youth Leadership Summer School: Palestinian and Arab Youth Transforming Theory into Practice." The school is a seven day long intensive program in Riverside, CA and includes political education, cultural empowerment and organizational training. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Media Island International | Forming the "Cascade Radio Network" and strengthening the backbone of northwest low power community radio collaboration with a much needed strategic infrastructure project to raise the power of the KOWA antennae giving it new importance in the capitol city of Olympia. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Clean Air-Organizing for Health and Justice | Funds will be used to organize residents who live next to an abandoned American Axel plant that is leaking PCBs to win a clean up the site and force the current company operating on the site to develop and emergency management plan. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2015 Spring | Queen City Chamber Opera | An audience development initiative in order to expand awareness and sustainable earned revenue sources for Queen City Chamber Opera. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Art Forces | MAIA Media Project creates a globally accessible multimedia archive on access to water, based on a year of media education workshops offered in partnership with Palestine's EWASH: Emergency Water Sanitation Hygiene in the Gaza Strip and West Bank and the International Indian Treaty Council in the US | $15,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Force-Upsetting Rape Culture | An educational program to train leaders to mobilize their communities in publicly supporting survivors of sexual abuse and rape as part of The Monument Quilt, a crowd-sourced public art project to help survivors reconnect with their communities and provide public healing space | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Shalefield Justice Spring Break | Shalefield Justice Spring Break will bring together college students, people from the front lines of Environmental Justice struggles, and Environmental Justice organizers for a week of education and movement building. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Community Reporting Alliance | Library-based, youth-led community news project in Ferguson, MO. where young people can use journalism tools with professional support to explore local subjects that matter to them and to their community. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | 7amleh | 7amleh will establish a training project of 6 workshops, enabling Palestinian activists throughout Israel and occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) in the skills of social media as a campaigning and collaborative tool to collectively address human rights abuses affecting the Palestinian people. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Asian Pacific Islander Queer Women and Trans Community | Dragon Fruit is an intergenerational oral history project that explores queer Asian Pacific Islanders and their experiences with love and activism from the 60s-90s. These stories are transformed into art and information and shared widely using a process that bridges generations of community members. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Workers' Advice Center- Ma'an | Workforce training and empowerment workshops for Palestinian women in Israel to teach them how to advocate for themselves, identify employment, work with employers, and overcome obstacles to working outside the village. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Alliance for Fair Food | Growing and strengthening the ally network of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and building upon the successes of the Campaign for Fair Food to work for justice for farmworkers nationwide | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Soulardarity | This grant will fund leadership and membership development and co-op education for a self-sustaining cooperative pursuing community-owned solar streetlights and collaborative solutions to energy poverty in Highland Park, MI - a small city inside of Detroit. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | SF World Music Festival | To launch THE XI PEI KUN IMMIGRANT MASTERS INITIATIVE, which will provide under-employed Bay Area immigrant music masters with the professional development services and job opportunities to help them survive and grow a thriving music career in America. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | New Settlement Parent Action Committee | The District 9 New Teacher Mentoring Initiative is an innovative initiative coordinated by the New Settlement Parent Action Committee (PAC) that will train teacher mentors and pilot community-led professional development for educators on family engagement in a struggling Bronx District. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Stonewall Youth | We will build and share a sustainable model of youth organizing: the youth-led Stonewall Organizing School will provide the training, resources and support necessary for youth to maximize their leadership within Stonewall Youth and be effective life-long activists and community organizers. | $8,500 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | North End Woodward Community Coalition | Our grant would fund the purchase of software and salaries of both a project manager to organize resident members to operate the station and a grassroots fundraising advisor to build capacity of resident members to create awareness and engage community in participating in and creating programming. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Ugnayan Youth for Justice and Social Change | Providing leadership/community organizing training to low-income/working class youth of Philippine ancestry in NYC through our 6-week summer internship program and consistent weekly youth organizing and programming throughout the year. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples | The intention of the Desert Ecosystems and Tribal Empowerment Project (DETE) is to convene and catalyze tribal communities and regional and global partners to bring awareness to and contribute possible “solutions” to both the local and global issue of industrial scale development on desert ecosystem | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | California Families Against Solitary Confinement | Developing CFASC from a start-up to a sustainable organization and expanding it to involve family members of all those who are incarcerated in addition to the family members of those in solitary confinement with the launch of the Family Unity Network as a project of CFASC. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Prison Justice League | Development of the Prisoner Resource and Organizing Center (PROC) to challenge inhumane conditions inside prisons, educate and train community members impacted by incarceration, and holds the state accountable for actions that support mass incarceration. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Fall | Food Chain Workers Alliance | The pilot four-day training program of the new Food Justice Education Project will develop 8 worker-leaders, who will then train others in their workplaces and communities to broaden worker participation in the food justice movement in order to positively transform the food system for all. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Action for Regional Equity | With new community use of up-to-date communication tools, Action for Regional Equity’s Jobs Equity Initiative will build a stronger voice for good jobs to sustain our families and communities, grow our base in communities of color and our regional network, and win our key campaigns for good jobs. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Peaceful Uprising | The launch of an ongoing training camp called Campaign Field School in eastern Utah, in which participants will develop and use nonviolent direct action and organizing skills to stop the first tar sands mine in the U.S. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Southern Maine Workers' Center | The Southern Maine Workers’ Center is a membership-led organization committed to creating a grassroots, people-powered movement that improves the lives, working conditions, and terms of employment for working and poor people in Maine through a combination of education, organizing and advocacy. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | The Philadelphia Workers Association | To hire a full-time, experienced organizer to bring together a group of day laborers in North Philadelphia to challenge the recent increase in police interference at their job-seeking site and build a worker-led community organization. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Mashjar Juthour | Mashjar Juthour seeks to engage and empower Palestinian communities to learn clean, green environmental practices, therefore integrating learned methods into the domestic sphere and becoming exemplary models for a sustainable Palestine. | $9,960 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Rockaway Wildfire | Fighting for jobs, affordable housing and a resilient community by advocating for community controlled development in Rockaway, Queens. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | DataCenter | Increase trainings, toolkits and web based activities in order to strengthen DataCenter’s sustainability and produce new research that supports social justice campaigns. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | National Students for Justice in Palestine | This project entails the production of a broad investigative report on normalization and Palestine activism on campus, and development of normalization resources for students and student groups. | $7,600 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Community Governance and Development Council | To develop a juvenile justice infrastructure that will provide alternatives to incarceration for court-involved youth in Yonkers. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | CAAAV-Organizing Asian Communities | CAAAV's New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) organizing project will develop the leadership of Asian tenants in New York City's public housing developments, and build a pan-Asian base to join a larger multi-racial fight for systemic and institutional changes at NYCHA. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | alQaws | With the help of young video artists and animators, alQaws will produce music videos from our social change initiative, Ghanni A’an Ta’arif / “Singing Sexuality” (www.ghanni.net),using them to develop educational activities and content we provide to partner civil society organizations. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Al-Bir | Training and mentorship for a network of 20 young activists from 10 rural Palestinian communities in the north of Israel who want to creatively advocate for their rights and the sustainability and dignity of their communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Environmental Justice Coalition for Water | Grassroots community organizing, capacity- and coalition-building toward the realization of the human right to water and sanitation in California. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Idaho Community Action Network | Funding from Sparkplug Foundation will enable ICAN to begin a three-year Rural Strategy Outreach Project in North Idaho communities, establish a North Idaho Community Center and organize in new unserved communities developing 100 new members and a leadership team that can sustain the project. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Migrant Justice | The Human RIghts Promoters (Promotores) program will provide farmworker-to-farmworker educational sessions to workers in Vermont’s dairy industry. Migrant Justice will train promotores to travel to dairy farms and educate workers on their labor and housing rights in the Milk with Dignity program. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children | FFLIC's goal is to build a movement to stop the school to prison pipeline. We are requesting funding to support our 50-2017 Campaign. We will work to reduce out-of-school suspensions of our children across LA increasing our membership base to enhance education and juvenile justice reform efforts. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Wildfire Project | National convening of front-line groups organizing around economic, social, and ecological justice | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Barelas Community Coalition | Capacity building funds will bolster efforts to supply affordable housing in a low-income neighborhood at risk of gentrification. Barelas has a sizable Hispanic population (86%), large number of renters (50%), many households below the poverty level (31%), and a median household income of $18,657. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Sacramento Regional Coalition to End Homelessness | Homeless Civil Rights Project - conduct discrimination survey - discrimination by law enforcement - belongings confiscated, citation, arrest; businesses, direct service providers [HIV/AIDS, sexual orientation, transgender & immigration status] Goal is develop civil rights campaign based on results | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | The New Jim Crow Initiative | The NJCI is a community education project that will organize a critical mass around the disproportionate incarceration of Blacks and Latinos, and the subsequent lifetime adverse effects of that incarceration. The purpose of the project is to spark a movement to end mass incarceration. | $2,800 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Brandworkers | Member-led collaborative needs assessment and curriculum design of an autonomous women's leadership development program for workers in food production and distribution industry. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Queer Detainee Empowerment Project | This is our first year operating, as we launched in January of 2014; thus this grant would go towards paying the salary for our community organizer, so that they can work to establish a strong organizing base in the queer/trans people of color immigrant community in NYC. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Worcester Green Low Income Housing Initiative | A community organizer will continue to link together energy efficiency programs and funding sources with the aging building stock of the extremely low-income. This will include advocacy efforts on energy programs, direct work helping housing partners, research, and publication of replicable results | $10,000 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | UNIDOS | Access to Mexican-indigenous educational program services (MAS) banned by the State of Arizona and an accompanying organizer training to preserve and expand the curriculum, despite illegality. | $9,600 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Freedom Archives | The Williams Legacy - preservation and restoration of the Williams Family Legacy of resisting the KKK and police violence against Black communities in the South and the organization of community self-defense in the face of racist violence. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | African Communities Together | Acquire tools and create systems to communicate with and engage our African immigrant membership base. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Organized and United for Respect at Vanderbilt | Organizing a worker-led movement for economic justice at Vanderbilt University | $9,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Revision International | As part of a larger effort to build a community-owned food cooperative in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood, Revision would use a Sparkplug Foundation grant to help establish an educational commercial kitchen, where low income families can learn to prepare and preserve locally grown produce for their own family nutritional needs and generate additional household income by turning any excess produce into sellable goods within the community. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Parent Leadership Project | The Parent Leadership Project works for justice in public education by building power, leadership, and organizing among low-income parents of color. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | REV- | Domestic employer online fair wage calculator and agreement generator f | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | KnowDrones.org | Creation of two eight-foot-long fiberglass replicas of the MQ-9 Reaper drone. | $6,200 | Website |
| 2014 Spring | Rural and Migrant Ministry Inc. | The Farmworker Organizing Center empowers farmworkers in New York as they organize to win dignity and labor rights by ending racist exclusion from many statewide laws, such as denial of the right to overtime pay or even a day of rest each week. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Safe Return Project | The Safe Return Project's Community Leadership Institute to train 15 new formerly incarcerated leaders for public action. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Recode | The train the trainers program, trains residents in community organizing so they can engage in partipatory democracy to transition Oregon to using performance based codes. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Tishreen Association | We are seeking start-up funding to establish a group of Arab Palestinian women activists in Taybeh, Israel, who will serve as grassroots organizers. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Women in Transition-WIT | Part-Time Fundraiser | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Cayce United | Cayce Place Residents in poverty confronting the redevelopment of our homes. | $10,100 | Website |
| 2013 Fall | Baladna | Creation, publication and distribution of anti-sectarianism training manual | $7,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | DRUM-Desis Rising Up and Moving | The mission of the Coalition on National Security and Rights in Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (AMEMSA) Communities is to create a grassroots led, national policy campaign to change federal policy regarding FBI surveillance and the use of informants. The campaign will be led by affected communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Poughkeepsie Plenty | Mobilization meetings with diverse groups to increase awareness of food insecurity, understanding of the right to food and participation in food issue forums | $7,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | The Freedom Theatre | Launching the Filmmaking unit in Jenin Refugee Camp to creating lasting stories that will reflect the true perspectives of the people of Jenin and hidden aspects of the wider Palestinian story. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Peoples Justice for Community Control | Cop Watch Alliance | $8,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | MataHari-Eye of the Day | Women's Cooperative Academy & Startup Incubator | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | The Beehive Collective | Movement building conference for artists doing social justice work | $4,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Red Umbrella Project | Production of original theatre piece based on experiences of trans women, written and performed by trans women via an eight-week workshop | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | New Vision Taxi Drivers Association | Participatory Action Research with Miami-Dade County Taxi Drivers | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | API Equality-Northern California | Deepening connections with Asian Pacific Islander communities of faith to promote cultural change and community acceptance of LGBTQ people. | $4,730 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Al-Bizreh Imm al-Fayy-The Seed Gives Birth to Shade | Funds will be used for research, trailer, and website development of a documentary film that tells selected Palestinian stories through the theme of food culture, agriculture, and environmental activism. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Street Vendor Alliance of North America | To unify organizing efforts among street vendors, building more local power to win social and economic justice for street vendors, their families and communities. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement | Teaching members of four communities how to be organizers and visitor volunteers in immigration detention plus funding for a one-time expense to create a national monitoring system for people in U.S. immigration detention | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Student Global AIDS Campaign | Organizing students and youth living with HIV to fight AIDS with political advocacy and direct action | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Colorado Jobs with Justice | Popular Education Program on Labor History & Identity | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Organizing Apprenticeship Project | This will support support work with community partners in organizing youth and parents of color to engage in equity assessment and planning process with a set of schools in up to five districts in Minnesota, as part of a larger effort to create new equity standard for schools in our state. | $4,500 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Student Leader Advocates of Music-SLAM | Curriculum and instrumental support to college student teachers in after school music programs | $4,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Long Island Jobs with Justice | We are launching a project to organize Long Island disaster recovery workers from Superstorm Sandy, and to ensure that workers’ rights are respected on Sandy-related job sites. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Alliance for Community Services | Uniting public service beneficiaries and workers to fight for quality services for all | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | KyotoUSA | Provide comprehensive technical support to public school districts and other community activists who are considering energy efficiency improvements and the installation of renewable energy systems in their schools. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership | bi-weekly Google protests + Roosevelt Island expansion | $4,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Address This | Address This! provides innovative radical education courses via correspondence to individuals currently incarcerated throughout the state of Pennsylvania. | $7,500 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Iqrit Community Association | Media, website and PR materials for Iqrit's 'Access to Justice' Campaign | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Mosaic Makers Inc. | Collaborating with impoverished W. Baltimore neighborhoods to create murals as a strategy to control their community and redirect the drug trade by creating mosaic murals | $5,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | Ittijah Union of Arab Comunity Based Association | Training grass roots organizations in the Bedouin community in the Negev | $10,000 | Website |
| 2013 Spring | ME2orchestra Inc | Funding will be used to create and distribute a professionally-designed brochure and website for ME2/orchestra, the world's only classical music organization that uses exhilarating performances to erase the stigma surrounding mental illnesses. | $7,700 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign | By targeting vacant, bank-owned buildings, this project trains unemployed and underemployed youth in the process of fixing up blighted properties so that these homes can provide low-income housing for homeless families. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | H.O.P.E. Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality | Development of a co-operative screenprinting business to empower and employ individuals experiencing homelessness | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | QUEEROCRACY | QRASH: Queers Resisting All Street Harassment | $8,640 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation | The Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign is an educational and advocacy project to develop a broad alliance between the Haudenosaunee and New York State residents with the goals of honoring native treaties and protecting the Earth. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Linking the Children of the Motherland | Provide an opportunity for high school Filipino youth have a paid internship and training in community organizing. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Everyone Is Gay | We are seeking funding to design and distribute a curriculum that will augment Everyone Is Gay’s in-person presentations at middle and high schools. | $6,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | ReUse Works | A "jobs from waste" project that salvages and upcycles discarded textiles. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Lakota Solidarity Project | Sparkplug funding will support the Lakota Elder’s Truth Tour part of the Lakota Solidarity Project (LSP) – a unique and historic social justice collaboration between traditional, grassroots Lakota elders/activists and a selected group of solidarity activists to comprehensively document the ongoing genocide of the Lakota people, and then use this evidence to leverage pressure on International and United States government officials to end these human rights violations. | $4,500 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Hand in Hand-The Domestic Employers Association | The Domestic Work Innovation project seeks to improve worker and employer relationships in the domestic work industry through organizing domestic employers and working to create spaces for dialogue between domestic workers and their employers. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Domestic Workers Project of Fairfield County | To launch the Domestic Workers Project of Fairfield County, to organize Domestic Workers. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | ISTV-Israel Social TV | Implementation of TV journalism as a tool to promote social struggle and the aspiration for peace. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | PCASC | “Media Blitz” to amplify public awareness of the PCASC’s Prison Divestment Campaign. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Gedakina | Nd'ôtlokawôganawal – Our Stories is a new Gedakina initiative to promote literacy among young readers, preschool through middle school from across New England’s Native American rural, urban and reservation communities and that will combine reading and storytelling circles through which children deve | $7,500 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Worcester Homeless Action Committee | A community organizer will push for the introduction of restorative justice practices into Massachusetts sentencing efforts. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Nobody Leaves Mid-Hudson | Purchase of materials (printer, ink, paper, shirts, yard signs, gas, etc.) to facilitate internal education and a recruitment push designed to cultivate particular member-leaders, double our membership, and increase our geographic range in order to make the organization self-sustaining. | $3,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Pan Left Productions | Train and educate student youth in Tucson to organize and use their own media that focuses on restoring banned Mexican American Studies education in Arizona. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Disarat-the Arab Center for Law and Plicy | Dirasat will implement a series of training meetings and seminars for leaders of Arab student unions in Israeli universities designed to increase their ability to help their constituents realize their right to equal education. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Movement for Justice in El Barrio | To initiate the first community organizing institute with a fully bilingual/bicultural curriculum and practicum. | $ | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Green Mountain Crossroads | Community assessment, organizing and training for rural LGBTQ community in Windham County, Vermont, and contiguous towns in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. | $8,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Black and Pink | Organizing, supporting, and building the leadership of LGBTQ people in prisons across the United States | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Brooklyn Food Coalition | School Food Fellows Project will train ten parents/grandparents to become school food advocates in their children's public school, offering them leadership skills, information about race and class-based disparities in the food system, and effective campaigns to create policy changes. | $8,300 | Website |
| 2012 Fall | Mighty Writers | Philadelphia teens create an Internet radio station to report on their communities, broadcast their writing and express their thoughts. | $8,334 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Southern Border Communities Coalition Arizona chapter | Startup general support to build the voice and power of diverse communities on the Arizona-Sonora border. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Metrowest Worker Center-Casa del Trabajador | To develop a membership structure, worker-owned co-ops and an ally support network | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | United States Social Forum | A cross-movement delegation to the World Social Forum Free Palestine in Brazil to build joint struggle between US grassroots movements and the Palestinian grassroots movement. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Young Women's Empowerment Project | This is for our grassroots organizing campaign Street Youth Rise Up | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | WeCount Inc. | To support community organizing against wage theft and county collaboration with ICE. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality | The development of an online resource center designed to confront the many myths and misconceptions about the Arab Bedouin community in the southern desert region of Israel, the Negev. | $9,444 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | The Freedom Theatre | A 9-day solidarity ride during which Palestinian actors and musicians will use Playback Theatre to perform the personal stories of community members throughout the West Bank. | $12,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Nistha Raj Trio | Recording of cross-cultural collaboration between Hindustani Classical Violin, Progressive Hip Hop (Human Beatbox), and Post-Classical Cello. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Prasant Radhakrishnan Ensemble | Prasant Radhakrishnan Ensemble will create original work combining jazz and South Indian classical Carnatic music. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Fitchburg Artistree | Vacant 2 Vibrant, an Experiment in Economic Recovery Through Creative Re-use | $4,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Social Justice Learning Institute | Building Urban Scholars: Training Youth to Be Health Advocates and Critical Teachers | $7,500 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | DIYgirls | Afterschool programs that inspire young girls to design and make. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Rabbis for Human Rights-North America | Mobilizing American rabbis and Jewish communities, in partnership with Israeli and Palestinian communities, to prevent human rights abuses in East Jerusalem | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Music Team San Francisco | Hiring a development consultant. | $4,800 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Commn Ground of Eastern North Carolina Inc. | Common Ground ENC will hire professional landscape design assistance, and purchase recycling equipment needed to expand revenue-generating activity. | $2,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | We Divest Campaign National Coordinating Committee | The We Divest campaign is a coalition-based effort of six organizations demanding that financial services giant, TIAA-CREF, divests from all companies that profit from the Israeli Occupation. | $7,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools | The Restorative Justice Project | $10,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless | Community organizing to expand the participation of women in affordable housing and homeless prevention policy reform in Rhode Island | $8,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Read Between the Bars | Implementation of book donation boxes and teach-ins to educate communities both inside and outside of prison | $6,730 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha | Funding will support the CTUL Leadership School, developing the leadership of five retail cleaning workers to be organizers in the Campaign for Justice in Retail Cleaning. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | The LaStraw Inc. | The funds requested will be used to implement the Community Mobilization Training in an extremely high poverty area of Guilford County establishing a baseline of HIV/AIDS knowledge, providing the community, state, regional and national perspective to ensure participants are able to recognized similarly situated organizations and their comfort level in initiate linkages to similarly situated organizations. | $3,999 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Music 4 More | Music 4 My Classroom website and database development. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Hope United | Direct action youth organizing program to push for student voice in Providence public schools | $8,000 | Website |
| 2012 Spring | Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition | Sustainability and expansion of Maine prisoner-and community-directed corrections and judicial reforms to increase democratic rights for all Mainers. | $5,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Symbiosis PDX | The Rose City Radical will be a monthly, locally based, cooperatively operated newspaper for and by working class community organizers in Portland, OR. The newspaper encourages anyone to contribute articles or even artwork on their experiences with the local movements for justice, liberation, and autonomy. While engagement with social justice organizing has recently blossomed in Portland, we lack a centralized space for dialogue, critique, and inspiration. Our radical newspaper project aims to fill that void by publishing articles that reflect on, debate, challenge, and create transformative action. Symbiosis PDX has established multiple mutual aid programs and collectively controlled grassroots initiatives in Rose City, demonstrating many opportunities for radical organizing not reliant on the capitalist economy and resistant to government co-optation. Through both physical newspapers – distributed by street vendors – and online supplements, the Rose City Radical facilitates constructive interaction and collaboration amongst local, working class community organizers. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) | The U.S. Palestinian Community Network’s (USPCN’s) Palestinian Political Prisoners Advocacy Group is a national organizing project launched to organize communities around the issue of Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. Two prominent activists in Palestine -- one a women’s rights organizer and the other a cultural worker -- are currently amongst the close to 5,000 Palestinians who have been jailed by Israel for their human rights work. The project will educate, organize, and mobilize Palestinian, Arab, and solidarity communities here to pressure the U.S. State Department to demand that Israel release them and all Palestinian political prisoners. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Donkeysaddle Projects (Abolition Learning Circles) | Donkeysaddle Projects’(DSP) Abolition Learning Circles is a political education series, which teaches the history and praxis of prison, police, and death penalty abolition. We will utilize popular education pedagogy via facilitated, virtual workshops to guide artists, cultural workers and cultural organizers in sharpening their understanding of abolition, with a specific intent that their artistic platforms will then be used to elevate abolitionist visions. DSP will collaborate with ALC participants after their cohort’s workshops conclude to design creative community offerings around abolition. | $8,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Justice for Muslims Collective | Our project is titled “Internalized Islamophobia: Unlearning the Oppression from Within,” and encompasses trainings designed to help Muslims understand and dissect the ways that they have been impacted by external Islamophobia. Specifically, the these trainings will focus on examining pervasive messages ranging from the inherent criminality of Muslims, to the idea that terrorism is inherent to Muslims, to the need for specialized interventions to deal with the Muslim threat. Using these and other messages as a starting point, the trainings will guide Muslim participants through a process of interrogating the specific ways that their beliefs may have been shaped by them, such as for example, condemning acts of terrorism as an act of collective responsibility prior to leveraging any criticism against the government or other actors invested in perpetuating Islamophobia. | $19,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Gathering Ground Theatre | The Sparkplug Foundation grant will support Gathering Ground Theatre to develop, facilitate and implement the ArtsReponders project. The ArtResponders is a team made of people impacted by homelessness in Austin, TX who devise and perform relevant and timely interventions for housing justice advocacy events. Through a rapid process of campaign strategy assessment and socially-engaged performance making, the project aims to educate, uplift, and engage the public at events such as demonstrations, rallies, press conferences, and more. The arts-based training will focus on craft (writing, improvisation and facilitation), scholarship (growing critical consciousness within the group), and community engagement (with a focus on art making as a social practice that is adaptive, iterative, and responsive). The ArtResponders Project aims to maximize the impact of Gathering Ground’s popular education expertise to support organizing around housing justice issues in Austin, TX. | $18,500 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Copwatch Media | COPWATCH.MEDIA is a community-based project that publishes articles and videos about law enforcement's effects on New York City's hyper-policed Black, Latinx and non-white communities. It also serves as a media watchdog for local and national news reporting that is deferential to law enforcement (copaganda and is building a grassroots-based police misconduct database. | $25,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Rural Women's Association | The project seeks to protect the environment through education and practical trainings with children, youth, and women in the South Hebron Hills. We will: Create awareness about the environment Change the harmful environmental practices of the local community Enhance the spirit of initiative and innovation among young people and children to contribute to making a change, each according to his/her location, with focus on restoring the environment as much as possible Educate and train about waste exploitation, recycling and upcycling (converting waste into useful tools) Instill the importance of agriculture because of its positive impact in promoting the sense of belonging to the environment, the land and the homeland. Increase communication, cooperation, and learning with local institutions concerned with the environment Make an impact in the local community and public spaces to draw everyone's attention to the fact that preserving the environment is our collective responsibility. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Change Comes Now | CCN focuses on women in Florida impacted by the criminal justice system, poverty, mental health issues, addiction, and violence. Clemency is a case-by-case basis for correcting judicial system failures. We will be training women inside Florida’s five correctional facilities and on the outside to serve as point people for our inter-related work to reduce the number of women in prison. Our Clemency Quilt Tour highlights 175 women who are eligible for clemency as a method for raising visibility. Formerly incarcerated women are bringing the quilt to all 63 legislative districts – where state representatives have agreed to put it on display in their local offices. In addition to court fees, women are assessed enormous fines and penalties upon conviction. Once released, formerly incarcerated women are unable to vote or get a driver’s license if they owe any money – but converting debts to civil liens changes all the dynamics. | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Baladna - Association for Arab Youth | Through the use of innovative, popular education tools, Baladna’s Hawiya project aims to combat the systematic depoliticization of youth in the Palestinian society in Israel by enabling them to explore their identity, history, and the political forces depriving them of their individual and collective rights. The tools—which include board games, videos, and hiking tours—facilitate critical consciousness development while appealing to the interests of youth. Baladna will promote the application of these tools by holding board game workshops with 450 high school aged youth; training educators to lead discussions on videos that offer an alternative to the hegemonic colonial history in the Israeli curriculum; and mobilizing 10 youth leaders who have been trained in archeology, popular history, indigenous plants, and Palestinian history to build and lead tours of Palestinian locations for 220 young people in the community. Additionally, Baladna will develop a new board game, two new educational videos, and 5 virtual tours. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Alliance for Commuity Services / RPCAN | Sparked by lack of response to COVID deaths in long-term congregate care (LTC) facilities, people with disabilities, current and former nursing facility residents are organizing a multi-facility group to enable facility residents to have a voice in policies that affect them, improve health, safety and autonomy of facility residents, while reducing isolation and increasing opportunities for independent living. | $10,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Women Against Mass Incarceration | In the space of reentry and the criminal justice reform/abolition movement, women living with violent convictions are ignored, overlooked, and underrepresented. Frequently we are told the topic is too controversial or unpopular, or the climate is not right for "that kind of reform." The time is now to be inclusive of women and their stories / or struggle around living with a violent conviction. The movement has failed to include us in conversations or the decision-making process. As women living with violent convictions, we are the face of this project. Our goal is to build a coalition of diverse women to boldly use their voices and lived expertise to raise awareness of the collateral consequences and discrimination women living with violent convictions experience on a daily basis. Our goal is to change the policies, programming and perceptions that impact our reality via public education, advocacy, and social media campaigns, | $15,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Portland Empowered | In 2020, students across Southern Maine came together to advocate for anti-racism in schools. Youth Engagement Partners (YEPs), a program of Portland Empowered (PE), responded to student leadership and began building a plan to create an antiracist school environment in Portland Public Schools (PPS). In 2021-2022, YEPs youth leaders began a campaign to engage educators, community partners, and students to reimagine harmful school discipline and mental health policies and practices. YEPs worked to rebuild relationships and heal with school-based conversations that created space for dialogue and transformative change in these areas. Additionally, PE supported the creation of intergenerational partnerships between YEPs and adult educators who are responsive, accountable, and will act on the recommendations of youth leaders. These partnerships ensure youth are supported by adults who can contribute equitable passion, drive, and dedication to anti-racist structures in schools. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Dave Meder | “Unamuno Songs and Stories” is a jazz chamber music album consisting of original compositions inspired by the poignant and timely works of Spanish Civil War-era philosopher and poet Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936). By musically recounting Unamuno’s work, and the social and political context surrounding it, the album aims to spark critical thought and dialogue on the importance of maintaining our American democratic institutions during a tenuous period in our nation’s history. | $6,800 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC) | Funding from Sparkplug Foundation will support Organizing Neighborhood Equity’s (ONE DC) DC Cancel Rent Campaign. Our campaign launched in August with the formation of the DC Cancel Rent Coalition, a partnership with ten organizations. We use a multipronged approach to work towards our goal of securing sustainable and affordable housing for the community. Much of our work involves base and relationship building, ensuring that we are following the leadership of those most affected. This involves phone banking, social media outreach, coalition building, and holding one-on-ones to create relationships with new members. In December, the coalition went through with our first action, delivering our petition with over 4,000 signatures to the homes of five DC councilmembers. The next Cancel Rent action was collecting selfies from affected Washingtonians, along with written testimony. This strategy aims to build popular will around canceling rent and to pressure council members via social media. | $20,000 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | New Profile: Movement for the Demilitarization of Israeli Society | Since 2001, New Profile’s Counselling Network has assisted over 20,000 youths in obtaining military exemptions, with an average of 1,000 youths annually. Generous support from the Sparkplug Foundation will allow New Profile to digitize our Counselling Network’s extensive information into a secure, accessible, and free online format for public use. The initiative supports a diverse group of Israeli youth seeking military exemption, and acts as a central resource for teachers and professionals who support youth in schools and other contexts. | $15,481 | Website |
| 2021 Spring | Rafah Life Makers Center | This grant will help cover start-up costs to re-establish the Life Makers Center. It will be used for teacher workshops and preparation, a portion of first year rent, special school break and summer programs (including on-site activities, field trips, after-school programs and group therapy sessions.) It will also fund educational materials and supplies including (flashcards, ESL books and print, smart board, mothers workshops and trainings. Finally, it will fund children’s trauma and healing workshops. | $15,000 | Website |