By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 / 2020 https://www.todec.org/ Perris, CA TODEC’s youth leadership program, Monarcas Luchadoras, prepares youth with tools to build power, take advantage of organizing opportunities, provides spaces for healing, identity development, and engaging in policy advocacy. They advance the educational, cultural, social, and political development of Latino immigrant youth throughout California’s Inland Empireby training them up to take leadership roles in their community, Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 / 2020 https://skcequality.org/ Salem, OR Salem-Keiser Coalition for Equality believes in organizing parents to become stakeholders in education systems and their children’s schools in designing school programming and to also train parents on how to become powerful and effective advocates for education justice and structural systemic change. SKCE believes every child from every background must receive an equitable education, Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 / 2020 https://powercalifornia.org/99rootz Atwater, CA 99 Rootz is a youth program of Power California specifically based in the rural Central Valley. They build leadership pathways and spaces for young people to grow personally and become politically engaged in the small towns that surroundtheRoute 99 highway. Their work includes re-‐connecting youth with their culture, political education, and electoral organizing. In 2019, 99 Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 / 2020 https://www.poderinaction.org/ Phoenix, AZ Poder in Action’s mission is to build power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determine a liberated future as people of color in Arizona through our lived experience, leadership development, and civic participation. Poder in Action is led by organizers who began as volunteers within the organization and Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 – 2020 https://canativevote.org/ Los Angeles, CA California Native Vote Project (CNVP) is the first-of-its-kindCaliforniastatewide effort to engage Native American communities across dozens of counties to build political power through an integrated voter engagement strategy. CNVPhas deep partnerships with California Indian Tribes and Native-‐led nonprofits as a member of the national Native Voice Network and the Native Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Opportunity Fund Grants.
$25,000 / 2020 https://urbanpeacemovement.org/ Oakland, CA Urban Peace Movement (UPM) is a youth-‐led criminal justice reform grassroots organizing group playing a catalytic role in organizing for the release of youth from California’s jails, detention centers, and juvenile facilities. UPM’s participatory community defense and accountability of prosecutors at the Alameda County Court has successfully blocked prosecutions of Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Annual Grants, Opportunity Fund Grants.
$50,000 / 2020 – 2021 https://speboard.org/ Seattle, WA Somali Parent Education Board (SPEB) believes children’s success depends on strong partnerships between parents, schools, and communities. To that end, SPEBworkswith Somali parents and students to embrace their dual culture while navigating the education system and train parent leaders to provide inform parents through workshops about education Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Annual Grants, Opportunity Fund Grants.
$50,000 / 2020 – 2021 https://info15429.wixsite.com/latinosunidossiempre Salem, OR Latinos Unidos Siempre (LUS) organizes spaces for decolonized-‐leadership models, which they define as spaces for challenging intellectual classism (to address different levels of education, personal knowledge, and ability), and to incorporate community healing with traditional practices, art and the exploration of identity.80 percent of LUS members identify Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Annual Grants, Opportunity Fund Grants.
$50,000 / 2020 – 2021 https://www.litmke.org/ Milwaukee, WI Leaders Igniting Transformation (LIT) is a youth of color-led independent nonprofit. Founded in 2017, LIT engages in youth-led values-based issue and electoral organizing, direct action, advocacy for public policy, and leadership development.LIT’s leadership development program, Black Hogwartz, empowers youth with skills to craft their Youth Power Agenda Read more…
By Rosio
on Monday, July, 13th, 2020 in Annual Grants, Opportunity Fund Grants.
$50,000 / 2020 – 2021 https://www.genteorganizada.org/ Pomona, CA Gente Organizada (Gente) is a community-‐led social action non-‐profit organization based in Pomona whose mission is to bring together generations to access, build, and wield their collective power to achieve educational, economic, and social justice. They guide Pomona youth in researching the needs of the community through Read more…
