What and Where We Fund

ACLU of Alabama

ACLU of Alabama (2023)

Amount: $350,000
End Year: 2025
Montgomery, AL

The ACLU of Alabama’s mission is to support, defend and advocate for civil liberties, civil rights, and the humanity of every person through a shared narrative, education, public policy, legal action, and power building with impacted communities. This grant provides general operating, organizational development and regranting support.

 

 

Rural Community Alliance

Advocates for Community and Rural Education dba Rural Community Alliance (2023)

Amount: $195,000
End Year: 2025
Little Rock, AR

The mission of Rural Community Alliance is to empower rural communities to effect change by creating opportunities in education, economic development and youth empowerment to improve quality of life and place. This grant provides general operating and organizational development support.

Rural Community Alliance

Advocates for Community and Rural Education, dba Rural Community Alliance (2021)

Amount: $170,000
End Year: 2023
Little Rock, AR

The mission of Rural Community Alliance is to empower rural communities to effect change by creating opportunities in education, economic development and youth empowerment to improve quality of life and place. This grant provides general operating support.

Alabama Arise (2022)

Amount: $350,000
End Year: 2024
Montgomery, AL

Alabama Arise is a statewide, member-led organization advancing public policies to improve the lives of Alabamians who are marginalized by poverty. It is made up of over 150 member groups and over 1,700 individual members united in our belief that people in poverty are suffering because of state policy decisions. Through Arise, groups and individuals join together to promote state policies to improve the lives of people suffering because of poverty. Through policy analysis, advocacy and organizing, Arise provides a structure in which Alabamians can engage in public debates to promote the common good. This grant provides general operating and organizational development support.

Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice (2023)

Amount: $250,000
End Year: 2025
Montgomery, AL

ACIJ’s mission is to work for the rights and dignity of all people by cultivating just policies, encouraging grassroots leadership and participation, building alliances, and amplifying the voices and contributions of immigrants in Alabama. ACIJ works to create an Alabama that values justice, nurtures equality, and protects the rights of everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or migratory status. This grant provides general operating and organizational development support.

Alabama Forward (2022)

Amount: $375,000
End Year: 2024
Birmingham, AL

Alabama Forward is a coalition of grassroots organizations that aims to enhance the ability of members to shape public narrative, build political power of historically marginalized communities, and break down barriers to civic participation. This grant provides general operating support and regranting. 

Amplify Fund (2023)

Amount: $425,000
End Year: 2025
San Francisco, CA

Amplify Fund has two overarching goals: the first is to nurture and strengthen the conditions necessary for historically marginalized people to maintain and build decision-making power, and the second is to shift where, to whom, and how philanthropy provides support so that communities in its eight places are adequately resourced. This grant provides regranting and project support.

Appalachia Funders Network

Appalachia Funders Network (2021)

Amount: $60,000
End Year: 2023
Asheville, NC

Appalachia Funders Network seeks to accelerate an equitable Appalachian transition by convening and connecting funders for learning, analysis and collaboration. This grant provides general operating support. 

Appalachia Funders Network

Appalachia Funders Network (2023)

Amount: $45,000
End Year: 2025
Asheville, NC

The mission of AFN is to accelerate an equitable Appalachian transition by convening and connecting funders for learning, analysis, and collaboration. We envision a healthy, equitable, and vibrant region that, through strong partnerships, civic engagement, and leadership, preserves our unique assets and provides prosperity for all. This grant provides general operating support.

Appalachian Citizens' Law Center

Appalachian Citizens' Law Center (2021)

Amount: $150,000
End Year: 2023
Whitesburg, KY

The Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center is a nonprofit law firm that fights for justice in the coalfields by representing coal miners and their families on issues of black lung and mine safety and by working with grassroots groups and individuals to protect the land and people from misuse and degradation caused by extractive industries. This grant provides general operating support. 

Appalachian Citizens' Law Center

Appalachian Citizens' Law Center (2023)

Amount: $45,000
End Year: 2025
Whitesburg, KY

The Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center is a nonprofit law firm that fights for justice in the coalfields by representing coal miners and their families on issues of black lung and mine safety and by working with grassroots groups and individuals to protect the land and people from misuse and degradation caused by extractive industries. This grant provides general operating support.

Appalachian Voices

Appalachian Voices (2022)

Amount: $112,500
End Year: 2024
Boone, NC

Founded in 1997, Appalachian Voices brings people together to protect the land, air and water of Central and Southern Appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy. This grant provides project support.

Appalshop

Appalshop, Inc (2021)

Amount: $150,000
End Year: 2023
Whitesburg, KY

Appalshop’s mission is to enlist the power of art to document, interpret and revitalize the traditions and contemporary creativity of Appalachia; to tell stories the commercial cultural industries don’t, challenging stereotypes with Appalachian visions and voices, to support communities’ efforts to achieve justice and equity; to promote cultural diversity, pluralism and human rights as positive social values, and to participate in regional, national and global movements towards these ends. This grant provides general operating support.

 

Arkansas Public Policy Panel

Arkansas Public Policy Panel (2022)

Amount: $300,000
End Year: 2024
Little Rock, AR

Arkansas Public Policy Panel is a statewide organization dedicated to achieving social and economic justice by organizing citizen groups around the state, educating and supporting them to be more effective and powerful, and linking them with one another in coalitions and networks. The Panel seeks to bring balance to the public policy process in Arkansas. This grant provides general operating support.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta (2022)

Amount: $700,000
End Year: 2024
Norcross, GA

Rooted in the dreams of immigrants and inspired by the promise of opportunity, Asian Americans Advancing Justice advocates for an America in which all Americans can benefit equally from, and contribute to, the American dream. Its mission is to advance the civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all. This grant provides general operating support and regranting.   

Athens Land Trust

Athens Land Trust, Inc. (2021)

Amount: $112,500
End Year: 2023
Athens, GA

Athens Land Trust's mission is to improve quality of life for all by preserving, protecting and strengthening the fabric of the community through education and the stewardship of land for purposes of affordable housing, conservation, agriculture and economic development. This grant provides general operating support.

Census Equity Initiative (2023)

Amount: $400,000
End Year: 2025
Washington, DC

The Census Equity Initiative is dedicated to ensuring the Census Bureau and its partners accurately and fairly count historically undercounted populations for the purposes of enumeration and equitable resource distribution. It is an initiative of the New Venture Fund. This grant provides general operating and regranting support.

Center for Heirs' Property Preservation (2022)

Amount: $350,000
End Year: 2024
Charleston, SC

The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation aims to protect heirs’ property and promote the sustainable use of land to provide increased economic benefit to historically underserved families to build wealth through education, legal services and forestry technical assistance. This grant provides general operating support.

Center for Rural Strategies

Center for Rural Strategies (2022)

Amount: $160,000
End Year: 2024
Whitesburg, KY

Center for Rural Strategies is a national organization that uses media and communications to frame the public discourse that centers on the voices and stories of rural people and communities. This grant provides general operating and organizational development support.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (2022)

Amount: $850,000
End Year: 2024
Washington, DC

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is committed to increasing economic opportunity across the country, especially for low- and moderate-income individuals. CBPP’s state fiscal work leverages expertise in state budget and tax policy, strategic communications and partnerships with state allies – particularly the State Priorities Partnership – to create modern, equitable and sustainable revenue streams needed to fund investments that grow economies, expand opportunity and extend economic security. This grant provides project and regranting support.