Mission

Resist is a foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.

Our Work

For 57 years, Resist has supported thousands of groups working on the frontlines for Indigenous sovereignty, racial justice, gender equality, LGBTQ+ freedom, immigrants’ rights, economic and environmental justice. Movements for social change have transformed since Resist’s founding, and Resist continues to transform with them. Today, we fund progressive organizations that are resisting, re-imagining, healing, and transforming towards the world we want to see.

This Giving Guide

This Giving Guide differs from past Holiday Giving Guides in that it not only includes our "Hell Yeah!" Grantees, but all of our grantees from 2023. Unfortunately, our finances suffered this year, resulting in our grant-making panel having to make some difficult decisions, such as cutting an entire grant cycle and turning away courageous grassroots groups because we simply didn't have the funds.

As U.S. backed wars and genocides rage on, a recession looms, budgets tighten, climate catastrophes wreak havoc, and prices surge, the holidays may look differently for many this year. What remains the same for us at Resist is our gratitude for the thousands of Resisters who help make our grantees' work possible. Thank you for marching with us, hand in hand, to create a different world - one that works for us all.

We also know that movements for justice don't just need resources, they need you. When you support local grassroots activism, national movements for justice and freedom grow stronger and become more nimble. Our Holiday Giving Guide is here to directly connect you with local Resist grantees. Download the guide today, share it widely with your community, and consider getting involved, because it's going to take all of us to change the world for the better.

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“Always ally yourself with those on the bottom, on the margins, and at the periphery of the centers of power. And in doing so, you will land yourself at the very center of some of the most important struggles of our society and our history.” ― Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Support Resist Grantees

Below you’ll find a directory of our 2023 grantees sorted by region. These groups are fighting for justice and changing the material conditions of our current extractive and harmful systems of oppression. They are the blueprint of the radical and critical work happening on the ground across the country and they deserve your direct support this holiday season and beyond.

Click on the grantees' names to learn more about their work and donate to their cause. Some grantees receive donations through fiscal sponsors in which case you can note their name in the description box.

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Resist Grantee Directory

- New England -

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* Art Dept (Whitingham, VT): Located in Southern Vermont, Art Dept is an artist retreat, studio practice and cultural conservancy offering respite, collaboration, and an inclusive space for Queer Trans Black Brown and Indigenous artistic exploration.

* Black and Pink Boston (Boston, MA): Black and Pink Massachusetts is a grassroots organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex while meeting the immediate needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer prisoners and court-involved individuals.

* Brew & Forge (Northampton, MA): The mission of Brew & Forge is to amplify the collective power of writers to alchemize dreaming and build sustainable movements for liberation, justice, and survival.

* George Wiley Center (Pawtucket, RI): The GWC is a statewide organization challenging systems that impact the poor and communities of color across Rhode Island.

* Jericho Boston (Dorchester, MA): Jericho Boston works to liberate prisoners incarcerated for their political beliefs and actions in service of social justice, and to educate the public about historical and continuing harms to social justice organizing from political repression.

* Revere Housing Coalition RHC (Revere, MA): The Revere Housing Coalition (RHC) resident-led voluntary group who advocate for fair, affordable, and diverse housing to meet the needs of people of different incomes, abilities, household types, and stages of life. Email to learn how to support their work: reverehousingcoalition@gmail.com. 

* Repair America Collective (Boston, MA): Repair America Collective's mission is to repair the harm in our communities by elevating consciousness of humanity through learning, sharing, healing, and celebrating. Email to learn more about their work: repairamericacollective@gmail.com.

* Roots 2Empower (Pawtucket, RI): Roots 2Empower’s mission is to improve the lives of formerly justice-involved citizens and their families in Southern New England.

* Sankofa Cooperatives (Hamden, CT): Sankofa Cooperatives is a grassroots economic and community development cooperative, committed to building a Black Self-Determination Ecosystem. Email to learn more about their work: team@sankofa.cafe. 

* Sunlight Media Collective (Lamoine, ME): Sunlight Media Collective documents Indigenous issues, educates the public, and offers media to aid movements for Native sovereignty, particularly in Maine where the State’s refusal to respect our inherent sovereignty & jurisdiction often intersects with environmental justice.

The Black Response Cambridge (Cambridge, MA): The Black Response is the convener of a campaign to defund and abolish the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department and to establish alternative community-based safety initiatives that address the root causes of harm.

* The FANG Collective (Pawtucket, RI): FANG leads direct action campaigns to create a more just world, working across issues to bring communities together to enact powerful change.

* TUrF - Tools for Urban Farming (Bridgeport, CT): TUrF develops and shares information related to skills building, markets and business planning, and technologies for the purposes of building thriving urban farming operations and sectors. Email them for information on how to best support their work: turfct@gmail.com.

* Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network (Greenfield, MA): The Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network seeks to free all transgender asylum seekers from ICE detention and work to dismantle the borders and systems that are designed to kill and oppress with acts of radical love and solidarity.

* Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (Worcester, MA): The Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (WAFT) organizes homeowners and tenants to fight foreclosures, save and return homes illegally foreclosed or halt illegal evictions.

* Worcester Youth Cooperatives (Worcester, MA): Worcester Youth Cooperatives is a youth collective, supported by a circle of adult allies and elders, on a mission to support the power of youth to organize cooperative solutions to social issues they care about.

* Unity Circles CORP (Mattapan, MA): Unity Circles centers communities most impacted by carceral systems by building networks of intergenerational leadership rooted in the values and practices of Transformative and Restorative Justice.

* Youth Justice and Power Union (Dorchester, MA): YJPU is a community grassroots organization led by Black and Brown youth in Boston who lead base-building, political education, and multi-issue campaigns to build collective power and confront systemic injustice through organizing and direct action.

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* Adelante Student Voices (Poughkeepsie, NY): Adelante supports undocumented students and their families in New York State on their unique journeys to higher education while simultaneously building their self-advocacy so that they can increase advance social justice within their communities.

* Aging People in Prison Human Rights Campaign (Washington, D.C.): APP-HRC advocates for the release and human rights of aging women and men in U.S. prisons.

* Apogee Journal (Newburgh, NY): For nearly a decade, Apogee Journal has operated as a biannual literary journal to provide a platform and community for oppressed identities in a literary landscape dominated by white, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal voices.

* Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE - Brooklyn, NY): ARTE engages young people to amplify their voices and organize for human rights changes through the visual arts.

* Centro Corona (Corona, NY): Centro Corona is an intergenerational community center that builds from the experience, leadership, and knowledge of working-class and immigrant communities from Corona and nearby Queens neighborhoods for a self-determined, collectively-imagined future.

* Coalition for Restaurant Safety and Health (Philadelphia, PA): CRSH is a worker-led organization fighting to end sexual harassment and gender violence in the Philadelphia restaurant industry.

* Common Ground CLT (Baltimore, MD): Common Ground works to establish and maintain permanently affordable, democratically controlled, non-commodified housing for the poorest and to build communities where every member is supported so they can participate in the ways they find meaningful.

* Current Movements (Washington D.C.): The mission of Current Movements is to connect activists, organizations, and movements around the world using film, art, and technology.

* DJC Records (Brooklyn, NY): DJC Records works to dismantle stereotypes around race and prison in America by amplifying the voices of justice-impacted musicians and artists.

* Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted (Brooklyn, NY): FFWC seeks to eliminate the occurrence of wrongful convictions and to exonerate the unjustly incarcerated.

* First Foods Program (New York, NY): First Foods seeks food sovereignty for Indigenous peoples through education, community, and mutual aid.

* Germantown Residents for Economic Alternatives Together (Philadelphia, PA): GREAT is using our collective resources to grow food, share tools, support each other in times of need, organize around issues of housing justice, and strengthen our holistic health and well-being.

* Healing Communities USA (Philadelphia, PA): Healing Communities USA aims to be the premier directly impacted led, faith-based justice transformation collective in Pennsylvania building power to tear down all systems of oppression.

* Heaux History (Philadelphia, PA): The Heaux History Project (HHP) is a Black-led project that aims to gather the stories and histories of Black and brown sex workers through collecting oral interviews, writings, and artistic representations.

* Herb and Temple (Washington, D.C.): Herb and Temple is a community organization that seeks the liberation and restoration of BIPOC (Black people, Indigenous people, and people of color) by bridging spirituality and holistic wellness with political efficacy through education.

* Human Rights Coalition-FedUp! (Pittsburgh, PA): Human Rights Coalition FedUp! is dedicated to upholding the human and civil rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustices, building relationships with people in prison and teaching their loved ones to be advocates.

* Immigrant Rights Action (Doylestown, PA): Immigrant Rights Action offers immediate and ongoing support to our Bucks County neighbors threatened with detention and deportation, and acts to uphold the legal and human rights of all immigrants.

* Linke Fligl (Millerton, NY): Linke Fligl is a Queer, Jewish chicken farm and cultural organizing project building a radical diasporic Jewish future rooted in land, tradition, healing, and justice.

* Making Worlds Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA): Making Worlds Bookstore is a bookstore and social center that emphasizes abolitionist and climate-adapted autonomy and ecological self-determination, and the affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, and Indigenous traditions of liberation.

* McKoy Dance Project (Brooklyn, NY): McKoy Dance Project's mission is to empower one another, emphasizing marginalized communities by blending authentic stories, arts programming, and accessible events to strengthen community relationships and support systems.

* Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna (Corona, NY): Ñukanchik Llakta Wawakuna is an Andean dance and music collective with a feminist practice in Corona, Queens that builds the foundations for girls to develop as cultural bearers, and challenge the patriarchy in our own culture and society.

* Native American House Alliance Inc. (Philadelphia, PA): NAHA’s mission is to foster and preserve Native American culture and history, as well as promote, racial, economic, and health justice. 

* The National LGBTQ Workers Center (New York, NY): NLWC uses issue-based, grassroots organizing, and labor education to increase TLGBQIA2S workers’ capacity to engage in fights that protect their rights at work and in the community.

* Palestinian Feminist Collective (White Plains, NY): The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a US-based body of Palestinian and Arab women and feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession. Donate via email palestinianfeminists@gmail.com.

* Palestinian Youth Movement (White Plains, NY): The PYM is a youth-led, grassroots movement committed to the leadership development and cultural empowerment of young Palestinian and Arab communities in the U.S., so they may become protagonists of social transformation in their communities.

* Philly Homes 4 Youth (Philadelphia, PA): Philly Homes 4 Youth advocates for justice for youth and young adults with lived experience of homelessness in Philadelphia.

* Philly Palestine Coalition (Philadelphia, PA): The Philly Palestine Coalition's mission is to challenge global systems of oppression including displacement, racism, transphobia, and capitalism through political education, coalition building, civil disobedience, and cultural events. Email to learn how to support their work: phillypalestinecoalition@gmail.com. 

* P0STB1NARY (Washington, D.C.): P0STB1NARY is a Washington, DC-based counter-cultural ecosystem and music platform uplifting the autonomy, safety, wellness, and creative development of Black trans and gender-expansive cultural workers.

* People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation (Washington, D.C.): The People’s Collective will engage folks across the country and globe to be a part of a movement that addresses Anti-Asian Racism and builds cross-racial solidarity with other communities of color.

* Philly Children's Movement (Philadelphia, PA): The Philly Children’s Movement (PCM) is a network of families and educators building racial literacy and organizing for racial justice.

* Prisoner Justice & Whistleblower Support Campaign (Pittsburgh, PA): To support and protect jailhouse lawyers and whistleblowers in jails, prisons, and immigrant detention while they expose and litigate human rights violations and other issues of mass incarceration. To ensure they are treated with dignity and humanity

* Project Hajra (Jamaica, NY): Project Hajra is a membership-based, peer-supported, transformative justice initiative based in Southeast Queens, NYC.

* Troy 4 Black Lives (Albany, NY): Since our inception in 2017, Troy 4 Black Lives (T4BL) has been catalyzing a movement for Black life by nurturing Black leaders, building critical mass, and leading a City-wide multi-racial coalition to increase police accountability and transparency.

* Kanenhi:io Ionkwiaenthos / Rematriation Magazine (Awkesasne, NY): Kanenhi:io Ionkwaienthos supports a Sisterhood of Haudenosaunee and Indigenous women who are reclaiming traditional identity, culture, laws, and authority through peace, love, healing, and uplifting the minds of our Indigenous nations.

* Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P. ' New York, NY): S.T.O.P. advocates and litigates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance which disproportionately harm already-vulnerable communities.

* The Black Sex Worker Collective (Brooklyn, NY): Through their commitment to the leadership of Black sex workers, the Black Sex Worker Collective (BSWC) normalizes and humanizes the narrative on sex workers, their lives, and skills.

The United Covenant Union (Baltimore, MD): To develop power among low-wage workers, food-insecure families by building a union that holds workplaces, social service agencies, and local government accountable to the people.

* Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations (FEDUP ' Brooklyn, NY): The mission of FEDUP is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, empowerment, and education.

* Troy 4 Black Lives (Troy, NY): Troy 4 Black Lives is a primarily Black-led intergenerational collective of organizers in Troy, NY formed to demand accountability, transparency, and transformative justice in policing and community safety.

* We Rise (Brooklyn, NY): We Rise is an organizing and peer training program working to transform the domestic worker industry.

* The Womanist Working Collective (Philadelphia, PA): The Womanist Working Collective is a grassroots social action and support collective for Black women, femmes, and GNC folx.

* Womanly (Philadelphia, PA): Womanly promotes the health and well-being of marginalized communities by providing accessible health resources, communicated through visual and literary art, for women and non-binary people of color.

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* Adoptees for Justice (Chicago, IL): Adoptees for Justice is an intercountry adoptee-led organization whose mission is to educate, empower, and organize transracial and transnational adoptee communities to achieve just and humane adoption, immigration, and restorative justice systems.

* Center for People's Self Determination (Sant Louis, MO): The Center for People's Self Determination builds self-determination in Black neighborhoods in Saint Louis, Missouri.

* CIRCA Pintig (Chicago, IL): CIRCA Pintig is a community arts organization dedicated to giving voice to the experiences and struggles of immigrant communities using the participatory potential of the arts.

* Contact Center Inc. (Cincinnati, OH): Contact Center is a membership organization that organizes for economic, social, racial, and gender equity and justice.

* FOCUS Initiatives LTD (Indianapolis, IN): FOCUS Initiatives LTD works to provide reentry support to activists who have been imprisoned so that they can become involved in movement organizing in communities targeted by the prison-industrial complex after their release from prison.

* Healing by Choice! (Detroit, MI): Healing by Choice! is a circle of BIPOC women and gender nonconforming healing practitioners rooted in Detroit, MI that offers accessible wellness tools to local and national groups to integrate healing justice into their social infrastructures.

* Indiana Department of Correction Watch (IDOC Watch - Indianapolis, IN): IDOC Watch is building power inside Indiana prisons and across the bars separating prisoners from their families, loved ones, and outside organizers.

* Indigenous Peoples Power Project (Rapid City, SD): Indigenous Peoples Power Project's mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign support, and community organizing tools to support indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.

* Lakota LockUp Project (Rapid City, South Dakota):The Lakota LockUp Project advocates for American Indians affected by the justice system by supporting innovative approaches for cultural and historical trauma survival that rebuilds lives, strengthens communities, and enables economic justice.

* Masjid al-Rabia (Chicago, IL): Masjid al-Rabia is a women-centered, BIPOC-led, and LGBTQ+ affirming Islamic community center with a mission to provide spiritual support for marginalized Muslims with healing justice practices in mind.

* Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change (Columbus, OH): OFUPAC’s mission is to end state violence against communities in Ohio by uplifting and amplifying the voices of impacted families to transform the criminal and civil justice landscape in Ohio.

* The Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti (Ypsilanti, MI): The Mutual Aid Network of Ypsilanti focuses on “solidarity, not charity” when working with their neighbors. Instead of a top down charity approach, they build real relationships from the bottom up – power to the people who live in the struggle!

* Strategy for Access Foundation NFP (Chicago, IL Strategy): Access Foundation NFP provides educational and entertaining documentaries for the disability community so that they become aware that they’re an integral part of society and that they have much to share not in spite of their disability, but because of who they are.

* SoapBox Productions and Organizing (Chicago, IL): SoapBox Productions and Organizing's mission is to utilize media to power and sustain social movements for a more equitable and creative world

* Suburban Connections for Collective Liberation (Pontiac, MI): The Suburban Connections for Collective Liberation Newsletter is committed to uplifting and connecting emerging anti-racist, anti-capitalist, climate, and social justice organizing in suburban metro-Detroit.

* United Transporters Community Council (Chicago, IL): United Transporters Community Council organizes and unifies all licensed chauffeurs in the Chicago area so that they can collectively overcome oppression and achieve economic justice.

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* Arco Iris Earth Care Project (Ponca, Arkansas): Arco Iris Earth Care Project is a rural grassroots nonprofit organization, founded in 1980 by Latinx and Native American Two Spirit Womxn, dedicated to preserving and teaching Indigenous culture, spirituality, and sustainability practices.

* adé PROJECT (Barnardsville, NC): Afraka Designing Emergence (adé PROJECT) is on a mission to actualize equity, spark creative inquiry and reclaim the narrative cooperating with BIPOC to preserve culture with creative, sustainable solutions – one project at a time.

* Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement (Athens, Georgia): The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement advocates for racial and social justice and strives to combat discrimination through education and activism.

* Cocoon Collective NWA (Fayetteville, AR): Cocoon Collective provides safe spaces, resources and advocacy for queer adolescents in Northwest Arkansas. In a housing-first model with a particular focus on Trans and genderqueer individuals..

* Dignity Power (Tallahassee, FL): Dignity Power was born out of a movement to provide dignity for incarcerated women and girls+. We operate with a mission to build political power amongst the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated, with a focus on impacting women and girls+.

* Elmahaba Center (Nashville, TN): To strengthen our communities, in particular our Arabic-speaking neighbors, through collective care, cultural awareness, and knowledge towards liberation and social justice.

* Greensboro Mutual Aid (Greensboro, NC): Our work is one of providing alternative structures and possibility models for organizations, collectives, and communities locally, all while dreaming up the future and remembering our past survival ways.

* Ice Out of East Tennessee (Knoxville, TN): IOETN is a grassroots organization that works to build community alternatives to ICE and policing in East Tennessee

* Immigrant Action Alliance (Hollywood, FL): Our mission is to end isolation for those in immigrant detention centers, hold ICE accountable, spread awareness, and ultimately end immigrant detention.

* Migrants of Tennessee United (Chattanooga, TN): Migrants of Tennessee United engage local migrants to organize our collective power, defend our communities against racial injustices, and unify with ongoing movements for civil liberties, human rights, and equity in the South.

* Re-Entry Mediation Institute of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA): The Re-Entry Mediation Institute of Louisiana seeks to decrease recidivism rates and improve a person’s transition home from incarceration with the sustainable support of positive relationships with family and friends.

* Renters & Unhoused Neighbors Alliance of Central TX (Austin, TX): Renters & Unhoused Neighbors Alliance of Central TX is an organization of working class BIPOC renters and unhoused neighbors who have directly experienced homelessness and threats of eviction, working to build the community power needed to end housing exploitation & get our communities housed. Email to learn more about their work: runactx@gmail.com. 

* Root Cause Research Center (Louisville, KY): The Root Cause Research Center (RCRC) is a movement based organization grounded in solidarity research and abolition that works alongside and trains and organizes community members to investigate community concerns.

* Safe Space Fort Smith (Van Buren, AK): Safe Space Fort Smith is an organization committed to changing the social constructs of home and place.

* SBG Digital (Charlotte, NC): SBG Digital counters the culturally specific dis-/mis-information targeted at Black communities in digital spaces.

* Sexy Sex Ed (Knoxville, KY): Sexy Sex Ed is a queer and trans inclusive age-appropriate workshop series that compels teenagers and people of all ages to openly discuss personal and political consent, sexual safety, and anatomy.

* Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH ' Miami, FL): SMASH aims to create a Community Land Trust that will address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification and that is shaped, developed, and implemented by those same residents.

Ishtar Collective (Apopka, FL): The Ishtar Collective is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the intersectional issues of sex work with LGBTQIA+, race, class, gender, and disability equity.

* Patients Not Prisoners (Augustine, FL): Patients Not Prisoners is dedicated to creating a world where families of incarcerated loved ones with mental illness are supported with accessible resources.

* Texas Prison Community Advocates (Fulton, TX): TPCA educates and supports family members, incarcerated individuals, and others by connecting them to organizational resources, encouraging awareness, and advocating for the advancement of humane conditions within the Texas Prisons.

* The Social Justice Center (Charlotte, NC): The Social Justice Center works to dismantle the regimes of oppression that impact the lives of Black women, girls, femmes and gender-expansive folx.

* South Bend Commons (Atlanta, GA): The South Bend Commons is a real-life gathering place for urban experiments in community, autonomy, and resilience in Atlanta

* Turning Tables (New Orleans, LA): Turning Tables advocates for equity in the hospitality industry by providing bar training, mentorship, educational tools, and a network of support for the Black and Brown communities of New Orleans.

* Underground Recovery Jax (Jacksonville, FL): Underground Recovery Jax promotes better health outcomes for individuals affected by the harms associated with substance use, blood-borne infections, and overdose through providing direct peer support and education.

* Unspoken Treasure Society (Gainesville, FL): Unspoken Treasure Society exists to inspire, empower, uplift, and create platforms to give a voice to voiceless Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

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* All Relations United (Las Cruces, NM): All Relations United utilizes the Lakota philosophy of Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related," as our guiding principle, to unite, reinvest in and empower our communities.

* Black Leaders Collective (Austin, TX): Because we know it is our responsibility as Black leaders in the Black community to identify and solve issues that affect us today and in the future, the Black Leaders Collective has united more than 100 Black leaders in the Central TX area.

* Houston ISD Student Congress (Houston, TX): The Houston ISD Student Congress is a student-run, student-led organization that advocates for youth power and educational justice in Houston.

* Movement Training Network (Tierra Amarilla, NM): A social action and advocacy organization working to preserve, protect and improve the environment by increasing participation in social movements for climate justice, environmental justice, and a just transition from unhealthy living conditions.

* ScholarshipsA-Z (Tucson, AZ): ScholarshipsA-Z equips immigrant youth with the tools and networks to pursue higher education, navigate the workforce and become agents of change.

* The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement (Houston, TX): The Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement is committed to abolishing all forms of state-sanctioned executions. Email tsiddiqi@smu.edu to learn how to donate and support this group.

* Tucson Alliance for Housing Justice (Tucson, AZ): TAHJ strives to shift mentalities and relationships with land and housing, away from commodification and extraction and towards connection, healing, and meeting of needs of all people and species who call Tucson/Chukson home.

* Uri L'Tzedek (Scottsdale, AZ): Uri L’Tzedek is an Orthodox social justice organization guided by Torah values and dedicated to combating suffering and oppression. Through community-based education, leadership development, and action, Uri L’Tzedek creates discourse, inspires leaders, and empowers the Jewish community toward creating a more just world.

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* AANHPI Lactation Collaborative of California (Rancho Cucamonga, CA): We mobilize AANHPI communities, reproductive health advocates, and public health agencies through advocacy, capacity building and systemic policy changes, grounded in our cultural context, to uplift AANHPI communities and protect our right to thrive.

* ABO Comix (Oakland, CA): A.B.O. Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art.

* Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA) or Association of People United for Water (Visalia, CA): AGUA is a grassroots coalition of 382 members and supporters from 32 low-income and people of color communities, dedicated to securing safe, clean, and affordable drinking water in California's San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast.

Arab American Civic Council (Anaheim, CA): Arab American Civic Council strives to advance the Arab American community by encouraging their civic participation through community organizing, advocacy, public policy, leadership development, cultural outreach, and cultivating partnerships with other communities.

* Black Lives Matter Sacramento (Sacramento, CA): Black Lives Matter Sacramento (BLMSac) is fighting for systemic equity and rebuilding, against systemic violence of Black communities, and healing and joy for impacted Black folks in Sacramento.

* Call BlackLine (San Diego, CA): The mission of BlackLine is to provide hope and promote social justice for individuals, families, and communities through immediate crisis counseling and collecting information on negative police and vigilante contact in the United States of America.

* Centro CSO (Los Angeles, CA): Centro CSO organizes for the rights of the undocumented and quality public education as well as fighting against the police killings of Chicanos / Latinos in the communities of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.

* Classroom of Compassion (Encino, CA): Classroom of Compassion is a Queer, Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to the cultivation of compassion and creativity within our communities as we work to create sacred moments of emotional respite and connect people through the arts.

* Creating Freedom Movements: more justice, more joy (Richmond, CA): Creating Freedom Movements cultivates holistic, healing-centered, visionary leaders as they collaboratively incubate justice and joy projects that nurture cross-issue solidarity while pushing our changing world in a liberatory direction.

* Critical Resistance - Oakland (Oakland, CA): Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

* Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (Los Angeles, CA): The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (FLHI) was founded to promote the name, history, legacy, and accomplishments of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and her leadership in the civil and human rights movement and as a freedom fighter.

* FEDUP Collective (San Diego, CA): FEDUP is a collective of trans+, intersex, and gender-diverse people whose mission is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender-diverse individuals.

* Feed Black Futures (Claremont, CA): Empowering Black liberation by creating access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it.

* Freedom Archives (San Francisco, CA): Freedom Archives is an educational archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical media documenting progressive movements and culture and our mission is: “Preserve the past - illuminate the present - shape the future.”

* Global Women's Strike/LA (Los Angeles, CA): Anti-racist women crossing divides of sectors to demand a living wage for all our work including low-waged and unwaged caring, justice and survival work, and for resources to go to care for people & the planet, not war, profit, war, occupation, prisons.

* Hope Analytics (Oakland, CA): Hope Analytics is a digital advocacy leader helping advocacy organizations collect and amplify the stories that grow movements, elect progressive leaders, and pass people-centered public policies.

* Hunters of Color (Corvallis, OR): Hunters of Color creates a more equitable community for people of color by dismantling barriers to entry through educational opportunities, mentorships, and resources for new hunters.

* Liberation Medicine School (Seattle, WA): LMS’s mission is to organize a collective of Black Trans/Gender Non-Conforming/Non-Binary healers and students to create an Afro-indigenous healthcare and decolonial teaching program that meets the wellness needs of the Black LGBTQI community.

* Lifewerq Project (Seattle, WA): Lifewerq provides full spectrum birthwork trainings by and for trans and gender non-conforming Black, Indigenous, People of Color and creates networks of care across birth, trans and reproductive liberation and justice centering Indigenous and intuitive ways

* Massage Parlor Outreach Project (Seattle, WA): Massage Parlor Outreach Project (MPOP) organizes to build worker power through organizing and leadership to provide support for migrant Asian massage parlor workers, sex workers, and care workers in the greater Seattle area.

* Majdal Community Center (El Cajon, CA): The Majdal Community Center seeks to empower all members of the Arab community in San Diego through campaigning, advocacy, and cultural programming.

* NativeWomanshare (Grants Pass, OR): Nativewomanshare creates events, advocacy and cultural experiences for safety, representation, and community building for the Native, BIPOC and 2SLGBTQ+ communities of rural Southern Oregon.

* Oakland Workers Fund (Oakland, CA): Oakland Workers Fund's mission is to support, uplift, aid, protect and empower unemployed, displaced, unhoused, undocumented workers and the Black, Indigenous, brown, Latinx, POC original Oakland community at large, during the pandemic and beyond.

* Spirit Root Medicine People (Berkley, CA): Spirit Root Medicine People's mission is for Two Spirit people to reclaim their Indigenous sacred roles & assist all QTBIPOC to heal themselves in order to heal their communities.

* Therapinay (Oakland, CA): Therapinay's mission is to build Filipino resiliency through collective care, kapwa, and liberation.

* The Sibling Transformation Project (Berkeley, CA): The Sibling Transformation Project is an anti-ableist organization of siblings of disabled people supporting transformation in families with disabilities towards an interdependent world where all of our access needs are met.

* Truth in Recruitment (Santa Barbara, CA): Truth in Recruitment's mission is to educate students, families, and school districts about alternatives to military careers, inform families of their children's privacy rights, and advocate for policies regulating recruiter presence on campuses.

* Queer Crescent (Oakland, CA): Queer Crescent's work is shaped by resisting gendered violence through cultural organizing, base-building, and defining Muslimness as an expansive racialized identity.

* Somos Familia Valle (Mission Hills, CA): Somos Familia Valle organizes for intersectional LGBTQ+ justice and liberation through transformative dialogue, advocacy, and civic engagement.

* Unapologetically HERS (San Leandro, CA): Unapologetically HERS' mission is to increase access to information flows for system-impacted people and support their leadership development through research, system navigation, and storytelling.

* Valley Improvement Projects (VIP - Modesto, CA): VIP's mission is to improve the quality of life of underrepresented and marginalized residents of California’s Central Valley by advocating for social and environmental justice.

* Washington Ethnic Studies Now Consulting (Burien, WA): Ethnic Studies in every classroom of WA State taught by anti-racist educators committed to centering the history and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

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* Black Liberation Collective (Boise, ID): Modeling the leadership of their Black ancestors, the Black Liberation Collective strives to radically restore minoritized people across their rural state through spaces of resistance and vanguard practices of healing-centered liberation driven by, for, and with beloved community.

* Disabled Rights Action Committee (Salt Lake, Utah): The Disabled Rights Action Committee (DRAC) works to establish equal rights for people with disabilities through enforcement of federal and state laws.

* Denver Alliance for Street Health Response (Denver, CO): DASHR creates and supports community-based responses to crisis and conflict as a way to ensure public health and safety.

* Grand Valley Resident Team (Parachute, CO): Grand Valley Resident Team changes lives by removing language barriers and building economic resources. Email them to find out ways to support their work:GrandValleyRT@gmail.com. 

* The Breathe Network (Portland, OR): TBN connects survivors of sexual violence with sliding-scale, holistic healing practitioners and provides practitioners with education and training on the impacts of sexual trauma and best practices in trauma-informed care.

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* Borikua Taino Foundation (Ponce, Puerto Rico): The Borikua Taino Foundation is dedicated to helping Borikua Taino achieve higher levels of education, preserve their unique cultural identity, land preservation, & develop sustainable health programs by uplifting & promoting our traditions. Email nacionborikuataino@gmail.com for donations. 

* Hawaii Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (Aiea, Hawai'i): HICHRP’s mission is two-fold: to raise Hawai’i’s awareness on Philippine human struggles and their intersection and impacts on Hawai’i and to train advocates for human rights through linking work between in Hawai’i and the Philippines.

* Herbal Gardens Wellness: Herbal Gardens Wellness envisions creating together One Community of Intersections of Native Cultural Diversity, Equitable Health and Wellness Access including environmental preservation for current and future generations.

* Mauna Kea Awareness and Education Hui (Kamuela, HI): The mission of MKEA is to educate and raise awareness in and beyond Hawai’i on the significance of Mauna Kea by providing cultural learning opportunities to everyone in order to protect sacred places and seek social justice and positive change.

Ominira (formerly Semillas - San Juan, PR): Ominira's mission is to provide a sacred, safer space of healing for Afro-indigenous trans, queer, sick, and disabled folks in Borikén where we can deepen and heal our relationship to the land and our Afro-indigenous ancestors while using indigenous agroforestry and regenerative design methods, connecting with the land through growing food and medicines, creating ceremonial space, participating in workshops and training on healing, survival strategies, and sustainable and regenerative living practices. Donate to Ominira via PayPal using the email ominira_pr@protonmail.com.

* Wisdom Circles Oceania (Kaneohe, HI): Wisdom Circles Oceania cultivates healthy, thriving communities through healing-centered programs rooted in creative expression and cultural connection. By providing environments for collaboration and expression, we increase understanding and safety.

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[Image description: Pro-Palestinian protesters hold a banner with the inscription 'Ceasefire' as they make their way to the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday Oct. 18, 2023. Photo credit: Ignatius Annor.]

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