2011 Grantees

Since 1967 RESIST has supported thousands of organizations fighting for social change. In 2011 we funded 130 different grassroots groups in 35 different states across the US.

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CENTRAL and LATIN AMERICA and THE CARIBBEAN

• Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Portland, Oregon. $2,500 to mobilize workers and students in the fight for human rights and social justice in Latin America and in Oregon.
• Witness for Peace—Southeast. Raleigh, North Carolina.  $2,000 to support peace, justice and sustainable economies by changing US policies and corporate practices in Latin America and the Caribbean.

COMMUNITY and ANTI-RACISM ORGANIZING

• A Community Voice. New Orleans, Louisiana. $2,500 to organize low to moderate income families to fight for social and economic justice in their local communities and across the state.
• Activist Training Institute. Boston, Massachusetts. $2,000 to train Asian Pacific American youth to build capacity for social justice and activism as part of a movement for social justice.
• Alliance of South Asians Taking Action. San Francisco, California. $2,000 to educate, organize and empower South Asian communities to end violence, oppression, racism and exploitation in the Bay Area.
• Center for Justice, Peace, and Environment. Fort Collins, Colorado. $4,000 to organize for peace and social/enviromental justice through direc action, education and community-empowerment. $500 to stop an eviction for a housing development. Multi-year Grant. Emergency Grant.
• Central Oregon Peace Network. Bend, Oregon. $1,300 to work for peace by opposing militarism, human rights abuses and environmental degradation through educational and community organizing.
• Chattanooga Organized for Action. Chattanooga, Tennessee. $3,000 to give people the tools they need to wage successful campaigns through direct action.
• Coalition for Educational Justice. Los Angeles, California. $1,500 to challenge institutional racism and inequities that exist within the Los Angeles Unified School District.
• Countywide Family Development Center. Laurel, Mississippi. $2,500 to use direct organizing campaigns to build power and win campaigns for immigrant justice.
• Cumberland Center for Justice and Peace. Sewanee, Tennessee. $2,000 to educate, empower and take action for social, cultural and environmental change locally, nationally and globally.
• Faith Action for Community Equity Maui. Kihei, Hawaii. $2,000 to build leadership in underrepresented communities and mobilize people of color to advocate for better policies that improve quality of life.
• Jobs with Justice—Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky. $500 in emergency funding to share organizing strategies to defeat the newly passed anti-immigrant legislation in Georgia. Emergency Grant.
• Manufactured Home Owners of America Association. Seattle, Washington. $2,000 to improve living conditions for people who own their homes but not the land underneath them by challenging unfair state and local laws.
• MataHari: Eye of the Day. Boston, Massachusetts. $4,000 to mobilize, advocate and create safe spaces for survivors of labor exploitation, trafficking, racism, heterosexism and sexual, societal and familial oppression.
• Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates. St. Louis, Missouri. $4,000 to organize and advocate for the basic rights of all immigrants.
• Nashville Homeless Power Project. Nashville, Tennessee. $1,000 to organize current and formerly homeless people and their allies to eradicate homelessness and poverty in Nashville.
• National Alliance of HUD Tenants. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. $1,800 to provide a national training and field support system to ensure that local organizers and tenant leaders have the tools they need for effective organizing.
• Nebraskans for Peace. Lincoln, Nebraska. $3,500 to work nonviolently for peace with justice through community building, education and political action.
• Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Woodside, New York. $4,000 to build a politically active Korean community in New York through campaigns for increased social, economic, and educational justice.
• Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane. Spokane, Washington. $3,000 to involve individuals and local communities in building foundations for a just and non-violent world.
• Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. Bangor, Maine. $4,000 to link individuals and groups concerned with peace, social and environmental justice issues in Eastern Maine. Multi-year Grant.
• People’s Durham. Durham, North Carolina. $3,000 to increase community control of the public sector and democratic decision-making power of working class communities of color.
• Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission. Colorado Springs, Colorado. $2,000 to educate and raise awareness around issues of environmental, social and economic justice
• Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts. Amherst, Massachusetts. $3,000 to unite students, staff, faculty, alumni and parents to advocate for an accessible, affordable and well funded public higher education system.
• Somali Bantu Community Mutual Assistance Association of Lewiston/Auburn Maine. Lewiston, Maine. $1,000 to advocate for the rights of Somali Bantu immigrants in their local community
• Southside Together Organizing for Power. Chicago, Illinois. $4,000 to organize for economic and social human rights by developing leadership among people most affected by economic and racial oppression.
• Tennessee Alliance for Progress. Nashville, Tennessee. $3,000 to build healthy families and communities in Tennessee and $500 to to enable staff to participate in the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Advanced Art of Leadership training
• Texans United for Families. Austin, Texas. $2,000 to end immigrant detention and to demand the recognition of human rights for all, regardless of immigration status.
• The Interfaith Alliance of Idaho. Boise, Idaho. $4,000 to work on the interrelations between racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in Idaho. $500 for members to attend the Western States Center’s organizer’s boot camp. Technical Assistnace Grant.
• The Policy Institute. Helena, Montana. $2,000 for a progressive policy think-tank that provides support and expertise for activist agendas organizing against corporate economics.
• Umatilla Morrow Alternatives. Hermiston, Oregon. $4,000 to fight discrimination by developing leadership among communities of color and GLBT populations.
• United Campus Ministry. Athens, Ohio. $3,000 to organize for social justice among faith-based communities and allies in Appalachian Southeast Ohio.
• United Vision for Idaho. Boise, Idaho. $2,000 to improve infrastructure of grassroots groups and the skills of their leaders and mobilize collaborative issue campaigns to change public policy.
• Voz Hispana Causa Cesar Chavez. Woodburn, Oregon. $4,000 to advance local Latino political power and advocate for more responsiveness in the Woodburn Public Schools.
• Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice. Madison, Wisconsin. $4,000 to bring together organizations and individuals working toward a sustainable world, free from violence and injustice.
• Wyoming Association of Churches. Laramie, Wyoming. $2,600 to promote spiritual growth, stewardship of the land and social justice.

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

• Arise for Social Justice. Springfield, Massachusetts. $4,000 to organize poor, homeless, at-risk, working, unemployed people for voting rights, housing, health care and criminal justice. $500 for housing rights in the wake of a recent tornado. Multi-year Grant. Emergency Grant.
• Chainbreaker Collective. Santa Fe, New Mexico. $2,500 to expand access to affordable transportation and support economically and ecologically sustainable communities for low-income people in Northern New Mexico.
• Direct Action Welfare Group. Charleston, West Virginia. $500 to organize poor people to actively participate in the Occupy Movement events in West Virgina. Emergency Grant.
• Economic Justice Coalition. Athens, Georgia. $4,000 to  organize around economic disparities and and for a living wage and health care. $500 to coordinate the efforts of Occupy Athens with other local economic justice groups. Multi-year Grant. Emergency Grant.
• Low-Income Self-Help Center. San Jose, California. $1,500 to empower, educate and organize the diverse low-income communities of Silicon Valley to fight for economic rights and justice.
• Massachusetts Alliance Against Predatory Lending. Worcester, Massachusetts. $2,000 to address the sub-prime foreclosure crisis affecting homeowners and tenants in Massachusetts through legislation, organizing, and education.
• Minnesota Citizens Federation - Northeast. Duluth, Minnesota. $2,000 to work towards economic justice with a particular focus on creating affordable health care for everyone
• Occupy Boston. Boston, Massachusetts. $500 to combat the negative media that will surround the eviction of Occupy Boston after a recent court ruling.Emergency Grant.
• Operation Welcome Home. Madison, Wisconsin. $4,000 for a collaborative of homeless and previously homeless people of color working for social justice and self-determination. Multi-year Grant.
• Survivors, Inc. Mattapan, Massachusetts. $1,000 to empower low-income to advocate for humane welfare policies with a goal of attaining economic and social justice.
• Working for Equality and Economic Liberation. Helena, Montana. $2,000 to engage those affected by poverty to change the policies and practices that affect them.

 
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

• Beyond Toxics. Eugene, Oregon. $4,000 to expose the root causes of toxic pollution and to help Oregon communities find solutions that protect human and environmental health. Multi-year Grant.  
• Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive Dumping. Albuquerque, New Mexico.  $3,000 to educate and organize around issues of nuclear contamination and the impact of the nuclear industry in New Mexico.
• Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger. Merrimac, Wisconsin. $4,000 to clean up toxic waste at Badger Army Ammunition Plant and create healthy and sustainable re-use plans. Multi-year Grant.
• Crawford Stewardship Project. Gays Mills, Wisconsin. $4,000 to monitor the impact of factory hog farms on the health, environment and economy of local communities .
• Defense Depot Of Memphis Tennessee–Concerned Citizens. Memphis, Tennessee. $3,000 to work for environmental justice in communities contaminated by military waste.
• Kootenai Environmental Alliance. Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho. $2,000 to conserve, protect, and restore the environment in Northern Idaho, particularly the Coeur d’Alene basin.
• Nuclear Energy Information Service. Chicago, Illinois. $500 emergency funding to hold two demonstrations at the World Nuclear Fuel Cycle conference in Chicago.
• People Organized in Defense of Earth and Her Resources. Austin, Texas. $4,000 to organize for environmental justice in East Austin.
• Philadelphia Right to Know Committee. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $3,000 to organize against toxic emissions and exposure to hazardous waste released by local oil refineries and the Defense Personnel Supply Center.
• Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens. Ider, Alabama. $4,000 to organize against the growth of the corporate swine industry in densely populated rural areas of Alabama and the surrounding states. Multi-year Grant.
• Silver Valley Community Resource Center. Kellogg, Idaho. $1,500 to educate local residents about the toxic waste found at the Bunker Hill Superfund site and counter the misinformation and harassment generated by local corporations and media who oppose the clean up.
• South Bay Communities Alliance. Coden, Alabama. $500 to attend a training program to gain skills to continue building community among fishing  families and maritime communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf oil spill. Technical Assistance Grant.
• United Mountain Defense. Knoxville, Tennessee. $2,500 to protect Tennessee’s watersheds, air, mountains and people.

LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER and QUEER (LGBTQ) RIGHTS

• BreakOUT. New Orleans, Louisiana. $1,300 to develop the leadership of LGBT youth to fight discriminatory policing practices by the New Orleans Police.
• Human Dignity Coalition. Bend, Oregon. $3,500 to advance and safeguard human rights, dismantle oppression and promote equality for the LGBTQ community in Central Oregon.
• Out Now. Springfield, Massachusetts. $2,600 to develop queer youth leadership though education and activist campaigns.
• OUTreach Resource Center. Ogden, Utah. $1,800 to build community and empower LGBTQ youth in a very homophobic area.
• San Francisco Pride at Work. San Francisco, California. $4,000 to build alliances between organized labor and the LGBT community to organize around issues of social and economic justice.
• Trans Youth Support Network. Minneapolis, Minnesota. $3,000 to promote racial, social, and economic just for trans youth, with the freedom to self-define gender identity and expression.

HEALTH, AIDS & DISABILITY RIGHTS

• Freedom Center. Northampton, Massachusetts. $2,000 to unite people with severe mental illness to organize against psychiatric abuse, oppression and to promote alternatives to mainstream care.
• NARAL Pro-Choice Missouri. St. Louis, Missouri. $2,000 to ensure every woman has the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.
• NARAL Pro-Choice South Dakota. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. $4,000 to improve access to reproductive services for all South Dakota women. Multi-year Grant.
• NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin. $4,000 to ensure that women have the right to a full range of reproductive choices.
• NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. $3,500 to ensure that all women are guaranteed meaningful access to a full range of reproductive choices.
• New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Albuquerqu, New Mexico. $3,000 to ensure reproductive justice through the power of religious communities and to counter the religious right’s attack on reproductive justice in New Mexico.

LABOR and EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS

• Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha. Minneapolis, Minnesota. $3,000 tto enable low-wage immigrant workers to organize for better wages and working conditions
• Fuerza Laboral—Power of Workers. Central Falls, Rhode Island. $4,000 to empower immigrant and low-income workers to achieve fair, equal, and dignified working conditions. Multi-year Grant.
• Jobs with Justice—Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island. $4,000 for a coalition of labor, community, faith-based and student groups working for economic justice. Multi-year Grant.
• Massachusetts Committee for Interfaith Worker Justice. Boston, Massachusetts. $2,200 to empower labor, workers and faith-based community members to fight for fair wages, health benefits and job security.
• Metrowest Worker Center. Framingham, Massachusetts. $2,600 to enable immigrant workers to advocate for their rights.
• South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice. Miami, Florida. $1,500 to work towards workers’ rights and promote access to fair employment.
• Student/Farmworker Alliance. Immokalee, Florida. $4,000 for a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. Multi-year Grant.
• Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project. Underhill, Vermont. $2,200 to organize migrant farmworkers and their allies for farmworker and food justice.
• Vermont Workers’ Center. Burlington, Vermont. $4,000 to organize for economic justice, including livable wages, affordable health care and humane  workplaces. Multi-year Grant.
• Worker Center for Economic Justice. Lynn, Massachusetts. $3,000 to address the problems of low-wage, non-union immigrant worker exploitation and abuse.
• Workers’ Dignity Project. Nashville, Tennessee. $3,000 to empower low-wage workers to act collectively for economic justice.

MEDIA and CULTURE

• Fuerza Unida. San Antonio, Texas. $500 to enable participants in the Summer Youth Leadership program to gain media skills as a means to organizing. Technical Assistance Grant.
• The People’s Press Project. S. Moorhead, Minnesota. $3,000 to address media justice issues of access and equity in rural North Dakota and Minnesota.

MIDDLE EAST

• Al-Awda New York. Brooklyn, New York. $1,300 to empower Palestinian and Arab immigrant communities to organize for human and legal rights, including the Palestinian right of return.
• Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. Oak Park, Illinois. $1,300 to build awareness of the complexity of issues involved in creating a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

NATIVE AMERICAN and NATIVE PEOPLES’ RIGHTS

• Indian People’s Action. Butte, Montana. $1,300 to advance the racial and social equality of Indian People in urban Montana areas.
• Secwepemc Nation Youth Network. Arcata, California. $2,000 to unite Indigenous People to defend their lands, waters, peoples and way of life.

PEACE and ANTI-MILITARISM

• Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. Albuquerque, New Mexico. $4,000 to link individuals and organizations concerned with peace, social justice and economic issues. Multi-year Grant.
• Civilian Soldier Alliance. Baltimore, Maryland. $4,000 to work with veterans and active-duty service members to build a GI resistance movement towards a just foreign policy
• Courage to Resist. Oakland, California. $3,500 to bring together community members, veterans and military families in support of GI resistance and counter-recruitment efforts.
• Fort Hood Support Network. Austin, Texas. $4,000 to create a safe space for service members, military families and veterans to discuss the hardships of military life, including command abuse, PTSD, sexual trauma, deployment and GI rights.
• GI Voice. Lakewood, Washington. $4,000 to create a safe space for service-members, military families and veterans to discuss the hardships of military life, including command abuse, PTSD, sexual trauma, deployment, and GI rights
• Kansas City Peace Planters Project. Kansas City, Kansas. $3,000 to end the production of nuclear weapons in Kansas City, pursue healthcare justice for plant workers who have fallen ill and force the cleanup of the contaminated production site.
• Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice. Manhattan, Kansas. $2,000 for a broad based social justice organization that links peace and economic justice issues
• Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. $2,000 to work for the end nuclear weapons production in Oak Ridge through public education and nonviolent direct action.
• Peaceful Vocations. Fort Worth, Texas. $2,000 to provide a counter-balance to the military’s significant presence in the North Texas public schools and community.
• Think Outside the Bomb. Chimayo, New Mexico. $1,000 to educate and mobilize young people to actively resist nuclear weapons and power.

  
PRISONERS’ RIGHTS  

• Alabama Women’s Resource Network. Birmingham, Alabama. $4,000 to reduce the women’s prison population in Alabama and work toward reform of the criminal justice system.
• Carolina Justice Policy Center. Durham, North Carolina. 3,500 to promote death penalty reform, alternatives to incarceration and fair criminal justice policies in North Carolina.
• Coalition for Prisoners’ Rights. Sante Fe, New Mexico. $4,000 to work for systemic change by challenging the social and economic injustice inherent in the US punishment system. Multi-year Grant.
• Critical Resistance—New Orleans. New Orleans, Louisiana. $4,000 to challenge thePrison Industrial Complex and work to build communities that believe in securing basic needs, promoting self-determination, and reducing harm.
• Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA). Worcester, Massachusetts. $4,000 for an organization of ex-prisoners, felons, allies and family working for reform of the criminal justice system. Multi-year Grant.
• Fight for Lifers—West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $2,000 to advocate for more humane and effective laws for state prisoners serving life sentences.
• Justice Committee. New York, New York. $4,000 to build a movement against police violence and systemic racism through community education and direct action.
• Justice Works!. Lake Stevens, Washington. $2,000 for a group of prisoners, ex-prisoners and allies organizing against racism in the criminal justice system.
• Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty. Lincoln, Nebraska. $1,000 to work towards abolishing the death penalty in Nebraska.
• New York State Prisoner Justice Network. Albany, New York. $4,000 for a statewide network seeking to change the culture and practice of criminal justice and incarceration in New York.
• Out for Justice. Baltimore, Maryland. $2,000 to reform the institutional barriers that exist for successful reentry of ex-prisoners
• Prison Activist Resource Center. Oakland, California. $2,600 to expose and challenge the institutionalized oppressions in the prison industrial complex.
• Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty. Lanett, Alabama. $4,000 to work with prisoners, advocates and allies to abolish the death penalty in Alabama. Multi-year Grant.
• The Other Death Penalty Project. Lancaster, California. $2,200 to organize prisoners and their allies to end life without parole as alternative to the death penalty and to work for meaningful rehabilitation strategies.
• The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $4,000 to empower young people incarcerated in adult jails.

  
WOMEN’S RIGHTS 

• 9to5 Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California. $3,500 to work for economic justice for women through advocacy, public education, leadership development and direct action campaigns.
• Brazilian Women’s Group. Allston, Massachusetts. $2,000 to promote political and cultural awareness to develop leadership, empowerment and solidarity among Brazilian women.
• Fuerza Unida. San Antonio, Texas. $3,000 to empower women workers and their families to achieve social, economic and environmental justice. Multi-year Grant.
• GABRIELA USA. Carson, California. $1,000 to struggle for the liberation of all oppressed Filipino women while participating in a broader movement for Filipino
• Women Encouraging Empowerment. Revere, Massachusetts. $1,300 to empower women in their local communities to become lead organizers for social change.

YOUTH

• 3rd Eye Youth Empowerment. New Bedford, Massachusetts. $4,000 to develop youth leadership through mentoring, skill building and social justice organizing campaigns. Multi-year Grant.
• BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth. Oakland, California. $4,000 to empower youth to resist aggressive military recruiting. Multi-year Grant.
• Reflect and Strengthen. Dorchester, Masschusetts. $500 to enable the organization to have a smooth transition as founding members transition out and new leaders take over. Technical Assistance Grant
• STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth!). Whitesburg, Kentucky. $4,000 to train youth leaders to organize in their communities around basic human rights.