Oregon Investment in Reproductive Equity Will Mitigate Harm of a Post-Roe Reality
$15 Million Fund is a Groundbreaking, Practical Model for Progressive State Leaders to Follow SALEM, OR – During the final days of the 2022 Oregon legislative session, Speaker Dan Rayfield led the passage of House Bill 5202, which established the Oregon Reproductive Equity Fund with a $15 million allocation. This first-of-its-kind investment will be administered […]
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Meet our new Fall grantees!
I recently ran across a social media post from a civic engagement organization inviting folks to a forum on houslessness solutions. What struck me the most? The complete absence of actual houseless folks in the panel. Sure, politicians, policy wonks, and academics may all have interesting things to say about houselessness—they’ll likely talk about numbers […]
Grantmaker Makerusa Porotesano talks COP26 and the climate change work ahead
For the past week and a half, delegations from across the world have been gathering in Glasgow to discuss the reality of climate change and the steps and solutions we need to make to save the planet. Seeding Justice grantmaker Makerusa Porotesano has been attending COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference, on behalf of Pacific […]
Welcome, New Seeding Justice Board Members!
This summer, Seeding Justice welcomed two new activists to our Board of Directors: Monica Cho Brewer and Crystallee Crain! Monica (left) started volunteering with Seeding Justice three years ago helping to plan our annual Justice Within Reach gala. She now chairs the JWR committee! Monica serves as Senior Director at Metropolitan Group and in her […]
The Ambo Fund, Water for The Klamath
Since time immemorial, the Klamath Tribes have relied on the endemic c’waam (Lost River sucker) and koptu (shortnose sucker) fish populations, that only swim in the Upper Klamath Lake, to survive. In the mid-20th century, the c’waam were so abundant that tribal elders said you could walk across their backs. For the last 35 years however, […]
Congratulations to Seeding Justice’s Spring 2021 Grantees!
For 45 years, we have known that those most impacted by injustice—those closest to the pain of oppression—are the best equipped to come up with solutions to the problems that affect them. Since our founding in 1976, Seeding Justice has had an activist-led grantmaking committee; it is not only foundational to who we are and […]
The Chúush Fund: Water for Warm Springs
On May 31, 2019, the Tribal Council of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs approved an emergency disaster declaration due to immediate health threats resulting from a 14” water main line break in the Shitike Creek. Because of public utilities capital maintenance deferment over the last few decades, today, over a year into rolling water […]
*Drum Roll* Presenting our 2021 Lilla Jewel Awardees!
The Lilla Jewel Award—named in honor of artist, radical feminist, and suffragist Lilla Jewel— was created to address the inequities that women and artists of marginalized genders experience by resourcing and amplifying Oregon-based artists who advance a social change message through their work. Created nearly 25 years ago, the Lilla Jewel Awards have funded dozens […]
Philanthropy and Indian Country
In January 2019, just about a month into my new role as Executive Director here at Seeding Justice, it was my honor to facilitate a panel requested by staff and leadership of the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. They wanted us to pull together leaders who were working at the intersection of philanthropy and Indian […]
