We’re excited to announce that our Grantmaking Committee has selected 24 organizations working towards justice to receive General Fund grants this fall!
After reading, scoring, and discussing more than 100 applications this fall, our Grantmaking Committee has awarded $360,000 (almost 20% of which came directly from our Donor-in-Movement Funds!) to 24 amazing organizations addressing a range of issues, including advocating for disadvantaged Latinx vineyard workers, cultivating BIPOC leaders within the sex worker community to advance sex worker rights and criminal justice reform, creating lasting representation and equity for indigenous/Native people within arts and media, and so much more!
As always, our commitment to support emerging and grassroots groups are led by those most impacted by injustice. 88% of our grantee groups are led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color and nearly two-thirds serve communities outside the Portland Metro area.
Read more below about the 24 incredible organizations that are receiving Seeding Justice grants this winter as they work to bring our collective vision of a world of imagination, joy, and abundance into being.
2023 Fall General Fund | |||
Organization | Amount | Description | |
AHIVOY (Asociación Hispana de la Industria del Vino en Oregon y Comunidad) | $15,000 | General Operating Support for disadvantaged vineyard workers through education and opportunity | |
Black Culture Initiative | $15,000 | General Operating Support for The People’s Collective (Serving Small Black Businesses, Black Youth & Families) | |
Community Alliance of Lane County | $15,000 | General Operating Support to build organizing skills, leadership, community among underrepresented students, families, educators to insist on accountability from public schools. Fortify CALC’s cross-program collaborations for education justice; build Youth-Led Education Justice Action Team | |
Edúcate Ya | $15,000 | General Operating Support to enable growth toward its mission to empower the Latinx community through education and culturally-specific programming | |
Embrace Bend | $15,000 | General Operating Support to advocate for change by partnering with other organizations and activists of shared values, seeking out new pathways toward justice, and ways to dismantle inequitable systems that marginalize non-dominant cultural groups | |
Indigenous Peoples Power Project, IP3 | $15,000 | General Operating Support to build power to support movement building while centering Indigenous communities, healing, food sovereignty, cultural connection and self determination in defending and protecting homelands | |
Kids For The Culture | $15,000 | General Operating Support to foster positive racial identity development in Youth of African Descent | |
Nimiipuu Protecting the Environment | $15,000 | General Operating Support for protecting and preserving Nimiipuu Culture | |
Portland Harbor Community Coalition | $15,000 | General Operating Support for mobilization toward a just cleanup of the Portland Harbor | |
Portland Jobs with Justice | $15,000 | General Operating Support for the coalition of more than 100 labor organizations and community groups dedicated to protecting the rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more just society | |
Sex Worker Affirming Advocates (FS APANO) | $15,000 | Project Support for Cultivating BIPOC leaders within the sex worker rights movement; Building community power to support efforts to advance sex worker rights and criminal justice reform | |
Southern Oregon Coast Pride (FS United Way of Southwestern Oregon) | $15,000 | Project Support to deepen the relationship with allied organizations and individuals to expand leadership of QTBIPOC community members, continue our suicide prevention work, and uplift queer youth leaders voices | |
TischPDX (FS Beloved Builders) | $15,000 | Project Support for operations of TischPDX | |
Voz Workers’ Rights Education Project | $15,000 | General Operating Support for building Strength and Financial Stability amongst the Day Laborer Community | |
Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center DBA Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland | $15,000 | General Operating Support to restore, celebrate and sustain kinship among land, water and beings of wal’awa—the way the titlume (ancestors) intended | |
We Can Do Better | $15,000 | General Operating Support to create opportunities for nonpartisan civic education and engagement, bringing people together who share the values of better health care and health for all | |
Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition (FS Samoa Pacific Development Corporation) | $15,000 | Project Support Funding for the Fight for Pacific Islander Self Determination | |
FireGeneration Collaborative (FS Firefighters United for Safety, Ecology, and Ethics (FUSEE) | $15,000 | Project Support for Intersectional Wildfire Resilience and Indigenous Sovereignty through Designing Community Governance and Cultural Solutions with Diverse Young Communities | |
Grupo Latino de Accion Directa (GLAD) | $15,000 | General Operating Support for the Justice Kids Project and operations | |
Indigenous Media Guild (FS Roots and Beats P | $15,000 | Project support for creating lasting representation and equity for Indigenous/Native people within The Arts, media, and entertainment industry | |
International Migrants Alliance – Portland Organizing Committee (Filipino Bayanihan Center) | $15,000 | Project Support for Grassroots Migrants Forum | |
Pandion Institute | $15,000 | Project Support for Transitioning towards Native Co-Directorship | |
VOICES, a BIPOC Adoptee Community | $15,000 | General Operating Support | |
Welcome Home Coalition | $15,000 | Project Support to expand affordable housing options across the Portland Metro Region through coalition building and policy change that centers communities most impacted by the housing crisis. | |
Partners for a Hunger Free Oregon | $3,000 | General Operating Support – Grantmaker Grant on behalf of Chris Baker | |
