Basic grants are $7,500 one-year grants awarded for general support or project-specific needs. This is the best entry point for general operating funds for new or emerging groups.
Total - $120,000
The Lummi CEDAR Project is a youth-led organization founded in 1993 by tribal leaders to promote healthy lifestyles supported by traditional values. The organization seeks to improve the health and well-being of the Lummi community through the respect and recognition of the role of traditional values in supporting healthy choices, by building bridges between youth and elders and through youth leadership and community organizing.
The Piegan Institute is an Indian Reservation community inspired nonprofit chartered in 1987 to research, promote and preserve Native American Languages, especially the tribal language of the founders. The Piegan Institute seeks to respond to the destruction of their Mother Tongue, a social injustice by revitalizing, preserving and speaking tribal languages.
The Asian and Pacific Islander Women and Family Safety Center is a grassroots, community-based organization founded in 1993 by women in the Asian and Pacific Islander and domestic violence services provider communities who were concerned about the prevalence of violence against women, including several murders of API women. The Safety Center envisions a community free from violence. The Safety Center’s mission is to organize communities; educate, train and provide technical assistance and comprehensive culturally relevant services on domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking to Asian and Pacific Islander community members, survivors and their families.
LELO is a 34 year-old, grassroots workers organization led by people of color in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1972, LELO represents the coming together of three grassroots workers’ organizations made up of Black construction workers, Asian Pacific American and Native American cannery workers and Latino farm workers. Their mission is “to empower workers of color, low income and women workers to assert our rights, improve our working conditions and gain a voice in our workplaces, unions and communities here in the US and across the globe.”
The Idaho Women’s Network Research and Education Fund was created in 1988 to protect and promote the equality of women through grassroots organizing to impact public policy. The Idaho Women’s Network unites the voices and interests of Idaho women, families and communities through community organizing, advocacy and education.
People’s Institute NW is a multi-racial, people of color led organization dedicated to engaging all communities in the struggle to create an anti-racist society with equal opportunity for everyone. People’s Institute is involved in coalition building and community organizing, and provides workshops and technical assistance aimed at addressing racism within individuals and moving them to take action against institutional racism.
SPAN organizes Washington State’s most disenfranchised low-income people to engage in meaningful civic action as leaders, educating the public and advocating for public policy to eliminate poverty and create social change. SPAN is a major force in facilitating the participation of low-income people in local, state and national elections.
VOZ works with low-wage immigrant workers and their allies, with a special focus on day laborers. VOZ is building community leadership to advance humane immigration policy and defend workers’ rights through community organizing, popular education, leadership development training, and community-building activities.
Unete is a movement of farmworkers and immigrants in rural Southern Oregon that is educating their community and advocating for workers’ rights, humane immigration policy, and full participation for immigrant workers in the decision-making processes affecting their lives. Unete is the only Latino-led non-profit in Oregon’s Rogue Valley, home to one of the fastest growing Latino communities in the region.
LUS is a Latino youth-led grassroots organization that works in Salem and surrounding mid-Willamette Valley communities to advance the educational, cultural, social and political development and participation of Latino youth. LUS involves youth in community organizing on a range of issues including racial profiling and criminal justice reform; educational access and equity; and humane immigration policy.
The Interfaith Alliance is a statewide organization made up of progressive clergy and people of faith who have united to challenge those who distort and manipulate religion to advance extreme political agendas. TIA promotes the positive role of religion as a healing and constructive force in public life through such programs and Interfaith Forums; Interfaith Religious Leaders Network; Interfaith Youth Alliance; and Finding Common Ground: Undoing Oppression.
Chaya is a diverse organization led by South Asian women and their allies that exists to accomplish two goals: 1) to serve South Asian women experiencing domestic violence and abuse, and 2) develop and support the leadership of South Asian women in the struggle to end domestic violence through educating and mobilizing individuals and families within the South Asian community to address domestic violence issues.
Community to Community Development is a women-led, grassroots organization committed to creating strategic alliances that strengthen local and global social and economic and environmental justice. Community to Community Development is currently involved in organizing and immigrant leadership group to advocate for humane and just immigration reform, continue and expand their legal observer program, and continue community education concerning the vigilante anti-immigrant Minuteman Project in Whatcom County.
he Community Alliance of Tenants is a multi-racial, tenant-led, membership driven organization that organizes and empowers low-income renters in Oregon to demand and obtain safe, affordable and stable rental housing. CAT conducts building-based and issue campaigns addressing issues of concern to renters, and a volunteer-staffed Renters’ Hotline.
The Center for Intercultural Organizing was originally created to combat widespread anti-Muslim sentiment after 9/11/2001. Today, the Center has grown into is a diverse, grassroots organization working to build a multi-racial, multi-cultural movement for immigrant and refugee rights through education, policy advocacy, community organizing and mobilization, and intergenerational leadership development.
Montana People’s Action is a diverse organization of low to moderate income Montanans working together to achieve social, economic, and racial justice through organizing for direct action. MPA is building a working collaborative between their low-income white members, urban Indians, and Montana tribes to address their common interests in changing public attitudes and public policies to benefit working poor people in Montana.