2023 Grants

Asian American Resource Workshop
Boston, MA
$40,000 to support organizing and advocacy for the pan-Asian community’s social, economic, and political development.

Boston Area Research Initiative
Fiscal Sponsor: Northeastern University
Boston, MA
$55,963 to support community-academic partnerships and advance civic research agendas.

Boston Tenant Coalition
Boston, MA
$55,000 to support organizing to increase affordable housing and promote tenant rights.

Brazilian Worker Center
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support organizing and supporting immigrant workers’ rights through training, advocacy, education, and policy change.

Brockton Interfaith Coalition
Brockton, MA
$50,000 to support faith-based organizing campaigns for social justice in Brockton, Massachusetts.

City Life/Vida Urbana
Boston, MA
$65,000 to support housing organizing to promote tenant rights and prevent housing displacement caused by foreclosure.

Community Action Agency of Somerville
Somerville, MA
$35,000 to build tenant leadership and power in Somerville.

Community Safety Campaign
Fiscal Sponsor: Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Jamaica Plain, MA
$40,000 to reconceptualize the concept of safety in Jewish congregational spaces and promote alternatives to policing and surveillance.

Center for Jewish Nonviolence
Fiscal Agent: Nonviolence International
Washington, DC
$50,000 to promote solidarity between Jewish and Palestinian communities for a future based on justice and mutual respect.

Central Square Theater
Cambridge, MA
$75,000 to increase connections between the theater and the community and promote civic engagement among Cambridge residents.

Centro Presente
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support grassroots organizing to secure rights for Latino and immigrant populations, focusing on fair treatment in immigration processes, workplace protections, and increased civic engagement.

Chinese Progressive Association
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support better living and working conditions for the Chinese community in the Greater Boston area and beyond.

Environmental Justice Assistance Network
Fiscal Sponsor: Conversation Law Foundation
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support the EJAN network, linking legal and technical experts with grassroots community groups to provide previously unavailable services and support.

Essex County Community Organization
Lynn, MA
$65,000 to support faith-based organizing campaigns for social justice in North Shore communities.

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Boston, MA
$65,000 to support Boston-based tenant organizing efforts that fight for tenant rights and prevent displacement caused by foreclosures.

GreenRoots
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 to support social and environmental justice organizing in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Hillel Umass Amherst
Amherst, MA
$50,000 to support capacity building and organizing on college campuses.

If Not Now
$25,000 for an urgent response grant in support of American Jews organizing for equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis.

JCC Harlem
Fiscal Sponsor: Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
Harlem, NY
$60,000 to support the JCC Harlem community initiatives.

Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support Jewish organizing and advocacy in solidarity with other social justice advocacy organizations.

JOIN for Justice
Boston, MA
$65,000 to support the training and development of young Jewish leaders in community organizing.

Jobs with Justice
Boston, MA
$25,000 to support Massachusetts Jobs with Justice and increase its organizing capacity and strategy hub.

J Street Education Fund
New York, NY
$60,000 to support advocacy and leadership to end the Arab–Israeli and Israeli–Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically.

Justice At Work
Boston, MA
$70,000 to support community-based labor organizations with legal resources to fight for low-wage immigrant workers’ rights and facilitate worker organizing initiatives.

La Colaborativa
Chelsea, MA
$50,000 to support member-driven organizing to engage community engagement, promoting education, empowerment, worker rights, and leadership development in Chelsea.

Lawyers for Civil Rights
Boston, MA
$60,000 to support advocacy, assistance, and community education for justice in minority and immigrant communities.

Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support advocacy for policies that increase home ownership and housing affordability.

Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants
Boston, MA
$45,000 to support organizing to preserve and improve at-risk HUD buildings as permanently affordable housing.

Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
Boston, MA
$100,000 to support research and analysis on the effects of the state budget and tax policies on low- and moderate-income people.

MassCOSH Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support member-led organizing for safe and healthy working conditions through educational training, engaging disenfranchised workers, and facilitating alliances among institutional partners.

Massachusetts Communities Action Network
Dorchester, MA
$75,000 to support strengthening a grassroots faith-based social justice advocacy organization network.

Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
Boston, MA
$65,000 for legislative advocacy that advances the interests of immigrants and refugees in the Commonwealth.

Massachusetts Voter Table
Fiscal Sponsor: TSNE MissionWorks
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support the mobilization of a statewide voter education and outreach network targeting communities of color. An additional $50,000 for general operating support.

Muslim Justice League
Boston, MA
$40,000 to support organizing and advocacy for human and civil rights violated or threatened under national security pretexts.

Neighbor to Neighbor
Boston, MA
$50,000 to support policies and programs that promote economic justice in low-income communities, fostering their collective power.

New Israel Fund
New York, NY
$40,000 to support organizations that promote democracy in Israel.

Never Again Action
Boston, MA
$25,000 to support Jewish-led mobilization against the persecution, detention, and deportment of immigrants in the United States.

Political Research Associates
Somerville, MA
$70,000 to support movements fighting white supremacy, religious extremism, racial injustice, and police violence through cutting-edge tactics and collaborative partnerships.

Right to the City Boston
Fiscal Sponsor: Right to the City Alliance
Boston, MA
$50,000 to build a city-wide coalition that builds grassroots power to halt gentrification and displacement and build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.

The Neighborhood Developers
Chelsea, MA
$30,000 to support advocacy to stop residential displacement and involve residents in land use planning.

Theater Offensive
$50,000 to support True Colors Troupe for youth artists, a theater-based outreach, performance, and dialogue project to promote public understanding and acceptance of differences. An additional $120,000 to support its capital campaign to build a new space in Boston.

T’ruah
New York, NY
$40,000 to support the organizing and empowerment of rabbis and cantors as moral voices leading Jewish communities in advancing democracy and human rights in the United States, Israel, and the occupied Palestinian territories.