Movement Law Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, helps develop a legal arm for social movements through deep consultation with organizers and grassroots groups to understand legal vulnerabilities and needs. They recruit and vet lawyers to provide advice and strategy, and conduct outreach, training, and planning sessions for large groups of lawyers.
Grant Status: Completed
Welcoming America Inc.
Welcoming America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by ensuring everyone belongs. Through the Welcoming Network, they help communities develop the roadmap they need to create welcoming policies and share new approaches to creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive.
Borealis Philanthropy
The Racial Equity in Journalism Fund (REJ) seeks to strengthen a future where communities of color are powerful. They do this by nourishing and building up the capacity and sustainability of both news organizations and journalism ecosystem partners led by people of color.
Foundation for Minority Interests In Media Inc.
The Emma Bowen Foundation helps place students of color in a variety of media outlets across the U.S. to increase the diversity of newsrooms. They provide early career support for journalists of color, and track the retention of their fellows in the industry over time.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. They serve their neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.
Morgan State University Foundation Incorporated
The Center for Urban Journalism at Morgan State University trains new cadres of black journalists through fellowships, runs Social Justice Reporting Collaboratives between students at Morgan State and other journalism institutions, and produces research on the needs of black communities residing in news deserts or facing otherwise biased or insufficient news.
Inland Empire Community Foundation
The Inland Empire Journalism Hub at the Inland Empire Community Foundation is a platform for cooperative journalism, fostering collaboration, community engagement, and a vibrant exchange of ideas.
Georgetown University
To support Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life. The grantee will conduct programming on the role of faith in our political system and will create partnerships across Catholic institutions and with leaders across different faith traditions to strengthen religious pluralism and overcome polarization.
Proteus Fund Inc.
The Rise Together Fund (RTF), a Proteus Fund initiative, supports a diverse field of organizations working to address anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, and more. They build the capacity of Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) community-based organizations and provide field coordination support to their grantees.
Emergent Fund
Emergent Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, is supporting grassroots organizing and power building in communities of color who are facing injustice.