The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.
Grant Status: Completed
Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) , a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, is a dynamic collective of social justice funders and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.
Faith in Action Network
Faith in Action Network uses organizing to address economic oppression, racism and discrimination. They work to build a society in which everyone lives in a safe and healthy environment, is respected and included, and has agency over the decisions that shape their lives.
State Innovation Exchange
State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a national resource and strategy center that collaborates with state legislators to improve people’s lives through transformative public policy. SiX works in close coordination with legislators, advocacy groups, think tanks, and activists to provide the tools and information legislators need to be successful.
Faith Matters Network Collaborative
Faith Matters Network catalyzes personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
Faith In/And Democracy (FIAD) is a funding and learning initiative that explores the ways faith and faith communities support democracy and civic life. Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) leads and administers this initiative because they believe faith can ease divisions that plague our political processes and social fabric.
Neighborly Faith Inc.
Neighborly Faith (NF) brings pluralism education to Evangelical college students with little first-hand experience with it, limited appreciation for it, and who other organizations cannot reach. Nearly all Evangelical faith leaders (lay and professional) attend Evangelical colleges at some point in their lives. Very few of these colleges talk about pluralism. NF is changing this.
Nonprofit Vote
This grant supports Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Nonprofit VOTE works to recruit, educate, and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneous launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.
The Horizons Project
The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, will bring together anti-authoritarian organizers and allies to develop processes and structures for enhanced collaboration.