The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) works to ensure that Black and African, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA) immigrant communities are centered in legislative and administrative policies. They also work to reimagine refugee resettlement narratives and policies that have created barriers to the full inclusion of refugees in the fabric of our democracy.
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Advancement Project
Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial, policy, communications, and legal action group committed to civil rights and racial justice . They use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements, achieve policy change and support local movements to ensure impacted communities are at the forefront of change.
National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
National CAPACD’s 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund supports the racial healing and anti-racism work of recipient organizations, as well as their work to build multi-racial coalitions and strengthen solidarity work locally in neighborhoods. This work includes political education that combats anti-Blackness and advances a deeper understanding of diverse AAPI communities.
Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, a fiscally sponsored project of Project South, advances structural shifts toward Climate Justice + Ecological Equity in Gulf South Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities on the frontlines of climate change.
Movement Law Lab
To support Movement Law Lab, an innovation hub bringing lawyers together with other change-makers to implement novel and bold solutions for some of America’s toughest justice related problems.
University of Chicago
This grant will support Bright Line Watch, an effort to monitor the health of our democracy by regularly surveying the expert opinion of political scientists. The project also convenes academics and other thinkers to bring attention to key trends in our democracy, particularly through a comparative global lens.
Canopy Atlanta
Canopy Atlanta trains and equips local journalists to tell in-depth stories in collaboration with residents of overlooked communities in metro Atlanta’s five core counties.
George Washington University
Transform the Monkey Cage from a stand-alone entity into a key component of a broader infrastructure that supports better communication between political science researchers, elected officials, the media and by virtue of that better informed public discussion on democracy reform. This will require building infrastructure to support that engagement, which in turn will help increase the audience for useful research and incentives for researchers to reach, and listen to, that audience.
Islamic Society of North America
To support the work of the Islamic Society of North America’s Shoulder to Shoulder initiative in interfaith, islamophobia trainings – entitled Faith Over Fear trainings – in up to ten geographic regions of the United States. This Grant will also support Shoulder to Shoulder’s Ramadan Road Trip 2019 network-building scoping work for the trainings, as well as a monitoring and evaluation consultant.
Asian Law Caucus
To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities.