Help fund meals to people impacted by COVID

Helping domestic violence victims in LA as a result of the COVID-19 Safer @ Home Order Total Grant: $4.2M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Provides free masks, hand sanitizer and testing kits for the incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, violence interrupters, elderly in our community, and most vulnerable black and brown loved ones in urban and rural communities.

Support Direct Relief emergency response to COVID-19. Supports healthcare Orgs and professionals who care for medically underserved communities

Supports sanitization efforts in the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. Total Grant: $40k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supports purchasing of testing cartridges to build COVID-19 testing capacity in Saint Lucia, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica,St. Kitts and Nevis, and Antigua and Barbuda. This grant will also support medicine kits needed in hospital ICUs to over five additional locations throughout the Caribbean. Total Grant: $80k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supports the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA) Community-Based HIV Testing Services to work with mobile clinics to manage the anticipated spread of COVID-19 in the Mulanje and Phalombe districts of Malawi. Total Grant: $100k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supports health clinics in Puerto Rico. Funds will go towards triage shelters, supplies & personal protective equipment (PPE) for a network of over 20 clinics across Puerto Rico. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supports COVID-19 response efforts in the hardest to reach & most vulnerable areas of the world. Funds will go towards COVID-19 case management, training, set-up of ICU, hospital beds, isolation units, development of response guidelines & best practices in countries including Syria, Yemen, Bangladesh, South Sudan, Mali, Ivory Coast, Senegal, DRC, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Venezuela, El Salvador and Greece. Total Grant: $2M ($1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation + $1M match from UBS Optimus Fund)

In partnership with the New Orleans Mayor's Office of Community and Economic Development, to support rental assistance for economically vulnerable Orleans Parish residents impacted by the pandemic. Funds will match the current government funding to grant up to $750 in rental assistance per household. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Will support food sourcing and storage, non-touch distribution & delivery services & supplemental staff due to a decrease in volunteers. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supporting meals for homeless & senior populations in New Orleans. Funds will support the activation of local restaurants & workers. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

To support shelter, food, clothing, counseling & medicine for homeless, at-risk & trafficked youth, many of whom are jobless at the moment. Funds will support six-months of shelter, food, medical attention and supplies for homeless youth. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

To support the Mayor’s Officer to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV). Supports domestic violence survivors who need a capital injection to ensure their safety and stability during COVID-19. Micro grants will allow the financing of immediate needs of food, clothing, temporary housing & more. Total Grant: $485,444 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation

Supporting cash transfers to low income families in the mainland US as well as in Puerto Rico. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation & Sean Carter Foundation.

Supports the research of Dr. Ashley Mason and Oura Ring in identifying early/asymptomatic COVID-19 infections in potentially exposed individuals.

Supports the COVID-19 Vital Data Generation Research Program.

Supports the production and distribution of lunches and dinners to families in need in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hospitality Helps is a partnership of Taste Catering, Peninsula Food Runners and Meals on Wheels (Fiscal Sponsor) and has been able to help employ furloughed food service workers in the Bay Area to assist with their program.

Supporting the "California Bridging the Digital Divide" Fund, a joint effort of the Governor's Office, State Board of Education, CA Department of Education and CDE Foundation. Funds will be used to provide essential device, connectivity and related digital learning supports for PK-12 students, teachers and their families in CA.

Funds will be used to support the launch of the Telehealth Community Navigation Program addressing the racial/ethnic disparities and health inequities worsened by the COVID-19 crisis throughout the US. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with beyGOOD

Funds will be used to purchase and provide emergency supplies to hospitals, police and fires departments, nursing homes and nonprofits. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with beyGOOD

Funds will be used to purchase and provide emergency supplies to over 600 organizations throughout the United States - including hospitals, police and fires departments, nursing homes, schools, healthcare facilities and many more. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) efforts in Detroit as a result of COVID-19. NAMI offers services, support, education & advocacy for people living with mental health conditions & their loved ones. Total Grant: $100k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) efforts in New York City s as a result of COVID-19. NAMI offers services, support, education & advocacy for people living with mental health conditions & their loved ones. Total Grant: $100k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) efforts in New Orleans as a result of COVID-19. NAMI offers services, support, education & advocacy for people living with mental health conditions & their loved ones. Total Grant: $100k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) efforts in Houston as a result of COVID-19. NAMI offers services, support, education & advocacy for people living with mental health conditions & their loved ones.Total Grant: $150k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the efforts of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) ensuring that people are receiving mental health information, support and resources needed during the pandemic via their Helpline's in local communities and their national Helpline. https://www.nami.org/covid-19-guide Total Grant: $50k in partnership with beyGOOD

Funds will be used to support the UCLA Depression Grand Challenge Interventions for COVID-19 Fund ("Stand Together During COVID-19") providing resources and tools designed to lift moods and ease anxiety and depression.Total Grant: $500k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supporting the nationwide emergency food relief program delivering meals to Americans that need assistance. Funds will also support the activation of local restaurants & workers.Total Grant: $250k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supports No Kid Hungry COVID-19 Emergency Relief Response, equipping communities with the resources they need to make sure their kids are fed, both during this crisis and in its aftermath. Total Grant: $250k in partnership with beyGOOD

Supports a relief fund for the most vulnerable individuals and families in the Big Sur community who are unable to receive state unemployment benefits or participate in any federal safety net programs. Thirty Six families will receive $600-$1100.

Funds support the Navajo Water Project - connecting remote indigenous homes to hot and cold running water so that tribal members, especially the elderly and the at-risk, can stay home and stay safe, and to make Navajo Nation more resilient to ongoing and future outbreaks.

Helping build a strong stronger and healthier community through a broad range of mental health services. Total Grant: $158k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Responding to the immediate needs of Michigan residents through the CARES Relief & Recovery Services Initiative. Total Grant: $1.05M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Working to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. Total Grant: $250k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Supporting survivors of persecution seeking asylum through temporary accommodation. Total Grant: $50k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Awarding rapid-response grants to nonprofit organizations providing services to vulnerable populations in Flint and Genesee. Total Grant: $850,000 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Advocating for people in jail who are unable to distance themselves from others and take other necessary preventative measures during COVID-19. Total Grant: $50k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Distributing food to people in need of assistance and meal services during COVID-19. Total Grant: $704,360 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Supports CORE opening free COVID-19 testing sites in major metropolitan cities as well as rural communities throughout the United States. CORE’s testing sites, which are already operating in Atlanta, Detroit and shortly in New Orleans and the Navajo Nation, are focused on serving vulnerable and underserved communities, including low income groups and communities of color, as well as first responders and essential workers.

City of San Francisco Give2SF Response & Recovery Fund. Will support food, housing access, small business and worker support programs for undocumented, mixed status and low income individuals and families in San Francisco.

Funds will support the Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) COVID-19 Emergency Fund to support EJAF frontline partners to respond to the pandemic and its’ effects on HIV prevention and care for the most marginalized communities.

Support REFORM Alliance getting PPE into every jail and prison in the US.

Kakenya's Dream invests in girls from rural communities in Kenya through educational, health, and leadership initiatives to create agents of change. Their mission is to create a world where African women and girls are valued and respected as leaders and equal in every way. Our support will aid and provide Distance Learning and supplies while schools are closed due to COVID-19. It will also provide the necessary supplies to their students to maintain safe physical health and safety while away. It will build out Health, Counseling and Education Services and support for the girls in the program upon their return and will also support the build out and design of a new and larger Health Clinic

Think of Us is a systems change non-profit that focuses on leveraging technology to upgrade the foster care system and its programs for better life outcomes for its youth. Our support will fund their emergency Direct Relief Fund and to launch a Virtual Foster Care Housing Assistance Support Center.This investment will enable Think of Us to deploy urgently needed resources to older foster youth in danger of falling further through the cracks of an ailing child welfare system due to COVID-19.

Supports the campaign launched by Mayvenn to provide $500 to each of their stylists across the country. Mayvenn is a tech company that was created to empower hairstylists in the African American community. Using technology, Mayvenn helps boost stylists incomes by connecting them with new clients and helping them sell products. They noticed their stylists, who are predominantly female African Americans, were losing most of or all of their income due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and decided to raise funds to help these stylists get back on their feet.

CommonLit is a 501c3 education technology nonprofit service 15M teachers and student across 70% of US Schools with FREE digital reading and writing lessons. The majority of schools that rely on their free online reading program qualify for Title I (high-poverty) support. Our support will help develop high-impact digital learning tools to support special needs students and English Language Learners who are most affected by the crisis and will experience the most learning loss during school closures.

For the #FirstOfTheMonth rent relief project aiming to identify and aid families with children who are at the greatest risk of losing their home/shelter. These families are not eligible for rent moratorium or government assistance and have seen devastating financial losses from COVID-19. These funds will help 300+ families in the Silicon Valley (East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park & Redwood City) with rent.

Project 100 is private direct payment initiative in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the US. Funds support the pilot program to deliver $1000 to 100k families in the SNAP Program.

Closing the Digital Divide for 25,000 students (K12, Middle and High School) in Oakland. Funds will provide laptops and internet to all.

World Central Kitchen Restaurants for the People program is an innovative solution that simultaneously provides fresh meals to those in immediate need and keeps small businesses open in the midst of our ongoing health, economic, and humanitarian crises. Funds will support the Restaurants for the People Program in Oakland, CA

SisterHearts Re-Entry Program is focused on providing ex-offenders with a safe environment to achieve their goals with dignity. The program is centered around decarceration, offering a space for healing while rehumanizing those who have been incarcerated. SisterHearts also provides personal development courses, transportation, bank account support, driver’s license support and other resources to assist ex-offenders as they reintegrate into society. Funds will go to the SHERO Program (SisterHearts Exit ReEntry Organization).

Edgewood Center for Children and Families promotes the behavioral health of children, youth, and families, and supports a positive transition to adulthood. Funds will be used to assist in the emergency essential services provided by Edgewood as a result of COVID-19.

Dedicated to providing assistance to disadvantaged and at-risk youth primarily in Detroit, Michigan and its surrounding communities. Funds will be used toward COVID-19 Emergency Relief efforts due. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Eminem

Humanity Forward is committing to delivering one-time, and recurring, basic income payments to individuals and families who stand to be most impacted by the coronavirus crisis. The initial target populations will primarily consist of Americans in lower income brackets who depend on wage work to support them and their families

Funds will support the AVP 24/7 Spanish/English crisis intervention hotline nationally and launch text and chat. It will also provide assistance for undocumented LGBTQ immigrants with emergency support (food, shelter, housing and emergency immigration support including asylum filings and other court filings).

Funds will support the THMS Emergency Relief Fund established to support the urgent needs of Mississippi youth disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 by providing a variety of assistance options, including: housing, nutrition, childcare for parenting teens, transportation, medical, and school supply assistance for youth.

Funds will be used to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on homeless and at-risk youth in Los Angeles.

Funding to be used as leverage in negotiations with landlords on behalf of immigrant clients in the St. Louis area who are in jeopardy of eviction due to the COVID-19 crisis. Funds will also be used to help relocate the client to a more stable housing situation.

Supports the 30-day Rent Relief program and fundraiser for Washington D.C's Ward 8 eligible residents (presented by John Wall Family Foundation) to directly help tenants in need of rental relief as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and SIP orders.

Know Your Rights Camp has a mission to advance the liberation and well-being of Black and Brown communities through education, self-empowerment, mass-mobilization and the creation of new systems that elevate the next generation of change leaders.

Project Nia—“nia” meaning “with purpose” in Swahili—is a grassroots organization that works to end the arrest, detention, and incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices. Funds will be used to support the Project NIA - Summer Institute.

Supports the emergency relief fund helping Black transgender people continue to access their prescriptions during the pandemic by providing them with funds to travel to and from medical facilities via a rideshare service and providing co-pay assistance.

Supporting the Dancers' Relief Fund providing financial assistance to individual dancers greatly impacted by COVID-19.

Supporting the "From Compton With Love" Cash Relief Fund through GiveDirectly. The direct payment initiative is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will provide $1000 to qualified EBT Fresh/SNAP Program users within the City of Compton zip codes 90220, 90221 and 90222. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with City of Compton & anonymous private donor(s).

Supports the deployment of digital and organizational tools to help scale up contact tracing across the US to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Dedicated to fighting food insecurity in the Black Transgender community.

Supports the Emergency Assistance Fund created to help offset the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic in immigrant communities throughout the US and Puerto Rico.

Supports CORE opening free COVID-19 testing sites in major metropolitan cities as well as rural communities throughout the United States.

Supports St. Augustine High School, an all African American Private Catholic High School in New Orleans with new academic programs and several capital improvement initiatives.

Will support Code Tenderloins Calming the Corner street pop-up providing immediate and on the ground needs in the Tenderloin of San Francisco.

To support their national initiative leveraging data to improve policing outcomes in America by mapping police violence, creating a public police union contract database, and a police use of force public database.

Funds used to provide 3,862 households at Marcy, Sumner and Tompkins Houses in New York City, supermarket gift cards to assist in purchasing food.

Will help fund Mayor Tubbs guaranteed income initiative, The Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), aiming to help with poverty and inequality.

For their policing reform campaign, their voter rights work especially around ensuring black voters can vote absentee, and their advocacy around education on access with distance learning. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To Immediately provide bail for people to help decrease the prison population. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Supporting Black Visions Collective commitment to dismantling systems of oppression and violence and creating a world in which ALL Black Lives Matter. Total Grant: $1.5M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

In support of community organizing, building local power and distribution of funds to community organizations across the United States.Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

In support of their efforts to combat the criminalization of poverty and state violence, especially in communities of color. Total Grant: $750k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To support their campaign to end discriminatory policing practices in New York fighting for reforms that will promote community safety while ensuring that the NYPD protects and serves all New Yorkers. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To support their current #defundthepolice campaign, chapters across the country and 2020 election mobilization with a focus on engaging GenZ voters, advance voters rights and eliminating voter suppression. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Supporting Advancement Project's mission to fulfill America’s promise of a caring, inclusive and just democracy using innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements and achieve high impact policy change for equality and justice. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To immediately support the organizations demands for policing as well as long-term systems change work. Total Grant: $750k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To transform the justice system by making one specific intervention: freeing the resources needed to invest in community needs by divesting from policing & criminalization. Total Grant: $2.5M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To expand to new cities and communities to build a movement that is both specific to the root issues in policing and that exposes and eliminates the sources of racism that pervade the criminal justice system in the US. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Supporting the Networks Crisis Support fund providing rental and utility assistance, groceries and household needs for victims and survivors of domestic violence. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation.

Supports the operation of the homeless Drop-in Center, food pantry and meal programming, as well as rental and utility assistance for families on the brink of eviction. Total Grant: $100k in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Rental Relief Program to provide three months of rent payments, gift cards for groceries and essential goods, and access to housing counselors 50 days after the rent payment is made for 300 families in Newark. Total Grant: $968,440 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Newark Working Kitchens, through World Central Kitchen to support the distribution of 150,000 meals to food-insecure households, including senior citizens, low-income families and homeless individuals, in Newark. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Cash Assistance Fund to provide economic assistance to the more than 340,000 Chicagoans excluded from the federal stimulus programs, such as undocumented individuals, mixed-status families, dependent adults and college students living in poverty. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Supports food access and distribution points across Cook County remain intact through a network of 700 partners and programs, including pantries, youth-focused partners, soup kitchens and shelters. Total Grant: $500k in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation.

To provide rental assistance, expanded trauma support services and food access for low-income families in Chicago. Total Grant: $850k in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation

To enable mental health experts to provide virtual consultations to campuses, trainings designed to help teens and young adults recognize and help their peers in distress, and workshops for businesses and community groups to educate parents on how to recognize a young adult in their life who may be struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic. Total Grant: $2,550,000 in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation.

To support the 150 first responder consultation calls, crisis support in 500 New York City public schools, capacity-building training for 150 educators and expanded access for the direct treatment of 1,200 at-risk students. Total Grant: $1,375,000 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Funds used to contribute 4,000 tablets for the students of Barbados. Total Grant: $754k in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation

Supporting its Summer COVID-19 Youth Corps, a program that will provide youth with jobs related to the city’s COVID-19 response, such as conducting well-being checks with seniors, staffing food pantries and delivering food to homebound individuals. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation

To support the "Ineffable Mythology" mural by Cinque Mubarak (www.cinque-mubarak.com) in Oakland, CA via the Cinque Mubarak Mural Fund.

To support the FastGrants Program to get grants out quickly to scientists at academic institutions currently working on COVID-19 related projects and are in need of funding. Fast Grants are $10k to $500k and decisions are made in under 48 hours.

To support Barbados' local information ecosystem around COVID-19 and for a landscape analysis in two pilo islands in the Caribbean to better understand communication gaps and needs in disaster response and preparedness in the Caribbean region. Total Grant: $330,781 in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Funds will be used to support Cure COVID Consortium a comprehensive COVID-19 program, focusing on testing underserved communities and populations residing in the greater Houston area (fiscal sponsor Bread of Life). Total Grant: $1M in partnership with BeyGOOD

Funds will be used towards their mission of promoting water, energy, food and shelter access solutions @ the intersection of environment and racial justice.

Funds will be used to support the nationwide study of pregnant women and their offspring during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The study is being done to help understand the spread of COVID-19 infection among pregnant women and how infection might affect the health and wellbeing of pregnant mothers and their babies. The Aspire Study is a program through through the University of California San Francisco.

Funds will be used to deliver one-time, and recurring, basic income payments to individuals and families who stand to be most impacted by the coronavirus crisis. The initial target populations will primarily consist of Americans in lower income brackets who depend on wage work to support them and their families.

First pregnancy cash supplement in the US. Based in San Francisco. $1k-$1500 unconditional cash aid per month to 100 low income Black and Pacific Islander pregnant women for the duration of a woman's pregnancy and 2 months of babies life.

Supports efforts focused on addressing health inequities and disparities to mitigate high rates of COVID-19 related illness and death in Chicago’s Black and Latino communities. Total Grant: $1M in partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation.

Academic and social support for at-risk youth in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco. Funds will help fill the gap needed due to COVID-19 to continue to provide positive opportunities and role models for children who need it most by expanding services to help children and families of children in the program with meal distribution, technology assistance, wellness checks and virtual programs.

IDEO.org's Billion Girls CoLab creates space for girls to imagine their futures and catalyze a network of actors to bring those visions to life. A youth and community led response for adolescent girl health through the pandemic across East Africa, helping create innovative service delivery models, messaging to remote, illiterate or non-phone owning adolescents and building up critical protective asset for girls such as life skills and gender based violence training.

To support the COVID-19 Resilience Fund, serving +10,000 low-income, immigrant, LatinX and BIPOC families and individuals in the East Bay. Activities of the Fund include direct cash assistance ($500 grants) to low-income community members; food security programs; recovery efforts for small businesses in Fruitvale, anti-displacement affordable-housing programs; and support for job-seeker in East Oakland.

To support the school year and the impact it has and will face due to COVID-19 in Ethiopia. Lebawi's philosophy is that no life is given without reason - all life has meaning, purpose and direction; and education is a tool and platform one can use to discover his/her purpose and live a meaningful and purposeful life.

Guided by a gender and racial lens, Ms. Foundation for Women resources grassroots movements that center women and girls of color, advance feminism in philanthropy and advocate for policies that improve women's lives across the country. Funds will be used to support women and girls of color-led organizations in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic.

To support the Prison Policy Initiative in building the long-term movement to end mass incarceration by providing advocates key data, research, technical support, and skills training.

Supporting the Arts' Artist Power Center and Culture Bank projects in providing immediate relief and longer-term opportunities for artists, specifically Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), female, and LGBTQIA+ artists in California. Aiming to catalyze the power of artists and their enterprises as essential for our communities' long-term health and wellbeing.

To support Khan Academy's immediate Response to COVID-19: Keep Everyone Learning and to focus on expanding the Pre-K - Grade 1 via Khan Academy Kids (ages 2-7) content and reaching teachers in preschools with newly released teacher tools.

Founded by Dr. Ibram X. Kendhi, the mission of the Boston University Center for Anti Racist Research is to convene researchers and practitioners from various disciplines to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice. The Center fosters exhaustive racial research, research-based policy innovation, data-driven educational and advocacy campaigns, and narrative-change initiatives while working toward building an antiracist society that ensures equity and justice for all.

Funds will support remote crisis teams, recruit and train digital volunteers for TrevorText and TrevorSpace (an international social media platform that cultivates peer relationships and provides a truly safe space for LGBTQ youth), and increase the data security connections made between support staff and LGBTQ youth. Total Grant: $2,250,000 in partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation

For the COVID Recovery Growth Plan, a framework that leverages the power of technology to break down the silos of traditional brick and mortar schools to promote greater equity, access, and opportunity for all students through liberated learning. BUILD's mission is to use entrepreneurship to ignite the potential of youth from under-resourced communities and propel them to high school, college and career success.

Funds will be used to support BeyGOOD's Black-Owned Business Impact Fund to assist small business communities that have been directly impacted by the recent events across the country. Grants in the amount of $10k will be offered to Black-owned small businesses in select cities to help sustain businesses during this time.

To support COVID-19 Relief Efforts in the US and abroad to protect and serve the most marginalized and vulnerable with financial assistance, food, healthcare, virus testing and other human services.

Funds will be used for the COVID 19 Resilience Fund focusing on the vulnerable people in Latin America by expanding emergency cash assistance and by conducting information campaigns on COVID-19 prevention and treatment.

To support Ameelio's build out of an ecosystem of free prison communication tools to make it easier for families to communicate with their incarcerated loved ones. Funds will support Ameelio's Letters for Families, Letter for Organizations and Connect Video Conferencing Pilot in two facilities.

For the Equitable Recovery Initiative (in partnership with FREEAMERICA) to accelerate systemic change and increase racial, social and economic justice. This program will embed teams of executive fellows on strategic projects in cities across the country who will develop innovative approaches in the areas of employment, housing, healthcare, education and justice reform. As we create economic opportunities and reduce disparities in our partner cities, we will also partner with John Legend to lift-up solutions that will help to create a more just and inclusive nation. FUSE Corps is a national nonprofit working in local governments and communities to address the most pressing challenges facing American cities.

To support FREEAMERICA, an initiative of the "Show Me Campaign", a sponsored program of the Social Impact Fund. Fueled by John Legend's passion to break down systems that enforce inequality and injustice across society, John has partnered with FUSE Corps to launch the Equitable Recovery Initiative. As this initiative embeds executive fellows across American cities to develop and implement new approaches in employment, housing, healthcare, education and justice reform, John and his FREEAMERICA team will shine a spotlight on solutions with the potential to help reimagine systems that are historically rooted in racism and inequality. Recognizing cities as laboratories of innovation, we will also help to develop a series of policy recommendations that are informed and inspired by work of the FUSE Executive Fellows.

To support the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC) "Fines and Fees Fund" to restore the right to vote by paying off the fines and fees of over 100,000 returning citizens - including ~40,000 Black and Latinx returning citizens of Florida who are already registered to vote but can't because of their fines and fees.

To support the "AEGIS Study" Fund to address SARS-CoV2 infection and recovery, or antibodies, are reliable for safe life reentry and freedom from future infections. The study will generate knowledge that is critically vital to our society's ability to manage COVID-19 effectively and intelligently.

To be paid over three years to publish investigative reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic and its aftermath, including the provision of essential information to keep readers informed on how to stay safe during the immediate health crisis, deep-dives into how the situation developed, investigations into who is profiting from the crisis and who is bearing the brunt as well as accountability coverage of stimulus spending and what will most likely be a prolonged economic downturn.

To support the "Love Not Fear" Fund mobilizing grassroots Latino-led organizations, serving rural communities with strong ties to the undocumented Latino families they serve.

To support the Climate Resilience Initiative and the Climate Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Will provide countries with rapid support to improve preparedness, track and track COVID cases, scale up lab testing, protect communities, use data to improve the response, train tens of thousands of frontline healthcare worker, and preserve life-saving health care services.

To support the organizations mission providing transformative, community-based education that creates strong future leaders, builds career pathways that break the cycle of poverty for women, and creates peaceful cultural change that impacts present and future generations for the people, especially women, of Afghanistan. Fund will help provide free, award-winning schooling to girls in K-12th grade and the first women's vocational school of its kind in rural Afghanistan.

To study the nature and causes of police misconduct; to develop feasible techniques to reduce misconduct and racial disparities in policing; to measure the hidden social costs and benefits of police activity to inform debates about the scope and role of the police.

To support One Family Foundation, in partnership with Family Reach and Humanity Forward, to develop a program to deliver resource navigation, emergency financial assistance and sustained basic income for the lowest-income patients fighting cancer in the Philadelphia area. Fiscal Sponsor: The Social Impact Fund

To continue to support the WCK Mission, using the power of food to heal communities and strengthen economies through times of crisis and beyond.

GWC will pilot and grow remote learning initiatives designed to educate and equip girls with the resources and skills they'll need to thrive in the world today. They will reach, educate, support and inspire as many girls as possible to pursue their interests in computer science - and provide educational resources when students need them most.

In order to combat the ongoing economic and public health crisis, this investment will allow Mayors for Guaranteed Income (MGI) to expand and extend the number of monthly, cash payment pilot programs in partner cities across the US. Led by a growing number of mayors in diverse cities including Newark, NJ, Saint Paul, MN, and Tacoma, WA, this network aims to advocate for a federal guaranteed income to ensure that all Americans have an income floor.

Funds will be used to support cash grants to participants in Open Research Lab's Basic Income Project. The Project is a randomized evaluation of a 3-year $1,000/month unconditional cash assistance program.

To support the Global LGBTIQ Emergency Fund to support grassroots LGBTIQ organizations on the frontlines providing emergency assistance to LGBTIQ people experiencing loss of income and food, lack of access to HIV medication and healthcare, increased domestic violence, and even scapegoating by the religious and government leaders. The Emergency Fund will distribute grants of $2500-$10,000 to LGBTIQ organizations that are helping queer and trans people impacted by COVID-19 outside of North America and Western Europe.

To support CARE (aka Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, Inc.) in meeting critical educational needs and mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students, teachers, and families in East Africa. Funds will be used in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Zambia to keep 300,000 students, with a particular focus on adolescent girls, safe and learning - including addressing gender-based violence and mental health needs as well as to support families' economic recovery.

Meals on Wheels SF delivers nutrition and social support to the low-income, predominantly minority seniors. Over 60% of the homebound seniors provided meals are people of color and 73% live in poverty. The number of seniors struggling to access food has escalated 20% in SF due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds will support the Meals on Wheels SF Capital Campaign.

To support the COVID-19 Crisis Recovery Initiative helping CHC ramp up mental health efforts so children, teens and young adults can swiftly access therapy and education services to promote mental health, wellness and emotional healing. CHC specializes in working with families living with ADHD, Learning Differences, Anxiety & Depression and Autism through their two schools, mental health clinic, community education and curated online resource library.

Humanity Forward is a national advocacy organization pushing for solutions to the biggest problems of the 21st Century. Their singular focus right now is on building support in Congress to pass Direct Cash Relief to provide a lifeline to struggling families during this pandemic.

Funds will support and help expand MuckRock's police transparency and accountability efforts as well as fund improvements to scale the public records filing tool. Hosting a repository of 90k records requests and over 100 million pages of primary source materials, MuckRock partners with newsrooms, researchers, and advocacy groups to open up and understand government at all levels in a uniquely accessible way.

The Fairness Project was founded in 2015 to incubate, run, and win social and economic justice ballot initiatives when politicians fail to act. Their unique theory of change addresses long standing racial, gender, and economic disparities for millions of Americans who have been left behind. They have won 20 of their first 21 campaigns, delivering wage increases, health care, and paid leave to 17 million people.

To support in its efforts to empower people with sustainable access to water and sanitation across Africa, where 600M people live without access to safely managed water supply. With a particular focus on enhancing opportunity for women and children, this funding will be used to promote resilience to illness and disease including COVID-19, among those living in poverty. By making water and a toilet at a home a realty for those without, this funding will help improve health, enhance family income, empower women, and increase access to education.

The Coaching Fellowship (TCFS) enables young women leaders in social impact to build the new world by providing access to executive-level coaching, leadership development, and a community network. When the pandemic hit, TCFS responded by creating a coaching program to build the professional and personal capacity of women impact leaders supporting the front line. Now, as it is more clear than ever that women will disproportionately fall behind professionally as a result of the impacts of COVID, this funding will help enable TCFS to expand their support for women leaders in social impact as the pandemic continues, and throughout recovery.

Funding will support the design, sustainable construction, and operation of the Waniyetu Wowapi Lakota Youth Arts & Culture Institute. This much-needed art space will provide skills in support of a career in art; increased awareness of how art can heal; increased self-confidence to identify as an artist; expanded access to mediums and a diversity of teachers; a deeper connection to Lakota culture and art; and new skills and awareness of art’s role in community building, activism, and social change.

Support for the training and acquisition of COVID-proof skills and jobs for formerly incarcerated software developers. Funds will be used to offer full-time employment to trainees and to hire mentors to support them on software projects for clients.

The Richmond Rapid Response Fund (R3F) is a wraparound initiative that will meet the immediate and ongoing needs of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. R3F will focus on key priority areas including food and essential supplies, economic recovery and security, housing and homelessness, health and healing, education and learning, and social and legal services. With this funding R3F will continue to respond to the immediate needs of Richmond, California residents including cash disbursements and rental assistance. They will simultaneously develop a long-term recovery plan with a focus on guaranteed income, housing, and education through the lens of equity.

NEAR serves the most vulnerable in our communities as well as the frontlines that serve them. NEAR focuses on saving lives in times of emergencies. They mobilize their networks to identify unmet need, gain access to resources, and generate funding. Their current focus during COVID is getting PPE, particularly protective masks, to vulnerable communities.

To support The H.E.L.P. Center and COVID-response resources and services for the Flint, Michigan community.

Healthcare workers caring for patients with COVID-19 are experiencing significant trauma with the risk of ongoing psychosocial distress. In response, First Descents is offering adventure-based trauma support programs for healthcare workers on the frontlines of the pandemic. Aptly titled HERO RECHARGE, these trauma-informed programs are designed to improve psychosocial health, nurture supportive peer relationships, process grief and loss, and better position healthcare workers to carry out their important work.

To support Oxfam’s response to the ongoing impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds will be used to support critical, life-saving interventions by local partners with a focus on providing immediate food assistance and promoting livelihood support and recovery.

Pivotal helps young people in and from foster care get the education and career they need to create the life they want for themselves. Funds will ensure the most vulnerable youth served by Pivotal will receive the help they need to get through the COVID crisis.

Global Response Management Inc is a veteran-led organization committed to providing emergency medical care in areas of the world affected by war, conflict, and disaster. As an organization dedicated to advancing the cause of equitable healthcare for all, they are working directly with refugee and displaced populations in Iraq, Syria, Mexico and Guatemala and will use funding to continue their COVID-19 efforts globally.

Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream ensures children from low-income families have access to high-quality books in the home environment and extensive family engagement support. They believe that providing children with high-quality books will help foster a love of reading and their program will teach and empower families to employ the practice of consistently reading together. It is their goal that every child achieves the potential to reach for their dreams.

Black Market KY is a sustainable Black owned grocery store in Louisville's West End where residents are struggling in a food apartheid. This health food store offers affordable fresh food and community resources for marginalized folks. The ultimate goal is to ensure a living wage without raising the cost for customers.

The UnidosUS response to the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the Latino community is captured in the Esperanza/Hope Fund (EHF). UnidosUS EHF provides dedicated resources to elevate a culturally and linguistically-competent public health response, strengthen their nonprofit Affiliates’ resiliency in crisis, and continue to lead national advocacy to shape policy responses to the pandemic that include the Hispanic community. The UnidosUS EHF provides ongoing education, research, tools, capacity-building and training, and emergency assistance grants to support short-term emergency response efforts and sustain longer-term programmatic initiatives that have shifted to virtual or semi-virtual delivery and evolved as the pandemic persists.

Funding will provide emergency cash aid to South Sudanese females living either in South Sudan or in refugee camps of neighboring countries. They include hundreds of women-headed families in refugee camps, hundreds of young women studying in high schools and universities on Mercy Beyond Borders (MBB) scholarships who have been adversely affected by school closures, and dozens of refugee women for whom MBB will provide basic business training and micro-enterprise loans.

Through a partnership with BeyGood, the funds will be used to help support families in Texas who have been impacted by the winter storm. For 29 years, Bread of Life, Inc. has worked to eradicate food insecurity, improve health outcomes, and provide resources to the greater Houston community.

Good Apple is a health system-integrated grocery delivery company fighting food insecurity and waste. During COVID-19, Good Apple launched "Stay Home, Stay Healthy", delivering fresh, nutritious food directly to the doorsteps of older adults and people with weak immune systems, free of charge, while employing delivery drivers who lost jobs amid the pandemic. #StartSmall's support helps Good Apple scale its "Stay Home, Stay Healthy" program in Central Texas.

The Families and Workers Fund is a collaborative philanthropic effort designed to support and empower workers, families, and communities devastated by the health and economic crises caused by COVID-19.

Love Never Fails empowers all people to express and experience their best sense of humanity. They do this by restoring, educating and protecting survivors of human trafficking and their community. Funding will provide safe housing and art classes to trafficked girls, ages 13-17.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is working to address COVID-19’s devastating health and economic impacts on the more than 2.5 million nannies, house cleaners, and homecare workers who provide critical care for our homes and loved ones. Through its 70+ local chapters and affiliate organizations and a digital network reaching over 250,000 domestic workers across the U.S., NDWA is providing workers with resources they need to work safely, access emotional support, and find community--while harnessing this moment to underline the critical value of care work and ensure domestic workers’ needs are centered in recovery efforts.

For over 60 years, Public Health Solutions (PHS) has supported vulnerable New York City families in achieving optimal health and building pathways to reach their potential. Since outbreak of COVID-19, PHS has provided emergency food, scalable technology-based outreach, a coordinated network of social and clinical providers, and home-based telehealth and resource navigation to individuals and families most in need. This funding will help us continue to support under resourced communities across the five boroughs of New York City through these initiatives.

Advancing Girls’ Education in Africa (AGE Africa) provides life-changing opportunities to adolescent girls in rural Malawi through targeted initiatives in education, mentoring, and leadership development. With this support, AGE Africa will expand its scholarship and CHATS programs (Creating Healthy Approaches To Success), which currently provide life-skills programming and financial support for Malawi’s most vulnerable girls at 24 secondary schools.

Women’s Global Education Project (WGEP) works hand-in-hand with trusted local leaders in rural Senegal and Kenya to dismantle the structural barriers that keep girls from attending and succeeding in school, focusing on girls who are the most at risk of dropping out due to poverty, early marriage, pregnancy, and female genital mutilation. This funding will enable WGEP to scale its services to reach more girls and to deepen our services in response to the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, including food insecurity, gender-based violence, and illiteracy.

WISER empowers girls in one of Kenya's most remote regions through education and health. WISER's flagship program, the WISER Girls Secondary School, graduates 98% of students in an area where only 9% of girls finish school. Funds will support the expansion of the WISER Girls Secondary School to larger and younger populations and the rapid growth of community programs targeting health crises and vulnerable populations.

The Bros in Convo Initiative is a Black Queer lead organization in Orlando, Florida providing comprehensive health education, STI linkage, and peer support to Black gay, bisexual, queer, and same gender loving men ages 18-35. Funds will in part support the organization’s Kitchen Table/Mesa De Cocina Program, an online collaborative health and nutrition program that shows kitchen skill, not budget, is the key to great food. Funds will also in part support weekly access to fresh produce bags from local Black-owned farms and Community Supported Agriculture programs.

Asante Africa educates and empowers the next generation of change agents whose dreams and actions transform Africa and the world. Through this grant, over 20,000 young women will academically excel, confidently address their life challenges, thrive in the global economy, and catalyze positive change cross the countries of Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya.

The Immigrant Neighbor Fund led by the Voto Latino Foundation, in partnership with Mission Asset Fund and APIA Vote, provides direct financial support to those left out of the CARES Act. The CARES Act omits 20 percent of Latinx workers because they do not have a social security number. Similar impact is faced in the AAPI community where nearly 1.7 million are undocumented. While the undocumented community contributes $27 billion in annual taxes to federal and state governments, they are not included in the CARES Act.

Our Katahdin, through Mobilize Katahdin, will provide direct COVID relief efforts to meet the needs of our most at-risk individuals, service providers and small businesses of the eight communities and Wabanaki organizations in the Katahdin region of Northern Maine.

Through advocacy and education, Equality California strives to create a world that is healthy, just, and fully equal for all LGBTQ+ people. At the start of the COVID-19 crisis, Equality California sprang into action immediately and this funding will help the organization continue to respond to the urgent and disproportionate impact the COVID-19 health crisis has had on LGBTQ+ people through vaccine outreach and education; after-school mentorship programs for LGBTQ+ students in California's Central Valley; and virtual LGBTQ+ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion trainings empowering direct service providers to understand the unique needs of LGBTQ+ people and provide culturally sensitive care.

For 40 years, Futures Without Violence has pioneered groundbreaking, highly effective strategies to prevent gender-based violence and child trauma, heal survivors, and support families and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the urgency of this critical work, putting many more women and children at risk for violence, denying them access to potentially life-saving supports, and exacerbating punishing inequities that put low-income communities of color in particular jeopardy. We are working around-the-clock to support frontline responders and strengthen systems that provide critical and life changing assistance for COVID-19 related domestic violence response.

VOW to End Child Marriage is a growing global initiative mobilizing brands and individuals to end the international child marriage crisis by raising funds, raising awareness, and focusing attention on a girl’s right to own her future. 100% of VOW donations go directly to underfunded community-based efforts to end child marriage and advance girls' rights, including educating girls, providing job training, health education, and more.

The Cash Lab's mission is to build an evidence base regarding cash transfer policies such as a Universal Basic Income. The Cash Lab answers the fundamental questions of how a Universal Basic Income policy would transform American families, communities and economies.

Mission Neighborhood Centers (MNC), founded in San Francisco over 60 years ago, is a community-based organization serving over 3,000 low-income seniors, youth and families with young children at 11 sites throughout San Francisco. Over 60% of MNC participants are undocumented and in dire need of assistance. MNC has been providing critical food access and emergency funds (which include rent, healthcare expenses, utilities, etc.) since the outset of the COVID-19 crisis. MNC is a lifeline to the populations most deeply impacted by the health and economic implications of this pandemic.

Narrative projects for Mayor Michael Tubbs' guaranteed income initiatives and Mayors for a Guaranteed Income.

AAPI Civic Engagement Fund was established with the vision that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) must be an integral part of strengthening America’s democracy, improving the quality of life for all, and creating vibrant multiracial communities. In response to the alarming spike in anti-Asian violence and hate in early 2020, it developed the movementhub.org, a website designed to amplify the on-the-ground activism of the local AAPI organizations that it supports. The site provides users with a curated directory of resources, data snapshots and demographic profiles of AAPIs, and a story and policy protection map.

Apex for Youth delivers possibilities to underserved Asian and immigrant youth from low-income families in New York City. Our programs focus on supporting social-emotional and educational development for young people in grades K-12 through our afterschool programs, one-to-one mentoring programs, elementary tutoring programs, high school and college admissions workshops, mental health support services, and athletic programs.

The mission of the Chinatown Community Development Center is to build community and enhance the quality of life for San Francisco residents. We are a place-based community development organization serving primarily the Chinatown neighborhood, and also serve other areas including North Beach and the Tenderloin. This grant will be used to support (1) the Feed+Fuel Chinatown 2.0; reopening of Chinatown businesses; and programs to keep our communities safe from anti-Asian hate violence.

CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities works to build grassroots community power across diverse poor and working-class Asian immigrant and refugee communities in New York City. Through our organizing model of base-building, leadership development, campaigns, alliances, and organizational development- we organize Asian communities to fight for institutional change and participates in a broader movement towards racial, gender, and economic justice.

Community Youth Center of San Francisco (CYC) provides the culturally diverse youth of our community a shared sense of belonging, fuel for their curiosities, and a voice in their futures. CYC’s Coalition of Community Safety and Justice responds to violence affecting the API community, to learn from other community centered initiatives and to develop culturally competent and trauma informed responses to interracial violence and anti-Asian racism with a comprehensive 3 pronged approach: develop a crisis intervention and holistic wrap around case management system for Asian immigrant victims/survivors and their families, to lead a multicultural community safety planning and oversight process to ensure that healing and individual/communal accountability is community driven, and engage in cross-cultural racial community building and restorative justice work that will focus on the building of community relationships and trust between our respective communities.

Compassion in Oakland was formed in response to the surge of anti-Asian attacks -- particularly in California’s Bay Area.

GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance, formed in 1988, is a platform for Queer, Trans, Asian, and Pacific Islanders (QTAPI) to organize, bring awareness, and build community. We are dedicated to providing a safe space to inspire individuals to be their best selves, for others to celebrate our diversity, and for all of us to continue the fight for equality. We helped build institutions like the SF Community Health Center and GAPA Runway. The grant will allow us to generate sustainable growth in our membership, enhance existing and new programming, and experiment with new services benefiting our community. GLBTQ+ Asian Pacific Alliance was formerly known as Gay Asian Pacific Alliance or GAPA.

The London Chinese Community Centre was founded in 1980 and was the first Chinese Community Centre in the UK. These funds will help us to make it through the COVID crisis and continue our good work in helping the local Chinese community, we will also be able to direct more effort to the opposition of racism and hate crime, helping those in need as well as further promoting our Chinese culture and values we hold.

Chinese Culture Center’s mission is to elevate the underserved and be a voice for equality through contemporary arts and education, supporting artists who champion activism, resiliency, and healthy communities. Funds will support Chinese Culture Center’s “We the Future” to present bold art with social transformation and community impact by sparking critical dialogues on equity. The timely and immediate interventions will integrate arts in combating anti-Asian hate, building solidarity with Black Lives Matter, and seeding long-term cross-sector community partnerships to build a just and equitable future.

NAPAWF’s mission is to build collective power with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and girls to gain full agency over our lives, our families, and our communities. Funds will support public education, grassroots organizing, leadership development, and policy advocacy in support of a response to the March 16 shootings in Atlanta that centers the needs of Asian American women and elders. Funds will also support our long-term investment in the AAPI women leaders of tomorrow, building a base of leaders to organize on a grassroots level for policy change in support of gender and reproductive justice for AAPIs.

AAPI Women Lead works to end violence against Asian and Pacific Islander women, girls, and nonbinary communities. We do this work through our educational movement building seminars, healing justice workshops, mutual aid projects, community-accountability programs, and #ImReady annual conferences. We do this work in solidarity with Black, Indigenous and other communities of color.

Through organizing in the Bay Area, APIENC inspires and trains grassroots leaders, transforms our values from scarcity to abundance, and partners with organizations to sustain a vibrant movement ecosystem. APIENC builds queer and transgender Asian and Pacific Islander power to amplify our voices and increase the visibility of our communities. APIENC's work is rooted in the many legacies of queer and trans API people who have fought isolation, battled for our rights, and created communities of care. APIENC is a political home for QTAPI people to transform. Together, we learn and practice organizing skills, unlearn ancestral and collective traumas, and relearn values of abundance and interdependence.

Asian Americans have been part of the American story since its earliest days, and are now the U.S.'s fastest-growing racial group with the potential and power to shape our nation and the policies that affect us. Our mission is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.

The nation's first civil rights and legal nonprofit serving the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Asian Law Caucus is committed to increasing the power of low-income immigrant communities to help advance economic and racial justice in our democracy. These funds will help support underserved communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and address anti-Asian, xenophobic hate that has increased due to COVID-19 with a focus on policy and community-centered solutions and solidarity with other communities.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta is the first and only legal advocacy nonprofit dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in Georgia and the Southeast. Together with our allies in Georgia and the country, we work to provide for and protect our communities. We are in directing communication with and supporting the victims of the March 16th shootings and their families by distributing funds and helping deliver resources, including counseling, medical services, immigration legal services, interpretation, and victim advocacy/case management. For the long term, we will continue to fight white supremacy in our communities, our city, our courts, and our legislative bodies.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago builds power through collective advocacy and organizing to achieve racial equity. To combat the current rise in anti-Asian harassment and discrimination and continue to proactively prepare for the future increase of hate incidents, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago has implemented an aggressive scaling up of locally-led bystander hate incident intervention trainings for community members, in partnership with Hollaback!.

Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles is the region’s leading organization dedicated to providing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities with multilingual, culturally-sensitive legal services, education and civil rights support. Serving more than 15,000 individuals and organizations every year through direct legal services, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and organizational capacity building, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Los Angeles focuses on the most vulnerable community members while building a strong voice for civil rights and social justice.

Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States. Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian and Pacific American community. We advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial injustice. Programs encompass community building, coalition building, research and analysis, and policy work to advance systemic and cultural change.

Based in Washington, D.C., the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans is a coalition of 37 national Asian Pacific American organizations that serves to represent the interests of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities and to provide a national voice for our communities’ concerns. Our communities are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, currently making up approximately six percent of the population.

Send Chinatown Love is a New York based, entirely volunteer run organization, whose goal is to provide relief to small, immigrant owned. Chinatown businesses impacted by the effects of Covid-19.

Stop AAPI Hate, a partnership of Chinese for Affirmative Action, A3PCON (Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council) and the Asian American Studies Department, San Francisco State University, is committed to: documenting first-hand accounts of discriminatory incidents; providing multilingual resources to community members; offering assistance to AAPI individuals and organizations experiencing hate; informing and educating state and local officials about policies and programs that address racial discrimination; and supporting community based solutions that increase our capacity to address community safety and justice issues over the long term.

Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) focuses on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice. AACRE connects communities, ideas, and action to inspire a collective movement for positive change. For groups in the AACRE network, AACRE offers fiscal sponsorship, financial management, access to meeting space, and other administrative, human resources, technology, organizational development, strategic planning, and fundraising support. In addition, AACRE encourages learning, collaboration, and resource-sharing across the network and amplifies the ideas and work of these groups.

The Asian Australian Alliance (AAA) is a platform to advocate for and empower the Asian Australian community as a voice for change. AAA launched the COVID-19 Racism Incident Report Survey which has collected over 500 reports of COVID related racism in Australia. The grant will help the network develop other programs such as scholarships, mentoring and advocacy skill-based training and assist with our continual research on Asian Australian and social justice-based issues.

Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people. Funding from Start Small will support CPA in building the collective power of low-income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

The Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center’s (APICC) mission is to support and present multidisciplinary art reflective of the unique experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders living in the United States. APICC was founded in 1996 by representatives of five nonprofit arts groups: Asian American Dance Performances, First Voice, Asian Improv aRts, the Asian American Theater Company, and Kearny Street Workshop. Since 1998, the center has promoted the artistic and organizational growth of San Francisco’s API arts community by organizing and presenting the annual United States of Asian America Festival as well as commissioning contemporary art for and by the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

To support Clara Lionel Foundation's response addressing the systemic issues faced by the AAPI community. Through this partnership between #StartSmall and Clara Lionel Foundation 21 AAPI led and serving organizations received grants.

With #StartSmall's investment, Malala Fund will support at least 20 Education Champion-led initiatives that empower girls and keep them learning during COVID-19, advocate for global policy change that prioritizes girls' education and train the next generation of girl activists. Our work supports girls in Afghanistan, Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey.

Create CA advocates for high quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and by mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners. We recognize that within the current public education system there is inequitable access to the arts and creativity. Particularly, girls and BIPOC students experience significant barriers to access, participation and success in arts learning that are directly linked to pervasive gender and racial inequities in our educational system. We believe every student has a right to a well-rounded education that includes the arts and the benefits they bring. Our commitment is to work to address root causes of inequities, including elimination of policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages that allow detrimental outcomes to persist.

Funding will provide food, water, and basic supplies (masks, hand sanitizer, etc.) to people living in the favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Funding will also support disseminating reliable information about Covid-19 to communities throughout Rio.

The Chinati Foundation is a contemporary art museum founded by the artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Funding will support job development and skill training programs at Chinati, benefiting young women of color through the following initiatives: internships, adobe restoration, and grasslands restoration.

Association for India's Development (AID) is a volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable, and just development. AID partners with grassroots organizations in India on interconnected areas of education, health, agriculture, livelihoods, environment, and human rights. This grant will help under-resourced communities identify COVID symptoms, prevent spread, access care and treatment, benefit from medical equipment including oxygen, oximeters, thermometers, protective gear and vaccination, survive lockdowns, regain livelihoods and will strengthen hospitals and NGOs that serve rural and low-income communities.

Sewa International, Inc. USA is a Hindu faith-based, humanitarian, nonprofit service organization. This grant will support the procurement of lifesaving equipment such as oxygen concentrators, ventilators, BiPap, and CPAP machines as part of Sewa International, Inc USA's “Help India Defeat COVID-19” campaign. In partnership with the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin, equipment will be distributed to government hospitals and COVID-19 care centers and hospitals.

CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. This grant will support CARE's urgent action to help address the deadly second wave of COVID-19 infections devastating India. Funds will be used to supplement government efforts by setting up temporary COVID-19 care centers; providing oxygen, PPE kits, and other critically needed emergency supplies for frontline health workers; and addressing vaccine hesitancy and helping ensure that people get vaccinated, particularly in remote, marginalized communities in India.

Funding will help to expand Aim High’s free summer learning program and close the widening academic and opportunity gaps that have emerged due to COVID-19. Grounded in a welcoming community where every kid feels seen and supported, Aim High gives students the confidence to succeed in high school and beyond. Aim High’s multi-year summer enrichment program empowers middle schoolers from low-income neighborhoods, igniting their love of learning and yielding real results.

Worth Rises is an advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches, namely Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. The organization works to expose the commercialization of the criminal legal system, advocates to protect and return the economic resources extracted from affected communities, and organizes to remove the power of the prison industry. Through its work, Worth Rises strives to pave a road toward a safe and just world free of police and prisons.

Centering artists as essential to social and cultural movement, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is reimagining the role an arts institution can play in the community it serves. Funding will support artists living and working in the City of San Francisco during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, YBCA is serving as the implementer for the first-ever Guaranteed Income Pilot for artists—a critical step towards building a sustainable economic floor for the artists in our communities and for gaining an understanding of new models for achieving economic security for all. With #StartSmall’s investment YBCA will expand this Pilot, with a twofold goal of learning the impact in the lives of participating artists and the impact in their communities.

WriteGirl will be building on its 20 years of successfully presenting creative writing and mentoring programming for teens in the greater Los Angeles area by launching a national program: WriteGirl National. This national program allows us to offer WriteGirl creative writing and mentoring programs to underserved teen girls throughout the U.S., offering them writing education and tools for developing self-esteem and voice. The pilot program will be anchored around cities/hubs where there is both a great need for creative empowerment for youth, as well as a lack of sufficient arts education programming.

Youth INC's network of nonprofit partners serves over 300,000 New York City young people each year. Funding will support Youth INC's COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, which provides needed resources to help nonprofit partners navigate the unprecedented challenges they are facing at this time.

Youth Represent is dedicated to improving the lives and futures of young people affected by the criminal justice system. A conviction, an arrest, or even a simple interaction with police can have lasting consequences for young people, threatening the stability they need to thrive. When our justice system creates barriers to success for youth, we use the law—either through direct services of policy reform—to help them leave the stigma of a criminal record behind. This grant will be used to improve the lives and futures of young people by providing legal and social support for youth, 24 and under, after involvement in the criminal legal system.

Artistic Noise brings the power of artistic practice to youth who are system-involved and others throughout the community. Their Harlem based Art and Entrepreneurship Program provides youth with the opportunity to learn artistic techniques in different media, study contemporary artists working with issues of social justice, and produce an independent body of work throughout the year. In addition to their art curriculum, the A&E program centers around workforce development by providing fundamental job skills and a weekly support stipend to our youth.

Think of Us (TOU) operates as the R+D lab for child welfare. We take on strategic - and opportunistic - projects with the goal of causing “good trouble” and, ultimately, driving concrete, structural changes in policy, practice, resource flows, power dynamics, relationships and mental models. Their ultimate goal is to integrate Lived Experience at every level, ensuring everyone touched by the system has the conditions they need to Heal, Develop and Thrive. This grant will support TOU’s work across the ecosystem of current and former foster youth, child welfare workers and policymakers to Spark, Support and Drive to systematically center lived experience.

Empower Work is on a mission to create healthy, equitable workplaces where people are supported, valued, and empowered. Empower Work helps underserved workers thrive ensuring they have the support, information, and resources to navigate complex work challenges - via technology. Empower Work’s support improves economic security and mental health for women and women of color in particular. With support from #StartSmall, Empower Work is expanding key resources and improving tech infrastructure along with expanded marketing and outreach to change the lives of 50,000 historically marginalized workers.

Upsolve empowers low-income and working-class families to access their civil legal rights and overcome financial distress at scale, using technology, education, and community. To date, Upsolve has relieved over $350 million in debt. #StartSmall's support will help Upsolve reach more underserved communities in the wake of COVID-19.

Black Girl Film School is a collection of media experts and below the line crew all with one common goal of increasing the number of Black women working in the industry behind the camera. They deliver their film school curriculum online and keep the learning experience 100% free to the learner. Their programs specialize in film production areas behind the camera focused on STEM and STEAM learning for girls 13-17 years old.

Civic Eagle believes every person has a right to transparency: the ability to see the workings of power around us such that we can lend our voices and shape how power is exercised. This grant will help Civic Eagle create that transparency — scalable NLP generated insights into legislation impacting menstrual equity, voter protection, and justice; and data-backed digital content to provide every person a clear understanding of the workings of power in and around our communities

Accountability Counsel amplifies the voices of communities around the world to protect their human rights and environment. As advocates for people harmed by internationally financed projects, Accountability Counsel employs community driven and policy level strategies to access justice. Accountability Counsel focuses on a high-leverage point of influence – the accountability offices tied to international investments – to support communities in using their own power to demand justice on equal footing with corporations and institutions. This grant will support Accountability Counsel’s regional growth plan with a vision of strengthening accountability ecosystems in every world region.

The Council on Criminal Justice works to advance understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the nation and build consensus for solutions that enhance safety and justice for all. Independent and nonpartisan, we are an invitational membership organization and think tank, serving as a center of gravity and incubator of policy and leadership for the criminal justice field. Harnessing the experience and vision of the nation’s top experts, innovators, and influencers, we are a catalyst for progress based on facts, evidence and fundamental principles of justice

AfricAid works to improve the standing of women in society through robust, locally-led mentorship initiatives that cultivate confidence, improve academic and health outcomes, and promote socially-responsible leadership skills. In close partnership with our locally-led sister organization, we support mentorship opportunities that help secondary school girls in Tanzania complete their education, develop into confident leaders, and transform their own lives and their communities. Girls who participate in these mentoring programs are more likely to graduate, seek higher education, outperform peers on standardized tests, and have the confidence, resilience, and leadership abilities to reach their goals in school, and in life.

LYRIC’s vision is a diverse society where LGBTQQ youth are embraced for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be. This grant will be used to provide direct services for 100 LGBTQQ youth survivors and youth at risk of violence annually; and provide capital funding for LYRIC’s facility expansion and renovations to ensure that our youth have the renewed, more functional, healing-centered, restorative spaces they are requesting to come together and support each other - especially in the wake of personally disruptive traumas experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

DrawTogether is a first-of-its-kind art making show that uses drawing to empower social emotional learning for kids across the globe, and partners with schools and organizations to provide resources for connected creativity. Hosted by illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, the screen comes alive, supporting kids to build skills and mindsets they need to thrive, and providing educators and parents with tools to spark imagination and inspire learning. As COVID-19 interrupts kids’ schools and schedules, exposing them to sky-high stress levels, DrawTogether provides programs and tools to help kids process their emotions, and help them hope, cope, and heal - while having a lot of fun

Unlimited Potential improves the quality of life in the inner cities of Philadelphia and Baltimore through teaching arts, entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Unlimited Potential provides mentoring to at-risk youth to improve high school graduation rates and lifetime earnings.

Mandy’s Farm assists individuals with developmental disabilities in achieving their goals for living, learning, and working in the community. Through Mandy's Farm programs, individuals with a wide range of disabilities are able to gain access to lifelong educational opportunities, vocational training, therapeutic activities, equitable employment, transition services, and supportive housing. Mandy’s Farm work includes services for young women with developmental disabilities, who often go undiagnosed or under-diagnosed within the disability community, and are proportionally offered fewer services, especially as they transition into adulthood. Funding will support the organization’s increased costs associated with COVID-19, including PPE, technology infrastructure, and staffing.

Girls With Impact operates the nations’ only live, online entrepreneurship academy for young women 14-24. Designed to increase women in the C-suite, its mini-MBA equips girls with the tools, skills, and confidence to be tomorrow’s business leaders, entrepreneurs and innovators. Girls With Impact filled a key gap during Covid – with proven, online education – and now this funding will advance its mission to scale and train 100,000 young women. Over 60% of graduates are of color. The program has served women in all 50 states and 11 countries.

Afro Charities builds bridges across generations and socioeconomic divides through artistic and educational projects that are often inspired by the AFRO American Newspapers’ archives. As a nonprofit partner to the AFRO, we help care for their archives, and create meaningful opportunities for our community to engage with this indispensable resource. This grant will support the preservation and digitization of Afro Charities’ extensive photo collection, and will help build new tools to increase access to these images.

With the support of #StartSmall ALIMA is operating a Rapid Response Mechanism aimed at technically reinforcing the teams of the ministries of health during the next waves of COVID-19; to increase the capacity to manage severe and critical cases of COVID-19; to guarantee the availability of oxygen and intensive care medicine; and to strengthen COVID-19 diagnoses in the main reception and admission facilities for respiratory emergencies in areas with the highest virus transmission and associated mortality in 13 sub-Saharan African countries.

CAST is leading the development and transformation of a historic San Francisco SoMA building into a vibrant cultural center, arts hub, and incubator. It will house an eclectic mix of music, dance, film, and economic workforce programs, with a focus on serving neighborhood small- to mid-sized arts and culture organizations, especially BIPOC and women-led. This grant will increase the affordability of rent prices, provide subsidies for build-outs, and create a working fund for programming to make 447 Minna Street a truly affordable long-term home for arts nonprofits and cultural entrepreneurs.

EPIC, founded by former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs and formally launching in early 2022, will serve as a hub that brings together local leaders, advocates, policymakers, funders, cultural influencers, and communities to end poverty in California. It will shape and advance narrative strategies and policy solutions that center the voices of low-income Californians and reflect the most critical and timely levers to tackling poverty. The organization will also pilot innovative programs and strategies in partnership with local government and communities. Funding will support its launch in 2022 and implementation of policy priorities.

This project, to promote organizing regarding forensics reform as part of police reform, will develop model legislation and regulations to address longstanding deficiencies and unfairness in use of forensic evidence by crime labs, police, and courts. The focus will be three core principles: (1) independence, (2) accuracy, and (3) oversight. Organizing toolkits will set out the problem, relevant terminology, and walk through organizing goals and possible solutions, to show what civil rights are at stake, how unreliable forensics can be, and what concrete steps can be taken to reform forensics.

Getting Out and Staying Out partners with people impacted by arrest and incarceration on a journey of education, employment and emotional wellbeing and collaborates with New York City communities to support a culture of nonviolence. Many participants are stymied in their educational goals due to prior experiences of neglect. In order to enroll in High School equivalency programs, they must demonstrate a 9th grade reading level on standardized tests. For formerly incarcerated young men, the median reading score equates to a 4th grade level. This grant supports an evidence-based Literacy Program, attentive to undiagnosed learning differences and incorporating wraparound supports.

The Wrongful Conviction Review Project (WCRP) is a program of the Oregon Justice Resource Center (OJRC), an independent organization dedicated to protecting the rights of those impacted by the criminal legal system and preventing and reversing wrongful convictions (manifest injustices, generally, and not just innocence cases). The WCRP will focus on four distinct areas of practice: (1) mass case reviews, (2) forensics, (3) changes in the law and community standards, and (4) non-DNA/forensic causes of wrongful convictions.

Funding will support SMART’s Strategic Growth Initiative, a three-year plan focused on growing the number of students served and the supports provided in a post-pandemic reality. Given the emotional and academic effects of COVID-19, the initiative will also strengthen the academic and social-emotional supports that SMART provides to the growing number of Scholars.

Youth As Resources, (YAR) is a youth-led grant making, community organizing and leadership development non-profit organization that helps youth address our most critical community and institutional challenges on our own terms. YAR offers employment opportunities for skilled and experienced Board members through Task Force. Task Force members organize our peers to bring about community and institutional change including providing direct organizing, base-building and mobilization around the Board’s issue agenda.

DC or Nothing, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that advocates for social justice, equity, and economic inclusion for Washingtonians. Funding will support the “I am a Citizen” initiative, which is focused on the stabilization and empowerment of those District of Columbia residents reentering society from incarceration. This advocacy initiative will push for dignity and full rights restoration for justice involved Washingtonians. In addition, the initiative will address some vital stabilization factors for those District of Columbia residents being released from the Federal Bureau of Prisons who are housed at a halfway house in Baltimore.

B-360 has been on a mission to utilize dirt bike culture to end the cycle of poverty, disrupt the prison pipeline, and build bridges in communities. #StartSmall’s grant will support the #Ride4Change campaign, the building of a 20+ acre campus accessible to the Baltimore street riding community complete with mobile classroom, dirt bike track, and facilities to house B-360’s educational and community programming. Through culturally relevant programming based on participants' love of dirt bikes, B-360 teaches students the engineering design process and use safe spaces to apply engineering and rider safety. They foster new pipelines to STEM careers and workforce development for young adults seeking an alternative to the criminal justice system.

The central mission of the National Police Accountability Project (NPAP) is to promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The Police Force Accountability Initiative will assist NPAP's nationwide membership in developing and successfully litigating cases for injunctive relief (i.e. court ordered changes to policies, practices, training, and customs). With this program, NPAP will be able to amplify the impact of its members’ work and address patterns of police and jail abuse that do not make national headlines.

Associacao Projeto Crescer is a community-led organization which seeks to decrease violence and promote public engagement in one of the largest favelas in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro’s Jacarezinho. The project focuses on the revitalization of the pillars of their community life: reconstruction of several civic centers, such as the Samba school, two sports centers, residents’ association building, among others. Beyond just reparation, the organization will develop and carry out myriad forms of community programming, ranging from dance and sports lessons, to soccer tournaments, resident association meetings, and educational workshops. All the while, they will employ residents of the favela for construction and programming, strengthening the capacity of local business within the favela.

On January 9, 2022, an apartment building fire in the Bronx took the lives of more than a dozen New Yorkers, including many children, and injured more than 60 others. The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams and The City of New York, is raising money to support victims of this tragic event. This grant will enable the distribution of emergency relief supplies and provide support for the victims and their families. Total Grant: $1MM in partnership with Jay-Z.

GlobalGiving connects nonprofits, donors, and companies in nearly every country in the world to accelerate community-led change. When disasters strike, GlobalGiving quickly delivers funds to organizations that are best-suited to provide emergency relief and long-term recovery for their communities. This grant will support partner organizations led by or focused on women, girls, and other marginalized groups of people impacted by and responding to the overlapping crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and Super Typhoon Rai in the Philippines.

The Solutions Project supports climate changemakers, innovators, and solutionaires at the grassroots level by awarding grants to support grassroots innovation, elevating their storytelling and leadership capacity to increase awareness and their own impact, and connecting them with influential leaders to expand their breadth of work and potential for life changing solutions. They aim to address gender and racial inequities in media coverage and in philanthropy, especially related to climate change and the fight towards climate justice. Since 2015, they have distributed more than $8.5M in grants to 100+ grantees, mostly led by women. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The Caribbean Climate Justice Project seeks to raise awareness and educate broadly on the threats to communities across the Caribbean caused by climate change, and catalyze action on the necessary responses at the household, community, national and regional levels. The Caribbean Climate Justice Project’s work spans over 20 countries, educating communities about the disproportionate impacts of climate change, advocating for systems change on a global scale, and networking to connect Caribbean communities and abroad to optimize impact and promote knowledge and resource sharing. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

NDN Collective is an Indigenous-led organization dedicated to building Indigenous power. Through organizing, activism, philanthropy, grantmaking, capacity-building and narrative change, they are creating sustainable solutions on Indigenous terms. NDN climate justice campaigns support those Indigenous and frontline communities who are leading the way in defending their land, water, and air from contamination, and their people from exploitation and violence. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Native Movement supports grassroots-led projects that align with their vision, that dismantle oppressive systems for all, and that endeavor to ensure social justice, Indigenous Peoples’ rights, and the rights of Mother Earth. They work to push toward a post-oil economy, and an Indigenized Regenerative Economy in Alaska by working with numerous local and state-wide organizations, groups, and individuals to build solutions rooted in an Indigenized worldview, toward healthy, sustainable, & just communities for all. Native Movement also creates a platform for Alaska Native people to pursue storytelling projects on climate justice issues through a filmmakers intensive program. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The Movement for Black Lives (MB4L) is an ecosystem of individuals and organizations creating a shared vision and policy agenda to win rights, recognition, and resources for Black people to live healthy and fruitful lives, having impacts well beyond the Black community. MB4L embodies an intersectional approach to social justice and systems change, spanning five areas: Policy Demands, Organizing & Base Building, Electoral Justice Project, The Rising Majority, and Culture & Resource. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Integrated Health Outreach (IHO) strives to develop and implement sustainable, cost-effective, and accessible programs to facilitate community, ecological and social-emotional well-being. IHO’s work prioritizes sustainable agriculture for rural communities with a focus on creating climate smart sustainable livelihoods for women. They combine capacity-building, protection of the environment, mental health, and look for projects for women’s engagement that support this holistic approach. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

IEN builds the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, health of both people and all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities. IEN accomplishes this by maintaining an informational clearinghouse, organizing campaigns, direct actions, and public awareness, building the capacity of community and tribes to address environmental justice issues, developing policy initiatives, and building alliances among Indigenous communities and allies. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice raises funds and makes grants to BIPOC-led organizations that have historically lacked access to funding and are essential to making progress in addressing intersecting climate, gender, and racial justice crises in the U.S. A majority of Hive funding is awarded to groups in the South, where pollution levels are higher and philanthropic funding levels are lower than elsewhere in the country. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The HEY (Healthy and Environmentally-friendly Youth) Campaign works towards bringing children and youth voices to the core of the climate change movement, with a core focus on child health. The HEY Campaign aims to create a generation of young people committed to adopting lifestyles that are both healthy and environmentally friendly, and leading global advocacy efforts to build inclusive societies where priority is given to life and dignity, not just economic growth. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Helen’s Daughters was born in 2016 out of a call for proposals from the UN Women’s Empower Women Champions for Change Program with the belief that there was a need to support rural women with the use of adaptive agricultural techniques, capacity-building and improved market access. The foundation has grown to support all the individual components of climate justice with a focus on supporting women in agriculture, and building these women’s ability to support themselves through sustainable farming practices. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

GirlsCARE is a feminist climate activist movement that aims to create a space that empowers young women to advocate for gender justice in climate action and safeguard the economic, social and environmental rights of women in adaptation and resilience-building efforts nationally. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The Deep South Center for Environment Justice, also known as “The Center,” monitors environmental hazards in neighborhoods and develops strategic advocacy for policies and decisions that prevent and remedy unsafe environmental conditions. The Center also hosts the annual HBCU Climate Change Conference in New Orleans to raise awareness about the disproportionate impact of climate change on vulnerable and marginalized communities as well as prepare HBCU students to become experts and advocates on issues related to environmental and climate justice. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) formed in 2013 to create a new center of gravity in the climate movement by uniting frontline communities and organizations into a formidable force. CJA centers around creating a “Just Transition” away from extractive systems of production, consumption and political oppression, and developing resilient, regenerative and equitable economies. The Just Transition places race, gender and class at the center of the solutions equation in order to establish systems change that truly gives back to our communities in a sustainable way. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

The Climate and Clean Energy Equity Fund (Equity Fund) is building power to stop climate change and create an equitable clean energy future through a strategic multi-state initiative that invests in the leadership and organizing of BIPOC communities, engaging voters through nonpartisan civic engagement campaigns; and winning climate and clean energy policy solutions that reflect the priorities of communities and advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

To fund Clara Lionel Foundation's justice pillar, which supports organizations on the frontlines fighting for new, equitable systems and policy change.

The Center of Popular Democracy (CPD) champions equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. CPD strengthens communities' capacity to envision and win an innovative pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial and economic justice agenda. CPD also runs an Organizing for Environmental Justice Campaign, driving action at the scale and rate needed to address the climate crisis. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

CYEN is dedicated to improving the quality of life of Caribbean young people by facilitating their personal development and full involvement in environment and sustainable development. CYEN’s work spans addressing youth unemployment, enriching climate resiliency, water resource management, notably their "Stay Alive and Thrive" Climate Action campaign to raise public awareness about the urgent need to mitigate and adapt to climate change across the Caribbean and around the globe. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Black Visions Collective is a Black-led, Queer and Trans centering organization whose mission is to organize powerful, connected, Black communities and dismantle systems of violence. Black Visions Collective is led by the guiding belief that all Black people deserve autonomy, that safety is community-led, and we are in the right relationship within our ecosystems. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

Serving as the first global hub for Black feminist philanthropy and led by activists from across the African and Caribbean diaspora, the Black Feminist Fund (BFF) significantly increases the resources available to Black feminist movements globally, contributing to strengthening their sustainability and resilience and supporting Black women’s claim and access to resources, including land, food, water, shelter, work and income. In partnership with Clara Lionel Foundation

OutRight Action International fights for human rights and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people everywhere and to eliminate the systemic violence, persecution and discrimination LGBTIQ people face around the world. OutRight conducts groundbreaking research, advocates at the United Nations and beyond, and supports grassroots LGBTIQ activists and organizations in dozens of countries each year. OutRight’s vision is to protect and uplift marginalized LGBTIQ people everywhere by radically accelerating legal and social change globally over the next five years.

Domus builds loving relationships with young people facing adversity, empowering them to pursue their path to self-sufficiency. Domus operates school engagement and workforce development programming for Stamford, Connecticut’s most disengaged and disconnected youth. Through quality, outcomes based programming, we put young people on the path to on time high school graduation and/or employment that leads to a self-sufficient income.

Axis was founded as a people of color-led nonprofit to remedy the racial disparity in independent schools, in both enrollment numbers and pedagogical and social practice, while simultaneously ensuring that BIPOC students thrive and realize their full potential. Axis partners with independent school communities to facilitate access for students of color and to ensure diverse, equitable, and inclusive educational practices for all.

ZanaAfrica equips adolescent girls in Kenya with the tools they need to safely navigate puberty and step into their potential. Working in Kenya, ZanaAfrica expands access to a proven intervention of rights-based reproductive health education paired with sanitary pads to marginalized girls. We uniquely recognize that this powerful combination is one of the smallest, yet most powerful, hinges to unlock girls' potential and break cycles of poverty.

AFJ is a community-based non-profit which has kept thousands of court-involved and at-risk youth in Manhattan out of the criminal justice system through post-arrest diversion and pre-arrest prevention programs which provide court advocacy, mentorship, educational and vocational support and life skills workshops. 95% of our participants who successfully complete our program steer clear of crime within three years of enrollment. With support from #StartSmall, ten court-involved participants will receive annual services for court advocacy, educational support, job training, and mental health wellness in AFJ’s program

Black AIDS Institute (BAI) is dedicated to ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community. BAI is working toward ending AIDS by purchasing a mobile unit that will provide HIV-testing services, linkage to care, and social support to Black communities in Los Angeles. Additionally, BAI will continue to conduct training, offer technical assistance, disseminate information, and provide advocacy mobilization from a uniquely and unapologetically Black point of view.

Food Rescue US is committed to reducing food waste and food insecurity in America. Using our web-based app, we engage volunteers to transfer excess fresh food from grocers, restaurants, and other sources that would have otherwise been thrown away to social service agencies that feed individuals and families who are food insecure especially those impacted by COVID-19.

Founded by filmmaker and activist Ava DuVernay, ARRAY Alliance works to drive cultural and social justice through film by amplifying and elevating filmmakers of color and women of all kinds, and by deliberately challenging the systems of distribution, arts advocacy, mentorship, grantmaking, inclusive hiring, and education that perpetuate exclusion

Ballroom Marfa is a contemporary cultural arts space that provides a lively intellectual environment where varied perspectives and issues are explored in art, film and music. This grant will be support and present the work of Ballroom’s artist-collaborators who address pressing issues and galvanize audiences’ imaginations towards varied social justice initiatives and causes.

CASA-Voices For Children works ensure the best outcome and future for each abused and neglected child in Benton County, OR by training volunteers to provide advocacy, life skills, and expanding services to help kids thrive. Funding will support programs that ensure inclusive policies and affirming practices, including a new initiative that will increase support of LGBTQ+ foster youth by providing specific education and training to volunteers who will advocate for their best interest in court and beyond.

Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice– the flagship organizing program of Alliance for Safety and Justice—the nation's largest victims' organizing program in the country advocating for smarter justice policies rooted in prevention, restorative justice, rehabilitation, trauma recovery and community health over more arrests and incarceration.

Black Girls Skate is a growing non-profit agency heightening visibility, increasing safety practices and building equity for BIPOC skaters, entrepreneurs and artists.

Facing History fosters empathy and reflection, improves students’ academic performance, reinvigorates teachers, and builds safe and inclusive schools. By integrating the study of history, literature, and human behavior with ethical decision making and innovative teaching strategies, Facing History’s program enables secondary school teachers to promote students’ historical understanding, critical thinking, and social-emotional learning.

FACES SF provides critical assistance to low-income families citywide, with a focus in the Haight Ashbury, Western Addition, Visitacion Valley, and Bayview Hunters Point neighborhoods in the following areas: early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment programs, and family support services. Over 80% of the families they serve survive beneath the Extremely Low Income Line in San Francisco as determined by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

CARE has established a Ukraine Crisis Fund to reach four million with immediate aid and recovery, food, water, hygiene kits, psychosocial support, and cash assistance - prioritizing women and girls, families, and the elderly.

GlobalGiving's Ukraine Crisis Relief Fund supports humanitarian assistance in impacted communities in Ukraine and surrounding regions where Ukrainian refugees have fled. GlobalGiving's local partners are bringing relief to terrified and displaced communities, and they need resources to continue their life-saving work.

Mercy Corps is on the ground in Ukraine, Romania, and Poland, providing funding to local organizations that know their community needs best and working to meet urgent humanitarian needs. They also plan to provide emergency cash assistance and connect people on the move with information, such as where to access basic services, information on safe routes, and their legal rights.

Nova Ukraine, a Bay Area-based humanitarian nonprofit, is providing emergency medical supplies and training for people on the ground in Ukraine. The group is also assisting vulnerable populations that must relocate.

Razom is supporting Ukrainian people in their pursuit of democracy with dignity, justice, and human rights. Razom's crisis relief work in Ukraine includes providing life-saving medical supplies and humanitarian aid, and helping Ukraine rebuild.

Sunflower of Peace is providing medical and humanitarian aid that will be used by the paramedics and doctors in the areas that are affected by the violence in Ukraine. They are acquiring and distributing first-aid backpacks, medicine, medical instruments, and other means of survival that are saving hundreds of lives.

World Central Kitchen is serving thousands of fresh meals to Ukrainian families fleeing home as well as those who remain in the country.

REFORM Alliance is committed to transforming the criminal justice system throughout the United States by changing laws, systems, and culture to create real pathways to work and wellbeing, starting with probation and parole. Instead of keeping people trapped in a revolving door from probation/parole to prison — which costs taxpayers billions of dollars — we are working to move people from the justice system into stability.

Friends of the Children is a national nonprofit impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles – including experiencing foster care – by pairing them with professional mentors for 12+ years, no matter what. Their successful model is now in 26 locations around the country and expanding, serving thousands of youth and families. This grant will support empowering children and families in rural and tribal communities.

Resolve to Save Lives is a not-for-profit organization partnering with countries, communities, and organizations to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and make the world safer from epidemics. This award will support COVID response and strengthen systems for long-term epidemic prevention, detection, and response with a focus on Africa.

WACO Theater Center is a performing and visual arts organization that presents, commissions, and develops artistic works dedicated to stories of the African diaspora. WACO provides artists and young people a platform and voice to showcase their creativity, in order to connect and inspire others. Founded in 2016, WACO opened its doors to the public in 2017 in the heart of North Hollywood’s Arts District. The state-of-the-art complex includes a 99-seat theater and art gallery and exhibition space. Over its five-year history, WACO has invested in more than 700 artists and 1000 young people in Los Angeles and beyond. WACO is committed to providing a creative center where art can occur and give artists and youth a place to grow their talent and celebrate their artistry.

The mission of the Shawn Carter Foundation is to help individuals facing socio-economic hardships further their education at post-secondary institutions.

Ecovillage for Children and Women of Costa Rica os building a children’s eco-village that offers relief to those who are victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and poverty. The doors of the shelter are open to children in Cobano and the surrounding area to provide protection, personal development, and inclusion in a green and healing environment.

Girls Garage is a nonprofit design and construction school for girls and gender-expansive youth ages 9-18. Through classes in carpentry, welding, architecture, and activist art, we support and equip a community of fearless youth who are building the world they want to see.

With this funding, Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Gender Justice & Opportunity Initiative, a part of Georgetown Law, will develop trainings, conduct research, and develop policy and practice solutions to achieve race and gender equity for youth. It will contribute to the Initiative’s mission of improving public systems’ support of marginalized girls – from hospitals to police departments to schools -- by uncovering and eliminating discriminatory practices and promoting reform that will allow all girls to heal, learn, and thrive.

Dandelion Africa is a grassroots innovator on a mission to improve the health and economic well-being of youth and women living in marginalized and rural communities in Kenya. Founded on a model of community ownership, Dandelion Africa takes an innovative approach to community outreach that includes representative community governance across all demographics. This community-led approach has lead to system-shifting impacts in rural and traditionally conservative communities, including reduction in FGM, increased systems of support for survivors of gender-based violence, and expansion in women’s access to reproductive health services.

Educate! prepares youth in Africa with the skills to succeed in today's economy. With this funding, Educate! will build and scale skills-education bootcamps for rural out-of-school girls across East Africa. The skills-based bootcamps will equip young women and girls with the tools to start a business, earn an income, and improve their life outcomes. This solution will unlock opportunities for thousands of girls excluded from formal education systems, preparing them to thrive in the informal economy, where 90% of young people are expected to work.

Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation supports the Los Angeles Fire Department in protecting life, property, and the environment by providing essential equipment and training to supplement city resources. Since 97% of the city’s annual budget for the LAFD is allocated to personnel expenses, this leaves just 3% to cover the department’s other needs. The LAFD Foundation bridges the funding gap to help keep both the LAFD and the community safe.

The Los Angeles City Stentorians is an African-American firefighter's association dedicated to the professional advancement of its members. The Los Angeles City Stentorians is dedicated to the mission of community service, recruitment of individuals from socioeconomic backgrounds, promotion of diversity within The Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD), and supportive and professional advancement services offered to its membership.

Signal is the world’s most widely used private messaging app. Being able to communicate privately is imperative for a liveable future. To deliver on our privacy promises we invest in development that enables Signal to work according to the dominant norms in the messaging ecosystem, without compromising privacy and security. Our goal is to ensure people all over the world can communicate safely, whether discussing the mundanities of everyday life or topics of existential concern.

The Calyx Institute's mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use to build "privacy by design" into their internet access. By developing encryption and anonymity tools that can help users maintain their privacy, we hope to make online security easier and more accessible for everyone online. Calyx provides unlimited mobile internet hotspots for members, develops the privacy-focused mobile phone operating system CalyxOS, and is one of the largest hosts of Tor nodes.

The Tor Project builds free and open source tools that allow millions of people to defend against surveillance and circumvent censorship every day. #StartSmall's generous contribution will help power efforts to modernize the Tor protocol, build innovative anti-censorship tools, and sustain Tor applications.

#StartSmall is supporting the Clara Lionel Foundation's efforts to help communities prepare for and withstand natural disasters in the Caribbean and its investment in climate justice initiatives in the U.S. and Caribbean.

GrapheneOS is a private and secure mobile operating system with a high level of usability comparable to mainstream Android devices. We focus on the research and development of security, privacy and compatibility features giving users the tools they need to protect their privacy even while using mainstream apps and services. GrapheneOS is compatible with nearly every Android app through our unique sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer. We provide substantial defenses protecting devices against compromise by even a sophisticated attacker. Our work benefits billions of users due to our contributions to Android and the Linux kernel.

The LeBron James Family Foundation invests its time, resources and passion into creating generational change for kids and families through a focus on education and co-curricular educational initiatives. With its foundational I PROMISE Program, LJFF serves students and their entire families with the fundamental resources, wraparound supports and family programming they need for success in academics and beyond, including the I PROMISE School that has created a new model for urban, public education.

REFORM Alliance is committed to transforming the criminal justice system throughout the United States by changing laws, systems, and culture to create real pathways to work and wellbeing, starting with probation and parole. Instead of keeping people trapped in a revolving door from probation/parole to prison — which costs taxpayers billions of dollars — we are working to move people from the justice system into stability.

#StartSmall is supporting the Clara Lionel Foundation's efforts to help communities prepare for and withstand natural disasters in the Caribbean and its investment in climate justice initiatives in the U.S. and Caribbean.

OpenSats' mission is to help build a sustainable ecosystem and provide consistent funding for free and open-source projects and protocols. Support will be used to support the development of free and open-source software and projects focusing on bitcoin, nostr, and related technologies.

Resolve to Save Lives is a not-for-profit organization partnering with countries, communities, and organizations to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and make the world safer from epidemics. This award will strengthen systems for the prevention, detection, and response to health threats such as COVID, with a focus on Africa.

Brink exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development, and to support the Bitcoin developer community through funding, education, and mentoring.

Educating Young Minds' mission is to holistically change, impact or enhance the academic, emotional, social and professional trajectories of today’s at-risk, underserved and/or special needs students (i.e. IEP’s, labelled ADD/ADHD) and those who desire to excel with AP honors subjects

Hack Club is a global movement of teen hackers, using open-source software and tooling, committed to supporting high schoolers everywhere to master the superpower of coding. A positive future is one that includes girls, and with this support Hack Club will continue to build projects, fund girl-led hackathons, and support highly technical girl hackers, leading to a healthier, happier and more prosperous planet

LIDÈ builds capacity, resiliency, and empowerment among at-risk adolescent Haitian girls through programs in the creative arts, education, and health. This grant will support over 1,100 primary and secondary scholarships for teenage girls across rural Haiti who have been denied equal access to education.

Headlands Center for the Arts provides an unparalleled environment for the creative process and the development of new work and ideas. Funding will provide time, space, resources and support to young womxn from historically marginalized backgrounds in the Bay Area through skill-building and career exploration of the arts. Headlands will partner with area youth non-profit organizations in Marin, San Francisco, and Sonoma County to convene and build strong pathways towards creative fields.

The GLBT Historical Society collects, preserves, exhibits and makes accessible to the public materials and knowledge to support and promote understanding of LGBTQ+ history, culture and arts in all their diversity. Funding will support improved education, outreach, and access to the GLBT Historical Society’s work for transgender and non-binary women and girls.

The Civic Space Foundation’s Civic Joy Fund is spearheading five citywide projects to support artists, musicians, small businesses owners, and community leaders to help San Francisco recover and thrive. Funding will support efforts to engage, empower, and uplift girls and young women in San Francisco through the Civic Joy Fund’s programs.

The Active Learning Through Opera (ALTO) program brings Santa Fe Opera teaching artists into New Mexico classrooms. Funding will support outreach to girls, engaging them in a creative process to make original art that expresses their understanding of something else they’re learning in school. Funding will also support efforts to recruit, train, and retain a greater number of Native and Latinx teachers, while expanding ALTO into New Mexico’s tribal and rural schools.

Thorn builds and deploys technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Funding will support efforts that disrupt the cycle of online child sexual abuse and completely eliminate it from the internet through three main objectives: 1) Victim Identification: Provide tools and connect data to help investigators recover children experiencing abuse faster; 2) Industry: Equip tech companies with cutting-edge tools, education, and connections to end the spread of abuse material and prevent revictimization; and, 3) Prevention: Empower children and families with the resources to prevent online sexual exploitation.

Driven by the idea that where you live should not determine whether you live, ONE is a global movement campaigning to end extreme poverty and preventable disease. ONE’s work to end extreme poverty and preventable disease is, at its core, work to support women and girls who are disproportionally impacted by the key drivers of poverty, and who also have an outsized positive impact on their communities when anti-poverty measures improve their lives. Funding will support ONE’s work to amplify the voices of women and girls in the ONE Champions program.

SUGi delivers nature-based solutions in cities. Through the creation of ultra-dense, biodiverse pocket forests of native species, primarily in urban areas, SUGi builds biodiversity, climate resilience, and wellbeing. Funding will support SUGi’s Outdoor Classrooms with a focus on outreach and program development for girls in the planting of pocket forests on campus and support for them to become citizen scientists helping to assess plant growth rates, animal diversity, and temperature regimes within and outside the forest.

The UCSF Sports Medicine Center for Women and Girls is the first and only women’s sports medicine center in the Bay Area and on the West Coast providing comprehensive and inclusive orthopaedic care to women and girl athletes of all abilities and levels. The center is a program within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the department’s mission is to pioneer musculoskeletal discovery, education, and innovative care to transform lives.

Founded in 1977, the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival is the longest-running, largest, and most widely recognized LGBTQ+ film exhibition event in the world. In 2008, Frameline launched Youth in Motion, a program that provides free LGBTQ+ films and curriculum resources to middle and high schools in all 50 states.

USAHello provides online information and education tools to help immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees and their welcoming communities build brighter futures. USAHello's virtual information hub provides plain language explainers in 12+ languages to support people navigating U.S. social systems and immigration policies. Women and girls are disproportionately impacted by disrupted education impacting first language literacy and post-arrival language acquisition, experiences of trauma during migration, and a dual burden of paid-labor and domestic caregiving responsibilities that often prevent them from accessing mainstream services and educational opportunities.

WACO Theater Center is a performing and visual arts organization that presents, commissions, and develops artistic works dedicated to stories of the African diaspora. WACO provides artists and young people a platform and voice to showcase their creativity, in order to connect and inspire others. Founded in 2016, WACO opened its doors to the public in 2017 in the heart of North Hollywood’s Arts District. The state-of-the-art complex includes a 99-seat theater and art gallery and exhibition space. Over its five-year history, WACO has invested in more than 700 artists and 1000 young people in Los Angeles and beyond. WACO is committed to providing a creative center where art can occur and give artists and youth a place to grow their talent and celebrate their artistry.

The mission of the Shawn Carter Foundation is to help individuals facing socio-economic hardships further their education at post-secondary institutions.

Casa Sonja—Ecovillage for Children and Women of Costa Rica is building a children’s eco-village that offers relief to those who are victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse and poverty. The doors of the shelter are open to children in Cobano and the surrounding area to provide protection, personal development, and inclusion in a green and healing environment.

Advokids protects the right of every foster child in California to safety, security, and a permanent home. Funding will support the development of girls-focused resources for Advokids’ website and free telephone hotline offering legal information to anyone concerned about a child in foster care in California.

Willie Mae Rock Camp is a music and mentoring organization dedicated to empowering girls and gender-expansive youth. Its programs operate at the intersection of music, technology, and experimentation to spark curiosity and creative exploration through a social justice lens.

Camp Fire helps young people connect to the outdoors, to each other, and to themselves. Camp Fire creates safe spaces and powerful youth experiences that foster inclusive environments where all youth feel seen, heard, accepted, and invested in for who they are today, and who they want to be in the future.

Girls Crushing It empowers girls ages 8-18 through entrepreneurial experiences that increase confidence and build leadership skills.

The University of San Francisco is committed to educating hearts and minds to cultivate the full, integral development of each person and all persons; pursuing learning as a lifelong humanizing and liberating social activity; and advancing excellence as the standard for teaching, scholarship, creative expression, and service. Funding will support equity-focused programming and research in health, education, and technology for girls and young women.

The Primo Center empowers families to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community. Funding will support integrated physical, dental, and mental health care, early childhood development, and supportive services to girls and young women in Chicago.

Justice Outside advances racial justice and equity in the outdoor and environmental movement. Funding will support programs focused on girls’ health and education in the outdoors and environment as part of Justice Outside's Liberated Paths Grantmaking program.

El Nido Family Centers empowers families in low-income communities of Los Angeles County to break the cycle of poverty, child abuse, violence, academic failure, and teen pregnancy through outstanding educational, youth development, health, and therapeutic services. Funds will provide comprehensive wrap-around services to support vulnerable and low-income teen mothers and their infants/toddlers, including mentorship, educational and vocational support, and concrete needs.

CAMFED catalyzes the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine — for themselves, for their communities, and for Africa. With this funding, CAMFED will deepen impact on three levels: 1) Provide comprehensive and responsive support for the most vulnerable girls so they can attend, participate and succeed in school; 2) Support the transition of young women beyond school to secure livelihoods and positions of influence and leadership; and 3) Improve learning opportunities for every child, through the adoption of proven solutions in national education systems

Teach For All is a global network committed to developing collective leadership to ensure all children fulfill their potential. Teach For All's global organization supports a network of independent, locally-led organizations in 60+ countries, from Nigeria to India to Brazil, that are cultivating a rising generation of leaders to commit at least two years to teach in their countries’ marginalized communities. Funding will support Teach For All network partners working in communities where girls are most marginalized to grow the number of teacher leaders, build their mindsets and skills so they advance gender-responsive education, and foster their lifelong leadership as girls education advocates.

Girls Embracing Mothers empowers girls with mothers in prison to break the cycle of incarceration and lead successful lives with vision purpose. Through the Manifest Freedom fellowship program, funding will support entrepreneurs and creatives impacted by the criminal legal system, building capacity in women and girls to create generational transformation through economic justice.

The Society of Women Engineers empowers women and girls to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders; expand the image of the engineering and technology professions as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity and inclusion. Funding will support SWENext. a free program for girls under 18 to develop leadership skills, build self-confidence, learn from women engineers and role models, and foster a sense of belonging towards students interested in STEM.

The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. The Marshall Project has an impact on the system through journalism, rendering it more fair, effective, transparent, and humane.

Since 1868, the San Francisco SPCA has been advocating for animals. Funding will support opportunities for girls and young women to participate in the Community Medicine Education Training (CoMET) program at the Community Veterinary Clinic in the Excelsior neighborhood. The CoMET program introduces veterinary medicine to historically under-represented individuals in San Francisco.

MAIA unlocks and maximizes the potential of young women to lead transformational change. Funding will support the MAIA Impact School, Central America’s first secondary school led by Indigenous women and specifically designed to connect the talents of Indigenous girls in Guatemala with the opportunities of the 21st century.

Dream Big! partners with schools, community sports organizations, Boys & Girls Clubs, and after school programs, to identify and fulfill the basic needs of girls and young women from economically disadvantaged communities, in elementary, junior high, high school, and college in order to help them engage in sports, recreation, and physical activities.

Freedom of the Press Foundation protects, defends, and empowers public-interest journalism in the 21st century. Funding from #startsmall will support the establishment of the Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, a full-time, endowed advocacy position at Freedom of the Press Foundation. The purpose of this position is to lead the fight against excessive government secrecy — the root cause of so many press freedom and democracy issues — while furthering Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy.

FACES SF empowers families who live and work in San Francisco to transform their futures through evidence-based educational and economic opportunities. FACES SF employs a two-generation approach to close the educational achievement gap and empower families. This approach to early childhood ensures girls’ equitable access to inclusive and gender responsive learning experiences, which promote cognitive, social, and emotional development; in the context of family support and wellness, a two- generation approach centers girls' well-being as intricately connected to their families' well-being; and in workforce development, applying a two- generation lens acknowledges the importance of empowering girls and their families through economic stability and career advancement.

Girl Up Initiative Uganda aims to build a vibrant movement of girls and young women through transformative leadership, sexual and reproductive health education, and skills development.

CorStone supports marginalized and vulnerable youth, particularly girls and young women, to build the skills to access their inner well-being—so they can transform their life trajectories and forge a path for themselves and future generations.

The Giants Community Fund collaborates with the San Francisco Giants to use baseball and softball to promote health, education, and character development to propel youth in underserved regions to be positive forces in their communities. The Giants Community Fund is committed to increasing female participation in baseball and softball, with a goal to make sports more accessible, inclusive, supportive and both physically and emotionally safe for girls everywhere. Funding will support the Game ChangeHER gender equity initiative, which aims to have girls comprise 50% of participants in the Junior Giants program by the 2026 season.

ECI works shoulder to shoulder with Congolese innovators to grow positive, rippling change. Funding will support women’s empowerment initiatives that expand access to clean water and health care for mothers and daughters. Women entrepreneurs will build their businesses, and communities will strengthen through their increased participation.

Good Sports drives equitable access in youth sports and physical activity by supporting children in high-need communities to achieve their greatest potential, on the field and in life. By providing sports equipment, apparel, and footwear Good Sports helps to alleviate barriers to play so all kids can experience the physical, mental, and social benefits associated with sports and physical activity.

In Cambodia, girls face many challenges in finishing school and becoming independent. Poverty, cultural views, and lack of resources hinder them. Cambodian Children's Fund helps girls overcome these obstacles, focus on their education, and develop leadership and employability skills.

Yamba Malawi envisions a world free of childhood poverty. Yamba Malawi works to disrupt the poverty cycle by empowering Malawi's young mothers and girls through a holistic blend of economic, educational, health, and social tools that foster the creation of female-led businesses. Yamba Malawi’s community-centered approach does more than combat poverty; it uplifts women and children, igniting a resilient and prosperous future for Malawi.

The University of California, San Francisco Institute for Global Health Sciences, and the University of Nairobi’s “ENabling Girls in AI and Growing Expertise in Data Science” (ENGAGE) will create a health-focused data science training program for girls ages 15-22 in East Africa. The program offers an opportunity to create a pathway for young, talented, ambitious girls to join the emerging field of data science, elevate them out of poverty, and positively impact the health of their communities.

The Food Basket is primarily concerned with serving the hunger needs of Hawai’i County’s residents. These needs manifest in the form of monthly food supplements, one-time family emergencies due to unusual circumstances, and mass distribution in the event of natural disasters. Funding will support the Hawai'i Island Agricultural Innovation Park and Food System Campus, a collaboration with multiple partners to develop a 24-acre parcel of land in Hilo to support the production of safe, nutritious fair & affordable food for the community. Campus functions include food processing and distribution, ag training and production, and farm and business incubation.

Right To Play (RTP) is a global leader in igniting the potential of every child. For twenty years RTP has been transforming children’s lives using its unique play-based learning approach to protect, educate, and empower children both inside and outside the classroom in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Canada. Funding will support RTP efforts to scale its girl’s education programs by reaching over 2.7 million children in 15 countries in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Girls Inc. of New York City inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, delivering life transforming programs to girls, young women, and gender-expansive youth throughout New York City. Through education and advocacy, Girls Inc. of New York City prepares girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers to advance to a more equitable world.

Mechanics’ Institute Scholastic Chess Program provides chess instruction to youth through classes in local schools, camps, and tournaments. Funding will provide targeted opportunities for chess and intellectual exchange for girls and young women through increased access, opportunity, and education.

MSI is one of the world's leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare, working across 37 countries to support reproductive choice. MSI delivers quality reproductive healthcare to millions of the world’s most vulnerable through diverse channels. MSI served 21.1 million people in 2022 through 300 centers, outreach teams, nurses and midwives, partnerships with government health ministries, and network of pharmacies and private providers.

The Women’s Refugee Commission (WRC) has been working for over 30 years to center gender equality and women’s and girls’ empowerment in global responses to some of the world’s darkest challenges. With dramatic increases in the number of people impacted by instability, poverty, and displacement, WRC’s advocacy and research in the humanitarian and development nexus has strengthened community and government resilience, bolstered localization efforts, and created the tools that promote gender equality, economic and social justice for women and girls, and gender transformative change.

Motivating Our Students Through Experience (MOSTe) mentors and empowers girls from underserved areas of Los Angeles County to become the next generation of college-educated women. By providing workshops, college visits and supportive spaces where scholars can grow their confidence, develop socio-emotional skills, build resources and explore career options, MOSTe helps them realize their pathways to a bright future.

Outward Bound California's mission is to change lives through challenge and discovery. Funding will help increase programming for girls in California, empowering young women to find their voice and discover there’s more in them than they know.

St. Anthony Foundation seeks to feed, clothe, heal, shelter, lift the spirits of those in need, and create a society in which all persons flourish. Funding will support St. Anthony’s Women and Children’s Services which offers homeless women and young women with children, many of whom are currently experiencing or are fleeing gender-based violence, short-term supportive housing through the Oasis Inn and wrap-around services through St. Anthony’s (e.g., physical and mental health, clothing, job training, referrals for permanent housing).

PERIOD. is a global, youth-powered non-profit that is fighting to end period poverty and period stigma through advocacy, education, and service. Through hundreds of local PERIOD. chapters and partner organizations throughout the world, PERIOD. joyfully provides period products, stigma-free educational materials about menstrual health, and advocates for policy change such as the repeal of the luxury tax on period products and mandating products in schools.

Urban Gleaner’s role is to provide a critical link between organizations and businesses that have excess food and the food insecure children and families who need this food. Urban Gleaners’s work is geared towards promoting environmental sustainability by rescuing healthy and wholesome food from going into landfills, while directly mitigating the systemic inequities that contribute to food insecurity in our communities.

RefuSHE’s holistic model of care ensures refugee girls, women, and children in Nairobi, Kenya have equal access to safety, education, and economic prosperity. RefuSHE’s three core interventions – Safe House, Girls Empowerment Program, and Community-Based Protection and Livelihoods – address the unique needs of refugee girls and women as they transition from displacement to durable solutions.

Girl Scouts of Northern California builds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. In recognition that 52% of girls in California are Latina, one of our goals is to invest in supportive infrastructure and culturally relevant programming so that Girl Scouts is more reflective of the Northern California community served. Funding will support continuing work to be an anti-racist organization and to nurture diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, so that all girls and youth who identify with the girl experience feel like they belong in Girl Scouts and have equitable opportunities to achieve Girl Scout leadership outcomes.

Pour Les Femmes Foundation’s goal is to use its voice to highlight issues related to improving the lives of women and girls and to provide funding for programs that are working to create safe and supportive environments in which women and children can exercise their personal freedoms as individuals, contribute to the betterment of their communities and thrive. Funding will support local partners in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that provide work and vocational training to women in rural communities and that provide a decent education to at-risk children who are orphans and refugees of the ongoing crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Project Glimmer inspires all girls to envision and realize an empowered future. Project Glimmer serves over one million teenage girls and women, 86% of whom are young women of color. Project Glimmer works in all 50 states through partnerships with 1,000+ organizations including foster care, homeless, crisis care, and youth services. Through Project Glimmer’s programs including Gifts + Goods, Day of Empowerment and Empower Hour and Career Coaching, they are dedicated to helping end gender and racial inequality.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) Media is a community hub and resource for media makers in the Bay Area and across the country, serving several thousand freelancers, filmmakers, job-seekers, activists, and artists every year. Funding will bolster advanced training and workforce development programs for girls, women, and gender expansive participants through the Reel Stories which offers school year and summer programming for girls, young women, and nonbinary people.

America SCORES Bay Area offers free soccer-based programming to low-income youth across the Bay Area. Funding will be used to drive increased enrollment among girls, who often hesitate to participate in organized sport as a result of longstanding stereotypes. Funding will support organizational leaders who will create and implement strategies and opportunities that engage girls, helping SCORES meet its goal of having 50% of all participants identifying as girls.

World Central Kitchen teams are on Maui working with partners to get much-needed meals to evacuees and emergency workers. WCK’s response in Hawaiʻi is continuing to evolve with the situation—and by working with chefs and residents from impacted communities, WCK will keep adjusting their efforts to meet the changing needs.

Maui Humane Society is responding to the devastation of the Lahaina fires by supporting evacuated pet owners with food and supplies, searching the impacted area for surviving animals, and treating burned and injured animals that have been found.

Maui Food Bank’s mission is to help the hungry in Maui County by collecting and distributing food through community partnerships. The Maui Food Bank is currently providing meals to displaced Maui residents impacted by the wildfires.

Hawaiʻi People’s Fund is mobilizing to help provide immediate relief to those directly impacted by the wildfires on Maui Island. Hawai'i People’s Fund is dedicated to providing a safe and trusted conduit to move kōkua quickly in support of community, grassroots-based organizers and organizations already engaged in this work, on the ground.

Hawai‘i Community Foundation is the state’s leading philanthropic organization. With their 105-year history in the community, trusted expertise, and generous support of donors, they are working to solve the state’s most difficult challenges—from affordable housing to fresh water—with the vision of creating a better Hawai‘i. In response to the devasting wildfires on Maui, they are working to support affected communities through the Maui Strong Fund, providing resources for disaster response and recovery.

GlobalGiving is a trusted nonprofit that supports other nonprofits by connecting them to donors, foundations, and companies. Funds will support GlobalGiving’s wildfire relief and recovery efforts in Hawai’i. The Hawai’i Wildfire Relief Fund helps first responders meet survivors' immediate needs for food, fuel, clean water, medicine, and shelter. As needs emerge, the Fund will support longer-term recovery efforts run by local, vetted grassroots organizations in impacted areas, particularly those working with low-income, historically underserved communities.

The Kākoʻo Maui Fund is providing resources that can be deployed quickly and efficiently to Hawaiian communities impacted by the Maui wildfires. CNHA is working in close collaboration with state and county leaders, nonprofit organizations, and community members to get an understanding of the quickly evolving priorities. Funding will support evolving needs, including shelter, food, financial assistance, and other services as identified by our partners doing critical work on Maui.

‘Āina Momona is a grassroots-based and Native Hawaiian led organization that focuses on environmental resilience and social justice. This funding will go to support ‘Āina Momona’s Maui wildfire relief efforts by helping support and empower the impacted community as they navigate this tragedy. Funding will also support resilient rebuilding efforts.

The Internet Archive is a nonprofit library providing universal access to knowledge available online without ads or tracking; adhering to values that protect the privacy of every patron. With a focus on digitizing and preserving web pages and cultural and historical collections, it ensures researchers, librarians, reporters and citizens around the world have access to a wide variety of information. Like the Internet itself, the Internet Archive is a critical part of the internet infrastructure, and works with over 1000 university and library partners to create a free digital library, accessible to all.

Ramp Up is building accessibility ramps across Europe. After success in Iceland, where they are on track to finish 1500 ramps all around the country, they are starting a pilot program in three European cities in the fall of 2024.

Support for the St. Louis City Guaranteed Basic Income (STL GBI) Pilot.

Open Web Advocacy is dedicated to browser competition and allowing the Web to compete fairly. They work to educate and provide technical advice on the major anti-competitive issues related to browsers/web apps and the promise of a more open and competitive future offered by capable web apps. Though their work, they will increase browser competition, radically lower costs and improve the quality of apps by allowing organizations to effectively harness the power of the Web to reach all of their users on every consumer operating system.

TeamOpen.tech is an open source project of Nos. These funds will help continue to build a revolutionary social network that prioritizes humans over algorithms, emphasizing safety, and promoting intimate, community-focused interactions. Their mission is planetary in scope and personal in impact. They’re crafting tech tools for a radically better world, one that prioritizes social liberation and genuine human connections. In our digital spaces, humans are individuals with infinite potential, not commodities. They’re optimizing for health, choice, and transparency, not engagement and exploitation.

Private School Village (PSV), is a Black-woman-founded, parent-led, voluntary nonprofit that supports Black and brown families in private schools so that students fully thrive. PSV, founded in 2018, is a first-of-its-kind community-based organization that focuses on the social, emotional, and mental health implications related to being enrolled in predominantly white institutions. PSV empowers parent engagement to instill student well-being, normalizes inclusive and equitable communities, and encourages lasting systemic and institutional policy change. In partnership currently with more than 65 greater Los Angeles-based private schools, and primed for national chapter expansion, PSV works to increase racial literacy, socialization, representation, and support related research.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) protects and defends public-interest journalism in the 21st century. FPF builds open-source technology tools to further press freedom for all, teaches digital security to protect reporters and whistleblowers, systematically tracks press freedom violations in the United States, and aggressively advocates for the public’s right to know.

enhance the security, scalability, and accessibility of the Bitcoin network. With the rapid growth and innovation of the Bitcoin industry, the need for robust legal protections for its developers has become increasingly critical.

The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund (BLDF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to supporting the development and advancement of the Bitcoin ecosystem. Funds will be used to provide financial and legal support to the developers and contributors who are working to

The David Miranda Institute is designed to preserve and expand on David Miranda’s legacy. The Institute will oversee, coordinate and grow the two non-profit organizations David co-founded with his husband, Glenn Greenwald (Abrigo HOPE - The Hope Shelter & CRIA de Favela). The Institute will be duly constituted as a Brazil-based NGO, with an American 501(c)(3), Social Good, serving as its sponsor to receive tax-deductible donations in the U.S. Funds will be used to help launch the institute which will coordinate the work between these two NGOs; work to obtain financing to significantly expand their scope, reach, and the range of services they offer; and ultimately spread these life-transforming models to other parts of Rio de Janeiro and then Brazil.

Signal is the world’s most widely used private messaging app. Being able to communicate privately is imperative for a liveable future. To deliver on our privacy promises we invest in development that enables Signal to work according to the dominant norms in the messaging ecosystem, without compromising privacy and security. Our goal is to ensure people all over the world can communicate safely, whether discussing the mundanities of everyday life or topics of existential concern.

The Tor Project builds free and open source tools that allow millions of people to defend against surveillance and circumvent censorship every day. #StartSmall's generous contribution will help power efforts to modernize the Tor protocol, build innovative anti-censorship tools, and sustain Tor applications.