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Mission and Our Work | This Giving Guide | Support Black Liberation | Black-led Directory | Support Our Work

Mission

Resist is a foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.

Our Work

Resist has supported thousands of groups working on the frontlines for Indigenous sovereignty, gender equality, racial justice, LGBTQ freedom, immigrants’ rights, economic and environmental justice. Movements for social change have transformed since Resist’s founding, and Resist continues to transform with them. Today, we fund progressive organizations that are resisting, re-imagining, healing, and transforming towards the world we want to see.

This Giving Guide

On Black History/Futures Month (and beyond), we celebrate, honor and uplift the voices of Black-led grantees who fiercely go toe-to-toe with white supremacists, who dare to reimagine alternatives to extractive systems and ways of being and revel in the magic of Black joy.

We at Resist know that the hard work of undoing generations of anti-Black systemic racism and building new worlds where Black people can thrive is a year-long and a life-long commitment. For that reason, we’ve created the Black Liberation Giving Guide to help you redistribute resources to the groups on the ground celebrating Black history and building Black futures every day of the year.

This month, and every day, we invite you to listen, learn from, and directly support Black-led Resist grantees who are on the ground, marching us, hand in hand, towards a new world for us all.

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“Always ally yourself with those on the bottom, on the margins, and at the periphery of the centers of power. And in doing so, you will land yourself at the very center of some of the most important struggles of our society and our history.” ― Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Support Black Liberation

Below you’ll find a directory of Black-led Resist grantees who won't stop resisting and re-imagining a world where liberation, visibility, dignity, and civil rights become truth for all of us. They deserve your direct support year-round, not just during Black History/Futures Month.

Join us in meeting this moment with action and support the transformative work our grantees are doing today and every day in the name of freedom and joy.

Click on the grantees' names below to visit their websites and donate to their cause. Please note, some grantees receive donations through fiscal sponsors in which case you can note the grantee's name in the description box.

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Black-Led Grantee Directory

* #NoCopAcademy (Chicago, IL): An effort led by young Black folks in Chicago to stop the construction of a $95 million police academy, and fund communities and youth instead.

400+1 (Austin, TX): 400+1 is a Black cooperative federation founded to develop cohesion in impetus and ideology in Black revolutionary struggle.

* A Community Voice (New Orleans, LA): The mission of A Community Voice is to empower low to moderate income families to affect social change in their neighborhoods, city, state and country.

* Abide Women's Health Services (Dallas, TX): Abide's mission is to bring professional, affordable, and accessible health services to women in the South Dallas community and surrounding areas.

* Action Communication and Education Reform, Inc. (Duck Hill, MS): ACER's mission is to encourage and support individuals to become involved in the decision making process of community and school to enhance their quality way of life.

* adé PROJECT (Barnardsville, NC): afraka designing emergence actualizes equity, sparks creative inquiry, and reclaims the narrative.

* Afro-Amerindian Research & Cultural Center (Marietta, GA): AARCC's mission is to comprehensively research African American and Native American historical and contemporary cultural cross-sections, while also addressing these through various programs and outreach.

* All Of Us (Schenectady, NY): All of Us unites people across socially created differences and produces change for the benefit of the people based on the voices and experiences of the people, especially those most hurt by systems of racism, sexism, exploitation, and oppression.

* All Real Radio (Houston, TX): ARR will be the go-to station for a listener base rooted in social responsibility and through our work, we will serve as a platform for knowledge of Self and a culturally aware World. #wemaketheworldbetter

* Alliance for Community Services (Chicago, IL): A community-labor alliance, uniting people with disabilities, poor people, seniors, and front-line public workers to save and improve access to public health, education and welfare, fighting to put the public good over private profit.

* Amistad Law Project (Philadelphia, PA): Amistad Law Project fight for human rights by providing legal services to people incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s prisons and organizing a movement to fight for a new justice paradigm.

* Anti Police-Terror Project (Oakland, CA): APTP's mission is to create a replicable and sustainable model for rapidly responding to - and eradicating - police terror in communities of color; we engage in strategies to respond, to support community healing, and prevent state violence.

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Photo credit: Grantee Colectivo Ilé [ID: Youth dances in a colorful pink skirt, a black shirt, and a red mask, as an audience of people look on.]

* Barred Business (Ellenwood, GA): Barred Business is an organization for formerly incarcerated business owners excluded from federal COVID-19 reliefs funds- we are the ones who can save us.

* Betti Ono (Oakland, CA): Betti Ono is an experimentally minded hub for art, culture, and community, headquartered in Oakland, California, that serves as a cultural anchor and safe space for artists of color to thrive and build power in our communities.

* Black and Brown Workers Collective (Philadelphia, PA): The BBCW's mission is to actively challenge, resist, dismantle and transform systems of oppression that adversely impact the marginalized Black and Brown workers.

* Black and Pink Boston (Dorchester, MA): Black and Pink is a grassroots organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex while meeting the immediate needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer prisoners and court-involved individuals.

* Black Excellence Collective (Newark, NJ): The Black Excellence Collective is a black-led grassroots organizing collective that uses direct action, art, and popular education to uplift and empower queer, transgender, and gender non-conforming people of color.

Black Lives Matter Boston (Dorchester, MA): To organize and build Black power in Boston and across the country. To galvanize our communities to end state-sanctioned violence against Black people.

* Black Lives Matter Sacramento (Sacramento, CA):The mission of Black Lives Matter Sacramento is to end police violence in Sacramento, create spaces of racial healing and Black joy, and build systems that make way for police abolition.

* Blights Out (New Orleans, LA): Blights Out is a collective working to demystify and democratize the system of housing development and expose the policies that lead to gentrification; we generate dialogue, art, and action to support the movement for permanently affordable housing.

* BMORE AWESOME (Baltimore, MD): BMore Awesome utilizes intersecting arts, activism, and entrepreneurship training and Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) projects to empower youth most directly impacted by systemic issues of inequity.

* Brockton Workers Alliance (Brockton, MA): BWA is an emerging and worker lead organization formed to educate, support, and organize immigrant workers of color that are confronting workplace abuses including wage theft, discrimination, and unfair working conditions in the Brockton area.

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Photo credit: Yalonda M. James. [ID: Civil rights leader Angela Davis raises her fist during a Juneteenth protest against police brutality in Oakland, Calif., on June 19, 2020.]
“You do not have to be me in order for us to fight along side each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order to do this we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.” – Audre Lorde

* Cambridge Families of Color (Cambridge, MA): The Cambridge Families of Color Coalition (CFCC) is a collective of families of color working to uplift, empower, celebrate, and nurture our students and each other, whose work is rooted in racial, social, and economic equity.

* Campaign to Bring Mumia Home (New York, NY): This organization was formed out of a need to merge young leadership with older organizers to attain the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal, celebrated author, journalist, and social commentator who has been wrongfully incarcerated for over 37 years.

* Chainless Change (Fort Lauderdale, FL): Deeply rooted in the value of lived experience, Chainless Change serves as a community of recovery, advocacy, and support for those who are impacted by the criminal legal system.

Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (Chicago, IL): The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign (the “Campaign”) is a Chicago-based human rights organization whose mission is to enforce housing as a fundamental right through community organizing, leadership development, direct action, public policy advocacy.

* Coalition of African Communities (Philadelphia, PA): The Coalition of African Communities (AFRICOM) advocates and organizes so that African and Caribbean Immigrants feel a sense of belonging, empowerment, and self-sufficiency.

* Colectivo Ilé (San Juan, PR): Colectivo Ilé is an organization dedicated to anti-racist community organizing and leadership development.

* Collective REMAKE (Los Angeles, CA): COLLECTIVE REMAKE supports the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of cooperatives with people who have been incarcerated.

* Community Movement Builders (Atlanta, GA): CMB is a member collective of community residents/activists based in Atlanta’s Pittsburgh neighborhood creating sustainable black communities via cooperative economic advancement and community organizing rooted in Black love and equity.

* Community Ready Corps (Oakland, CA): CRC is a liberation organization that combats white supremacy and actively builds and supports self-determination in nine specific areas.

* Concerned Citizens for Justice (Chattanooga, TN): Concerned Citizens for Justice is a multi-racial Black liberation organization, with leadership from Black people; educating, agitating, and organizing to completely dismantle white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy in the city of Chattanooga

* Contact Center Inc. (Cincinnati, OH): Contact Center organizes for economic, social, racial, and gender justice and equality through building the leadership skills of our members.

* Cooperation New Orleans (New Orleans, LA): Cooperation New Orleans’ mission is to develop viable worker-owned cooperatives and the structures to support them, with a focus on Black, Indigenous, and immigrant communities.

CulturalWorker (Silver Spring, MD): CulturalWorker creates a series of musicals for popular education, including The Moment Was Now in 2019 and beyond, to help build movements of resistance.

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* Desiree Alliance (National): Desiree Alliance is a coalition of current and former sex workers working together with supporting networks for an improved understanding of sexual policies and its human, social and political impacts of criminalization surrounding sex work.

* Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan (Detroit, MI): DAYUM fights for accountability from leaders, justice for our communities, and a seat at the table for all marginalized youth.

* Detroit Community Wealth Fund (Detroit, MI): Detroit Community Wealth Fund exists to empower innovative historically-marginalized Detroiters by providing non-extractive supportive loans to co-ops and community-based businesses in Detroit.

* Detroit Safety Team (Detroit, MI): The Detroit Safety Team works to redefine safety, engage conflict and create intentional structures of social practice that support community-centered healing.

* Detroit Women of Color (Detroit, MI): Detroit Women of Color's mission is to integrate film, social justice, and collaboration to advance dialogue and community engagement to radically challenge oppressive systems, and to raise the voices of girls of color who are marginalized and ignored.

* Die Jim Crow Records (Brooklyn, NY): DJC Records’ mission is to provide formerly and currently incarcerated musicians a high-quality platform for their voices to be heard.

* Earthlodge Center for Transformation (Long Beach, CA): Earthlodge Center for Transformation provides healing sanctuary and Earth stewardship principles to Queer, Trans; elderly; womyn and girls (children in particular), Black, immigrant, and marginalized cultures and community.

* Encuentro Diaspora Afro (Boston, MA): Encuentro Diaspora Afro believes that Africans in the Americas can play a unique role in the process of healing the racial divides that exist in our society and institutions.

* For The Gworls (Brooklyn, NY): For the Gworls hosts monthly community events — such as healing spaces, panel discussions, and rent parties — to fundraise to assist Black transgender people with rent and gender-affirming surgeries.

* Faith Matters Network (Nashville, TN): FMN catalyzes personal and social change equipping faith leaders, community organizers, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

* Filling the Gap (Cincinnati, OH): Filling the Gap empowers women impacted by the prison system through advocacy and leadership opportunities.

* Families United 4 Justice (Las Vegas, NV): FU4J is a growing nationwide collective of families impacted by police homicide self-organizing for collective healing, justice, self-determination, and political power.

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George Wiley Center (Pawtucket, RI): The George Wiley Center organizes to create social, economic, and racial justice through changes in public policy. The GWC is a statewide organization challenging systems that impact the poor and communities of color across Rhode Island.

* Global Transgender Safety Tasks Force USA (Sacramento, CA): Global Transgender Safety Tasks Force USA is dedicated to promoting the safety, security, protection, and empowerment of the Transgender and GNC Community in the United States.

* Haymarket Pole Collective (Portland, OR): Haymarket Pole Collective's mission is to eradicate racism in the adult entertainment industry through a powerful community of Black, brown, Indigenous, and/or Transgender adult entertainers.

* Healing Communities USA (Philadelphia, PA): Healing Communities USA works to build relationships of healing, redemption, and reconciliation in families and communities impacted by crime and mass incarceration.

* InterAction Inc. (Mishawaka, IN): InterAction uplifts young People of Color and their counter-narratives to build radical equity. 

* Jacksonville Community Action Committee (Jacksonville, FL): The Jacksonville Community Action Committee is Black-led, grassroots organization committed to freedom and liberation.

* Just Us (Washington, D.C.): Just Us is a youth-led peer-to-peer mentoring and tutoring hybrid program that empowers and educates system-involved youth in the DMV area by utilizing restorative practices, a community-building approach, and personalized curriculum plans.

* LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater (New Orleans, LA): LOUD uses ensemble theatre to cultivate resilience, develop an intersectional analysis, and build a shared vision for liberation through devising and producing original theater by and for LGBTQ youth.

* Liberation Medicine School (Seattle, WA): LMS’s mission is to organize a collective of Black LGBTQI healers and students to create an Afro-indigenous healthcare system and decolonial medicinal teaching program that is dedicated to the healing needs of the Black trans and queer community.

* Love Not Blood Campaign (San Jose, CA): Love Not Blood Campaign is a social justice organization that supports families that have been traumatically impacted by police violence. The LNBC provides compassionate holistic care, support, and space for families to heal.

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[ID: Protestor holds megaphone and stands in front of a large purple banner that reads: "Black Trans Lives Matter." Photo credit: Demetrius Freeman]

* Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity (Orland Park, IL): MAMAS organizes to support mothers fighting the impact of prisons/immigration/surveillance on their own lives and their families. They provide support and training for mother-activists to ensure their active participation in Chicago-based movements.

* MASS Chapter of Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign (Athol, MA): The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty.

* MEASURE (Austin, TX): MEASURE is an Austin-based nonprofit that generates groundbreaking research, reform measures, and education on racial disparities and empowers communities to improve local agency services to meet their needs.

* Media island International (Olympia, WA): Media Island is a cultural, educational, and networking center whose focus is to support women of color in their leadership, as well as other like-minded individuals and organizations.

* Midwest Center for School Transformation (Brooklyn Park, MN): Midwest Center for School Transformation works on transforming schools through the power of collective wisdom, restorative justice, and dynamic narratives

My Sistah's House (Memphis, TN): My Sistah's House fosters sustainability and security for Transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (TLGBQ) communities in Memphis Tennessee, providing multi-pronged resource assistance delivered by and for TLGBQ people of color.

* National Institute for Healthy Human Spaces (Camden, NJ): NIHHS is a regional Environmental Justice advocacy organization focused on environmental racism and environmental degradation.

* New Beginnings Reentry Services, Inc. (Brockton, MA): We work to reduce recidivism by advocating for and building the capacity of women who are reentering local communities during and after incarceration.

* Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality (Dayton, OH): Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality seeks to fight against police brutality, and to support families throughout Ohio who have lost a loved one at the hands of the police.

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* People’s Community Medics (Berkeley, CA): The People's Community Medics is taking what’s most important into their hands -matters of their health and safety.

* PhillySUN (Philadelphia, PA): PhillySUN is building community-run public schools with parents at the school, neighborhood, and citywide levels in collaboration with young people, school staff, community members, and community organizations.

* P.L.U.S. Memphis (Memphis, TN): P.L.U.S. Memphis improves public health, increases health equity, literacy, and access for all by enhancing the awareness of HIV, STI, and other public health issues that contribute to economic and social disparities, with a multidisciplinary approach.

* Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (Pittsburgh, PA): Prisoner's Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign supports and protects jailhouse lawyers and whistleblowers in jails, prisons, and immigrant detention while they expose and litigate human rights violations and other issues of mass incarceration. To ensure they are treated with dignity and humanity.

* Race Matters in Education West Virginia (Charleston, WV): Race Matters in Education West Virginia's mission is to address white supremacy and racism in a collaborative and uncompromising way, working closely with individuals and various school systems to ensure our schools prepare West Virginians to work and live in multicultural America.

* Racial Justice NOW! (Dayton, OH): Racial Justice NOW! is committed to dismantling structural and institutional anti-Black racism in all areas of people activity with a primary focus on the institution of education and lifting up the voices of dis-empowered Black parents and children.

* Reclaim UGLY (San Leandro, CA): Reclaim UGLY spreads awareness about uglification; how it’s been used to service white supremacy, patriarchal religious dogma, imperialism, fatphobia, and hetero-cissexism; how it validates bullying; and how we can reclaim UGLY to liberate ourselves.

* Restoring Our Own Through Transformation (Columbus, OH): Restoring Our Own Through Transformation is a Black women-led reproductive justice organization dedicated to addressing maternal and infant health in their communities.

* Right to Housing Alliance (Baltimore, MD): Through direct action, coalition building, education, and advocacy, the Right to Housing Alliance is empowering new community leaders and building a movement for the human right to housing in Baltimore.

* Rise St. James (New Orleans, LA): RISE St. James is a faith-based environmental justice organization, led by African American women, working to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of their homes and ancestral land in St. James Parish (Louisiana).

* SISTA FIRE (Providence, RI): SISTA FIRE is co-creating a network of women of color to build our collective power for social, economic, and political transformation

* Sisters Unchained (Dorchester, MA): Sisters Unchained is dedicated to the collective healing, leadership, and creative expression of young women with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated parents.

* Strategies4Freedom (Durham, NC): Black Love Convergence activates African Diasporic wisdom as a tool for restoration, innovation, and possibility within movements, communities, and the lives of those fighting for their freedom.

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Photo Credit: Eze Amos [ID: Protesters gather for the Black Women Matter "Say Her Name" march on July 3 in Richmond, Va.]

* The Black Sex Worker Collective (Brooklyn, NY): The Black Sex Worker Collective aims to dismantle oppressive frameworks and shift the thinking of our communities, in order to shape new ideas around sex work and the idea of labor.

* The Knights & Orchids Society Inc. (Selma, AL): TKO Society strives to build the power of the TLBG community for African Americans across Alabama to obtain the dream of justice and equality through group economics, education, leadership development, and organizing cultural work.

* The National LGBTQ Workers Center (New York, NY): Through labor education and grassroots organizing, The National LGBTQ Workers Center brings LGBTQ working people who lack access to a union together in the fight for economic justice.

* The Outlaw Project (Phoenix, AZ): The Outlaw Project is based on the principles of intersectionality to prioritize the leadership of people of color, transgender women, gender non-binary, and migrants for sex worker rights.

* The Root Social Justice Center (Brattleboro, VT): The Root prioritizes POC leadership, shifting resources to POC-led racial justice work, and providing a physically and financially accessible organizing space for social justice groups that is free of oppression, harm, and injustice.

* Violence In Boston (Roxbury, MA): Violence in Boston provides help to victims suffering from trauma and attacking poverty through violence prevention.

* Wanderlust Revolution, Inc. (Eastpointe, MI): Wanderlust Revolution exists to decolonize travel culture and develop means for people of color to utilize travel as a means for liberation.

* Womanist Working Collective (Philadelphia, PA): The Womanist Working Collective is a social action and supports collective for Black womyn (both cis and trans), femmes, and gender non-conforming folks who work as a Community of Practice that unapologetically centers our Quality of Life.

* ZEAL (Inglewood, CA): ZEAL is a worker-owned multimedia group that supports Black artists across the diaspora.

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