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Mission and Our Work | This Giving Guide | Support Local Grantees (ALL) | By Region: New England, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, South, Southwest, West, Mountain, U.S. Occupied Territories | 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

For 54 years, 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

Happy Holidays! While the Holidays may look differently for many this year, what remains the same for us at Resist is our gratitude for the thousands of Resisters who help make our grantees' work possible. Thank you for marching with us, hand in hand, to create a different world - one that works for us all.

We also know that movements for justice don't just need resources, they need you. When you support local grassroots activism, national movements for justice and freedom grow stronger and become more nimble. Our Holiday Giving Guide is here to directly connect you with local Resist grantees. Download the guide today, share it widely with your community, and consider getting involved, because it's going to take all of us to change the world for the better.

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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 Resist HELL YEAH! Grantees

Below you’ll find a directory of our 2021 Hell Yeah! Grantees sorted by region. These groups, selected unanimously by our grantee-led grant-making panel for full funding, are an example of the radical, intersectional, necessary work happening on the ground across the country and they deserve your direct support this holiday season.

Click on the grantees' names to learn more about their work and donate to their cause. Some grantees receive donations through fiscal sponsors in which case you can note their name in the description box.

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Hell Yeah! Grantee Directory

- New England -

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* Black and Pink Boston (Boston, MA): Black and Pink Massachusetts 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.

* George Wiley Center (Pawtucket, RI): The GWC is a statewide organization challenging systems that impact the poor and communities of color across Rhode Island.

* Sunlight Media Collective (Lamoine, ME): Sunlight Media Collective documents Indigenous issues, educates the public, and offers media to aid movements for Native sovereignty, particularly in Maine where the State’s refusal to respect our inherent sovereignty & jurisdiction often intersects with environmental justice.

The Black Response Cambridge (Cambridge, MA): The Black Response is the convener of a campaign to defund and abolish the Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Department and to establish alternative community-based safety initiatives that address the root causes of harm.

* Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (Worcester, MA): The Worcester Anti-Foreclosure Team (WAFT) organizes homeowners and tenants to fight foreclosures, save and return homes illegally foreclosed or halt illegal evictions.

* Worcester Youth Cooperatives (Worcester, MA): Worcester Youth Cooperatives is a youth collective, supported by a circle of adult allies and elders, on a mission to support the power of youth to organize cooperative solutions to social issues they care about.

* Youth Justice and Power Union (Dorchester, MA): YJPU is a community grassroots organization led by Black and Brown youth in Boston who lead base-building, political education, and multi-issue campaigns to build collective power and confront systemic injustice through organizing and direct action.

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* Apogee Journal (Newburgh, NY): For nearly a decade, Apogee Journal has operated as a biannual literary journal to provide a platform and community for oppressed identities in a literary landscape dominated by white, cis-heteronormative, patriarchal voices.

* Centro Corona (Corona, NY): Centro Corona is an intergenerational community center that builds from the experience, leadership, and knowledge of working-class and immigrant communities from Corona and nearby Queens neighborhoods for a self-determined, collectively-imagined future.

* Coalition for Restaurant Safety and Health (Philadelphia, PA): CRSH is a worker-led organization fighting to end sexual harassment and gender violence in the Philadelphia restaurant industry.

* Current Movements (Washington D.C.): The mission of Current Movements is to connect activists, organizations, and movements around the world using film, art, and technology.

* First Foods Program (New York, NY): First Foods seeks food sovereignty for Indigenous peoples through education, community, and mutual aid.

* Healing Communities USA (Philadelphia, PA): Healing Communities USA aims to be the premier directly impacted led, faith-based justice transformation collective in Pennsylvania building power to tear down all systems of oppression.

* Heaux History (Philadelphia, PA): The Heaux History Project (HHP) is a Black-led project that aims to gather the stories and histories of Black and brown sex workers through collecting oral interviews, writings, and artistic representations.

* Human Rights Coalition-FedUp! (Pittsburgh, PA): Human Rights Coalition FedUp! is dedicated to upholding the human and civil rights of prisoners through providing resources and support, exposing injustices, building relationships with people in prison and teaching their loved ones to be advocates.

* Immigrant Rights Action (Doylestown, PA): Immigrant Rights Action offers immediate and ongoing support to our Bucks County neighbors threatened with detention and deportation, and acts to uphold the legal and human rights of all immigrants.

* Making Worlds Bookstore (Philadelphia, PA): Making Worlds Bookstore is a bookstore and social center that emphasizes abolitionist and climate-adapted autonomy and ecological self-determination, and the affirmation of worlds imagined and made by Black, Brown, and Indigenous traditions of liberation.

* Native American House Alliance Inc. (Philadelphia, PA): NAHA’s mission is to foster and preserve Native American culture and history, as well as promote, racial, economic, and health justice. 

* The National LGBTQ Workers Center (New York, NY): NLWC uses issue-based, grassroots organizing, and labor education to increase TLGBQIA2S workers’ capacity to engage in fights that protect their rights at work and in the community.

* P0STB1NARY (Washington, D.C.): P0STB1NARY is a Washington, DC-based counter-cultural ecosystem and music platform uplifting the autonomy, safety, wellness, and creative development of Black trans and gender-expansive cultural workers.

* People’s Collective for Justice and Liberation (Washington, D.C.): The People’s Collective will engage folks across the country and globe to be a part of a movement that addresses Anti-Asian Racism and builds cross-racial solidarity with other communities of color.

* Philly Children's Movement (Philadelphia, PA): The Philly Children’s Movement (PCM) is a network of families and educators building racial literacy and organizing for racial justice.

* Prisoner Justice & Whistleblower Support Campaign (Pittsburgh, PA): To support and protect 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

* Project Hajra (Jamaica, NY): Project Hajra is a membership-based, peer-supported, transformative justice initiative based in Southeast Queens, NYC.

* Kanenhi:io Ionkwiaenthos / Rematriation Magazine (Awkesasne, NY): Kanenhi:io Ionkwaienthos supports a Sisterhood of Haudenosaunee and Indigenous women who are reclaiming traditional identity, culture, laws, and authority through peace, love, healing, and uplifting the minds of our Indigenous nations.

* Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P. ' New York, NY): S.T.O.P. advocates and litigates for privacy, working to abolish local governments’ systems of mass surveillance which disproportionately harm already-vulnerable communities.

* The Black Sex Worker Collective (Brooklyn, NY): Through their commitment to the leadership of Black sex workers, the Black Sex Worker Collective (BSWC) normalizes and humanizes the narrative on sex workers, their lives, and skills.

The United Covenant Union (Baltimore, MD): To develop power among low-wage workers, food-insecure families by building a union that holds workplaces, social service agencies, and local government accountable to the people.

* Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations (FEDUP ' Brooklyn, NY): The mission of FEDUP is to make visible, interrupt, and undermine the disproportionately high incidence of eating disorders in trans and gender diverse individuals through radical community healing, recovery institution reform, empowerment, and education.

* Troy 4 Black Lives (Troy, NY): Troy 4 Black Lives is a primarily Black-led intergenerational collective of organizers in Troy, NY formed to demand accountability, transparency, and transformative justice in policing and community safety.

* We Rise (Brooklyn, NY): We Rise is an organizing and peer training program working to transform the domestic worker industry.

* The Womanist Working Collective (Philadelphia, PA): The Womanist Working Collective is a grassroots social action and support collective for Black women, femmes, and GNC folx.

* Womanly (Philadelphia, PA): Womanly promotes the health and well-being of marginalized communities by providing accessible health resources, communicated through visual and literary art, for women and non-binary people of color.

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* Adoptees for Justice (Chicago, IL): Adoptees for Justice is an intercountry adoptee-led organization whose mission is to educate, empower, and organize transracial and transnational adoptee communities to achieve just and humane adoption, immigration, and restorative justice systems.

* Center for People's Self Determination (Sant Louis, MO): The Center for People's Self Determination builds self-determination in Black neighborhoods in Saint Louis, Missouri.

* Indiana Department of Correction Watch (IDOC Watch - Indianapolis, IN): IDOC Watch is building power inside Indiana prisons and across the bars separating prisoners from their families, loved ones, and outside organizers.

* Indigenous Peoples Power Project (Rapid City, SD): Indigenous Peoples Power Project's mission is to provide nonviolent direct action training, campaign support, and community organizing tools to support indigenous communities taking action in defense of their homelands.

* Masjid al-Rabia (Chicago, IL): Masjid al-Rabia is a women-centered, BIPOC-led, and LGBTQ+ affirming Islamic community center with a mission to provide spiritual support for marginalized Muslims with healing justice practices in mind.

* Strategy for Access Foundation NFP (Chicago, IL Strategy): Access Foundation NFP provides educational and entertaining documentaries for the disability community so that they become aware that they’re an integral part of society and that they have much to share not in spite of their disability, but because of who they are.

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[ID: Members of Indigenous People's Power Project pose for a picture outside. Some people hold yellow pvc pipes, chains, and a sign that reads: "No Line 3, honor earth, no more tar sands, water not oil, www.stopline3.org"]

- South -

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* adé PROJECT (Barnardsville, NC): Afraka Designing Emergence (adé PROJECT) is on a mission to actualize equity, spark creative inquiry and reclaim the narrative cooperating with BIPOC to preserve culture with creative, sustainable solutions – one project at a time.

* Ice Out of East Tennessee (Knoxville, TN): IOETN is a grassroots organization that works to build community alternatives to ICE and policing in East Tennessee

* Immigrant Action Alliance (Hollywood, FL): Our mission is to end isolation for those in immigrant detention centers, hold ICE accountable, spread awareness, and ultimately end immigrant detention.

* Migrants of Tennessee United (Chattanooga, TN): Migrants of Tennessee United engage local migrants to organize our collective power, defend our communities against racial injustices, and unify with ongoing movements for civil liberties, human rights, and equity in the South.

* Re-Entry Mediation Institute of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA): The Re-Entry Mediation Institute of Louisiana seeks to decrease recidivism rates and improve a person’s transition home from incarceration with the sustainable support of positive relationships with family and friends.

* Root Cause Research Center (Louisville, KY): The Root Cause Research Center (RCRC) is a movement based organization grounded in solidarity research and abolition that works alongside and trains and organizes community members to investigate community concerns.

* Safe Space Fort Smith (Van Buren, AK): Safe Space Fort Smith is an organization committed to changing the social constructs of home and place.

* Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing (SMASH ' Miami, FL): SMASH aims to create a Community Land Trust that will address the needs of inner-city Miami residents affected by the symptoms of gentrification and that is shaped, developed, and implemented by those same residents.

Ishtar Collective (Apopka, FL): The Ishtar Collective is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the intersectional issues of sex work with LGBTQIA+, race, class, gender, and disability equity.

* Turning Tables (New Orleans, LA): Turning Tables advocates for equity in the hospitality industry by providing bar training, mentorship, educational tools, and a network of support for the Black and Brown communities of New Orleans.

* Unspoken Treasure Society (Gainesville, FL): Unspoken Treasure Society exists to inspire, empower, uplift, and create platforms to give a voice to voiceless Transgender and Gender Non-conforming Americans.

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- Southwest -

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* All Relations United (Las Cruces, NM): All Relations United utilizes the Lakota philosophy of Mitakuye Oyasin, "we are all related," as our guiding principle, to unite, reinvest in and empower our communities.

* Houston ISD Student Congress (Houston, TX): The Houston ISD Student Congress is a student-run, student-led organization that advocates for youth power and educational justice in Houston.

* ScholarshipsA-Z (Tucson, AZ): ScholarshipsA-Z equips immigrant youth with the tools and networks to pursue higher education, navigate the workforce and become agents of change.

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- West -

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* ABO Comix (Oakland, CA): A.B.O. Comix is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ people experiencing incarceration through art.

Arab American Civic Council (Anaheim, CA): Arab American Civic Council strives to advance the Arab American community by encouraging their civic participation through community organizing, advocacy, public policy, leadership development, cultural outreach, and cultivating partnerships with other communities.

* Black Lives Matter Sacramento (Sacramento, CA): Black Lives Matter Sacramento (BLMSac) is fighting for systemic equity and rebuilding, against systemic violence of Black communities, and healing and joy for impacted Black folks in Sacramento.

* Call BlackLine (San Diego, CA): The mission of BlackLine is to provide hope and promote social justice for individuals, families, and communities through immediate crisis counseling and collecting information on negative police and vigilante contact in the United States of America.

* Centro CSO (Los Angeles, CA): Centro CSO organizes for the rights of the undocumented and quality public education as well as fighting against the police killings of Chicanos / Latinos in the communities of Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles.

* Creating Freedom Movements: more justice, more joy (Richmond, CA): Creating Freedom Movements cultivates holistic, healing-centered, visionary leaders as they collaboratively incubate justice and joy projects that nurture cross-issue solidarity while pushing our changing world in a liberatory direction.

* Critical Resistance - Oakland (Oakland, CA): Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

* Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (Los Angeles, CA): The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute (FLHI) was founded to promote the name, history, legacy, and accomplishments of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer and her leadership in the civil and human rights movement and as a freedom fighter.

* Feed Black Futures (Claremont, CA): Empowering Black liberation by creating access to high-quality fresh produce and the means and skills to produce it.

* Freedom Archives (San Francisco, CA): Freedom Archives is an educational archive dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of historical media documenting progressive movements and culture and our mission is: “Preserve the past - illuminate the present - shape the future.”

* Global Women's Strike/LA (Los Angeles, CA): Anti-racist women crossing divides of sectors to demand a living wage for all our work including low-waged and unwaged caring, justice and survival work, and for resources to go to care for people & the planet, not war, profit, war, occupation, prisons.

* Hunters of Color (Corvallis, OR): Hunters of Color creates a more equitable community for people of color by dismantling barriers to entry through educational opportunities, mentorships, and resources for new hunters.

* Liberation Medicine School (Seattle, WA): LMS’s mission is to organize a collective of Black Trans/Gender Non-Conforming/Non-Binary healers and students to create an Afro-indigenous healthcare and decolonial teaching program that meets the wellness needs of the Black LGBTQI community.

* Majdal Community Center (El Cajon, CA): The Majdal Community Center seeks to empower all members of the Arab community in San Diego through campaigning, advocacy, and cultural programming.

* Truth in Recruitment (Santa Barbara, CA): Truth in Recruitment's mission is to educate students, families, and school districts about alternatives to military careers, inform families of their children's privacy rights, and advocate for policies regulating recruiter presence on campuses.

* Somos Familia Valle (Mission Hills, CA): Somos Familia Valle organizes for intersectional LGBTQ+ justice and liberation through transformative dialogue, advocacy, and civic engagement.

* Valley Improvement Projects (VIP - Modesto, CA): VIP's mission is to improve the quality of life of underrepresented and marginalized residents of California’s Central Valley by advocating for social and environmental justice.

* Washington Ethnic Studies Now Consulting (Burien, WA): Ethnic Studies in every classroom of WA State taught by anti-racist educators committed to centering the history and lived experiences of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

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* Black Liberation Collective (Boise, ID): Modeling the leadership of their Black ancestors, the Black Liberation Collective strives to radically restore minoritized people across their rural state through spaces of resistance and vanguard practices of healing-centered liberation driven by, for, and with beloved community.

* Disabled Rights Action Committee (Salt Lake, Utah): The Disabled Rights Action Committee (DRAC) works to establish equal rights for people with disabilities through enforcement of federal and state laws.

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* Hawaii Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (Aiea, Hawai'i): HICHRP’s mission is two-fold: to raise Hawai’i’s awareness on Philippine human struggles and their intersection and impacts on Hawai’i and to train advocates for human rights through linking work between in Hawai’i and the Philippines.

* Herbal Gardens Wellness: Herbal Gardens Wellness envisions creating together One Community of Intersections of Native Cultural Diversity, Equitable Health and Wellness Access including environmental preservation for current and future generations.

Ominira (formerly Semillas - San Juan, PR): Ominira's mission is to provide a sacred, safer space of healing for Afro-indigenous trans, queer, sick, and disabled folks in Borikén where we can deepen and heal our relationship to the land and our Afro-indigenous ancestors while using indigenous agroforestry and regenerative design methods, connecting with the land through growing food and medicines, creating ceremonial space, participating in workshops and training on healing, survival strategies, and sustainable and regenerative living practices.

Donate to Ominira via PayPal using the email ominira_pr@protonmail.com.

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Support Our Work

Today’s world was just a vision 54 years ago and we know that strong grassroots communities will always be the core element of democratic progress. Resist is committed to supporting frontline activists building a just and free world for the next half-century and beyond.

If you want your end-of-year gift to have a national impact, give directly to Resist. Over the last 5 years, Resist donors have continued to show up big, contributing over $500,00 in November and December. Help us continue that momentum and surpass our goal this year by giving generously if you can!

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