Since 1967, RESIST has awarded grants to radical and progressive groups engaged in activism for social change. Each year we fund groups to develop leadership, work on innovative grassroots campaigns, hire organizers, distribute literature and videos related to those campaigns, and demand justice on a variety of issues. Information about 2007 grantees is listed below. Click here to read about 2006 grantees.

In 2007, RESIST awarded more than $308,000 to 126 groups across the country. These grants can be broken down into 14 categories. These categories are rather arbitrary, given that most of these groups see their work as connected to a larger organizing cause and often work across our designated categories. But they are still somewhat useful to discern trends. Read more about grant guidelines.

Activist Training Institute. Boston, Massachusetts. $3,000 for a coalition of Asian Pacific American organizations to train a new generation of APA leadership working on immigrant rights.

Activist with a Purpose. Grenada, Mississippi. $2,000 for a community-based organization formed to empower the local African-American population around issues of racism, economic justice and quality education.

Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice. Albuquerque, New Mexico. $3,000 for an organization that links individuals concerned with peace, social justice and economic issues. (Multi-year Grant).

Amigos Multicultural Services Center. Eugene, Oregon. $3,000 to promote respect for the human rights of immigrants through activities that inform, organize, and mobilize the immigrant Latino community and its allies.

Appalachian Peace and Justice Network. Athens, Ohio. $2,000 to engage in peace and anti-war organizing.

Brazilian Women's Group. Allston, Massachusetts. $300 emergency grant to organize and participate in demonstrations against the immigration raids in New Bedford and to oppose the resulting deportations.

Brooklyn Young Mothers' Collective. Brooklyn, New York. $2,000 to work with pregnant and parenting low-income mothers to break the cycle of generational poverty and work for systemic change in their community.

Center for Artistic Revolution. North Little Rock, Arkansas. $3,000 to build bridges and collaborations between diverse communities through organizing initiatives that address the issues and systemic oppressions that undermine access to equality. (Multi-year Grant).

Center for Intercultural Organizing. Portland, Oregon. $2,000 to build a state-wide multilingual and multicultural movement for immigrants and refugees.

Center for Justice, Peace, and Environment. Fort Collins, Colorado. $3,000 to create social justice, peace, and environmental integrity through direct action, public education and community-empowerment.

Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee. Chelsea, Massachusetts. $2,000 to fight discrimination against immigrants and foster their full and equal voice in community decision-making.

Coalition for the Rights and Dignity of Immigrants. Cincinnati, Ohio. $1,500 for immigrant-led organization dedicated to building leadership within the growing immigrant community and defending human rights.

Desiree Alliance. Henderson, Nevada. $3,000 to organize sex workers and their allies to seek civil, labor and human rights.

DREAM in Action. Boise, Idaho. $3,000 for a youth-run organization seeking to build power and win campaigns for immigrant justice.

Encuentro Diaspora Afro. Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. $2,000 to mobilize and empower the Afro-Latino community to look at issues of race and power.

Human Dignity Coalition. Bend, Oregon. $3,000 to address issues of racism, sexism and homophobia in Central Oregon. (Multi-year Grant).

Movimiento por Justicia del Barrio. New York, New York. $3,000 for an immigrant-led social justice organization in East Harlem which is organizing for housing justice and against gentrification, and $300 for an emergency grant to organize a march in response to rapidly escalating efforts to displace low-income communities from East Harlem.

Proyecto Hondureño. Chelsea, Massachusetts. $2,000 to empower Honduran immigrant communities to organize for more humane immigration policies and immigrant workers’ rights.

Salem/Keizer Coalition for Equality. Salem, Oregon. $3,000 to organize and advocate for equality in education, human rights, and accountability from policymakers. (Multi-year Grant).

The Interfaith Alliance of Idaho. Boise, Idaho. $3,000 to work in faith-based communities examining the interrelations between racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism in Idaho. (Multi-year Grant).

The Quest for Social Justice. Mobile, Alabama. $1,500 to raise social justice issues and to bridge diverse communities across the city.

UNETE, Center for Farm Worker Advocacy. Medford, Oregon. $3,000 for a Latino-led organization empowering farm workers and immigrants to advocate for their rights. (Ken Hale Tribute Grant).

Contact Center. Cincinnati, Ohio. $3,000 to provide leadership training, skill development and power analysis to low-and moderate-income residents.

Economic Justice Coalition. Athens, Georgia. $3,000 to educate the community about economic disparities and to work towards implementing living wage and health benefit policies.

Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network. Eugene, Oregon. $1,500 to bring together labor unions, religious congregations and community groups to support workers’ civil and economic rights.

Food AND Medicine. Brewer, Maine. $3,000 to raise community awareness of economic justice and to address the needs and concerns of laid-off and low-income workers.

Jobs with Justice – Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky. $3,000 to campaign for economic justice and workers' rights. (Multi-year Grant).

Low-Income Self-Help Center. San Jose, California. $1,000 to empower, educate and organize the diverse low-income communities of Silicon Valley to fight for economic rights and justice.

Peace Through Interamerican Community Action. Bangor, Maine. $3,000 to engage in anti-sweatshop, labor rights and solidarity organizing. (Multi-year Grant).

Tompkins County Workers' Center. Ithaca, New York. $2,000 to advocate for just economic practices, including fair wages and affordable health care.

Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action – Providence. Providence, Rhode Island. $3,000 to oppose the role of the remittance industry which exploits immigrant workers who attempt to send money to the families abroad.

Welfare Warriors. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. $2,000 to create a voice for low-income people in struggles to change welfare policy and practice.

Worcester Homeless Action Committee. Worcester, Massachusetts. $2,000 to increase city-wide awareness about, and a response to, the critical condition of homeless people in Worcester.

Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project. Fossil, Oregon. $1,000 for a grassroots environmental advocacy group promoting long-term systemic social change to end root causes of ecological destruction and social injustice.

Citizens Awareness Network. Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. $2,000 to organize around nuclear fuel cycle issues ranging from reactor operations to the siting of waste dumps.

Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger. Merrimac, Wisconsin. $3,000 to clean up of toxic waste at Badger Army Ammunition Plant and create healthy sustainable re-use plans. (Multi-year Grant).

Embudo Valley Environmental Monitoring Group. Dixon, New Mexico. $3,000 to monitor the health effect of weapons research and development on communities downwind of Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Global Justice Ecology Project. Hinesburg, Vermont. $3,000 to promote global justice and ecological awareness through promoting an ecological analysis within the global justice movement and an economic analysis within the environmental movement. (Multi-year Grant).

Meigs Community Action Network. Racine, Ohio. $1,500 to oppose the implementation of a new generation of coal-fired power plants in the area which have a negative impact on health, safety and economic justice.

Oregon Toxics Alliance. Eugene, Oregon. $3,000 to expose the root causes of toxic pollution and to help communities find solutions that protect human and environmental health. (Multi-year Grant).

Sand Mountain Concerned Citizens. Ider, Alabama. $3,000 to organize against the growth of the corporate swine industry in densely populated rural areas of Alabama and the surrounding states.

Silver Valley Community Resource Center. Kellogg, Idaho. $2,000 to educate local residents about toxic waste found at the Bunker Hill Superfund site and to counter the misinformation generated by local corporations and media.

Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition. West Hartford, Connecticut. $3,000 to organize for improved societal attitudes and legal protections for trans and gender non-conforming individuals and communities.

Flint Hills Human Rights Project. Manhattan, Kansas. $1,000 to advocate for the civil and human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, intersex and questioning individuals.

Seacoast Outright. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. $1,000 to change the social climate for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning and allied youth in the greater Seacoast area.

ACT UP Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $3,000 to fight the global AIDS crisis by addressing the basic health disparities and social injustices which perpetuate the epidemic at home and abroad. (Multi-year Grant).

ADAPT – Colorado. Denver, Colorado. $2,000 to enable people with disabilities to participate in organizing; and $3,000 for an organization empowering people with disabilities to integrate with full and equal rights into all parts of society. (Accessbility grant. Multi-year grant).

Freedom Center. Northampton, Massachusetts. $2,000 to unite people with severe mental illness to organize against psychiatric abuse and oppression and to promote alternatives to mainstream care.

NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin. Madison, Wisconsin. $3,000 to ensure that women have the right to a full range of reproductive choices.

Portland Central America Solidarity Committee. Portland, Oregon. $3,000 to enable people with disabilities to participate in the movement to oppose U.S. intervention in Central America and Mexico and support cross-border struggles for peace, justice, and self-determination. (Accessibility Grant).

Cincinnati Interfaith Workers Center. Cincinnati, Ohio. $2,000 to organize low-wage and immigrant workers to confront workplace injustice.

Fuerza Unida. San Antonio, Texas. $3,000 to empower women workers and their families to achieve social, economic and environmental justice. (Multi-year Grant).

Georgia Poultry Justice Alliance. Atlanta, Georgia. $3,000 to organize poultry workers, growers and local community members to hold poultry companies accountable for fair wages and safe working conditions.

Interfaith Action of Southwest Florida. Immokalee, Florida. $3,000 to organize the faith-based community, in partnership with farmworkers, to challenge injustices that affect immigrant and migrant workers.

Jobs with Justice – Central Oregon. Bend, Oregon. $2,000 for a coalition of labor and community organizations working together to build unity and support for economic justice and worker's rights.

Jobs with Justice - Rhode Island. Providence, Rhode Island. $3,000 for coalition of labor, community, faith-based and student groups working for economic justice. (Multi-year Grant).

Kansas Action Network. Topeka, Kansas. $2,000 to unite workers, farmers and civil rights advocates to organize for improved living and working conditions for all Kansans.

San Lucas Workers Center. Chicago, Illinois. $3,000 for a multiracial, grassroots organizing committee of US-born and immigrant day laborers which uses direct action, community pressure, press exposure and policy work to force day labor agency owners to stop abusive practices.

Student/Farmworker Alliance. Immokalee, Florida. $3,000 to solidify the connection between farmworkers and students and to organize for an end to exploitative labor relations in the agricultural world. (Multi-year Grant).

Vermont Workers' Center. Montpelier, Vermont. $3,000 for a workers rights group organizing for economic justice, including livable wages, affordable health care and humane workplaces. (Multi-year Grant).

Independent Media Center - Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $2,500 to utilize media to organize for social and economic justice.

Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine. Oak Park, Illinois. $3,000 to build awareness of the complexity of the issues involved in creating a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Tear Down the Wall Rally. Cambridge, Massachusetts. $300 for an emergency grant for “Tear Down the Wall: Stop Apartheid in Israel/Palestine.”

Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel. South Burlington, Vermont. $1,000 to counteract biased media reporting and foreign policy in order to promote the equality and safety of both Palestinians and Israelis.

Alternatives to the Military. Lincoln, Nebraska. $1,500 to counter military recruitment propaganda in local high schools.

American Friends Service Committee - Vermont. Montpelier, Vermont. $2,500 to increase the capacities of individuals and communities for peace building, social and economic justice.

Central Oregon Peace Network. Bend, Oregon. $1,500 to work for peace and oppose militarism through educational and community organizing activities.

Chico Peace and Justice Center. Chico, California. $1,000 to organize for peace and justice through education, training and direct action.

Manhattan Alliance for Peace and Justice Education Fund. Manhattan, Kansas. $2,500 for a broad-based social justice organization that links peace and economic justice issues.

National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. Brooklyn, New York. $1,000 to organize and support war tax resisters by sharing information, coordinating actions and developing resources.

Nebraskans for Peace. Lincoln, Nebraska. $3,000 to work nonviolently for peace with justice through community building, education and political action.

Northwest Suburban Peace & Education Project. Chicago, Illinois. $1,000 to conduct counter-recruitment campaigns in public high schools located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance. Oak Ridge, Tennessee. $3,000 for work to end nuclear weapons production in Oak Ridge through public education and nonviolent direct action.

Peace Action - New Jersey. Bloomfield, New Jersey. $1,500 to work for the reduction and elimination of nuclear weapons, the transfer of dollars from the military budget to programs for community needs and nonviolent resolution to international conflict.

Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. Bangor, Maine. $3,000 to link regional individuals and groups concerned with peace, social justice and environmental issues in Eastern Maine. (Multi-year Grant).

Peace House. Ashland, Oregon. $1,000 to serve Southern Oregon communities as a resource center for nonviolence, education and direct action addressing peace, environmental sustainability and social justice.

Peninsula Peace and Justice Center. Palo Alto, California. $1,500 to change U.S. foreign and domestic policy toward a focus on justice, human rights and demilitarization.

Social Justice Center of Albany. Albany, New York. $2,000 for a resource center for activists to coordinate grassroots peace and justice campaigns.

The Iraq/Afghanistan Memorial Installation. Santa Fe, New Mexico. $2,000 to maintain a traveling memorial for U.S. military personnel killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, highlighting the human cost of the ongoing occupations.

Topeka Center for Peace and Justice. Topeka, Kansas. $3,000 to promote peace and justice by addressing civil/human rights, restorative justice, economic justice, women's rights, and international peace issues.

Veterans for Peace - Maine. Chesterville, Maine. $3,000 to work towards abolishing war through non-violent strategies, including counter-recruitment efforts in the public schools.

Veterans for Peace - St. Louis. St. Louis, Missouri. $2,000 for a peace group advocating to stop the Iraq war and educating the public about the real financial and human cost of war.

Whatcom Peace & Justice Center. Bellingham, Washington. $1,000 to oppose U.S. military action in the Middle East and change U.S. foreign policy through public protest, legislative advocacy and community education.

Boston Workers' Alliance. Roxbury, Massachusetts. $3,000 to oppose workplace discrimination based upon the distribution of Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) and to work for reform of the CORI system.

Carolina Justice Policy Center. Durham, North Carolina. $300 for an emergency grant to highlighting the institutional racism involved in the pending murder trial of James Johnson.

Central California Criminal Justice Committee. Fresno, California. $2,500 to protect the constitutional and human rights of the citizens of Fresno from abuse by city police officers.

Citizens Alert. Chicago, Illinois. $2,000 for a police watchdog organization that works toward more humane and effective law enforcement practices.

Coalition for Parole Restoration. New York, New York. $1,000 to advocate for prisoners who have been unjustly denied parole and works toward reform of current parole practices.

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights. Santa Fe, New Mexico. $3,000 to work for systemic change by challenging the social and economic injustice inherent in the U.S. punishment system. (Mulit-year Grant).

Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA). Worcester, Massachusetts. $3,000 for an organization of ex-prisoners, felons, allies and family working for reform of the criminal justice system and to oppose the misuse of CORI information. (Mark Riegle Tribute Grant).

Fight for Lifers – West. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $500 to advocate for more humane and effective laws for prisoners serving life sentences in Pennsylvania.

Human Rights Coalition. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $3,000 for an organization run predominantly by prisoners, former prisoners and their families who work to transform the prison system.

Justice Committee. New York, New York. $2,000 to build a movement against police violence and systemic racism through community education and direct action.

Lynne Stewart Organization. New York, New York. $2,000 to raise awareness about the effect of the USA Patriot Act on lawyers who represent political or unpopular defendants as a result of the federal conviction of Lynne Stewart.

Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. $1,000 to organize for an immediate moratorium on executions and an end to the death penalty.

Prison and Jail Project. Americus, Georgia. $3,000 to challenge the corrupt and racist criminal justice system in southwest Georgia. (Multi-year Grant).

Stateville Speaks. Westchester, Illinois. $2,000 to advocate for systemic change in the criminal justice system, including a substantial revision of laws and to end punitive attitudes toward prisoners.

9 to 5 Atlanta. Atlanta, Georgia. $3,000 for a multiracial grassroots organization of women working for economic justice through advocacy, public education, leadership development. (Multi-year Grant).

Appalachian Women's Alliance. Floyd, Virginia. $3,000 for a multi-ethnic women's organization that organizes communities across Appalachia for social justice. (Multi-year Grant).

Colorado Women's Agenda. Denver, Colorado. $1,000 for a social justice network that advocates statewide for economic security, political empowerment and racial equity.

NARAL Pro-Choice Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming. $1,500 to educate and organize in order to assure that all women are guaranteed meaningful access to a full range of reproductive choices, in an environment free from punishment, stigma and financial hardship.

Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD). Boston, Massachusetts. $3,000 to address sexism and other issues of oppression within the labor movement and to build democratic unions.

Women's Network of the Red River Valley. Moorhead, Minnesota. $1,500 for an organization empowering women and girls to organize for social change and develop leadership skills.

Women's Project. Little Rock, Arkansas. $2,000 to develop political education and organizing skills for women in Arkansas to use in community activism.

BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth. Oakland, California. $3,000 to empower youth to resist aggressive military recruiting.

Careers in Peacemaking Programs. Pukalani, Hawaii. $2,000 for a public school counter-recruitment campaign that educates youth about the realities of military life and war and offers information about non-military careers.

Coalition Against Militarism in Our Schools. South Pasadena, California. $3,000 for an organization seeking to demilitarize schools and transform them into institutions where social justice, critical thinking and conflict resolution are at the center.

Coalition for Asian Pacific American Youth. Boston, Massachusetts. $3,000 for political education and action programs that raise awareness of social justice issues, including an analysis of systems of oppression manifested through globalization and the prison industrial complex.

East Tennessee LGBTQ Youth Project. Knoxville, Tennessee. $3,000 to support, organize and empower GLBTQ youth in order to understand and confront homophobia/heterosexism and other forms of oppression.

Providence Youth-Student Movement (PrYSM). Providence, Rhode Island. $3,000 for an organization of Southeast Asian youth working for racial and economic justice. (Multi-year Grant).

Reflect and Strengthen. Dorchester, Massachusetts. $3,000 for a political education program to develop the organizing skills, leadership capacity and political analysis of young low-income women in Boston. (Multi-year Grant).

Second Chance. Lexington, Mississippi. $2,000 to train and empower youth and community members in a rural African-American community.

Youth Against War and Racism. Minneapolis, Minnesota. $2,000 to organize high school students to oppose the war in Iraq and school-based military recruitment.

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RESIST emphasizes funding groups engaged in multi-issue organizing and which see themselves as part of a broad struggle for social change. However, for purposes of sharing information about funding projects, RESIST utilizes a number of categories. These categories, however, do not always accurately portray the inter-connectedness of many issues.

	# of Grants	% of Total Awards
Community Organizing/Anti-Racism	30	23.8%
Peace & Anti-Militarism	19	15.1%
Prisoners Rights	14	11.1%
Labor Rights	12	9.5%
Economic Justice	11	8.7%
Youth	9	7.1%
Women	9	7.1%
Environmental Justice	9	7.1%
Health, AIDS & Disability Rights	6	4.8%
Middle East	3	2.4%
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender	3	2.4%
Media & Culture	1	0.8%
Total	126	100%

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RESIST works to distribute funds broadly throughout the country, including trying to give special consideration to rural groups.

Region	% of Total Awards
South	29%
Midwest	22%
Northwest	21%
Mid-Atlantic	15%
West	7%
Southwest	6%

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