Marguerite Casey Foundation provides general operating grants to leaders of organizations and initiatives with the potential to shift the balance of power in their communities.
We primarily support locally-based community organizing efforts focused on communities of people who are consistently excluded from influencing the decisions that shape their lives and futures, and who are excluded from sharing in the rewards and freedoms of society.
MCF is an invitation-only grantmaking organization and does not currently have the capacity to accept or respond to unsolicited funding proposals and requests.
Our Mission: To educate, inspire and engage community residents of Illinois’ low- and moderate-income communities to take a public stance on the issues that affect their neighborhoods, city, and state.
Read MoreArise is a statewide citizens’ organization composed of faith and community groups that promotes state policies that improve the lives of low-income people.
Read MoreACIJ is a grassroots, statewide network of individuals and organizations that works to advance and defend the rights of immigrants in Alabama.
Read MoreACE is a member-led social justice organization that develops and mobilizes undocumented working youth and adults, students, and LGBTQ individuals to strategically take ownership and responsibility to advance economic, social, and racial justice. By building power through leadership development, Citizenship, civic engagement, advocacy and education, we are creating a more inclusive and just standard of equality in the state of Arizona. Income equality, protection of public education, immigrant rights, and health care are just a few of ACE’s priorities in creating a better Arizona for all.
Read MoreAsian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta is the first and only nonprofit legal advocacy organization dedicated to the civil rights of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) in Georgia and the Southeast
Read MoreBlack Leaders Organizing for Communities works to ensure a high quality of life and access to opportunities for members of the Black community in Milwaukee and throughout Wisconsin.
Read MoreLa Mujer Obrera's mission is to develop and use our creative capacity to express the dignity and diversity of our Mexican heritage, from indigenous Mesoamerican roots to contemporary expressions, and to develop and celebrate our community through economic development, community building, community health and civic engagement.
Read MoreCentro por la Justicia (Centro) is based in San Antonio, Texas. Founded in 1988 to advocate for just wages and working conditions amongst San Antonio’s public school workers, Centro’s scope of work and political impact has grown significantly to address the multiple facets of injustice that impact low-income families and communities of color in South Texas. Centro is a grassroots community-based organization committed to bottom-up social justice organizing, development of local leadership, and progress for working families.
Read MoreChispa Education Fund promotes and fosters transformative, intersectional organizing among young Latinxs in Orange County, California in order to uproot systems of oppression and cultivate systems grounded in community accountability, solidarity, and self-determination for all Latinxs to thrive.
Read MoreAs a grassroots social justice organization, Communities United builds power by developing local leadership and empowering communities to identify and address the root causes of inequity at the neighborhood, city, state and national levels. We believe that community members hold the solutions to the challenges they face. Through a community organizing approach, Communities United develops institutions and community residents as leaders, convenes broad-based coalitions, and unites people across age, race, ethnicity, income, sexual orientation, gender identity, abilities and religion to advance structural change that concretely improves peoples’ lives. Communities United strives to be a “learning organization,” continually developing our analysis of economic, racial, gender, LGBTQ and disability justice as critical lenses through which we approach our work.
Read MoreCommunities for a New California promotes economic prosperity and community health for residents in the rural areas of California. We bring valley residents together to champion the needs of poor and working-class families through community organizing, integrated leadership development, and mass non-partisan voter engagement.
Read MoreWe believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms.
Read MoreCongregations Organized for Prophetic Engagement's (COPE) mission is to “train and develop the capacity of religious and lay leaders in congregations and across the Inland Empire to protect and revitalize the communities in which they live, work, and worship."
Read MoreCreative Justice builds community with youth most impacted by the school-to-prison-(to-deportation) pipeline. Participants and mentor artists work together to examine the root causes of incarceration, such as systemic racism and other forms of oppression, creating art that articulates the power and potential of our communities.
Read MoreDiné CARE, Citizens Against Ruining our Environment, is an all — Navajo environmental organization, based within the Navajo homeland. We strive to educate and advocate for our traditional teachings as we protect and provide a voice for all life in the Four Sacred Mountains. We promote alternative uses of natural resources that are consistent with the Diné philosophy of Beauty Way. Our main goal is to empower local and traditional people to organize, speak out and determine their own destinies. Diné CARE - an indigenous environmental organization to protect and preserve the diné way of life.
Read MoreDream Defenders brings social change by training and organizing youth and students in nonviolent civil disobedience, civic engagement, and direct action while creating a sustainable network of youth and student leaders to take action and create real change in their communities.
Read MoreThe mission of Equity and Transformation (EAT) is to achieve social and economic equity for Black Chicagoans engaged in the informal economy.
Read MoreFamilies and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide grassroots, multi-generational membership-based organization committed to abolishing all forms of state violence against Black youth — especially youth in New Orleans — through transformative organizing, holistic leadership development, and advocacy. We seek to divest from the youth justice system and invest in community-based alternatives, including policies that transform our educational system into one that truly serves young people.
Read MoreFANM’s MISSION is to empower low to moderate income families socially, financially, and politically and to give them the tools to transform their communities. FANM's VISION is to be a leader in creating a sustainable village where thriving families can raise well-rounded children in peace and harmony.
Read MoreFirelands Workers United/Trabajadores Unidos and Firelands Workers Action/Acción de Trabajadores build multiracial working class power in Washington state's rural timber counties to campaign for a fair economy. We organize with working families in Spanish and English to unite workers across sectors, race, and generation to challenge the outsized power of Wall Street corporations that have decimated our economies, people, and land and to move resources to our communities. Firelands' base of hundreds of working families throughout the region includes mill workers, cannery workers, retail workers, house cleaners, nurses, school workers, mothers and the unemployed. Their campaigns advance policies that benefit workers, including union jobs caring for people and the land, healthy and affordable housing, healthcare, childcare, and a fair tax system.
Read MoreTo amplify the power of immigrant communities to impact the root causes of inequality, defending and protecting basic human rights, including the right to live without fear.
Read MoreFRRC is a grassroots, membership organization run by Returning Citizens (Formerly Convicted Persons) who are dedicated to ending the disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions, and creating a more comprehensive and humane reentry system that will enhance successful reentry, reduce recidivism, and increase public safety.
Read MoreWe organize multi-racial movements to win elections, change laws, and create a state where everyone can be safe, happy, healthy and whole. We’re a people-powered organization made up of members advancing economic and racial justice across Florida. Every individual has power but we have more power together.
Read MoreFreedom, Inc. engages low- to no-income communities of color in Dane County, WI. Our mission is to achieve social justice through coupling direct services with leadership development and community organizing.
Read MoreThe Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) educates, organizes and trains the Latino community in Georgia to defend and promote their civil and human rights.
Read MoreSTAND-UP operates on the principle of seeding communities with movement-building skills. Its goal is to identify and elevate grassroots leadership, an investment in people that creates durable capacity; that is, human infrastructure tailored to the community in which it operates. That infrastructure represents permanent capacity to confront issues, as well as the political savvy, networking ability, and communications know-how to handle them. It enables marginalized communities to effectively confront policies and trends that threaten their wellbeing.
Read MoreGot Green organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice as a South Seattle-based grassroots organization led by people of color and low income people. We cultivate multi-generational community leaders to be central voices in the Green Movement in order to ensure that the benefits of the green movement and green economy (green jobs, healthy food, energy efficient & healthy homes, public transit) reach low income communities and communities of color.
Read MoreGrassroots Leadership works for a more just society where prison profiteering, mass incarceration, deportation, and criminalization are things of the past.
Read MoreInner-City Muslim Action Network serves as the model of the Muslim tradition of facilitating transformational change in urban communities by inspiring others toward critical civic engagement, exemplifying prophetic compassion in the work for social justice and human dignity beyond the barriers of religion, ethnicity, and nationality.
Read MoreKentucky Coalition is a social justice organization supporting leadership development, grassroots organizing and public policy advocacy in Kentucky, across the South, and in Appalachia.
Read MoreThrough the sustained engagement of low-income and working families, KOCO develops multi-generational leaders who impact decision-making processes and public policies, improving the quality of life in our local communities.
Read MoreLa Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) is committed to building stronger, healthier communities where people have the power to effect social change through community organizing and civic engagement.
Read MoreWe work to build homegrown leadership, expand access and opportunity, and promote an equitable society by engaging and organizing the leadership of young people.
Read MoreLogan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA) is a community-based organization advancing diversity, leader development, and models for engagement as the catalysts for social justice.
Read MoreNAEVA mission is to unite community stakeholders to actively improve the quality of life for Native American communities and protect the continuity of Native American cultures. We promote awareness and action on issues facing Native American communities through community organizing and education strategies. We are committed to social, economic and environmental justice principles that advance healthy and sustainable communities for Native families living in New Mexico.
Read MoreNew Mexico Acequia Association's mission is to protect water and acequias, to grow healthy food for our families and communities, and to honor our cultural heritage. Through involvement in NMAA, families and youth are inspired to cultivate the land, care for our acequias, and heal injustices.
Read MoreThe New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice is a multi-racial membership-based organization dedicated to building the power and participation of poor people in order to expand democracy and transform the economy.
Read MoreOLÉ is a nonprofit, who uses grassroots organizing within the local community of working families in New Mexico. Our members and staff work together to strengthen our communities through social advocacy and economic reform, using issue-based campaigns and electoral engagement to ensure that working families are playing a critical role in shaping New Mexico’s future with a united voice.
Read MoreOCAD stands for Organized Communities Against Deportations. We’re a group of undocumented, unapologetic, and unafraid organizers building a resistance movement against deportations and the criminalization of immigrants and people of color in Chicago and surrounding areas.
Read MoreOrganizing Neighborhoods for Equality: Northside is a mixed-income, multi-ethnic, intergenerational organization that unites our diverse communities. We build collective power to eliminate injustice through bold and innovative community organizing. We accomplish this through developing grassroots leaders and acting together to affect change.
Read MoreThe purpose and mission of People First of Washington is to assist all people to realize and appreciate that we are PEOPLE FIRST and our disabilities are secondary. We are equal citizens in our communities.
Read MoreThe People’s Lobby Education Institute is a 501(c)(3) organization devoted to developing strong grassroots leaders that understand the root causes of injustice, build bases within their local communities, and take direct action to hold powerful decision makers accountable to putting people and the planet first.
Read MorePoder in Action builds power to disrupt and dismantle systems of oppression and determines a liberated future as people of color in Arizona.
Read MoreWe are a team of organizations who believe in the power of community and taking action. Our goal is to equip our fellow Louisianans with the knowledge and information they need to find their voice, and learn where and when to use it.
Read MorePuente Human Rights Movement is a grassroots human rights organization centered on improving the quality of life for Arizona’s most marginalized communities. Our mission is to educate, organize, and empower our communities to unite and build political power in a collective effort to bring about lasting change to our state.
Read MoreThe Rural People’s Platform is reclaiming the rural narrative in North Central Washington. We know it’s hard to change minds. Instead, we need to build a new shared vision — one of a thriving economy that works for working people.
Read MoreScholars for Social Justice aims to build bridges between scholars and organizers in order to establish a network of academics and other scholars committed to pursuing a progressive agenda on university campuses and beyond, and leveraging the research, pedagogy, and resources of academic institutions in service of social justice movements.
Read MoreSolutions not punishment collaborative is a black trans and queer-led organization that builds safety within our community, investing in our collective embodied leadership, and building political power.
Read MoreSomos Un Pueblo Unido believes that every person should have the freedom to move in order to pursue a better life, Somos Un Pueblo Unido works to build a community that does not discriminate against people based on their national origin, that institutes humane migration policies, and that protects the human rights of everyone irrespective of where they are born or what documents they carry.
Read MoreSWOP’s mission is to “empower disenfranchised communities in the Southwest United States to realize racial and gender equality, and social and economic justice.” Today, we build power alongside our members, partners, and allies in three main areas: Economic Power Political Power Cultural Power To achieve our focus, we have strategically created: SWOP as an organizing hub for our members, partners and allies SWOP as a cutting edge community engagement lab that invests in savvy cultural strategies and infrastructure SWOP as a home-based community and movement building institution We uplift community voices by leveraging strategic partnerships, policies, and systems changes that represent the needs and values of children, families, and our communities.
Read MoreSONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South. We build, sustain, and connect a southern regional base of LGBTQ people in order to transform the region through strategic projects and campaigns developed in response to the current conditions in our communities. SONG builds this movement through leadership development, intersectional analysis, and organizing.
Read MoreSOUL's mission is to empower the South Side and South Suburbs of Chicago to fight for social justice and address the issues and concerns of the community.
Read MoreTo promote and advance economic, education and social welfare programs for people in the southwest Georgia region with hopes of improving the quality of life for one of the poorest regions in the usa.
Read MoreSOWEGA Rising mobilize people and resources to improve the well-being, quality of life and political power of marginalized Southwest Georgians.
Read MoreThe mission of SOCM is to empower Tennesseans to protect, defend and improve the quality of life in their communities across the state. SOCM is working for social, economic and environmental justice for all. We are committed to the journey of becoming an anti-racist organization.
Read MoreSurge Reproductive Justice mobilizes communities to build a world where all people can make powerful, self-determined choices for their bodies and the future of their families and communities. Our work centers Black women, women of color, and queer and trans people of color for a movement that rises from the bottom up.
Read MoreThe Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are recognized as positive contributors to the state.
Read MoreThe mission of TWU is to provide safe spaces for Indigenous women to uncover the power, strength, and skills they possess to become positive forces for transformative change in their families and communities.
Read MoreThe mission of the Texas Organizing Project is to bring together Black and Latino Texans so that together we can fight for real change by organizing our neighborhoods, investing our time and energy in causes relevant to our communities, and collectively taking ownership over TOP’s agenda, strategy and direction. With a seasoned and committed organizing staff, a diverse membership and leaders from all walks of life, TOP has already made a huge impact and is positioned to continue to grow.
Read MoreIn Korean, HANA means one. HANA’s mission is to empower Korean American and multi-ethnic immigrant communities through social services, education, culture, and community organizing to advance human rights.
Read MoreTó Nizhóní Ání serves as the eyes, ears, and voice of the Diné people in the region. We strive to preserve and protect the environment, land, water, sky, and people while advocating for the wise and responsible use of the natural resources on Black Mesa. Tó bee iiná. Water is life.
Read MoreVietRISE advances social justice and builds power with working-class Vietnamese and immigrant communities in Orange County. We build leadership and create systemic change through organizing, narrative change, cultural empowerment, and civic engagement.
Read MoreOur mission is to achieve racial, gender, economic, and social equity in order to establish a democratic society characterized by justice and fairness, with respect for diversity and a decent quality of life for all those who reside in Washington.
Read MoreProtect and advance the power of immigrant and refugee communities through a multiracial, multilingual, and multi-faith coalition. Our organizing strategy educates and mobilizes statewide to uphold and defend the rights and dignity of all immigrants and refugees, centering the voices of impacted communities.
Read MoreThe mission of Women With A Vision is to improve the lives of marginalized women, their families, and communities by addressing the social conditions that hinder their health and well-being. We accomplish this through relentless advocacy, health education, supportive services, and community-based participatory research.
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