Organizations selected receive $15,000 a year for each of three years.
Based on the Crow Reservation, the Center Pole Foundation’s mission is to preserve and raise awareness of traditional Crow Indian ways, to promote equal opportunity and a just society for Native people by providing access to information and resources, and to conduct community projects essential to an empowered future for Native youth and their communities. Founded in 1999, Center Pole’s successes range from an arts entrepreneurship program for Native youth to a straw bale home ownership project. A Three-Year Support Grant would support Center Pole's social justice work in homelessness and affordable housing, and would support Crows for Justice, a group that meets to share information and organize on justice issues.
Idaho Community Action Network (ICAN) works to create a shared vision that empowers low-income Idahoans and mobilizes its diverse membership to action. ICAN’s mission is to build unity among those facing poverty, racism, and injustice and to take on the fight for food security, health care access, and immigrant justice. This Three-Year Support Grant would provide general support to advance immigrant justice campaigns and to build a sustainable immigrant rights movement in Idaho. ICAN's priorities are to consolidate their growing immigrant base, to develop emerging leaders, to connect immigrant injustice to its racist underpinnings, to expand the regional alliance, and to formalize organizing campaigns.
Voz Hispana Causa Chavista was founded in 1997 with the support of PCUN, Oregon’s farmworkers’ union, to promote recognition and respect for the achievements and values of Cesar Chavez and other Latino heroes, and to motivate Latino participation and leadership in the decisions that affect the community. They work toward deep social change through long-term strategies to undo institutional racism in Woodburn schools, and to build electoral power for immigrant communities. A Three-Year Support Grant would provide general support for Voz Hispana's organizing work.