By Alin Badillo Carrillo
Behind Teton County’s postcard beauty lies a hidden divide.
Our multicultural neighbors—immigrants who arrived with little more than hope, their children who grow up translating for their parents, and the 1.5 generation who carry one country in their heart and another in their daily life—make up 40% of the local workforce.
The 2026 Giving Project will focus on Tenant and Housing Justice, funding movements led by those most impacted by our current housing crisis in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West. This Giving Project will make grants to support community organizing work that builds collective power among renters, homeless folks, unhoused folks, and/or homeowners (bank tenants) […]
Read: Announcing the Awardees of the Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project! Who’s behind the 2021 Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project? We are a group of artists, public servants, parents, organizers, nonprofit workers, builders, immigrants, and readers. We live and work across the ancestral lands of the Duwamish, Coast Salish, […]
“When a community organizing campaign wins monetary resources, what do they do with it? How can they allocate those resources back to the communities most impacted in an accountable and democratic way?” Origins In 2015, a group of low-income tenants took a behemoth to court and won. A private developer had purchased two low-income apartment […]
SJF is excited to announce the awardees of the Innovative, Just, & Equitable Housing Momentum Giving Project! These 1-year grants of around $18,000 will support grassroots organizations working to resist housing injustice and create new, innovative, and equitable approaches to housing for their communities. The project’s small-but-mighty cohort came together in March of 2021. Made […]
Updated 3/4/21: Applications for the Innovative, Just, and Equitable Housing Momentum grant have closed. Open grants will be posted on the Current Grant Opportunities page and on the News + Events section of our website Housing is a human right and yet many are denied this right. The COVID-19 pandemic and its short and long […]