Human Rights

The Human Rights program focuses on building the long-term power of communities of color most impacted by mass criminalization, in both the criminal legal and the immigration systems, so that they have increased collective power to change the structures that impact their lives.

2022 Grants:

Color of Change

for general support

$400,000

Tides Advocacy

for Sister Warriors Action Fund

$400,000

Equity Action

for general support

$200,000

Tides Advocacy

for Texas Black Civic Engagement Action Fund

$100,000

Siembra NC

for general support

$100,000

Workers Defense Action Fund

for general support

$150,000

North Carolina A Philip Randolph Educational Fund

for general support

$150,000

Ella Baker Center Action Fund

for general support

$100,000

Center for Empowered Politics

for Oakland Rising Action

$100,000

Texas Organizing Project

for general support

$250,000

Caldwell Hays Examiner

for general support

$50,000

Advance North Carolina Inc

for general support

$150,000

Tides Advocacy

for Chispa

$75,000

OC Action

for OCCET Action

$100,000

MOVE Texas Action Fund

for general support

$150,000

Texas Freedom Network

for general support

$150,000

Tides Advocacy

to support Equity in Advance’s work on the Emerald New Deal initiative

$200,000

Tides Advocacy

for La Defensa

$300,000

Poder NC Action

for general support

$200,000

Asian American Advocacy Fund, Inc.

for general support

$200,000

Mijente

for general support

$200,000

Initiate Justice Action

for general support

$100,000

GLAHR Action Network

for general support

$100,000

Carolina Federation

for general support

$200,000

New Left Accelerator

for capacity building supports and technical assistance to Heising Simons Action Fund grantees

$325,000

Dignity and Power in Action

for capacity building supports and technical assistance to Heising Simons Action Fund grantees

$200,000

Forward Justice Action Network

for general support

$100,000

Working Families Organization

for United Fort Worth

$200,000

Yes on Measure A

for general support

$100,000