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