The organization funds early-stage nonprofits with the potential to create positive, scalable impact but that have not yet demonstrated the effectiveness needed to secure growth funding or establish a sustainable model. Each year, it awards first-time grants ranging from $25,000 to $100,000. When an organization demonstrates significant progress, the funder works with its leadership to expand its programs and prepare it to attract larger funders that can support its growth.
Open LOI process for community-driven solutions that support children, families, and equitable communities.
Unrestricted one-year grants for grassroots groups organizing around urgent and emerging justice needs.
An evidence-based prevention framework that helps communities identify priorities and implement programs to improve youth outcomes
The Safe Passages Law and Social Justice Life Coaching Project (LSJ Life Coaching Project) is a prevention and early intervention program that aims to prevent and/or reduce exposure to chronic stress, including trauma from their experiences growing up in poverty, exposure to racism, being disenfranchised from the education system, and being subjected to the Juvenile Justice system, including incarceration, for African American adjudicated youth ages 16 to 21 by decreasing: mental illness or the severity of symptoms associated with trauma or mental illness, suicide, toxic stress on youth and their families, school failure or drop out, unemployment, incarcerations/ recidivism, homelessness, and increasing/improving: seamless coordination among programs and systems, exposure of community to the program and its resources, streamlined access to services, local infrastructure to support the reduction of mental health disparities, program enrollment, relationships with caring adults, healthy relationships, happiness, mental health, family stability, family strength, engagement in learning, academic outcomes, likelihood of high school graduation, enrollment in post-secondary educational and training
This report explores how community power influences health and health equity by connecting research, organizing practices, policy change, and investment in community-led solutions.
This publication explains how historic and ongoing policies, structural racism, discrimination, and inequitable treatment have contributed to present-day disparities in health care and health outcomes for Black people.
This learning material introduces the four essential elements of Asset-Based Community Development—resources, methods, functions, and evaluation—and explains how communities can use them to strengthen collective visioning and action.
This interactive guide offers 15 strategic practices and real-world examples to help organizations plan, implement, and sustain health equity and racial justice work in partnership with communities.
This guide helps organizations understand narrative power, examine the stories that shape health inequities, and develop shared narratives that can strengthen communications, advocacy, programs, and health equity strategies.
