Jocelyn Harmon
Jocelyn Harmon is co-founder and editor of BlackHer, a new media platform that is educating and inspiring Black women to act for progressive change. Her project, the BlackHer Black Woman’s Guide to Building Wealth — is a national policy agenda to close the ever-growing wealth gap facing Black women. The Guide is a practical tool …
Alan Hipolito
SUMA develops a community-based digital transaction model that organizes and secures community data and builds collective purchasing power. Developed together with low-income people and people of color in the Cully area of Portland, Oregon, SUMA’s digital transaction model will utilize technology in order to access environmental services, while simultaneously creating the digital infrastructure necessary to …
Jeffrey Neal
Loop Closing will pilot an on-site composting food waste program replacing trash cans and no longer hauling waste to distant locations. Scaling Loop Closing’s distributed composting model will regenerate our soils in a program led by communities of color. It will eliminate the harms of past practices, benefit community members, and increase our current waste …
Bayeté Ross Smith
Mr. Ross Smith proposes a series of art interventions in law schools and firms, accompanied by public programming, that will engage the local and legal communities in discussions around the salient socio-political issues highlighted by the art. The artworks will address issues such as: unconscious bias, economic justice, and political accountability.
Jackie Summell
The Solitary Garden Project utilizes the tools of prison abolition, art, permaculture and restorative justice to facilitate exchanges between incarcerated people and the outside world. Gardens created through the project are the size of a solitary confinement cell and are constructed from chattel crops, illuminating the connection between slavery and our modern-day criminal justice system. …
Elizabeth White
Through an online curriculum, interviews, and profiles, the Resilience Circles Toolkit will combat shame and provide resources for resilience to one of the most economically vulnerable communities in the U.S. – older black women. The toolkit will serve as a valuable resource by amplifying the voices of older black women who are already successfully customizing …
Saqib Bhatti
Project Description This project seeks to radically transform our municipal finance system by organizing the communities most impacted by public budget crises around provocative campaigns to renegotiate bad Wall Street deals. The project will engage unions and community organizations around the country to develop and implement strategic corporate social responsibility campaigns to stop banks from …
Margot Brandenburg
Project Description The focus of this project is to support the development of enterprise models in service of social and environmental change. It will specifically work with the staff of the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) to develop a business plan and prototype for Faircare.com, as well as with the Community Foundation of New Jersey …
Andrew Slack
Project Description Andrew Slack is an experienced performer and social organizer who started the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) as a first step toward harnessing the energy of a popular story toward activism and civic engagement. Ready to take his unique model of fan activism to the next level, Imagine Better goes far beyond the Harry …
Jennifer Bailey
Project Description Ms. Bailey’s project is the creation of the Praxis Media Collaborative (PMC), an online community that leverages emerging technologies in the field of digital storytelling to elevate the work of communities — exploring the intersection of faith and social justice. PMC will connect secular justice organizations to faith-based groups working on similar issues. …
Mosi Makori
Project Description The project will engage communities disproportionately impacted by the prison industrial complex, including the wrongfully convicted, through community-based and participatory action research and training to address the dehumanizing results of mass incarceration, primarily of people of color. The problem, according to Mr. Makori, is that mass incarceration and wrongful convictions have become so …
Dara Nussbaum-Vazquez
Project Description Ms. Nussbaum-Vazquez will work with the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative (BCDI) to design and launch an innovative business platform, with on- and off-line capabilities, that will build the infrastructure and test the potential for local businesses to capture procurement dollars leaking out of the Bronx. BCDI harnesses local assets and leverages the purchasing …
Bridgit Antoinette Evans
Project Description “Culture Changes Us” is a portfolio of knowledge-building tools and learning experiences – including a widely accessible social justice sector education campaign, an immersive learning retreat for movement leaders, and a ‘Next Gen’ culture change writers’ room focused on developing a new TV series – designed to dramatically accelerate the understanding and use …
Anurag Gupta
Project Description The project’s goal is to hack unconscious bias and disrupt racial inequalities. The project will develop an evidence-based online training called Mindfulness Based Cultural Competency™ (MBCC) that will create a measurable reduction in unconscious bias to eliminate health inequalities based on race/ethnicity. Three decades of robust research has shown that people of color …