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Grants Made to our U.S. Anti-Criminalization Grantee Partners

We are excited to announce a new set of grants made to 10 innovative organizations across the country through our U.S. Fund, under the thematic focus of Anti-Criminalization and Freedom from Violence.

Streetwise and Safe's Teeshirt on Police Accountability
“Know Your Rights” t-shirt developed by Streetwise and Safe youth.
We awarded $220,000 to 10 groups working on campaigns and policies that increase safety and end multiple forms of violence within LGBTQI communities across a range of issues. These include efforts around interpersonal and hate violence, domestic, family, and intimate-partner violence, as well as institutional violence. Many of the organizations funded under this thematic focus tackle institutional violence, such as policies that criminalize gender expression, sex work, and many other aspects of LGBTQI people’s lives, dignity, and livelihoods. We are deeply encouraged to see the diverse interventions this set of grantee partners is making in anti-criminalization efforts locally and nationally in the areas of immigration, prison abolition, sex work organizing, and homelessness. By bringing together these groups into a cohort, we expect to see fruitful collaborations among them in policy advocacy efforts specifically related to police accountability at the city and state level.

BreakOUT!
New Orleans, LA

Community United Against Violence – CUAV
San Francisco, CA

El-La Para Translatinas
San Francisco, CA

Freedom Inc.
Madison, WI

Gender Just
Chicago, IL

Gender Justice LA
Los Angeles, CA

Providence Youth Student Movement – PrYSM
Providence, RI

Queers for Economic Justice
New York, NY

Streetwise and Safe
New York, NY

Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project – TGIJP
San Francisco, CA

Freedom Inc.

Freedom, Inc. (FI) challenges the fundamental root causes of violence against women, queer and trans folx, and youth through leadership development, radical service providing, and community organizing in low-income communities of color–focusing on Black and Southeast Asian communities.

Freedom, Inc. (FI) challenges the fundamental root causes of violence against women, queer and trans folx, and youth through leadership development, radical service providing, and community organizing in low-income communities of color–focusing on Black and Southeast Asian communities. FI’s anti-violence work includes working against systemic and institutional violence of poverty, sexism, racism, heterosexism, and cisgenderism as well as their interpersonal expressions of domestic and sexual violence. Their programs aim to change cultural norms into which people are socialized (addressing the root causes of violence and internalized oppression) and build capacity for survivors as leaders in their communities to organize for institutional change and accountability.