ENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION

Programs

1. CODEPINK: A Local Peace Economy cultivates the local peace economy in our communities thru anti-war organizing.

   $127,944 spent
   25% of program spending

2. The Spiritual-Social Medicinal Apothecary (SSoMA) takes a medicinal approach to the current climate, nature and relational emergency by bringing together artists, healers and knowledge-keepers of relationship to learn how to hospice the modern ways of knowing, being and relating that are harming life as we know it, and how we heal our relation with life-force to deepen our capacities for healthy and just-relating.

   $99,689 spent
   20% of program spending

3. Soil and Shadow helps individuals and organizations, particularly in the social impact and environmental sectors, build resilience while addressing issues of diversity, equity, and exclusion.

   $84,369 spent
   17% of program spending

4. Scientist Rebellion, Turtle Island is a group of scientists and academics who believe we should expose the reality and severity of the climate and ecological emergency by engaging in non-violent civil disobedience.

   $61,486 spent
   12% of program spending

5. Sunrise Philly is a movement to hold nonviolent actions to win investments in poor black and brown communities under the name of the Green New Deal in efforts to open recreation centers and libraries and assert community control over land.

   $39,591 spent
   8% of program spending

6. Produce, promote and assist charitable activities that promote peace and social justice.

   $33,187 spentof which $25,037 as grants
   7% of program spending

7. The California Poor Peoples Campaign activities included education, organizing, religious, arts & cultural events, nonviolent moral direct action, and relationship building across issues and geography.

   $28,153 spent
   6% of program spending

8. ACERE is a coalition of organizations and individuals that believe that sanctions and economic blockades are not the right answers to resolve conflicts or ideological differences between countries.

   $25,967 spent
   5% of program spending

9. Through our art, music and short film collaboration entitled Requiem for Mary Turner; Lest We Forget, we seek to illuminate the dark chapter of Americas history of lynching, specifically of the 136 documented lynchings of African American women.

   $5,633 spent
   1% of program spending

10. Los Angeles Music and Arts Program. Provide musical instruments for band program at Horace Mann middle school in South Los Angeles.

    $1,677 spentof which $1,677 as grants
    0% of program spending

11. I AM PV (Instituto de Artes Musicales Puerto Vallarta) is a non-profit, music education institute dedicated to enriching the lives of all of those in the Banderas Bay Area and Mexico. The benefits of music education have been well studied and documented, in giving young people the tools to succeed in not only musical endeavors, but scholastic and societal achievements as well.

    $404 spent
    0% of program spending

12. Women Bridging Worlds assembles and connects women who are dedicated innovators, creatives and community organizers with systemic approaches to transforming elements of our society across diverse sectors and disciplines.

    $4 spent
    0% of program spending

13. BestFits mission is to close the gap in college graduation rates by providing every college student with a holistic support system. First-generation, underrepresented minority, and low-income students have lower graduation rates not because they lack the ability, but because they face systemic barriers in accessing the support of a college-going network.

14. Dzil Yijiin Food Sovereignty Project works to restore the traditional food systems and watersheds on Dzil Yijiin (Black Mesa)region and across the Navajo Nation. We engage local community members, young adults, elders and leaders to seek ways to bring Dine Lifeways into community development strategies. The project also provides employment opportunities, innovate land-based technologies around rainwater harvesting/ watershed restoration, leadership development, political education and sharing of traditional ecological knowledge.

15. The Native Momentum Podcast was created to strengthen Indigenous leadership in the world, to transmit vital information to a diverse, national and even international audience, to document the wisdom of The People.

16. TechActivist.Org is building a pipeline of techies to support social movements and partner with organizations creating tech tools for liberation. We do this by providing technical training and political education to working class youth and activists.

17. Education Support: Provide Educational Scholarships and fellowships.

18. Nihikeya Food Sovereignty Project works to restore the traditional food systems and watersheds on Dzil Yijiin (Black Mesa) region and across the Navajo Nation. We engage local community members, young adults, elders and leaders to seek ways to bring Dine Lifeways into community development strategies. The project also provides employment opportunities, innovate land-based technologies around rainwater harvesting/ watershed restoration, leadership development, political education and sharing of traditional ecological knowledge.

19. Unfreeze Afghanistan is a coalition of US and Afghan women working to help unfreeze Afghan funds held overseas in US and European banks, the World Bank Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund and the International Monetary Fund in order to ease the plight of the millions of Afghans who are facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world in light of extreme poverty and the country's collapsing economy. We will do this educating the public about the humanitarian crisis to create more pressure for global leaders to act.

20. Nihizh, Our Voices: An Indigenous Solutions Podcast is dedicated to providing listeners with recorded conversations on a variety of topics that center Indigenous voices across Turtle Island, with host Lyla June Johnston.

The 20 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $508,104.