We’re excited to share our latest round of U.S Fund grants! These incredible organizations are working to end mass criminalization and incarceration, disrupt systems of oppression, and resist all forms of state violence and white supremacy.

In the last year, Astraea has awarded over $1.5 million in grants to 58 grantee partners in 19 states and Puerto Rico (while Puerto Rico grantee partners have been included in this statistic, we recognize the self-determination and autonomy of the Puerto Rican independence movement). Over 99% of this funding went to LGBTQI People of Color-led organizations working for racial, economic, gender, migrant and reproductive justice. We also launched our first set of Healing Justice grants awarding $60,000 to 14 organizations to support community-based resiliency and survival practices integral to our collective liberation.

Many of our U.S. grantee partners work across movements and are connected by common values and goals—a vision for intersectional, liberatory social justice. Our grantee partners are:

• Building the local and regional power of Black, Brown, queer, trans, migrant, poor, and working class communities in the South, such as Southerners on New Ground (SONG)’s ‘Free from Fear’ campaign strategy which worked to politicize and engage LGBTQ people to lead migrant justice and anti-criminalization campaigns. Building on the success of that, SONG launched its #EndMoneyBail campaign, which ignited local organizing to focus on eliminating money bail and pretrial detention across the South. It demands that municipalities divest from cages, courts, and police, and invest in community-based solutions, such as needs assessment programs.
• Pushing for digital rights and privacy for all, such as grantee partner MediaJustice, who joined 34 civil rights, consumer, and privacy organizations in launching public interest principles for robust and comprehensive federal legislation. These guidelines would ensure fairness, prevent discrimination, advance equal opportunity, protect free expression, and hold companies that collect personal data accountable for privacy violations.
• Empowering, resourcing, and building the leadership of trans People of Color, like Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable and Empowering (TAKE)who work to increase access for and meet the needs of trans Women of Color (TWOC) in Alabama. TAKE advocates for trans friendly policies, organizes to end discrimination, engages in leadership development, and provide peer support groups. In 2017, they opened the TAKE Resource Center, the first space dedicated to providing a safe, nurturing space for TWOC in Birmingham. It is the only center in Birmingham that is Trans focused, Trans led, and fully staffed by TWOC.

Through grassroots organizing and advocacy efforts, our grantee partners are drawing attention to how marginalized LGBTQI people are impacted by enforcement and criminalization; increasing the visibility of healing justice strategies; working to dismantle the criminal justice system; leading campaigns to divest from prison systems; and broadening the racial justice dialogue to include reproductive justice, anti-criminalization and migrant justice strategies.

Please join us in celebrating the work of these resilient and radical grantee partners, and read more about their work in the links below.

U.S. Fund Grantee Partners*

*Note: We do not publicize a number of our courageous grantee partners because of security threats they face in their local contexts, so organizations may be missing from this list.

API Equality – Northern California
California

Audre Lorde Project
New York

Black Alliance for Just Immigration
New York

Black and Brown Workers Cooperative
Pennsylvania

Black and Pink
National

Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project
National

Black Trans Media
New York

Blackbird
National

BreakOUT!
Louisiana

BreakOUT New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice
Louisiana

Circuito de Innovación y Resiliencia Queer
Puerto Rico

Communities United for Police Reform
New York

Community United Against Violence, Inc.
California

Dignity and Power Now
California

El/La Para Translatinas
California

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
California

Freedom Inc.
Wisconsin

Freedom to Thrive
New York

Garden of Peace Project
Pennsylvania

Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network Southeast
Southeast

Girls for Gender Equity
New York

Immigrant Youth Coalition
California

Invisible to Invincible (“i2i”): API Pride of Chicago
Illinois

Law for Black Lives
National

Mariposas Sin Fronteras
Arizona

MediaJustice
California

Mijente
National

Montana Two Spirit Society
Montana

New Voices for Reproductive Justice
Pennsylvania

Out in the Open
Vermont

Peacock Rebellion
California

Power Inside
Maryland

Project South and members of the Southern Movement Assembly
Georgia

Providence Youth Student Movement
Rhode Island

Queer & Trans People of Color Birthwerq Project
Washington

Queer the Land
Washington

Racial Justice Action Center, (SNaP Co and Women on the Rise)
Georgia

SisterReach
Tennessee

SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
Georgia

Somos Familia
California

Southern Vision Alliance
North Carolina

Southerners on New Ground & Mijente
Southeast

SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW
Georgia

Stonewall Youth
Washington

Survivors Organizing for Liberation
Colorado

The Knights and Orchids Society
Alabama

Trans Queer Pueblo
Arizona

Trans(forming)
Georgia

Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable and Empowering
Alabama

Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project
California

Women With a Vision
Louisiana

Young Women United
New Mexico

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