Grantees

APEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities. In 1991, there was a historic convening of the national environmental justice movement, the People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit …

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. The Aspen Institute mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute has campuses in Aspen, Colorado, and on the Wye River on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. It also maintains offices in New York City and has an international network of partners.

The Association of Black Foundation Executives (ABFE) holds the distinction of being the first of the Council on Foundations 38 Affinity Groups. We were established in 1971, and since then the organization has grown into an independent membership organization that counts among its members the most influential staff, trustees and donors of grantmaking institutions that promote effective and responsive philanthropy in Black communities. For nearly four deca…

Black Alliance for Just Immigration is a northern California–based organization that combines education, training and advocacy to link the social and economic interests of African-Americans and immigrants of color as a basis for forging alliances across those communities. Established in 2006, BAJI has steadily built a broad constituency of African-Americans; black immigrants from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean; and Latino, Asian and Arab immigrants to jointly advocate policies t…

Black Mesa Water Coalition (BMWC) is a program of the Native Movement, whose mission is to protect the land, people and culture of indigenous families by preventing the exploitation of their natural resources and advocating for sustainable economic development. BMWC is dedicated to preserving and protecting Mother Earth and the integrity of Indigenous Peoples’ cultures, with the vision of building sustainable and healthy communities. BMWC str…

Combining grassroots community organizing, leadership development, litigation and action, Border Action Network ensures that those who are most impacted by border and immigration policies are at the forefront of movements calling for human dignity and civil rights and have the power to insert their voices into the local, regional and national policy debates that impact their lives. Border Action Network formed in 1999 and works with immigrant and border communities in Arizona to ensure that immigrant rights ar…

Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) works to empower communities to create the political, economic and social conditions in which every human being is equal in dignity and rights. BNHR is one of the leading immigration reform and human rights advocacy organizations in the United States. Based in El Paso, Texas, the BNHR has a membership of more than 700 families, or close to 4,000 individuals, in West Texas and Southern New Mexico. It also helps organize other civic-minded groups along t…

Brownsville Community Health Center (BCHC) provides comprehensive primary health care services with excellence and dignity to its community at its main clinic and 4 satellite clinics. BCHC is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization serving as a community and migrant health center. The principal mission of the Center is to provide quality comprehensive primary health care services with dignity to the residents of Brownsville and the surrounding areas of southern Cameron County. BCHC has se…

The Building Movement Project strengthens the role of US nonprofit organizations as sites of democratic practice and advances the efforts of nonprofit organizations to significantly contribute to building movement for progressive social change. The Building Movement Project’s work is particularly timely given the shift in the US political and economic climate over the past ten years. The economic downturn …