Mothers Threatened for Helping Prisoners
$6600 for school and sports expenses and a CIF award for five children, ages 10 to 18, from two families. Their mothers have been denied jobs or threatened with prosecution for advocating for… Read More
Prisoners' Rights/ U.S. Political Prisoners
NY
Sons of Political Prisoners Targeted
$7500 for school tuition and sports programs for five children, aged 12 to 19, from two families. Both fathers, themselves the sons of political prisoners, have experienced harassment and job loss… Read More
Prisoners' Rights/ U.S. Political Prisoners
PA
Former Political Prisoner Harassed
$4000 for tuition, therapy, and art classes for the 16-year-old twins whose father was incarcerated for anti-apartheid efforts and continues to face targeting for his work to free political prisoners.
Prisoners' Rights/ U.S. Political Prisoners
MA
Fighting Racism in Education Costs Families
$6600 for education support and a CIF award for five kids, ages seven to 19, from two families involved in the fight for racial justice in education. All have worked to improve equity in schools and… Read More
Racial Justice
GA
Fathers Fired and Harassed for Organizing
$15,000 for tuition and sports programs for ten children, ages one to 18, from four families. Fathers in all four families lost their jobs or faced police harassment for their public-facing anti-… Read More
Racial Justice
GA
Mom Beaten and Imprisoned
$3500 for art supplies for three children, ages 11 to 20, whose mother has been beaten and jailed because of her work for racial and gender justice.
Racial Justice
OR
Mothers Persist Despite Violent Intimidation
$2300 for tuition and gymnastics for two children, ages five and 17, from two families. Their mothers are leaders in the fight for police reform and racial justice organizing. They have received… Read More
Racial Justice
WA
Peaceful Organizer Charged
$1000 for therapy for the 15-year-old child of a racial justice organizer who was unjustly arrested at a peaceful protest. Because prosecutors charged her with gang involvement, she faced up to eight… Read More
Racial Justice
AZ
Attica Prison Visit
$2000 for an Attica Grant to allow the grandchildren and great grandchildren of an Indigenous political prisoner to visit their relative as he serves two life sentences for his role in the American… Read More
ENVIRONMENTAL & ANIMAL RIGHTS
ND
CIF Awards
$7200 for 12 CIF awards for a dozen young adult beneficiaries from nine families. Their parents are active organizers for racial justice, environmental and animal rights, immigrant’s rights advocacy… Read More
AL, AZ, CA, FL, IL, LA, ME, OK
Grocery Gift Cards
$1,000 to provide $200 grocery gift cards for current RFC beneficiary families facing emergency circumstances.
Students Fight for Justice in Higher Education
$5000 for Targeted Activist Youth (TAY) Development grants for five college students ages 21 to 23 who were beaten and charged with felonies for peacefully protesting the profound inequities in their… Read More
Racial Justice
FL
Families Fight to Regain Stability
$4500 for educational and therapeutic support for three children, ages five, 10 and 13, from two activist families who have faced years of rippling effects of FBI targeting and persecution for anti-… Read More
Racial Justice
GA, IN
Father Falsely Accused
$3600 to support STEM education for three children, ages 13 to 21, whose father spoke out against the Iraq war, was falsely accused of terrorist activity and was hunted by the FBI in an attempt to… Read More
Civil Liberties
OH
Mom Organizes Against Police Violence
$1500 for therapy for the 17-year-old son whose father was killed by police; the family has had to relocate to avoid police harassment as they fight to end police shootings for good.
Civil Liberties
MN
Teen Activist Creating Safer World
$1500 for organizing support for a 15-year-old drag performer and gender liberation activist who builds safe spaces for gender-nonconforming youth despite years of harassment.
Gender Equality, LGBTQ, & Reproductive Rights
NY
Student Harassed
$1500 for educational services for a 15-year-old Black student in a majority-white school who filed a civil rights lawsuit after a teacher shoved and berated her for declining to say the pledge of… Read More
Civil Liberties
SC
Mother’s Livelihood Threatened
$1500 for educational support for the 11-year-old boy whose mother faced threats against her business and her personal safety for helping to protect Black women’s rights to reproductive autonomy.
Gender Equality, LGBTQ, & Reproductive Rights
GA