$5000 for TAY Development Grants for five activists ages 23-24 who were indicted under RICO and charged with domestic terrorism for their work to stop the construction of Cop City, a massive police training complex set to be built on sacred forests and in the middle of a largely Black community.
$2000 for school tuition for two kids, ages 11 and 15, whose mother was fired for advocating for the needs of her students.
$1500 for tuition for the 15-year-old grandson whose grandmother (with whom he lives part time) travels the U.S. advocating for social justice. In response to her activism, her vehicle has been vandalized on numerous occasions and drivers have tried to run her off the road.
$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-racist organizing work.
$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 universities and have been harassed and/or have lost their jobs as a result of their organizing.
$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-racist organizing.
$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.
$8200 for a broad range of programs for seven children, ages four to 21, from four families whose parents were fired for advocating for equity in schools, racial justice and free press rights.
$6000 for homeschooling support for four children ages eight to 15 whose family fled the U.S. to escape the FBI’s harassment of their father for his public opposition to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. He was arrested, tortured and extradited back to the U.S., which forced the family to relocate once again.
$19,380 for a broad range of programs and two Carry it Forward (CIF) awards for 14 children, ages seven to 22, from five families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.