$1500 for dance and karate lessons for a seven-year-old girl whose mom went public about being stopped by a Customs and Border Patrol agent because she was speaking Spanish. She took legal action and had to move to escape the harassment she endured for speaking out.
$1200 for school supplies for a 16-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 allegiance.
$1000 for therapeutic activities 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.
$1000 for childcare for the three-year-old daughter of a town’s first Black mayor, a longtime community activist, who has been systematically barred from assuming office and suspended from his EMT position by corrupt town officials who do not want to see him in power.
$19,000 for a broad range of programs for 13 children, ages two to 17, from six families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.
$9600 for educational and sports programs and a CIF award for seven children, ages two to 18, from three families who have spent years organizing against environmental racism in their communities and have faced targeting by employers and police.
$7100 for camps, tuition, homeschool supplies and a CIF award for six children, ages seven to 20, from three families. Their parents helped disrupt pipeline operations and bring attention to the impact of the fossil fuel industry. One parent was physically assaulted, another faced felony charges and a third was forced to relocate.
$1500 for homeschooling support for a 15-year-old who was expelled from school and harassed after he began a public protest every Friday afternoon to raise awareness of global heating
$9900 for childcare, tutoring and therapy for seven children, ages three to 18, from three families that faced severe harassment and attacks as a result of their fights for reproductive justice.
$2100 for educational and sports supplies, including a CIF award, for the 17 and 19-year-old children whose family faced harassment after their mother held school personnel accountable for wildly inappropriate behavior towards her daughter and other female students.