$1000 for dance and kickboxing classes for the nine 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.
(Bruce Miller Legacy Fund Grant) $1000 for school supplies for an 18-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.
$26,600 for a broad range of programs and a CIF award for 20 children, ages one to 23, from seven families. Some parents were beaten and arrested while marching against environmental racism, while others were attacked or imprisoned for their organizing work.
$8100 for educational and sports programs and a CIF award for six children, ages six to 22, from four families who have spent years organizing against environmental racism in their communities and have faced targeting by employers and police.
$1500 for homeschooling support for a 17 year-old who was expelled from school and harassed after he began a public protest every Friday afternoon to raise awareness of global heating.
$1000 for tuition for the 16 year-old daughter of a longtime environmentalist and organizer. Her activist father has been called a domestic terrorist, threatened with imprisonment and subjected to multiple FBI raids for his efforts to save the planet.
$12,500 for school tuition, music lessons and therapy for nine children, ages 10 to 16, from four families fighting for transgender rights. In response to the public-facing activism of the parents and their children, they received hate messages from around the world and some were swarmed by violent counter-protesters. One family had to relocate to an asylum state for trans youth.
$3600 for karate, tuition and a CIF award for three children, ages eight to 18, from two families that faced severe harassment and attacks as a result of their fights for reproductive justice.
$1500 for photography and school supplies for an 18-year-old drag performer and gender liberation activist who builds safe spaces for gender-nonconforming youth despite years of harassment.
$1500 for equine therapy for the 17-year-old daughter whose mother, an LGBTQIA+ rights activist, was threatened by the state with the removal of one of her children because of her organizing.