Making Grants

“No nation is so great that the world can afford to let it continue to be deliberately unjust, cruel and unfair toward its own citizens.” – W.E.B. DuBois In this month’s grantmaking spotlight, Voqal’s program manager for grants and fellowships, Mary Coleman, reminds us of the importance of addressing racial inequity in our work. On

CIRC Action Fund works to build a strong and thriving Colorado where all residents are treated with dignity and respect and have equal access to a fair and just quality of life and the opportunity to live united with family members. It advocates for fair, humane and workable public policies and seeks to increase the

TakeAction Minnesota is a statewide network of people working to realize racial and economic equity across Minnesota. It does this by connecting people and organizations to each other, turning someone’s individual desire for change – to pass a more progressive policy or law, to improve an institution or to change a harmful idea or perception

Stand Up for Ohio is a coalition of community, labor, civil rights and environmental groups committed to building a coordinated movement for racial, social and economic justice in Ohio. It envisions a more unified and aligned Ohio organizing together to win on racial and economic justice. Thanks in part to support from Voqal, Stand Up

Voqal is excited to announce grants to 19 organizations working across the country to strengthen the community through inclusive, progressive organizing. The grants to Proteus Action League, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Georgia Equality, CASA in Action, Citizen Action of New York, South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), National Vote at Home Institute, Florida Rights

The People’s Lobby is a membership-driven organization of people across the Chicago region that work together to build widespread support for public policies and candidates that put racial and gender justice and the needs of people and the planet before the interests of big corporations and the very rich. Thanks in part to support from

Citizen Action of New York fights for social, racial, economic and environmental justice. It wins campaigns that directly impact people’s lives, builds the infrastructure to develop more power and works to change hearts and minds across New York state in order to spread its vision and change what’s possible to win. Thanks in part to

Earlier this week, a federal appeals court upheld the FCC’s repeal of net neutrality. As strong believers of a free and open internet, Voqal has been closely following this case as it has developed. While the final outcome is disappointing, advocates for net neutrality did experience at least one critical victory. The court struck down

In the new short film, “Suppressed: The Fight To Vote”,  Voqal grantee, Brave New Films, exposes rampant voter suppression that affected the outcome of the 2018 midterm election in Georgia and the threat it poses to elections all across the nation in 2020. The issues Georgians faced included polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee

Voqal is excited to announce nine grants to organizations working in the Twin Cities and across Minnesota to create a more racially and socially equitable community. The grants of $28,000 to Nexus Community Partners, Black Visions Collective, Unidos MN, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha (CTUL), Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accion Latina