Voqal Invests Over $118,000 to Advance Progressive Social Change in Colorado
October 8, 2018 Voqal is pleased to announce seven grants to organizations working in Colorado to strengthen the community through progressive organizing and ballot initiatives aimed at creating a more socially equitable state. The grants of $9,640 to Abolish Slavery Colorado, $25,000 to the Colorado Fiscal Institute, $15,000 to Colorado Immigrant Funders Collaborative, $25,000 to Read More
Protecting Migrant Worker Rights
October 4, 2018 Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. (CDM) supports Mexico-based migrant workers in defending and protecting their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States. With its binational, multilingual staff and geographic reach, it seeks to overcome the border as a barrier to Read More
New Media Ventures Increases Profile with Focus on Branding and Communications
October 3, 2018 New Media Ventures invests in entrepreneurs and activists wrestling with the biggest challenges facing the country’s democracy. It believes that by changing where capital is invested, it can shift the structures of power to benefit more people. Thanks to support from Voqal, it expanded its reach and effectiveness through increased thought leadership, Read More
Voqal Grantmaking Team Resists Censorship – You Should Too
September 27, 2018 Beginning this month, Voqal will be featuring a monthly blog series by Voqal’s Director of Grantmaking, Brenda Sears, focused on topics that are important to Voqal’s grantmaking team. When Katy ISD schools removed The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas from their bookshelves, Nyshira Lundy, a 15-year-old freshman, started a petition and Read More
2018 Voqal Fellowship Spotlight: Imara Jones
September 26, 2018 The Voqal Fellowship is an investment in a new generation of social entrepreneurs interested in launching their next “big idea” aimed at increasing equity for those who are least well off politically, economically and/or socially. As we look forward to the 2019 Voqal Fellowship, we take a final look at the 2018 Read More
Education Opportunity Project Spotlight: Sparkler
September 21, 2018 Voqal’s Education Opportunity Project made a series of investments this summer in companies that help advance our goal of measurably reducing educational opportunity gaps. One of those investments, New York-based Sparkler, provides a mobile infrastructure to promote early brain and childhood development for children from birth to age 8, with a goal Read More
Defeating Discrimination in Washington
September 20, 2018 Washington Won’t Discriminate was a broad coalition of more than 500 businesses, labor unions, faith organizations and safety groups, that urged voters to say no to discrimination by working to defeat I-1552, an initiative that would repeal parts of Washington state’s long-standing non-discrimination laws protecting transgender neighbors, family and friends from discrimination. Read More
Voqal Invests $200,000 to Advance Progressive Organizing and Media in Chicago
September 13, 2018 Voqal is pleased to announce five grants to organizations working in the Chicago area to strengthen the community through progressive organizing and independent, local media. The grants of $50,000 to City Bureau, $50,000 to Grassroots Illinois Action, $25,000 to ONE Northside, $25,000 to Hoodoisie and $50,000 to The People’s Lobby reflect Voqal’s Read More
Voqal Continues the Fight to Preserve EBS
September 12, 2018 In May, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed new rules that would substantially change Educational Broadband Service (EBS). The FCC created EBS to provide educators with an ability to better deliver on their mission. EBS is a successful program that is actively helping to close the homework gap and the digital divide. Read More
Voqal Invests $130,000 to Advance Progressive Change and Social Equity in Minnesota
September 7, 2018 Voqal is pleased to announce five grants to organizations working in the Twin Cities area to strengthen the community and promote social equity. The grants of $40,000 to Alliance for a Better Minnesota, $20,000 to Comunidades Organizando el Poder y la Accion Latina (COPAL), $15,000 to Minnesota Youth Collective, $30,000 to TakeAction Read More