“Amazon Frontlines builds power with indigenous communities to protect their lands and way of life in the Amazon Rainforest, and in doing so, protect our global climate. By combining cutting-edge technology with bottom-up organizing, we help indigenous nations GET CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS — securing land titles for millions of acres of forest and halting illegal activities through real-time forest monitoring. Then we help indigenous nations KEEP CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS by ensuring they can exercise their collective rights to decide the future of their territories.

We do this by upending bad laws and closing legal loopholes, pushing for good laws through legal precedent and hard-hitting advocacy, and training indigenous activists and lawyers to lead it all. All this while working with indigenous youth to build strategic alliances and incubate next-generation initiatives, such as solar energy and regenerative economies, that challenge the existing paradigm of extraction at all costs and create a future where indigenous peoples can THRIVE ON THEIR LANDS. ”

“ARTogether is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in Oakland, California that works to support refugees in the San Francisco Bay Area, providing art programs that promote healing and community-building for refugees and immigrants, while supporting local refugee artists. Through creative arts, art therapy and social gatherings, we work to help refugees develop the capacity to heal from trauma, and to develop the enduring skills and confidence they need to navigate the hardships of starting over in a new home.”

Color Outside the Lines empowers and inspires foster children and at-risk youth by providing opportunities for self-expression and creativity. They believe in “the power of creativity to transform lives, heal emotional trauma, and to promote wellbeing and happiness through art and music.”

Diamano Coura West African Dance Company is a nonprofit cultural organization dedicated to the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional West African music, dance, theater, and culture. Since its inception in 1975, Diamano Coura, under Director Dr. Zak Diouf and Artistic Director Naomi Washington, has implemented its mission through ongoing workshops, performances, youth programs, touring engagements, lecture demonstrations, community outreach, and creative partnership programs with renowned artists and performing companies. In addition, Diamano Coura strives to portray West African music and dance specifically as forms not simply for entertainment or exhibition, but rather, means by which communities educate, communicate, organize, and preserve their ancestral past. Diamano Coura, in the Senegalese Wolof language, means “those who bring the message.”

The 350 + millions of moving targets is a multimedia dance theater event that addresses the ongoing refugee crisis of Black and Brown bodies in the Mediterranean and South America. It is the latest iteration of a creative process begun in 2017. The intergenerational cast is comprised of dancers and non-dancers, including those who have had direct experience with forced migration. Excerpts have been performed at the Fresh Festival at Joe Goode Annex in January 2019, and the Black Choreographers Festival in February 2019. An solo iteration was presented along with NAKA Dance Theater at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland in 2017. The work merges ethnic dances of the Congo from the Ntsangui and Kongo groups with western theatrical devices to create a performance that seeks to activate audiences towards political engagement with the migrant crisis.

NHVI is dedicated to ensuring the security of our elections, putting voters’ needs first and making voting as seamless and accessible as possible. Their goal is to expand the use of convenient vote at home options (commonly known as absentee balloting) and other immediate reforms to tangibly expand the electorate and get more people to the polls. The Vote at Home (VAH) systems that have been implemented so far have been promising: the three all VAH states in 2018 had a 14% higher turnout than the national average. See www.voteathome.org for more information on impact. The 2020 Focus states are: Michigan, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Maine, Nebraska. Plans for 2020 Cycle: NVHI is focused on pursuing policy changes in a few key states where there are immediate opportunities to implement VAH reforms. They are focused on increasing the use of VAH through strategic voter education and outreach efforts most immediately in states where changes can be made in time to impact the 2020 elections.

One PA works to shift the balance of power into the hands of our members. We amplify voices and prioritize leadership development in communities that are underpaid and underserved in our current economy. We educate and mobilize our neighbors to become informed and active voters. We relentlessly hold politicians accountable. We build collective power in order to name, challenge and transform the systems that oppress us.

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Their mission is “No Child Left Ashore!” Operating now for more than a quarter century, the Pegasus Project is a youth and adult marine environmental education program with a strong community and volunteer foundation. A grant for this learning program will provide access for school students to the SF Bay marine environment aboard Pegasus, the vessel operated by the Pegasus Project. This project provides equal access to the bay via direct, on-the-water experiences. The program entails training teachers, delivering curriculum materials, classroom preparation, and post-voyage class work for students. The majority (85% plus) of our kids are below the poverty line and are people of color. We also donate voyages to other community non profits and partners for their fundraising as well as voyages for their clients.

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Rural Arizona Engagement’s mission is to educate, advocate and coordinate in rural communities so they may gain access to civic education, engagement opportunities and voter registration, independent of metro area influences. Rural Arizona Engagement is an influential power in advancing Progressive values and policies for the betterment of all its communities. “Our vision is to build an active, sustainable and progressive voting bloc in rural Arizona that cultivates pragmatic leadership committed to advancing progressive values and policies for the well-being of its communities and residents.”

The Grateful Dead Archive documents the career and work of the band and fans and their role in American history and culture.

The goal of the Kesey Farm Project is to preserve and restore historic Kesey Farm. The mission is to “re-establish the Farm as a creative center while simultaneously incorporating the existing wealth of cultural ephemera (writing, costumes, set pieces, art, etc.)back into the space and weave it into future programming.

The UC Theatre is an independent non-profit music venue. Its mission is to present a vibrant and diverse range of live performances to advance the understanding and appreciation of music, culture and education in the east bay.

The UC Theatre is a multi-tiered, all-ages 1,400 capacity live music venue with a full bar & kitchen, & state-of-the-art Meyer Leopard Sound sound system. It presents a diverse range of local, national and international artists and bands.

“You Can Vote (YCV) works to ensure all eligible North Carolinians can vote. We register, educate, and mobilize voters through 1:1 conversations. Using community organizing, evidence-based best practices in voter engagement, low-literacy bilingual educational materials, and state of the art technology, we prepare people to vote and help them become lifelong voters.”