Active Voice

Active Voice tackles social issues through the creative use of film. We believe that real progress requires real connection, and that film has a unique power to bring people together in meaningful ways.

Every day, Active Voice helps filmmakers, funders, and communities start the conversations and relationships that lead to lasting, measurable change. Since our inception in 2001, Active Voice has influenced local, regional, and national dialogue on issues including immigration, criminal justice, health care, and education.

Ayuda Legal

Ayuda Legal advocates for low-income immigrants through direct legal, social and language services, training and outreach in the Washington DC metropolitan area. They envision a community where all immigrants succeed and thrive in the United States.

Ayuda provides legal, social, and language services to help vulnerable immigrants in our neighborhoods access justice and transform their lives. Since 1973, they have served more than 100,000 low-income immigrants throughout Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia. Ayuda’s expert and dedicated professionals help immigrants from anywhere in the world navigate the immigration and justice systems and access the social safety net. This comprehensive and welcoming approach breaks down barriers, helps those in need, and makes our communities stronger.

Canal Alliance

Canal Alliance is a nonprofit champion of immigrants who are challenged by a lack of resources and an unfamiliar environment.

Canal Alliance believes everyone has the right to achieve their dreams. Every day, they educate, empower, support, and partner with motivated immigrants to best meet all their unique needs—from putting food on the table, to becoming American citizens, to learning English, to graduating from college. Because when immigrants are supported, Marin becomes a place where everyone can live, work, and succeed.

Center for A New Economy

CNE is one of the most credible, influential and sought-after voices on Puerto Rico’s economy. Founded in 1998 as Puerto Rico’s first think tank, CNE has evolved into a powerful nonpartisan advocate on behalf of the island in policy circles as well as an important participant of diaspora and Latino groups in the US mainland.

CNE’s policy papers are regularly sought-out by officials in the US Congress, the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the White House, intent on receiving balanced expertise and policy counsel on Puerto Rico and finding bipartisan options to the challenges faced by the island. CNE’s reports and analyses are also regularly covered by media from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and are cited by numerous academic and policy publications.

Center for Urban Families

CFUF’s core mission is to strengthen urban communities and help fathers and families achieve stability and economic success.

Since its founding in 1999, CFUF has remained at the front-line of addressing some of Baltimore’s most pressing issues, including poverty, unemployment, father-absence, and family disintegration.

Community Works West

Community Works West’s programs help clients and their families access the inner power to work and live to their full potential. We use our insights on lasting change to keep people out of prison, advocate for a more humane justice system, and support healthy communities for all of us.

Coro Northern California

Coro trains leaders to work together to find creative solutions and strengthen our democracy. Guided by experienced faculty, participants actively engage with their colleagues to disrupt old patterns, build skills, and develop new ways of thinking. Since its founding in 1942 to train citizen leaders, Coro has diversified to include programs for youth, recent college graduates, and mid-career professionals. PEG helped Coro Northern California develop a new mission, Theory of Change and program strategy.

• Coro 2021 Annual Report

• Coro Theory of Change

Emerald Cities Collaborative

Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national nonprofit network of organizations working together to advance a sustainable environment while creating high-road — sustainable, just and inclusive — economies with opportunities for all.

ECC develops energy, green infrastructure and other sustainable development projects that not only contribute to the resilience of our metropolitan regions but also ensure an equity stake for low-income communities of color in the green economy. This includes developing the economic infrastructure for family-supporting wages and career paths for residents of such communities, as well as contracting opportunities for women, minority and other disadvantaged businesses.

Espacios Abiertos

Espacios Abiertos (EA) is a non-profit, independent and non-partisan organization that since 2014 seeks to create and strengthen civic participation mechanisms so that people in Puerto Rico can directly influence the decisions that affect them.

EA promotes transparency and accountability in public assets because a more open society will also be a fairer and more equitable one.

First and Always Melanin

First And Always Melanin (FAAM) is a grassroots community organizing and activist collective that came together to change the landscape for Black people in Bakersfield California.

GLIDE Memorial Church and Foundation

GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.

GSA Network

GSA Network is a national youth leadership organization that connects school-based Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) to each other and to community resources through peer support, leadership development, and training.

GSA Network supports young people in starting, strengthening, and sustaining GSAs and builds the capacity of GSAs to: (1) create safe environments in schools for students to support each other and learn about homophobia, transphobia, and other oppressions, (2) educate the school community about homophobia, transphobia, gender identity, and sexual orientation issues, and (3) fight discrimination, harassment, and violence in schools.

Jewish Vocational Service

Jewish Vocational Service transforms lives by helping people to build in-demand skills and make connections to find good jobs.

With 40+ years of experience, JVS knows how to help people find good jobs. We focus our programs on industries that are hiring and can offer career path jobs, such as healthcare, financial services, technology and trades. These Career Pathway programs are developed in partnership with Bay Area employers and give people in-demand skills, paid work experience and robust job search skills.

Kilómetro Cero

Kilómetro Cero (KM0) seeks to limit excesses of power that the government wields over its citizens, especially those exercised by the Puerto Rican Police Force. KM0 develops projects that promote the power of citizens to improve community security, justice and participation. These projects seek to promote a culture of accountability and citizen oversight over the security forces on the island. This oversight is maintained by the collection and publication of reliable data and statistics about police work and interactions with citizens along with training people and communities about their rights in order to monitor police activities.

KM0 was born of work by the ACLU of Puerto Rico (and a subsequent collaborative known as Espacios Abiertos) to draw attention to the need for citizens to assert their views in the reform process of the Puerto Rican police forces. KM0 has since inception been regarded as a “go to” organization for police accountability and reform work (thanks to early and continuing collaboration with networks and alliances that promote accountability and human rights in the criminal justice system) – and even more so in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, whose effects are felt particularly strongly among the island’s most vulnerable communities, subject to increased scrutiny and policing amidst rebuilding and other recovery hardships.

LEAD: An Initiative of Yale and Harvard Universities

The Council on African Studies partnered with the Institute for Research on African Women, Children and Culture (IRAWCC) to establish the Leadership Enterprise for African Development (LEAD).

Its goal is to contribute to the process of reform and revitalization in African countries by strengthening leadership and governance capacity in the public, business, and civil society sectors. LEAD looks to Africa for its leadership resources and will draw upon them to elucidate viable frameworks, models, and practices for effective governance. The institute engages Yale faculty and students with research opportunities, internships, and job placement possibilities throughout the continent.

Millennial Action Project

The Millennial Action Project (MAP) activates Millennial policymakers to create post-partisan political cooperation. As a national, nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to activating millennial policymakers, MAP gives our nation’s young leaders the resources and support to develop and pass innovative policy solutions — and forge productive partnerships on the issues affecting the youngest generations of Americans.

Working in concert with lawmakers, MAP has advanced post-partisan legislation on issues including criminal justice reform, gun violence, entrepreneurship, technology, 21st century skills training, veterans' employment, immigration, and more — including the introduction of the first bipartisan legislation on ridesharing and social impact bonds.

• Millennial Action Project 2020 Impact Report

MIT CoLab

The Community Innovators Lab (CoLab) is a center for planning and development within the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP). CoLab supports the development and use of knowledge from excluded communities to deepen civic engagement, improve community practice, inform policy, mobilize community assets, and generate shared wealth.

CoLab believes that community knowledge can drive powerful innovation and can help make markets an arena for supporting social justice. CoLab facilitates the interchange of knowledge and resources between MIT and community organizations — engaging students to be practitioners of this approach to community change and sustainability.

New American Leaders

New American Leaders (NAL) is leading a movement for inclusive democracy by preparing first and second generation Americans to use their power and potential in elected office. NAL believes that our democracy is stronger when everyone is included and everyone participates. Unfortunately, our elected government, from City Council to Congress, does not reflect our country’s diverse population.

NAL is the only national, nonpartisan organization focused on bringing New Americans into the political process. They believe that when elected officials mirror the makeup of our nation, we achieve stronger communities, a more responsive government, and a robust democracy.

The Open Society Foundations

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people.

They seek to strengthen the rule of law; respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions; democratically elected governments; and a civil society that helps keep government power in check. They help to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights. They implement initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media. They build alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. Working in every part of the world, the Open Society Foundations place a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

The Kapor Center for Social Impact (Formerly the Mitchell Kapor Foundation)

The Kapor Center for Social Impact relentlessly pursues creative strategies that will leverage information technology for positive social impact.

We make the tech ecosystem and entrepreneurship more diverse, inclusive, and impactful.

PolicyLink

PolicyLink connects the work of people on the ground to the creation of sustainable communities of opportunity that allow everyone to participate and prosper.

Such communities offer access to quality jobs, affordable housing, good schools, transportation, and the benefits of healthy food and physical activity. Guided by the belief that those closest to the nation’s challenges are central to finding solutions, PolicyLink relies on the wisdom, voice, and experience of local residents and organizations. Lifting Up What Works is our way of focusing attention on how people are working successfully to use local, state, and federal policy to create conditions that benefit everyone, especially people in low-income communities and communities of color. We share our findings and analysis through our publications, our website and online tools, convenings, national summits, and briefings with national and local policymakers.

Sandy Hook Promise

Sandy Hook Promise trains students and adults to know the signs of gun violence so that no parent experiences the tragic, preventable loss of their child. Students and educators learn how to identify at-risk behaviors and intervene to get help. These early-prevention measures empower everyone to help keep schools and communities safe.

Transgender Law Center

Transgender Law Center works to change law, policy, and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.