“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
- Helen Keller
2021 - 2022 SOAR Grantees:
Fund Texas Choice - helps Texans equitably access abortion through safe, confidential, and comprehensive travel services and practical support.
Engage Miami - expands and protects access to the ballot in South Florida through nonpartisan voter registration, vote-by-mail sign up, voter education and peer-to-peer outreach focusing on voters ages 16-35.
Wisconsin Native Vote - works to combat historic voter disenfranchisement and contemporary barriers to voting by educating voters, registering people to vote, and working to improve policies that impact Native communities’ access to the polls.
2020 - 2021 SOAR Grantees:
MassUndocuFund - An organization founded in March, 2020 as a direct response to the Covid-19 pandemic to provide direct assistance to undocumented people in Massachusetts who have lost jobs and livelihoods but are not eligible for federal aid.
Bread of Life - A nonprofit, non-denominational faith-based organization serving the communities north of Boston. They help families, individuals and senior citizens who struggle to put food on the table. They have experienced a surge of need for their services due to Covid-19 and the ensuing financial crisis of many of their neighbors.
Al Otro Lado - A bi-national advocacy and legal aid organization serving migrants, refugees and deportees in the United States and Mexico. They are the primary nonprofit working with families who have been separated at the border. They travel extensively through Central America looking for parents and helping them reunite with their children.
Justice in Motion - JIM protects migrant rights by ensuring justice across borders. They have created a Defender Network of human rights lawyers and nonprofit organizations throughout Mexico and Central America who partner with U.S. lawyers on concrete legal cases for migrants, including parents separated from their children at the U.S. border, migrant workers exploited by U.S. employers, and children seeking safety from harm.
2019-2020 SOAR Grantees:
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition - A grassroots organization committed to protecting the voting rights of formerly incarcerated people. In 2020, they will be working to fairly implement Florida's new law that allows 1.2 million returning citizens to vote. Their efforts include a fund to remove fines and fees that might interfere with citizens ability to vote. Location: Florida
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund - A civic engagement organization that unites Latino, immigrant, and allied communities to promote social and economic justice through citizenship workshops, voter registration, and voter participation. Location: Florida
PAIR Project - PAIR provides free immigration services to indigent asylum seekers and detained immigrants in all the Massachusetts ICE prisons and recruits pro-bono representation from over 50 law firms in the state. Location: Massachusetts
Spread the Vote - STV helps people obtain the identification they need to vote in strict voter-id states, as well as creating easy-to-use election guides, and digital and real-world educational tools for these voters. Locations: Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
2018-2019 SOAR Grantees:
Black Voters Matter Capacity Building Institute - BVM’s goal is to increase power in marginalized, predominantly Black communities, by working across the south (and now Pennsylvania and Michigan) to register Black voters, get out the vote, and support and train activists. BVM aims to challenge political systems to recognize that Black voters matter not only on election day, but on the 364 days between election days as well.
Boston Immigrant and Justice Accompaniment Network - Over 1400 people were detained by ICE at South Bay, Boston in the past 12 months, placing it in the top 20% of all immigration prisons in the country. BIJAN provides bond funds, legal support and accompaniment to reunite families and return our neighbors to the communities that need and love them.
Families for Justice as Healing - Families for Justice as Healing is an organization led by women who are now or formerly incarcerated and women with loved ones who are locked up. FJH works to end the incarceration of women through organizing, advocacy, participatory defense, and creating and sustaining alternatives to incarceration.
Mothers in Charge (Philadelphia) - Founded by women who have endured the murder of a family member, Mothers in Charge is a violence prevention, education and intervention-based organization, which advocates and supports youth, young adults, families and community organizations affected by violence.
Spread the Vote - Spread The Vote aims to close the gap between registered voters and voter turnout by obtaining IDs, educating, and empowering voters. STV believes that voting is the sacred right of every American, and every American should be able to exercise it.
2017-2018 SOAR Grantees:
North Dakota WIN Fund - The Women In Need Fund assists women seeking abortion and reproductive healthcare services in North Dakota.
RAICES - The Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services provides free and low cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families and refugees in Texas.
ASAP - The Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project prevents wrongful deportations by connecting refugee families to community support and emergency legal aid.
Muslim Women Resource Center - MWRC strives to help the Women Muslim immigrant population in Chicago integrate into the US by providing them with appropriate job skills, access to benefits and help attaining citizenship.
Tahirih Justice Center - The Tahirih Justice Center provides a broad range of direct legal services, policy advocacy and training and education to protect immigrant women and girls fleeing violence.
Community Change, Inc - Since 1968, Community Change, Inc. has served as a community for white people and thier multicultural allies to come together to learn about systemic racism and to fight against it.
Rematriation - Rematriation Magazine is an online, rematriating storytelling platform for Native American women.
Southerners on New Ground - SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture gender and sexuality in the South.
We are inspired by the amazing work that our grantees do every day to save lives and give people hope. We will continue focusing on identifying organizations that do critical work, that resist this administration with courage, and that can benefit from our financial support and efforts to broaden awareness.