Meet our first Mobilize Power Fund grantees of 2023

The following 13 gender justice organizations received rapid response funds to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement building work and organizing conditions. We encourage you to follow and support their critical work! 

• Disability Justice Youth Center (Boston, MA) is an emerging youth organization bringing disabled youth and adults into the Disability Justice movement by supporting their growth as activists. They recently organized a teach-in about the intersections of Disability Justice and the school-to-prison pipeline. 

 

• Fanm Saj (Miami, FL) provides families with wellness, cultural tools, and resources through narrative shift and restorative justice. They recently organized healing justice circles and clinics for frontline community members directly impacted by news and policy changes from Florida legislative sessions.

 

• Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change (Eupora, MS) focuses on reducing suspension and corporal punishment of African American students within schools. They recently organized community support following tornadoes in Mississippi, which disproportionately impacted rural and Black communities.

 

• Hoe is (Our) Life (Beacon, NY) is a mutual aid sex worker group led by and for Black sex workers and sex workers of color. They recently organized trauma-informed art therapy for sex workers of color and wellness stipends to address organizer burnout.

 

• In Defense of Black Lives Atlanta (Atlanta, GA) is a Black, queer, youth-led coalition working collectively as a hub for Black youth to be politicized through cohorts, cultural organizing, direct action training, mutual aid, and coalition building. They are currently organizing a coalition to Stop Cop City through cultural organizing, teach-ins, and canvassing.

 

• InTRANSitive (Mabelvale, AK) celebrates trans resilience in Arkansas, working to support trans rights and provide direct support to trans people. They recently organized disaster relief by and for Trans and Two Spirit folks.
  
  
• Louisiana Trans Advocates (Lafayette, LA) works statewide to support TGNC communities building social support, advocating for trans rights, and educating others on creating a safe environment for TGNC people. They are currently leading skill building and healing justice work in the trans community in response to anti-LGBTQ+ bills in the Louisiana state legislature.
  
  
• Love Me Unlimited for Life (Jackson, MS) focuses on helping transgender women, sex workers, and other LGBTQ+ people in Mississippi to thrive through connecting them to resources. They are recently recovering and securing housing in the aftermath of a transphobic hate crime that resulted in the burning down of LMU4L’s trans sex worker and abortion seeker housing program. 

 

• Pushing Envelopes Chicago (Chicago, IL) is a collectively-run, entirely volunteer organization that supports prison abolition for/by the LGBTQ+ community and/or those living with HIV+ in Illinois through penpal relationships, legal aid, and re-entry support. They are currently working on a reentry project to support formerly incarcerated trans women.

 

• Transformations (Kansas City, MO) is a trans and women of color-led organization focused on capacity building and leadership development among trans communities of color in Missouri, Kansas, and Northwest Arkansas (Ozark region). They are currently working on a Liberation Tour across those states to mobilize trans girls and women of color against transphobic legislation.
  
  
• Transgender Education Network of Texas (Austin, TX) is a nonprofit dedicated to furthering gender diverse equality in Texas through a racial justice lens. They recently supported staff and community members during and in response to Texas’ state legislative session and over 140 anti-LGBT bills.  
  
  
• TransVisible Montana (Missoula, MT) prioritizes Black, Indigenous & other people of color who are transgender, non-binary & two spirit Montanans across the state. Our recent grant to them provided support for trans, intersex, and two spirit communities during the 2023 Montana legislative session, including an art exhibit and a community healing session.

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• We Are Family (North Charleston, SC) cultivates safer spaces for LGBTQI+ youth in South Carolina to build resilience, develop skills, receive support, and participate in social change movements. They are currently building leadership support for LGBTQI+ and BIPOC young people at the South Carolina state legislature.