Meet our May & July 2024 Mobilize Power Fund Grantees

Meet our most recent grantee partners from summer 2024! Read on to learn about these groups and organizations, and how the Mobilize Power Fund supported their vital organizing and activism.

‍The Mobilize Power Fund (MPF) is a rapid response fund for time-sensitive and unanticipated direct action, community mobilizing, and healing justice. Grants are available throughout the year for youth-led and intergenerational groups, nonprofits, coalitions, and efforts in the U.S., regardless of 501(c)3 status or fiscal sponsorship. Stay tuned for our 2025 MPF deadlines calendar in January of 2025.

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May 2024 Grantees 

Black and Brown Workers Cooperative (Middletown Township, NJ)

Black and Brown Workers Cooperative focuses on youth-led anti-displacement and economic sovereignty via labor organizing on behalf of BIPOC communities on the east coast. The Mobilize Power Fund supported direct actions, reiki sessions, and community circles to support LGBTQIA2S survivors after anti-Black, transphobic actions at a local domestic violence shelter.

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Advocates of the South, Inc. (Loganville, GA)

Advocates of the South is a social change organization addressing stigma, trauma, and mass incarceration of masculine TGNCI (Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, and Intersex) people as well as other Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The Mobilize Power Fund supported emergency housing for BIPOC TGNCI community members in the South facing a housing crisis.

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Black Butterfly Collective (Pike Road, AL)

Black Butterfly Collective seeks to create a safe haven for/by Black trans women, where they can receive education and resources to help them along their transition journey. The Mobilize Power Fund supported "Tea Parties" for transgender women of color in Alabama and surrounding regions to provide resources and guidance in navigating the legal process of registering to vote.

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Hoe is (Our) Life (Beacon, NY)

Hoe is (Our) Life is a Black sex worker-led organization working to support the real life needs of sex workers of color with a focus on ending stigma around sex work, HIV, and people doing what they want with their own bodies. The Mobilize Power Fund supported relocation costs for their community center after increased harassment and police presence.

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InTRANSitive (Mabelvale, AR)

InTRANSitive Arkansas celebrates trans resilience in Arkansas, works to support trans rights, and provides direct support to trans people. The Mobilize Power Fund supported building repairs and security training after their community center was damaged.

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The Mainline Zine (Atlanta, GA)

Mainline Zine is an abolitionist local journalism organization that works with organizers in Atlanta to co-create content and provides a physical space for queer, trans, and young people to connect and organize. The Mobilize Power Fund supported their organizing around an international law case to stop Atlanta's cop city development in concert with a reclamation of land rights by the Muskogee people who are indigenous to the land.

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On-Po!nt Inc. (Orlando, FL)

On-Po!nt Inc. is a harm reduction organization based in Central Florida led entirely by QTBIPOC with a mission to reduce overdose deaths, increase access to HRT, and facilitate linkage to care with a focus on dignity and respect for marginalized identities. The Mobilize Power Fund supported their organizing work in changing an Orange County policy to allow for a second syringe services/exchange program and beginning injectable estradiol production.

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July 2024 Grantees 

DecrimSexWorkCA (San Francisco, CA)

DecrimSexWorkCA is dedicated to advancing the health, wellbeing, and safety of sex workers, with a particular focus on BIPOC and TGNC individuals, especially those who engage in street-based work. The organization operates within an anti-criminalization framework, advocating for decriminalization while prioritizing community healing, mutual aid and empowering BIPOC and TGNC sex worker leadership. The Mobilize Power fund supported the creation of a healing circle to address the deep-seated grief within their community, particularly among trans and BIPOC sex workers.

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Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change (Eupora, MS)

The Fannie Lou Hamer Center for Change (FLCC) began as a platform for parents and students to voice their needs within their communities and school systems. Their primary focus is to reduce suspension and corporal punishment of African American students within schools. The Mobilize Power fund supported an initiative for safer access to girls' public school bathrooms and menstrual products.

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Final 5 Campaign (Chicago, IL)

The Final 5 Campaign works to shut down all youth prisons in the state of Illinois and towards a future without youth incarceration where young people have the resources they need and are free and supported in their communities, through the leadership of currently and formerly incarcerated youth organizers. The Mobilize Power Fund supported a series of urgent communications’ trainings to support their current leadership to launch a time-sensitive media response.

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Queer Trans Project (Jacksonville, FL)

The Queer Trans Project is a national LGBT+ organization based in Jacksonville, FL, led by Black, trans, and queer individuals. Their mission is to support and uplift the LGBTQ+ community, particularly focusing on the intersections of race, gender, and youth. The Mobilize Power Fund supported a rapid response health fair in response to the overturning of SB-254, an anti-gender-affirming care bill.

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SWOP Hawai'i (Honolulu, HI)

SWOP Hawaiʻi is a sex worker-led organization dedicated to advocating for the rights, safety and self determination of sex workers in Hawaiʻi. They prioritize serving BIPOC, trans sex workers primarily experiencing housing and food insecurity, but serve all sex workers in Hawaiʻi. The Mobilize Power Fund helped provide direct safety support, harm reduction items, adjusted outreach, and wellness events in response to the recent influx of military presence due to Exercise Rim of the Pacific 2024 in Oahu.

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For the Binat (Dearborn, MI)

For the Binat is an independent grassroots voluntary community group dedicated to bringing forth gender equity, challenging harmful narratives, and confronting patriarchy in all of its forms, with a focus on SWANA and Muslim communities based in Michigan. Freedom Team Detroit builds abolitionist participatory defense committees (Freedom Teams) with incarcerated and criminalized people in Detroit and Beyond. The Mobilize Power Fund supported an emergency freedom team/participatory defense committee in support of a Palestinian community member who is unexpectedly facing a defamation lawsuit in retaliation for FTB.