Highlander Research & Education Center

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South, working with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, language justice, participatory research, cultural work, and intergenerational organizing, Highlander helps create spaces where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible.

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Other Grantees

African Women's Development Fund (fiscally sponsored by Arican Women's Development Fund USA)
The vision of African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) is to have a world where all African women live in peace, with dignity and justice and where there is equality and respect for women’s rights. Their mission is to mobilise financial, human and material resources to support initiatives for transformation led by African women, women’s rights organisations and African women’s movements.
Gender Justice International
BOLD: Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (Fiscally Sponsored by Highlander Research & Education Center)
BOLD (Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity) is a national training intermediary focused on transforming the practice of Black organizers in the US to increase their alignment, impact and sustainability to win progressive change. BOLD carries out its mission through training programs, coaching and technical assistance for BOLD alumni and partners.
Cross Cutting National
Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice
Bend the Arc is where progressive American Jews join together to fight for justice and equality for all. Bend the Arc is the only national Jewish organization focused exclusively on progressive social change in the United States.
Cross Cutting National
Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person.
Gender Justice International
Collective Future Fund (fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors)
The Collective Future Fund brings together social justice movements, survivors, and donors to heal, resource, and mobilize to shape a collective future free from all forms of patriarchal violence.
Gender Justice National
Equal Justice Initiative
The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.
Community Safety & Justice South