FUNDERS
United Way of Rhode Island
United Way of Rhode Island’s mission is uniting our community and resources to build racial equity and opportunities for all Rhode Islanders.
Learn more about United Way of Rhode Island’s mission and history.
RI Foundation
For more than 100 years, the Rhode Island Foundation has been dedicated to improving the lives of Rhode Islanders. We partner with generous individuals, families, organizations, and corporations that share our commitment to the state, as well as with nonprofit organizations that provide the “boots-on-the-ground” services that make Rhode Island a better place to live, work, and play.
Presbyterian Committee on Self-Development of People
Presbyterian Committee on the Self-Development of People is a ministry that affirms God’s concern for humankind. We are Presbyterians and ecumenical partners dissatisfied with poverty and oppression, united in faith and action through sharing, confronting, and enabling by participating in the empowerment of economically poor, oppressed, and disadvantaged people, seeking to change the structures that perpetuate poverty, oppression and injustice.
Point 32 Foundation
Point32Health Foundation works with communities to support, advocate and advance healthier lives for everyone.
“Our work prioritizes equity and inclusion, authentic engagement, and community-led solutions. As we work together to improve access to healthy food and make communities great places to grow up and grow old, we will leverage the strengths of our heritage foundations on behalf of communities,” said Nora Moreno Cargie, president of Point32Health Foundation and vice president of Corporate Citizenship for Point32Health.
Right to the City (AKA RTTC)
We are a national alliance of more than 90 community-based racial, economic, gender & environmental justice organizations growing grassroots power to halt gentrification and displacement, and build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.
Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement
DARE is a member of the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People & Families Movement (FICPFM), a network of over 50 civil and human rights organizations that are led by people who are living with criminal records, and their family members.
We are national movement of directly impacted people speaking in our own voices about the need to end mass incarceration, America’s current racial and economic caste system. To that extent, we are committed to transforming society by transforming the criminal justice system. Working in and with community, our work not only ensures alternatives to incarceration and criminalization, but we address head on the collateral consequences of living with a conviction by restoring civil rights to those who have had them taken away. Above all, we are inexorably bound to the idea that a society without prisons not only can exist, but must.
Unitarian Universalist Fun for a Just Society
The Unitarian Universalist Association’s Fund for a Just Society provides grants to non-Unitarian Universalist groups in the U.S. and Canada that have an active community organizing campaign that focuses on a specific systemic change for justice.
Grants support organizations that use community organizing to bring about systemic change leading to a more just society; mobilize those who have been disenfranchised and excluded from resources, power, and the right to self-determination; and have an active, focused campaign to create systemic change. Priority is given to active, specific campaigns to create change in the economic, social, and political structures that affect lives.
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
DARE is a founding member of the Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ), an alliance of over 60 US-based grassroots organizing (GRO) groups comprised of working and poor people and communities of color. GGJ brings GRO groups into a long-term process of relationship building, political alignment and transformational leadership development. We weave and bridge together US-based GRO groups and global social movements working for climate justice, gender justice, an end to war, and a just transition to the next economy.
At our 7th Membership Assembly in 2018, the membership of GGJ refined our framework for a holistic approach to building grassroots global justice: No War, No Warming, Build a Just Transition to a Feminist Economy, echoing the framework of Dr. Martin Luther King’s philosophy of the Triple Evils of Poverty, Racism and Militarism and integrating the current day pressing issues of climate change and feminism.
SUPPORTERS
Center for Justice RI
The Rhode Island Center for Justice is a non-profit public interest law office working to increase access to justice in our State. The Center provides free civil legal assistance to low-income Rhode Islanders, engages in key impact litigation affecting the rights and wellbeing of thousands across the State, and conducts legislative and policy advocacy on behalf of the communities we serve. The goals of the Center for Justice include: protecting the legal rights of low-income people, fighting for social and economic justice, and potentiating long-term solutions to the entrenched challenges of equality and equity.
RI Legal Services
Rhode Island Legal Services provides high quality legal assistance and representation to low-income individuals and eligible client groups for the purpose of improving their economic condition and overall wellbeing by protecting and enforcing legal rights, stabilizing the family unit and communities where clients live, promoting self reliance, ending domestic violence, preventing homelessness, affording dignity to all people, and reaching out to groups with added burdens on their ability to access the civil justice system.
Alliance to Mobilize Our Resistance
We are an alliance of grassroots organizations providing community support in Rhode Island and southern New England for victims of hate crimes and state-sponsored violence. The AMOR Support Line is a 24-hour multilingual (currently English & Spanish) line that connects community members to AMOR’s network of services, including comprehensive mental health care, legal support, court accompaniment, community support, transportation, and interpretation.
Alliance of Rhode Island Southeast Asians for Education (ARISE)
ARISE combines leadership training with community organizing to mobilize Southeast Asian and other Rhode Island youth of color for education justice.
SISTA FIRE
SISTA FIRE seeks to support and nurture women of color to come together to build our collective power for social, economic and political transformation. Our work towards these goals is supported by four mission-aligned strategies:
- Building a Strong Network: Networking is critical to strengthening women of color’s local power
- Healing and Wellness: Integrating wellness and holistic practices, members gain new knowledge, understanding and practice to transform their lives individually and collectively
- Growing our Economic Power: Forging community-led solutions to build economic strength
- Organizing for Change: Organizing and the collective action of members will have a direct impact on the current conditions and policies women of color face
Providence Youth Student Movement
PrYSM organizes at the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation by centering youth, female, queer, and people of color leadership in our campaigns, our organization, and our communities. PrYSM mobilizes queer Southeast Asian youth, families, and allies to build grassroots power and organize collectively for social justice.
RI Housing Advocacy Project
RI Housing is a nimble and flexible agency focused on connecting Rhode Islanders with opportunities for home ownership and choices in housing. We are builders od a community of first-time home buyers and of partnerships that support evolving programs and products that provide a wide range of housing opportunities for individuals and families.
The Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness
The Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness works collaboratively with advocates, providers, and faith-based organizations to create and advance lasting solutions to prevent and end homelessness. Notably, the Coalition, alongside advocates and constituents, lobbied and successfully passed the country’s first Homeless Bill of Rights in June of 2012.
Day to day the Coalition runs lead on the state’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) and the permanent housing placement end of the Coordinated Entry System (CES) as well as the call center (available 365 days). We organize legal clinics for constituents, facilitates training sessions, and cohere advocates
Open Doors
OpenDoors recognizes that people are more than their criminal record. We are largely staffed and led by people that have overcome histories of incarceration, addiction, and homelessness so we know first hand what is possible when we invest in people, not prison. OpenDoors provides wrap-around support and advocacy for justice-involved and homeless people that strengthens communities and increases public safety.
George Wiley Center
The George Wiley Center is a statewide group actively committed to local community organizing for the purpose of creating social and economic justice through changes in public policy.
Founded in 1981, the organization is named for Rhode Islander George Wiley who was active in the Civil and Welfare Rights movements. We are a grassroots group, organizing with low-income Rhode Islanders to advocate for systematic changes aimed at alleviating problems associated with poverty. Our mission is “to build a community that addresses human needs and redresses injustices.”
AMOS House
At Amos House, community is the foundation of who we are and how we serve. From our humble beginnings in 1976 as a small soup kitchen, to today’s place as a leading agency in the Rhode Island nonprofit community, we have always been here to serve those who need us.
Our Mission
Helping people help themselves out of oppression, homelessness, and poverty through vital services and results-oriented programs.
- Our Guiding Principles
- All people are to be treated with dignity and respect
- People have the inherent ability to succeed
- The causes of poverty are complex and require innovative responses
- Community is the foundation of our work
- We all grow when we work together
- Founded in 1981, the organization is named for Rhode Islander George Wiley who was active in the Civil and Welfare Rights movements. We are a grassroots group, organizing with low-income Rhode Islanders to advocate for systematic changes aimed at alleviating problems associated with poverty. Our mission is “to build a community that addresses human needs and redresses injustices.”
Providence Community Action
We provide culturally competent supportive services and programs to Providence County residents in need to promote their achievement of economic self- sufficiency.
Right to the City
DARE is a founding member of Right to the City, a national alliance of more than 90 community-based racial, economic, gender & environmental justice organizations growing grassroots power to halt gentrification and displacement, and build democratic, just, and sustainable communities.
Party for Socialism and Liberation RI
The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.
There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism.
