Power-Building Strategies
- Community Organizing
- Strategic Communications
- Policy Advocacy
- Voter Participation and Education
- Coalition Building
Who Our Grantees Organize
- Black
- Indigenous
- Latinx
- AAPI
- Immigrant
- Middle Eastern
- Multiracial
- Women/Femme/Nonbinary
- Youth
- Urban
- Suburban
- Rural
Michigan Grantees
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Soulardarity
Soulardarity is building energy democracy in Highland Park, MI and their neighboring communities with education, organizing, and people-powered clean energy. They are working to install solar-powered street lights, save residents money on energy bills and with our neighboring communities build a just and equitable energy system for all.
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Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition (MEJC)
The Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition works to achieve a clean, healthy, and safe environment for Michigan residents most affected by inadequate policies. They work in alignment with the Principles of Environmental Justice, and cultivate relationships based on the Jemez Principles.
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Detroit Action Education Fund
Detroit Action Education Fund, is a grassroots, member-led, multigenerational, community-based organization fighting for racial and economic justice for working-class Detroiters. Their mission is to build up individuals and families to challenge the root cause of poverty, advance justice, and promote human development through neighborhood-driven community organizing and nonpartisan civic engagement.
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Michigan United
Michigan United is a statewide organization of community members and institutions fighting for the dignity and potential of every person. They are committed to a participatory democracy at every level, an economy that works for the many, a nation that dismantles racism, and a society that uplifts our common humanity.
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We Want Green Too (WWG2)
The “We Want Green, Too!” purpose is to facilitate a secure learning environment that will use the classroom, a specially designed online platform, and hands on trainings that will equalize the learning environment for differently-abled veterans and returning citizens experiencing difficulty in learning new 21st century skill sets.
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We the People Michigan (WTP)
We The People Michigan works to build multi-racial, working class organizing capacity and infrastructure across the state of Michigan, advance a proactive and aspirational agenda of the state we deserve, and advance a statewide strategy to contend for long-term power in Michigan to enact that vision.
Issues They Work On
Michigan By The Numbers
- 6
- Grantees
- 92 %
- Grantees Led by People of Color
- 3
- Years in Our Portfolio