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Bay Area Grassroots Visionaries Fund

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This is a portfolio of high-impact grassroots organizations in the Bay Area, curated by Blue Heart. Each is carefully selected by the Blue Heart team. These organizations are on the frontlines of building movements for justice, dignity, and resilience in low-income and marginalized communities in the Bay Area. Unfortunately, because of their small size and scrappy nature, they are usually overlooked or unnoticed by traditional philanthropists and donors. So, we did the research for you! Learn more about Blue Heart and how we selected these organizations at www.blueheartaction.org

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Asian immigrant Women Advocates, Inc.

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) works toward empowerment of low-income Asian immigrant women and youth to bring about positive changes in their communities.

Central American Resource Center Carecen Of Northern California

Mission: CARECEN SF empowers and responds to the needs, rights and aspirations of Latino, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area — building leadership to pursue self-determination and justice. Vision: Rooted in its cultural strengths and inspired by the Central American justice struggles, CARECEN SF envisions our diverse immigrant community as thriving; where families prosper, build effective community institutions, and participate confidently in civic life.

Asian Pacific Environmental Network

All people have a right to a clean and healthy environment in which their communities can live, work, learn, play and thrive. Towards this vision, APEN brings together a collective voice to develop an alternative agenda for environmental, social and economic justice. Through building an organized movement, we strive to bring fundamental changes to economic and social institutions that will prioritize public good over profits and promote the right of every person to a decent, safe, affordable quality of life, and the right to participate in decisions affecting our lives. APEN holds this vision of environmental justice for all people. Our work focuses on Asian and Pacific Islander communities.

Causa Justa :: Just Cause

Causa Justa :: Just Cause builds grassroots power and leadership to create strong, equitable communities. Born through mergers between Black organizations and Latino organizations, we build bridges of solidarity between working class communities. Through rights-based services, policy campaigns, civic engagement, and direct action, we improve conditions in our neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area, and contribute to building the larger multi-racial, multi-generational movement needed for fundamental change.

Planting Justice

Planting Justice's mission is to democratize access to affordable nutritious food by empowering urban residents with the skills, resources, and inspiration to maximize organic food production, expand job opportunities for those with barriers to employment, and ensure environmental sustainabilfty in the Bay Area.

Live In Peace

Live in Peace is an East Palo Alto-based organization committed to advancing the cultural, educational, and economic empowerment of youth in communities of color we fulfill this mission by building a strong family atmosphere that supports our youth in the following three program areas the lip studio (arts & culture), the college initiative (EDUCATION) and streetcode academy (technology & economics) in each program, we help our students discover

Literacy For Environmental Justice

LEJ promotes ecological health, environmental stewardship, and community development in Southeast San Francisco by creating urban greening, eco-literacy, community stewardship and workforce development opportunities that directly engage and support local residents in securing a healthier future.

Critical Resistance

Critical Resistance is seeking to build an international movement to end the prison industrial complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

Intertribal Friendship House

Promotes the ability of Native people to thrive in an urban environment through ceremony, traditions and cultural connection, to provide a safe environment to strengthen cultural identity, promote health, inter-generational healing and support the development of extended family.

Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth

Coleman Advocates is building the leadership and power of low-income and working class youth and parents of color in San Francisco to advance racial and economic justice in our schools and our city.

Chinese Progressive Association

An organization that organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.

Communities For A Better Environment

Increase people's power in California's communities of color and low-income to achieve environmental and health justice by preventing and reducing pollution and building green, healthy, and sustainable communities and environments.

Coalition On Homelessness

Organizes impoverished and homeless people to create permanent solutions to poverty and homelessness while protection the civil and human rights of those forced to remain on the streets.

Mujeres Unidas Y Activas

Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) is a grassroots organization of Latina immigrant women with a dual mission of promoting personal transformation and building community power for social and economic justice.  We achieve our mission by: Creating an environment of understanding and confidentiality Empowering and educating our members to provide mutual support Offering trainings to build economic security and leadership Working in diverse alliances on the local, regional, national, and international levels Organizing campaigns to win immigrant, workers' and women's rights.

Center For Media Justice

MediaJustice is a national hub organizing for racial and economic equity in a digital age. We are committed to winning structural changes in our media and technology systems to create racial equity by centering the rights and voices of people of color, lower-income communities, and all those affected by current and historic discrimination or disadvantage.

Beyond Emancipation

B:E’s mission is to support young people as they imagine and create their own life beyond foster care.

Youth Together Inc

Grounded in our commitment to peace, unity, and justice, Youth Together addresses the root causes of educational inequities by developing multiracial youth leaders and engaging school community allies to promote positive school change.

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