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Solidago Foundation July 2021 Grantees
Solidago Foundation Grants $230,000 in July 2021 Docket for the Protection of Voting Rights & Non-Partisan Integrated Voter Engagement
The Solidago Foundation is pleased to announce that we have ...
Now is the Time
“This is no time … to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the ...
Center of Workers United in Struggle
Stopping a downward spiral of wages for retail janitors.
In 2010, Maricela Flores was working as a janitor cleaning Target retail stores in the Twin Cities. A mother of five, she worked seven days a ...
Ohio Organizing Collaborative
Mobilizing Beyond the Moment
It is with alarming frequency that the state of Ohio has been purging registered voters from its rolls. If citizens haven’t cast a ballot for six years, or responded to a ...
Boston Ujima Project
Creating a Community Controlled Local Economy Led by People of Color
Cassandria Campbell had just moved home to Roxbury after earning a degree in urban planning. Frustrated by the lack of fresh food ...
New Virginia Majority
Democracy. Justice. Progress.
It’s not easy for families in Lambert’s Point, Virginia to open their windows. Nothing is structurally wrong with the frames. But there is something terribly wrong with ...
Ai-jen Poo and George Goehl in Northampton!
Solidago Welcomed Ai-jen Poo and George Goehl to Northampton
On May 17, Solidago Foundation and co-hosts welcomed two social justice superstars to Northampton! We celebrated their work at ...
Confluence Philanthropy’s 9th Practitioner Gathering
Name an industry that is designed to last forever...
Go ahead, name one. Certainly not retailers. Just ask Sears. Automakers? Weapons manufacturers? Government? Universities? Maybe. But, when ...
Presenting at the Health and Environmental Funders Network
This past November, I facilitated a skilled panel of candidates and organizers at the Health Environmental Funders Network meeting in Pittsburg. During 2018 Elections: Taking Stock, we discussed this ...