Our newest class of Groundwork Grantees

We’ve got new grantees to share with you! [Groundwork Project] Election season may be coming to a close, but here at Groundwork, we aren’t slowing down. Because we don’t base our investments on candidates and campaigns, but on the year-round work of local organizers that continues long after the polls close. We know that kind of sustained organizing is the only way to truly shift power. [If you are proud to be a part of this mission with us, take a moment to donate now. We are currently assessing the political landscape and making strategic plans for 2023 and beyond.]( As we plan for next year, we’re doing all we can to ensure our partners on the ground have the resources they need to BUILD on the tremendous work they did around this election. Too often, funds dry up after campaigns shut down, and organizers are forced to abandon the infrastructure they painstakingly built over the last few months – the data, volunteers, voter contacts, relationships, coalitions, canvass routes, and so much more. These stops and starts are a huge hindrance to actually building power. With that in mind, I’m so excited to announce yet another round of Groundwork Grantees in our partner states. These phenomenal organizations are engaging key constituencies on the ground and building a base of voters that can write a new political future for our states. Without further ado… Introducing Groundwork Project’s Fall 2022 Grantees! [Alabama] [Political Healers]( Political Healers Project — The Political Healers Project provides training and political education, leadership development, radical hospitality, healing, and trauma-informed practices. Their Climate Mitigation and Community Resilience Project helps establish networks for long-term climate resilience in rural Alabama, politicizing and mobilizing participants to act at the local level. It builds healing and relationship-centered grassroots bases to develop and mobilize women of color, trans, genderqueer and nonbinary people to impact public space. [website]( [instagram]( [facebook]( [Mississippi] [Mississippi Center for Re-Entry]( Mississippi Center for Re-Entry — MS Center for Re-Entry’s mission is to make access to second chances a reality by providing reentry services to those who desire a second chance and to advocate for change within our criminal justice system by being the voice for the voiceless. In 2019 and 2020 the organization created an initiative to register formerly incarcerated individuals to vote in Desoto County, MS. [website]( [instagram]( [facebook]( [Oklahoma] [Lets Fix This]( Let’s Fix This — Let’s Fix This works to equip and educate all Oklahomans to actively engage with their government by making government and civic life more interesting, accessible, useful, and easier to understand for regular, everyday folks. Through the Oklahoma Civic Engagement Table, nonprofits across the state collaborate to; increase civic engagement, remove barriers to voting access, ensure representation, and achieve racial equity in the progressive community. Let’s Fix This also produces a podcast about Oklahoma politics and engages a strong bench of volunteers and community leaders. [website]( [instagram]( [facebook]( [OK Civic Learning Coalition]( Oklahoma Civic Learning Coalition — OK Civic Learning Coalition’s mission is to advance civic education and democratic engagement in Oklahoma. It does this by convening a broad range of stakeholders committed to building support for innovative legislation, funding, and policies that facilitate high quality and equitable learning opportunities for students, teachers, and the wider public, while bringing about a multi-racial democracy. [website]( [instagram]( [facebook]( [Red Dirt Collective]( Red Dirt Collective — Red Dirt Collective works in solidarity with the poor and working class of Norman to build permanent institutions of coordinated working class power. The Collective organizes with poor and working people where they live, where they work, and where they meet each other. They participate heavily in municipal elections, while Red Dirt’s policy shop creates, illustrates, distributes, and promotes policy papers. [website]( [instagram]( [facebook]( [West Virginia] [Olive Tree] Olive Tree Initiative — Olive Tree Initiative provides re-entry and transformative direct services for currently and formerly incarcerated people. Its goal is to build a political structure that will impact the laws and policies in the state of West Virginia. Olive Tree works to meet the needs of the incarcerated and simultaneously creates a grassroots political organization composed of friends and families of the formerly and currently incarcerated. Olive Tree's website and social accounts are still in development. We will be sure to share more with you as they become available! These grantees embody Groundwork’s mission, working year-round to shift power in their communities. From criminal legal reform to public education, they are on the frontlines of the biggest issues of our time. Groundwork Project was founded to support organizations and organizers just like these, and I’m so proud to welcome them into our growing grantee community. 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