Our Partners

 
 

Rose Community Foundation

Across its history, Rose Community Foundation’s grant-making has been both responsive – making grants to support nonprofit programs, services and capacity – and proactive, creating initiatives to meet emerging or longstanding community needs. RCF provides an array of philanthropic services work, stewarding donors’ philanthropic assets and supporting their grant-making, while helping nonprofits sustain their missions through the creation and growth of endowments.

 
 
 

Community Wealth Building Network

Community Wealth Building Network’s mission is to mobilize, facilitate, and coordinate community wealth building efforts with the practical objectives of widening community education on economic alternatives, enhancing diverse participation and fostering viable projects for the creation of just and sustainable jobs and democratically-owned businesses in the region. ​​

 
 
 

frontline farming

FrontLine Farming is a food justice & farmer advocacy organization that believes good food should be for all people and that farmers deserve living wages. FLF develops asset-based & data-driven solutions that are community derived, funneling money, resources, and time into the communities they serve and the farmers who grow their food.

 
 
 

Georgia Green project & SOW Sistas

Georgia Green Project is a food apartheid abolition & community gardening education organization. GGP facilitates holistic events & products, garden coaching, community garden management, plot management certificates & credentials.

The Sow Sistas grow and harvest food in BIPOC communities to ensure food sovereignty.

 
 
 

the village exchange center

The Village Exchange Center is a community center and multi-faith worship space seeking to celebrate cultural & religious diversity by creating an inclusive environment where residents from all backgrounds interact, share and develop together. 

 
 
 

The equity project, LLC

The Equity Project, LLC is a company where the sole objective is to level-set definitions like: diversity, inclusion, equity, equality, fairness and justice - to deliver equitable services to all people, in all systems. TEP, LLC calls this "deconstructing equity." TEP, LLC “deconstructs equity” to understand it. Their vision shines through their sharing effective strategies that ignite what is needed to create equity-based systems.

 
 
 

SHORTER COMMUNITY AME CHURCH

Shorter Community AME Church is a Christ-centered, spirit-filled congregation led by the word of God with an emphasis on social justice ministry.

 
 
 

empower high school

Starting in October 2017, a Community Design Team of students, families, educators, and community members met bi-monthly to design an innovative school for the community and by the community. Empower Community High School holds as its vision that students will claim their rightful place as agents of change, growth and social progress.

 
 
 

AUrora public schools

  • Shaping the Future is the district’s strategic plan to the vision that every child shapes a successful future.

  • APS students come from more than 130 countries and speak over 160 different languages.

  • 35.8% of students speak English as a second language; of these, 78.4% are native Spanish speakers.

  • 68.2% of our students receive free or reduced lunch.

  • 12.2% of our students benefit from special education programs.

 
 
 

Prep academy

Prep Academy aims to dismantle systems of power and privilege within their school and community to ensure that each student participates in authentic learning experiences to prepare them for college, career, and life.

 
 
 

working families party

The Working Families Party is a progressive grassroots political party building a multiracial movement of working people to transform America. The party believes that no matter what you look like or where you’re from, most of us want the same things. We want to earn enough to thrive, not just survive, and leave a better future for our kids. We want healthy food and clean water, safe neighborhoods and a safe world. We want to contribute to something bigger than ourselves. We want to be free.