$3500 for a group grant for occupational therapy and enrichment activities for kids whose activist parents survived torture in their home countries. The program serves 15 children, ages 12 to 24, from six families.
$3000 for summer activities and a TAY Development Grant for the 16 and 23 year-old siblings who have fought alongside their activist parents against genocide and human rights violations at home and around the world. One has been arrested and both have had police come unannounced to their home and schools to threaten and harass them.
$1000 for a TAY Development grant for the 24 year-old college student who was beaten and charged with felonies for peacefully protesting the profound inequities in their state’s education system.
$6600 for school expenses and a CIF award for four children, ages 12 to 21, from two families. Their mothers have been denied jobs or threatened with prosecution for advocating for individuals wronged in the criminal justice system.
$5500 for orchestra, sports and healing support for three children, ages 17 to 18, from two families. Their fathers were incarcerated for anti-apartheid and anti-racist efforts, and both continue to face targeting for their work to free political prisoners and end human trafficking.
$1850 for summer camps for four children ages 11 to 14 whose dad is a leading prisoners’ rights and anti-death penalty activist. As a result of his work, he has been arrested numerous times, placed on a domestic terrorist watch list and had his family placed under surveillance.
$1505 for summer programs and cooking classes for the 16 year-old boy whose father, the son of a political prisoner, has experienced harassment and job loss because of his own activism.
$14,700 for daycare, tutoring, sports, music and two CIF awards for ten children, ages four to 21, from four families. The fathers all lost their jobs or faced police harassment for their public-facing anti-racist organizing work.
$5700 for educational support, summer programs and two CIF awards for five kids, ages nine to 21, from two families involved in the fight for racial justice in education. All have worked to improve equity in schools and universities and have been harassed and/or have lost their jobs as a result of their organizing.
$5300 for art supplies and developmental classes for four children, ages two to 15, from two related families. Their parents have been threatened and one has been jailed because of their work for racial and gender justice.