“Born in Havana, Cuba, AfroRazones is a transnational solidarity project aimed towards educating artists and creating an alternative music industry infrastructure. Through music collaborations, workshop series and live events, AfroRazones creates south-south circuitry to support independent Latin American artists. This grant will support the creation of a week-long workshop series that will educate Caribbean, Black, and Latino artists in Santo Domingo about the global music industry. “

“Caderamen is born out of the interest of its founders to advance strategies for safe births in Puerto Rico. During three years and until 2017, SePARE, one of Caderamen's programs, offered services in the Municipality of Vega Baja to more than 800 families in their prenatal and postpartum stage. Our goal is to reach accessible sexual and reproductive health for families and their communities when reducing inequalities and improving surrounding environments through family planning, and health services for women and children and training for professionals.”

“The Center for Popular Economics (CPE) is a nonprofit collective of political economists based in Amherst, MA. Since our founding in 1979, thousands of people have participated in our workshops and Institutes. We are supporting (F)empower, an artist collective and community to empower femmes in South Florida. It taps into a new generation of emerging femme artists living and creating online and provides spaces for them to collaborate, learn, unlearn, teach, showcase and play.”

CoFED is building a cooperative food economy, powered by the visionary leadership of young people of color. We partner with young people of color to practice cooperative values and economics through food and land.

“Cooperativa de Trabajo Cabachuelas (CABACOOP) is a workers-coop for heritage interpreters in Morovis Puerto Rico. Proyecto Cabachuelas is a community-based project about sustainable tourism and education for Las Cabachuelas Nature Reserve in Morovis. We created CABACOOP a workers-coop to sustain our efforts towards a participatory management plan for our natural and social resources.”

“DAYUM's mission is to fight for a seat at the table for marginalized youth in decision making about our lives and communities in Detroit. Whether we are addressing lead and copper in our school water fountains, gun violence, or education justice we believe that our voices matter. We work intersectionally on issues of economic inequity, racism, homophobia, and ageism. DAYUM's Political Education space will be open to all high school students to host classes, meetings, and events. We will create a space that is welcoming, surveillance free, and non-hierarchical to learn, create, and grow as young activists.”

“El Departamento de la Comida is a non-profit, non-government collective for the advancement of sustainable, resilient, and regenerative food projects in Puerto Rico. #QueNoSePierdaLaSemilla is a campaign to mobilize farmers and consumers around collective, coordinated seed saving in Puerto Rico. The campaign calls for building seed libraries and oral history archives, to share skills and agricultural practices.”

“The Pecan Milk Co-Op consists of Black, Queer and Trans young people who prioritize liberation and value life. In opposition of oppression, we seek to create dignified work for all, especially those who identify as Black, Brown, POC, Non- white, Queer, Trans, Women, Femmes, Youth, People with disabilities, migrant and immigrant folx. We create this work via our dairy free milk products. Pecan Milk Co-op is a worker cooperative manufacturing dairy-free foods to make dignified work for oppressed communities in the South.”

“We are a group of grassroots organizers, teachers and advocates focusing on the educational aspects of urban farming in St Louis. Our 2019 goal is to continue working with schools and youth organizations teaching the basics of urban farming. We are now in the process of opening our first farmer's market. We also are in the process of establishing an Urban Farm School.”

“Repaired Nations is a cooperative education and technical assistance provider whose ultimate goal is to create a thriving, regenerative cooperative ecosystem for the African Diaspora. We are democratically run by a project lead and leadership cohort comprised of multi-talented artists and facilitators. As we educate communities through book clubs and workshops, we develop partnerships and gather resources for frontline communities to cooperatively develop themselves.”

“We are Worcester Youth Co-op. Our age group ranges from 14 to 19, and are all either sophomores and juniors in high school. We are all a part of the lower income Worcester area. We were interested in the idea of being worker-owners while building power with the community we live in. Worcester Youth Co-op works to inspire youth leadership while providing local communities with ethical cooperative goods and services.”

“We are a small group of creative people who reside within close proximity of each other, in the Greater Ville and Fountain Park Neighborhoods of North Saint Louis. We have worked in collaboration, in multiple facets and share the common goal of sharing information on preventative health care, using art and sustainable living as the foundation. We are uplifting creative and sustainable living as a way to engage in preventative healthcare. Our cultural arts campaign highlights wellness, in an area that has been stigmatized as unwell. The legacy of American Greats from North Saint Louis still lives on.”