I wanted to make sure you saw our latest round of Groundwork Grantees. Each of these groups is organizing year-round in their community and fighting tooth and nail for democracy, justice, and equity in the toughest states on the map. You can learn more about them below.

This marks a really exciting milestone for our organization. Since launching the Groundwork Organizer Grant Program a year ago, we have committed over $2 million to local organizers across Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and West Virginia. This is all thanks to supporters like you, who have believed in our mission from the start.

With this latest round of grantees, our Organizer Grant Program community has grown to 20 organizations strong – five in each of our partner states. Our grantees represent organizing at its best and brightest. They are majority BIPOC and woman-led. They focus on everything from reproductive justice to criminal legal reform and the climate crisis. They organize across race and class, from rural Alabama to the hills of West Virginia. They do this work far from the spotlight, with a lack of resources that would deter fainter hearts, with a resolve forged in communities that are used to being passed by and written off. They are everything our politics needs more of and we are continuously humbled to play a small part in the work they do.

That wouldn’t be possible without your support. Your donation to Groundwork Project helps invest in grassroots organizations like these who need resources more than ever: [link removed]

Our motto here at Groundwork is that organizing builds infrastructure, and infrastructure builds power. If we want to change the political dynamics in the states we work in, we have to start resourcing the folks on the ground who are in the best position to engage, educate and activate voters, year-round.

Now, get to know our latest grantees below:

With gratitude,

Emily

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Emily Kaufman (she/her)
Executive Director
Groundwork Project

Introducing Groundwork Project’s Fall 2022 Grantees!

ALABAMA

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.

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MISSISSIPPI

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.

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OKLAHOMA

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.

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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.

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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.

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WEST VIRGINIA

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!


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Founded by Joe Kennedy III, Groundwork Project invests in year-round, local community organizing in places Democrats have gotten used to writing off. With a focus on Appalachia, the Deep South, and the Plains, we support local advocates and activists working to build durable political infrastructure and secure power for those historically excluded.

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