Solidarity. Equity. Justice.

In 2024 Veatch grantees continued to do the hard work of building our multiracial democracy. In this Annual Report to UUCSR members, you can read about the many organizations the Veatch Program funded throughout the country, including here in New York State and on Long Island.

The Veatch Program, the congregation’s national funding program, has been a leader in progressive philanthropy since 1959. Veatch puts Unitarian Universalist faith into action and is a direct expression of UU values in the world.  As always, the resilience, commitment, and deeply held values of our nearly 180 Veatch grantees come through in all that we heard, witnessed, and learned from them throughout the year.

Veatch’s consistent, general support funding is always crucial. While we ramped up targeted support in 2024, our approach of being in trust-based relationships with organizations is what informed those commitments, and now propels us forward.

There is both struggle and good news – Veatch grantees are present in all of this.

“We transform private shame into public power.”

In the Spring of 2024, a delegation of Governors and staff traveled to Detroit to visit with the organizations that Veatch funds in Michigan. We were able to build on the relationships that Veatch staff have been cultivating with organizers and philanthropic partners working throughout the state.

When Veatch grantee partner, Ken Whittaker, Executive Director of Michigan United shared his perspective that the work of organizing is “‘transforming private shame into public power” he was speaking to his own story of losing his home and connecting it to his organization’s fight against home foreclosures long plaguing thousands of Detroiters.

As we immersed ourselves in the Motor City’s rich history of organizing for community empowerment, we reflected on our own legacy at Veatch of supporting this movement not just in Michigan but nationwide as workers across industries gain strength and step up their campaigns to win fair wages and safe working conditions.

SEPA Mujer:  From victims, to survivors, to leaders. 

Our congregation stands with the most marginalized communities, families, and workers. Veatch grantees are on the forefront of responding to increasing climate-related disasters in places including North Carolina, and they are leading efforts to expand access to health care in Maine and in rural America. They are lifting-up the needs of the working class and young people of color. Veatch grantees are fighting for voting rights in the South, for affordable housing in Oakland and Buffalo, for climate justice in suburban New Jersey, and for economic equity in Seattle. They are resisting attacks on the rights and safety of women right here on Long Island, and for LGBTQ+ people in Georgia, Oregon, Minnesota, and across the country.

Voces de la Frontera: Youth leaders in Wisconsin. 

We invite you to take a moment to be uplifted and inspired by these brief snapshots. For the latest news and stories about Veatch grantees, please be sure to visit the Veatch Blog throughout the year ahead.

Solidarity: UU Values in Action

Our mission to build a more just and joyful world requires attention to both what we fund and how we do so.  How we fund, with a steadfast commitment to the dignity and self-determination of the community over time, remains an important expression of UU values and a significant contribution at this era-defining time.

Members of GreenFaith: Building a worldwide multi-faith climate and environmental movement.

Veatch grantees remind us that the choices we make now, in our own lives and in our institutions, shape the world of today and tomorrow. Veatch provides long-term, unrestricted support because durable change takes intention, care, and time.  We are widely known in philanthropy for sustaining an approach that is based in trust. This recognizes dignity and fosters self-determination, as Veatch grantees bring people together across their differences to forge community-led spaces for political education, voter engagement, skills training, culture, and care.

Veatch Sunday: Our Shared Humanity

In closing, we hope you will join us on Veatch Sunday, January 26, 2025.  Hear from our featured grantee speaker, Marissa Tirona, President of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees about how philanthropic programs and grassroots organizations are standing together to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees.  The Veatch Annual Meeting, which begins at 1pm on Veatch Sunday, will feature interactive, roundtable conversations with Marissa Tirona and other grantee leaders. They are building the world of dignity, equity, and freedom that we so deeply need and that we know, through our values, is possible.

This past year has clearly been full of challenges. We anticipate the time ahead will be as well. The steadiness of our funding is something our grantees and partners particularly recognize and value, especially now.

Every UUCSR member is a part of this legacy and the hopeful future it makes possible.

Our humanity compels us to dream big, to know that everyone is deserving and has the power to make a difference. None of us can do that alone.  This is what democracy looks like.  Through Veatch, our congregation puts this commitment into action.

Toward Justice,

Diane Lombardy
Chair, Veatch Board of Governors

Joan Minieri
Executive Director

 

 

 

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM

Church of the Larger Fellowship $45,000 — To sustain a “congregation without walls” that seeks to build a global spiritual community.

Community Funds Inc. for the Long Island UU Fund $370,000 — To foster social, economic, environmental, and political justice on Long Island via a Unitarian Universalist regranting program.

Faith in Public Life $50,000 — To promote faith in the public square as a national force for justice.

GreenFaith $50,000 — To support and expand multi-faith leadership and presence of people and institutions in broad-based, globally aligned actions as well as coalitions for climate justice.

Long Island Area Council of Unitarian Universalist Societies, Inc. for Student Activity Fund $45,000 — To encourage Unitarian Universalist high school seniors and college-age young people to become more aware of social and economic problems confronting society through work with nonprofit organizations.

Meadville Lombard Theological School for the Fahs Collaborative $75,000 — To forge educational pathways that spark the human spirit by creating a laboratory for leaders in faith education to experiment and for congregations to engage in programs that expand human potential for deeper learning, justice, and inclusion.

Public Religion Research Institute $50,000 — To conduct high-quality public opinion surveys and qualitative research on the intersection of religion, values, and public life in America, including the niche that Unitarian Universalism occupies.

Unitarian Universalist Association $900,000 — To support programs increasing denominational growth and furthering social justice.

Unitarian Universalist Association for Beacon Press $175,000 — To support an independent publisher of books that reflect Unitarian Universalist principles and promote social change.

Unitarian Universalist Association for the UU Funding Program $1,468,000 — To support the grantmaking and administrative needs of the Unitarian Universalist Funding Program.

Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California $50,000 — To support a multi-issue Unitarian Universalist legislative and congregational justice organizing network in California.

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee $925,000 — To support a UU global human rights agenda.

Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry $40,000 — To support an anchor Unitarian Universalist institution in its efforts to offer congregations and young UUs a way to live out Unitarian Universalist values, to understand race and racism, and to take action in their own communities.

UU Service Committee for the UU College of Social Justice $75,000 — To increase the scope, quality, and durability of social-justice engagement by Unitarian Universalists, both as individuals and as congregations.

 

 

CIVIL RIGHTS & SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

Civil and Constitutional Rights

Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights $50,000 — To organize domestic workers, day laborers, undocumented students, and immigrant families for an inclusive economy and humane immigration policies across California and nationally.

Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition $50,000 — To advance immigrant rights and improve the quality of life for immigrant families in Colorado.

Florida Immigrant Coalition $60,000 — To increase the ability of Florida’s immigrant communities to promote their civil rights and improve their living and working conditions.

Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights $60,000 — To build electoral power in Black, immigrant, and refugee communities in Illinois by increasing the capacity of member leaders to participate fully in our democracy and economy.

New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice $50,000 — To build worker power for low-wage workers of color across southern Louisiana.

One Fair Wage, Inc. $60,000 — To support a national movement to eliminate subminimum wages and advance a living wage and better working conditions in the service sector.

OneAmerica $60,000 — To oppose arbitrary detention of immigrants and support immigrant rights in Washington State and at the national level.

Partnership for Safety and Justice $40,000 — To advocate for policies and approaches to crime and public safety issues in Oregon that serve justice and equity and foster safe and healthy communities.

Philadelphians Organized to Witness Empower and Rebuild (POWER) $60,000 — To advance racial and economic justice by uniting people of multiple faiths and races under shared justice principles in Pennsylvania.

Proteus Fund, Inc. for the RISE Together Fund $60,000 — To provide support to grassroots organizations in Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian communities throughout the country.

Southeast Immigrant Rights Network, Inc. $50,000 — To build regional power of immigrant organizations in the Southeast, where leaders can come together, engage as equal partners with allies and advocates, and determine the direction of immigrant rights work.

Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition $60,000 — To strengthen a statewide immigrant and refugee-led coalition to defend immigrant rights and organize for progressive reforms.

Transgender Law Center $50,000 — To defend and advance rights for transgender communities.

United We Dream Network $60,000 — To strengthen a national network that builds the power of undocumented youth to expand access to legal status and higher education and reform the country’s immigration laws.

VOCAL-NY for VOCAL-KY $60,000 — To build healthy communities in Kentucky by building grassroots power among low-income people directly affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness.

Voces de la Frontera $60,000 — To defend civil liberties and organize immigrant workers and families in Wisconsin to win economic and social justice.

 

 

Environmental Justice

Asian Pacific Environmental Network $40,000 — To develop the leadership and power of low-income Asian American and Pacific Islander residents in California.

California Environmental Justice Alliance $45,000 — To strengthen the environmental justice movement in California.

Centro por la Justicia $40,000 — To support a multigenerational immigrant, environmental, and reproductive justice organization in San Antonio, Texas.

Common Counsel Foundation for Native Voices Rising $70,000 — To fund the Native Voices Rising Fund, a research and re-granting project that supports grassroots groups led by and for Native American communities.

Communities for a Better Environment $40,000 — To support organizing of youth, low-income, and people of color burdened by toxics in California.

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights $60,000 — To advance a vision of community safety grounded in restorative justice, economic empowerment, dignity, and a culture of care that moves away from incarceration and punishment by restoring community power and self-determination.

Environmental Health Coalition $45,000 — To achieve environmental justice in San Diego and Tijuana for the Latinx community and build organizing alliances statewide.

Farmworker Association of Florida, Inc. $50,000 — To support Florida farmworkers in securing decent wages and healthy workplaces.

Forward Together $60,000 — To promote the health and well-being of women, girls, gender non-conforming individuals, and their families.

Tides Center for PODER (People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights) $40,000 — To support community-led resilience strategies at the intersection of environmental and economic justice.

Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project $60,000 — To support organizing for environmental and economic justice in the Rocky Mountain and Great Plains region.

 

 

 

ECONOMIC EQUITY & FAIRNESS

Economic Equity and Democracy

Center on Policy Initiatives $50,000 — To support the progressive movement for economic equity in the San Diego region.

Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy $60,000 — To promote economic and social justice organizing in the Central Coast region of California.

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) $50,000 — To build a labor and community movement for a just economy in California’s East Bay region.

Georgia STAND-UP $60,000 — To promote civic engagement and regional economic justice through research, advocacy, and organizing.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement $60,000 — To organize rural and urban communities to challenge factory farming in the livestock industry.

Land Stewardship Project $60,000 — To support the revitalization of rural economies in Minnesota by challenging factory farms and supporting local and sustainable family farms.

Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy $50,000 — To advance organizing for democracy and equitable economic development in the Los Angeles area.

Missouri Rural Crisis Center $60,000 — To strengthen rural organizing in Missouri.

National Save the Family Farm Coalition $50,000 — To support a national network of family farm organizations to counter the power of corporate industrial agriculture and to push for federal policies that are positive for farmers, consumers, and the environment.

Neighborhood Funders Group for Labor Innovations for the 21st Century (LIFT) Fund $60,000 — To support innovative partnerships in community-worker organizing.

PowerSwitch Action $60,000 — To support a national network of regional power-building organizations that work at the intersection of economic, worker, and environmental justice.

United for a New Economy $60,000 — To promote and protect the interests of working families in Colorado.

Working Partnerships USA $70,000 — To advance a people- and worker-led equitable and sustainable economy in Silicon Valley.

 

 

Worker Rights

Central Florida Jobs With Justice $60,000 — To strengthen Florida’s progressive ecosystem by building alliances between community groups and labor unions.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers $60,000 — To improve the wages and working conditions of Florida farmworkers.

Education & Training Institute, Inc (New Labor) $60,000 — To build the collective power of and ensure a voice for low-wage workers in their workplaces and communities.

Jobs With Justice Education Fund $75,000 — To support a national network of labor, community, faith-based, and student groups committed to economic and social justice movement building.

Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance for CLEAN Carwash Campaign $50,000 — To organize a movement of car wash workers that raises the wages and improves the working conditions of this low-wage immigrant workforce in Southern California.

Missouri Jobs with Justice $60,000 — To build a base of Missouri residents and workers capable of winning good wages and working conditions that protect disadvantaged residents of the Show-Me State.

National Black Worker Center $60,000 — To use research, leadership development, technical assistance, and strategic communications to challenge systemic racism and anti-Blackness in the economy.

National Day Laborer Organizing Network $75,000 — To support a network of day laborer organizing groups that builds the power of low-wage and immigrant workers to advocate for their rights.

Nebraska Appleseed $60,000 — To support grassroots organizing in rural Nebraska that advances state, local, and federal progressive reforms of economic inclusion, family stability, and justice.

Portland Jobs With Justice Education Fund $55,000 — To support workers in Portland, Oregon, through a coalition of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations fighting for economic, racial, and social justice.

Restaurant Opportunities Centers United $75,000 — To build a national movement of restaurant workers that will improve their wages and working conditions.

Teamster Rank & File Education and Legal Defense Foundation $60,000 — To democratize the Teamsters Union by supporting the development of a rank-and-file movement committed to social justice.

Tenants and Workers United $50,000 — To build a working people’s organization in northern Virginia that protects people’s right to housing and can influence public policy outcomes.

United for Respect Education Fund $60,000 — To support the organizing and mobilizing of workers fighting for dignity and respect on the job at Walmart and Amazon.

Willamette Valley Law Project $60,000 — To build the power of farmworkers in Oregon to reform state labor rights policies and improve their working and living conditions.

Workers Center for Racial Justice $60,000 — To organize marginalized Black workers and their families to address the root causes of the high rates of unemployment, low-wage work, and over-criminalization plaguing Black communities in Illinois.

Workers Defense Project $60,000 — To build a diverse, powerful base of construction workers, immigrants, and low-wage workers implementing innovative strategies to win progressive change for working families in Texas.

 

 

MAKING DEMOCRACY WORK

Community Organizing

ACCE Institute $50,000 — To strengthen the civic engagement and housing advocacy of low-income communities in California’s San Diego, Los Angeles, Alameda, Contra Costa, and Sacramento counties.

Arizona Center for Empowerment $60,000 — To support the economic justice and civic engagement organizing of working class, youth, Latinx, and immigrant communities in Arizona.

Californians for Justice Education Fund, Inc. $40,000 — To engage low-income youth of color, typically of high school and college age, in policy advocacy and oversight of the democratic process in California’s main metropolitan areas.

Capaces Leadership Institute $60,000 — To support capacity building, political education, social justice leadership training, and cultural enrichment for a network of immigrant and farmworker movement organizations in Oregon.

Carolina Federation Fund $60,000 — To create a fundamental, lasting, systemic shift in the policies and rules that govern the state of North Carolina.

Causa Justa :: Just Cause $50,000 — To engage BIPOC and low-income residents of San Francisco and Oakland in campaigns for affordable housing and to secure community benefits in new local development.

Center for Popular Democracy $65,000 — To strengthen a national network that supports the local organizing of low-income communities and communities of color and coordinates them in national campaigns.

Common Counsel Foundation for The Movement for Black Lives $50,000 — To promote the dignity and full humanity of all people by supporting the infrastructure for the Movement for Black Lives and its network of Black-led organizations.

Community Change $100,000 — To strengthen the effectiveness of organizations led by low-income and people of color involved in national and statewide movements for social justice.

Community Change for United Today, Stronger Tomorrow $60,000 — To support base-building and policy change efforts in the Great Plains and Intermountain West regions.

Deaconess Foundation $60,000 — To increase Deaconess Foundation’s capacity to fund grassroots organizing with a focus on Black and Brown communities in Missouri.

Faith in Florida, Inc. $50,000 — To build a statewide network of faith-based leaders and activists representing low-income and working-class communities of color in Florida who organize for economic justice, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant rights, and criminal justice.

Faith in Indiana $60,000 — To support a statewide organization coalescing faith communities to build a grassroots base for progressive power.

Gamaliel Foundation $60,000 — To train community and faith leaders to build political power and create organizations that unite people of diverse faiths and races.

Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights $60,000 — To build the organizing power of immigrant communities and strengthen progressive infrastructure in Georgia.

Hoosier Action Resource Center $60,000 — To build low-income community power committed to social justice and racial equity in a predominantly rural state through strong narrative and civic engagement work.

InterValley Project $40,000 — To support the assessment of future planning for a regional faith-based network in New England with affiliated organizations comprised of 125 labor union locals, community groups, and congregations.

Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement for Food & Ag Justice Collaborative $60,000 — To effect major changes in the U.S. food and agricultural system by changing public narratives and waging policy campaigns challenging the power of corporate actors.

ISAIAH $60,000 — To support a state federation of faith-based community groups organizing for affordable housing, racial equity, immigrant rights, and other issues that benefit Minnesota families.

Kentucky Coalition, Inc. $60,000 — To strengthen a multi-issue, statewide organization working to protect the land and the people from the devastation of the coal industry, raise the minimum wage, and increase voter engagement.

Miami Workers Center $40,000 — To build dynamic movements which center the experiences, realities, and leadership of Black and Brown women.

Michigan Organizing Project DBA Michigan United $60,000 — To build the power of immigrant, low-income, and BIPOC communities to organize for social change in Michigan.

New Jersey Resource Project $50,000 — To support a base of 8,000 members and growing, in an anchor organization addressing climate change and the opioid epidemic through reforming state disaster recovery programs and protecting and expanding health care.

People’s Action Institute $150,000 — To strengthen a national network of power-building grassroots organizations.

Rural Organizing Project $60,000 — To support social justice organizing in rural Oregon communities.

Somos Siembra $60,000 — To support immigrant organizing that has an impact on civic engagement efforts and builds progressive infrastructure in North Carolina.

Southerners On New Ground $60,000 — To build, sustain, and connect a southern base of LGBTQ+ people transforming the region through community organizing.

Texas Organizing Project Education Fund $60,000 — To empower low- and moderate-income people of color in Texas through statewide community organizing and civic engagement.

The People’s Lobby Education Institute $60,000 — To support organizing and coalition-building to create statewide community power in Illinois.

Unite Oregon $60,000 — To support the statewide leadership development, power-building, and policy campaigns of a group successfully organizing across race, class, and urban/rural divides in five counties in the state of Oregon.

VOCAL-NY for VOCAL-TX $50,000 — To build healthy communities in Texas, expanding on the successful model set by Veatch grantee VOCAL-NY, by building grassroots power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness.

Washington Community Action Network Education & Research Fund $60,000 — To organize people of color, women, low-income people, people with disabilities, and immigrants to challenge economic inequality and structural racism in Washington State.

We Are Down Home $60,000 — To build power for small town and rural communities in North Carolina.

 

 

Democratic Participation

Basic Rights Education Fund $60,000 — To protect the rights and ensure the equity of LGBTQ+ communities in Oregon by building an intersectional movement through organizing, leadership development, and advocacy.

BVM Capacity Building Institute $60,000 — To build electoral power in Black communities by increasing the capacity of rural-based organizations to participate fully in our democracy.

Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund for Oakland Rising $40,000 — To educate and mobilize low-income, immigrant, and people of color communities to vote and build power in Oakland.

Civic Ark $40,000 — To build civic participation and voter engagement within Minnesota’s Somali community to empower them to more fully participate in the political life of the state.

Colorado People’s Alliance $60,000 — To build power for Colorado’s diversifying communities in order to advance workers’ rights, climate justice, and safety for immigrant communities.

Florida Rising Together $50,000 — To organize Black and Brown Floridians as an independent political force.

Illinois People’s Action $60,000 — To develop a strong statewide coalition in Illinois through leadership development, voter education, and policy advocacy.

Maine People’s Resource Center $60,000 — To strengthen the grassroots membership base of a statewide social change organization in Maine.

Missouri Organizing and Voter Engagement Collaborative $60,000 — To change culture and governance in Missouri in support of a multiracial, pluralist democracy that works in the interest of low-income and BIPOC communities.

New Virginia Majority Education Fund $60,000 — To organize communities of color, women, working people, and youth for a progressive Virginia.

Ohio Organizing Collaborative $60,000 — To support power-building organizing and civic engagement that builds progressive infrastructure in Ohio.

Ohio Voice $50,000 — To build statewide progressive civic engagement infrastructure in Ohio.

OutFront Minnesota Community Services $60,000 — To support LGBTQ+ communities throughout Minnesota through community education and organizing to change policy and the hearts and minds of people in the state.

Pennsylvania Stands Up Institute $60,000 — To support multiracial base-building in overlooked regions of the key state of Pennsylvania.

Power California $50,000 — Power California advances the civic engagement of grassroots groups and individuals, particularly youth and immigrants, across the state, from Sonoma to San Diego.

Right to the City Alliance $40,000 — To build a national grassroots movement for land and housing justice.

TakeAction Minnesota Education Fund $60,000 — To strengthen a progressive statewide coalition of groups and individuals to build a large grassroots base, win local power and experiment in co-governance, shift collective narratives, and through all this, achieve significant policy changes.

The Virginia Civic Engagement Table $60,000 — To build the capacity of progressive community organizations to effectively engage underrepresented voters through a statewide civic engagement strategy in Virginia.

Tides Center for Detroit Action Education Fund $60,000 — To support multiracial base-building organizing in Michigan, a key state for the progressive movement.

We the People Michigan $60,000 — To support efforts to build multiracial grassroots organizing with impact on progressive issues and civic engagement in Michigan.

Western States Center $60,000 — To build an inclusive democracy and defend it from the threat of White Nationalism and other discriminatory ideologies in the U.S. Northwest and nationally.

 

 

NEW YORK

ALIGN $50,000 — To create good jobs, vibrant communities, and an accountable democracy for all New Yorkers.

Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions $40,000 — To hold the criminal justice system in New York accountable by nurturing the leadership of systems-impacted people.

Coalition for Economic Justice $40,000 — To support a coalition of community, labor, and faith-based groups in Buffalo, New York.

Community Funds Inc. for the Good Neighbor Fund $20,000 — To support the Good Neighbor Fund which fosters social, economic, environmental, and political justice on Long Island.

Community Voices Heard $60,000 — To organize low-wage workers and people on public assistance by advocating for affordable housing, public-job creation and other issues of concern to the poor.

Long Island Jobs with Justice $45,000 — To support a critical nexus of labor and community organizing on Long Island.

Make the Road New York $60,000 — To promote economic opportunity and democracy in New York State through organizing and collective action.

MinKwon Center for Community Action $60,000 — To support grassroots organizing efforts in the Asian American Pacific Islander community in Queens.

NEO Philanthropy for New York Civic Engagement Table $60,000 — To build long-term power for progressive social change in New York State.

New York Communities Organizing Fund, Inc. $60,000 — To organize low-income communities on Long Island, utilizing democratic engagement for social and economic equity.

New York Community Trust for GoVoteNYC Fund $50,000 — To collaborate with philanthropic partners in a pooled fund to increase voter participation in New York City, where nearly 75% of registered voters do not regularly vote in local elections.

New York Taxi Workers Alliance $60,000 — To build the collective power of taxi and for-hire drivers to improve their working conditions.

North Star Fund for Communities United for Police Reform $40,000 — To end discriminatory and abusive policing practices and increase police accountability.

North Star Fund for the Let Us Breathe Fund $50,000 — To provide support to organizations led by people of color to fight against police violence and structural racism through the Let Us Breathe Fund.

Northwest Bronx Community & Clergy Coalition $60,000 — To build enduring progressive power within the Bronx with a focus on those most impacted by issues at the center of decision-making.

People United for Sustainable Housing, Inc. $60,000 — To support community organizing and leadership development programs in Upstate New York.

Public Policy and Education Fund of New York, Inc. $60,000 — To build a powerful New York statewide membership organization for economic and social justice.

SEPA Mujer, Inc. $60,000 — To support and empower Latina immigrant and Indigenous women on Long Island to be a transformational force for change across the region and the state.

Tides Center for NYC Coalition for Educational Justice $40,000 — To support the coordination of a coalition working to improve public schools in New York City.

VOCAL-NY $60,000 — To build long-term power for low-income people affected by drugs, homelessness, and mass incarceration in New York State.

Women’s Diversity Network $50,000 — To support the leadership of women and gender-expansive people to change the conditions that deteriorate maternal mortality and reproductive health on Long Island.

 

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE

Capacity Building

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation for Organizing Resilience $75,000 — To harness the resources that are unleashed during climate crises to save lives and advance broader structural change.

Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity $50,000 — To build effective Black organizations across the United States that can develop community leaders, healers, and political leaders, for equity and liberation.

Center for Popular Democracy for The Forge $50,000 — To support an online journal and forum that informs the organizing sector’s efforts to create a more impactful progressive movement.

Grassroots Global Justice $50,000 — To build a national grassroots movement for social, economic, gender, and climate justice.

Grassroots Power Project $50,000 — To support social, economic, and environmental justice organizations to engage in strategic practice.

Midwest Academy $60,000 — To provide strategic organizational support and training for community-led organizations.

National Farm Worker Ministry $40,000 — To build religious and community support for farm workers organizing for economic justice efforts.

re:power Fund $40,000 — To provide organizing training to individuals and capacity-building support to grassroots organizations throughout the United States.

Rutgers University for Center for Innovation in Worker Organization $60,000 — To serve as an incubator for innovative strategies that develop the capacity of economic justice organizations throughout the United States.

Veatch Program Communications and Campaign Minigrant Fund $74,714 — To help Veatch grantees become more sophisticated in messaging and respond strategically to timely media opportunities.

Veatch Program Fundraising Assistance Fund $21,000 — To help Veatch grantees become more self-sustaining and capable of financial independence.

Veatch Program Organizational Development Minigrant Fund $75,000 — To strengthen the work of Veatch grantees by supporting organizational development activities.

Veatch Program Rapid Response Minigrant Fund $75,000 — To support urgent work that may arise for Veatch grantees as they work to organize marginalized communities throughout the country.

Veatch Program Travel and Technical Assistance Minigrant Fund $75,000 — To strengthen the work of Veatch grantees by supporting travel to meetings, conferences, or trainings.

 

 

Informed Public Discourse

Democracy Now Productions, Inc. $50,000 — To ensure the public discourse includes a diversity of voices seeking to promote progressive change.

Institute for Policy Studies $60,000 — To support the social justice movement through research and policy analysis.

Institute for Public Accuracy $50,000 — To broaden the public discourse by gaining access for voices commonly excluded by the mainstream media.

Labor Education and Research Project (Labor Notes) $60,000 — To build a democratic and just labor movement by strengthening networks of worker organizing groups, providing peer-to-peer learning and support, and raising awareness of the labor movement’s nationwide impact.

Political Research Associates $60,000 — To ensure that progressive social change organizations and the public are informed about the strategy, movements, institutions, and ideologies of the Far Right in the United States.

 

 

 

Progressive Philanthropy

Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice for The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing $50,000 — To support a funder collaborative that leverages funds for youth organizing and builds awareness of the youth organizing field.

Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees $20,000 — To increase philanthropic support for immigrant rights advocacy and organizing.

National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy $20,000 — To make philanthropy more responsive to the needs of socially, economically, and politically disenfranchised groups.

Neighborhood Funders Group $50,000 — To strengthen the capacity of organized philanthropy to understand and support community organizing for social justice.

NEO Philanthropy, Inc. for Funders’ Committee for Civic Participation $20,000 — To increase funding for nonpartisan civic participation and to educate funders so that their grantmaking more effectively strengthens the progressive movement for social justice.

New York Foundation for Engage New York $50,000 — To support a network of progressive funders in New York State.

Philanthropy New York $20,000 — To support a connected, engaged, and activated philanthropic community in New York.

Women’s Funding Network $20,000 — To support a network of national and international funders dedicated to gender equity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiscal Year 2024 Grants Allocation Summary

Total Allocations: $13,123,714

 

 

Veatch Program Board of Governors

Fiscal Year 2024

Diane Cohen, Chair

Diane Lombardy, Vice Chair

Janet Bendowitz

Barbara Grosmark

Corinne Hayden

Patti Paris

Ronald Roel

Cheryl Schwab

Rick Schwartz

Rebecca Smith

Chris Hilke, BOT President, Veatch Representative

Rev. Dr. Natalie Fenimore, Ministerial Liaison

 

 

 

 

The Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock provides support for efforts within the religious and spiritual mission of the congregation where their purposes are best served by outside agencies acting under the Veatch Program and the congregation.