Blue Heart:
Think Hopeful, Act Local
What You’ll Find
inside the 2026 Guide
We’ve curated a directory of visionary, community-led organizations working on the frontlines of social, economic, and environmental justice across the U.S., Mexico, and Haiti.
Every featured group meets the following criteria:
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Grassroots-led & active on the ground
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Operating budget under $2 Million
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Directly resourcing BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, working-class, and marginalized communities
The guide includes all 42 of Peace Development Fund's 2026 grantees and 24 fiscally sponsored projects, alongside Blue Heart’s 2025–2026 grantees and community partner-nominated organizations.
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Arts & Culture
Economic & Housing Justice
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Indigenous Self-Determination
Rural Organizing
Black Liberation & Racial Justice
Education, Youth & Families
Labor
Women & Reproductive Justice
Climate Justice
Health, Food & Disability Justice
LGBTQ+
Crimal Justice & Mass Incarceration
Immigrants & Refugees
Protecting Democracy & Fighting Facism
arts & culture
BREW & FORGE is an ongoing experiment in gathering writers, organizers, and movement builders. Founded in 2016, Brew & Forge is a book fair, a retreat, and more.
WESTERN MASS
The Multi-Use Radical People’s Hall, aka The MURPH is a 9,700 square foot building in Atlanta’s historic West End community. It acts as a hub for social justice movements and values-aligned cultural and community workers of all types to gather, work, train, learn, strategize, share skills, and build sanctuary with each other. Through a long-term partnership with The Guild, the MURPH will ultimately be transferred to a community stewardship trust to ensure the building is communally governed and remains off the speculative market forever.
SOUTH
CAL is training a highly specialized group of politicized somaticists who will embody the possibility of building, wielding, and holding power in movement spaces. They develop bodies that can enter, sustain, transform, build, and intensify through enormous political, economic and ecological rupture.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Mama Jean's Create Hub in Oakland exists to bring something fresh and new to youth — to inspire, encourage, and ignite. By exposing kids to a full range of creative trades, from shoe customization to carpentry to financial literacy, the Hub broadens what young people can imagine for themselves, especially in an area where options can feel limited.
CALIFORNIA
black liberation & Racial justice
America on Trial Inc. advances justice and liberation through the #AIRS Campaign and Liberty Freedom Farm, healing harms of incarceration while empowering communities with advocacy, storytelling, and reentry programs.
EAST
Led by formerly incarcerated women, Free Hearts supports, empowers, reunites, and organizes families impacted by incarceration in Tennessee.
SOUTH
The Reparations Interfaith Coalition (RIC) is a Massachusetts-based alliance of ethical and faith communities committed to pursuing reparative justice for Black and Indigenous peoples.
EAST
The mission of Anti-Racism Community Organizers (ARCO) is to organize, communicate, educate and provide resources to dismantle racism in our families, communities and institutions. We seek to do this with humanity, integrity and accountability.
WESTERN MASS
Grief to Action is a Black-led healing community for BIPOC people, offering a semi-mobile camp in the Mojave Desert focused on grief support for African-heritage folks and all People of the Global Majority.
CALIFORNIA
Springfield Alliance for Equity and Respect defends human rights and human dignity by lifting up community voices and mobilizing to insist that public institutions be accountable to all community members.
WESTERN MASS
The Black Wealth Builders Fund is a project serving Richmond and the greater Bay Area with a simple mission, the success of which is traceable and impactful beyond the immediate act of making the loan.
CALIFORNIA
PJP seeks to be a political home for people who want to struggle together and build power with each other. Using a framework of Black Power, we organize to stop police terror and invest in our communities’ needs.
MIDWEST
Climate justice
All Things Bayview is a community-driven organization that aims to tackle pressing environmental issues faced by the Bayview community in Southeast San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA
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The Green House is a physical community hub that pairs music, movement, the arts, and science with environmental and social justice advocacy in order to bring excluded voices to the decision-making table, make impact and create systemic change.
WEST
CALIFORNIA
Asociación de Gente Unida por el Agua (AGUA) is a grassroots coalition of 37 low-income and people of color communities dedicated to securing safe, clean and affordable drinking water in California's San Joaquin Valley and Central Coast.
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA
Grown in Haiti strengthens community-led regenerative agriculture by supporting farmers with seeds, training, and movement-building programs that restore soil, improve food security, and empowers local leaders across rural Haiti.
HAITI
CALIFORNIA
CAPS-805 builds leadership at the local level among those most affected by pesticides, works with grassroots groups to change local policies, and connect grassroots leaders with organizations across the state to push for statewide policy change.
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA
Youth vs. Apocalypse is a group of young climate justice activists fighting for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.
CALIFORNIA
CALIFORNIA
criminal justice
& mass incarceration
Decarcerate Western Mass Bailout Project is an abolitionist organization that is working toward decarcerating our local jails, educating the public about the harms of pretrial detention, and building power with those directly impacted by incarceration
WESTERN MASS
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity defends the humanity of the immigrant and fights for the rights of the incarcerated. Working at the intersection of spirituality and social movements, they mobilize congregations to take a stand on issues of social justice like immigration and mass incarceration.
CALIFORNIA
TUP is an organization created to navigate returning citizens be productive and free. Rapidly Housing our homeless population and at risk youths. They are for the people.
CALIFORNIA
Formerly Incarcerated Giving Back is a group of formerly incarcerated individuals who organize community programs to empower their community, offer services like donated food and clothing, and uplift underserved individuals and families.
CALIFORNIA
P.E.P. Talk focuses on addressing the vital needs of individuals who are formally and informally incarcerated, emphasizing personal development, and offering resources to incarcerated individuals planning re-entry.
CALIFORNIA
Huntsville Bail Fund is a justice-impacted collective in Alabama organizing to confront mass detention and state violence through rapid response mutual aid, court monitoring and participatory research, and developing community defense infrastructure.
SOUTH
Return Strong is a grassroots organization led by impacted people. We work to dismantle systems of incarceration while ensuring the human rights of those currently impacted are honored.
SOUTHWEST
Economic & housing Justice
BIPOC led social justice organization that focuses on mobilizing and organizing for budget justice
EAST
SLWM's mission is to elect and hold accountable bold progressive leaders who will protect our country from the dangerous agenda of the right-wing MAGA extremists. They aim to strengthen democratic institutions, advance social justice, protect the environment, and more.
WESTERN MASS
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The People’s Agroecology School of Vermont works locally and internationally to facilitate educational experiences to grow the movement for food sovereignty.
EAST
The Swahili Community of Western Massachusetts is a community-based organization that empowers Swahili speakers, refugees, and immigrants to thrive through support in social integration, education, economic growth, and self-reliance, while celebrating Swahili culture.
WESTERN MASS
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The Two Eighty Project creates pathways into the wine industry for people who have historically been excluded from it: LGBTQ+ members, Black and Brown community members, women, and others who have been marginalized.
CALIFORNIA
Construyamos Otro Acuerdo (COA) builds grassroots power in Puerto Rico by organizing communities directly impacted by austerity through campaigns for pension justice, labor rights, and economic equity.
PUERTO RICO
Memphis Tenants Union (MTU) is led by low-income Memphian tenants who improve their housing conditions through the creation and support of tenant unions and through strengthening housing policies at the city and state levels.
SOUTH
Regional Tenant Organizing Network is an alliance of community based organizations, tenants and allies from across the 9-county Bay Area region focused on building tenant power through developing strong tenant association campaigns
CALIFORNIA
TTGSTL, led by Black and queer tenants, organizes tenant associations and changes policy at the city and state levels to improve tenant rights, health and housing quality.
MIDWEST
Urban Compassion Project supports communities in need by clearing illegally dumped waste and linking homeless individuals to critical services in Oakland.
CALIFORNIA
Housing for All Tennessee is a statewide coalition of grassroots organizations working on tenants' rights, affordable housing, and ending homelessness in Tennessee.
SOUTH
The Peace Economy Project researches military spending, educates about the hazards of an unchecked military-industrial complex and advocates for conversion from a military- to a more stable, peace-based economy.
MIDWEST
Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc. is a community led organization founded to increase working class ownership and participation in the economy of Pittsfield and beyond
WESTERN MASS
The Homefulness Project is a permanent, rent-free, healing model of co-housing, education, arts, micro-business, on-site PovertyScholarship–informed peer support, and socialchange for landless, houseless, and formerly houseless families and individuals. It is a project of POOR Magazine, a poor-and-Indigenous-people–led, grassroots, non-profit arts organization.
CALIFORNIA
A power building organization working to build young people as a powerful political class to advance the broader tenant movement
EAST
EDUCATION, YOUTH & FAMILIES
End the TTI works to expose and end the abusive troubled teen industry by supporting survivors, holding the programs accountable, and advancing protections via public awareness, advocacy, and policy change
MIDWEST
PHENOM's mission is to organize the community of students, faculty, and staff to create a public higher education sustem that is affordable, free, high-quality, and accessible for Massachusetts
WESTERN MASS
SEAT is a movement of young people developing transferable skills and demonstrating youth visibility in policy making
WEST
Feminist Generation builds power and shifts culture, material conditions, and public policy through base-building, direct action, political education training programs, artivism and mutual aid
WESTERN MASS
Founded in 1984, Project YANO is a community organization that provides young people with an alternative point of view about military enlistment, organizes to demilitarize public education, and promotes youth activism and careers in social change
CALIFORNIA
Today's Youth Matter
Today's Youth Matter is transforming the lives of urban youth, helping Bay Area kids find a way up! Through year-round programming and mentoring relationship, they guide students through a Transformational Journey to instill resilience and fulfill their God given potential.
CALIFORNIA
OJUP promotes youth led peace at the community level, driving systemic change by shifting power to new generations. It strengthens leadership, advances the YPS agenda (UNSCR 2250, 2419, 2535), and fosters a culture of peace through inclusive networks
MEXICO
Stand Up for Yale’s mission is to defend academic freedom at Yale and in higher education more generally.
EAST
healtH, food, & Disability justice
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Immigrants & Refugees
Rooted in the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, La Peña Cultural Center collaborates with and unites communities by preserving and celebrating cultural traditions; producing creative new works; and nurturing global grassroots social justice movements with artists, activists and allies.
CALIFORNIA
SEMU is a worker-owned cooperative being incubated by North Bay Jobs with Justice, creating a just transition for immigrant farm workers and day laborers in Sonoma County.
CALIFORNIA
La Resistencia is a grassroots organization of undocumented immigrants and people of color in Washington State working to end oppressive immigrant detention and deportations.
WASHINGTON
Siembra NC is a grassroots basebuilding organization focused on defending our communities from abusive employers, landlords, ICE and bad políticos. Our strategy is to achieve el buen vivir and dignity for our communities by recruiting thousands of Latinos who are “on the sidelines” to fight to win a true multiracial democracy.
SOUTH
New Light Wellness is a non-profit organization that serves Southeast Asian communities impacted by deportation across borders and across seas by nurturing trust, collective healing, & reunification.
CALIFORNIA
Indigenous Self-determination
A community organization dedicated to achieving environmental health & sustainability through social justice & de-occupying the Hawaiian lands.
HAWAII
GYPSY Ayiti is a nonprofit organization promoting social justice in Haiti through community development, youth civic engagement, humanitarian action, and advocacy for inclusive and equitable social change.
HAITI
A nonprofit established in 1955 as one of the first urban American Indian community centers in the nation, providing social services for those relocated from reservations.
CALIFORNIA
PSYDEH (see-day) is a Mexican grassroot nonprofit organization dedicated to accompanying rural and indigenous women as community leaders addresssing social, economic, and gender inequalities in the rural Hidalgo, Mexico
MEXICO
The Vision, Mission and Services of AIPPWG are centered on contributing to the systemic change of the political, social, education, economic, and justice systems that have created the “womb to prison” pipeline and the high recidivism rates of detained and incarcerated Native youth and adults across the United States and to provide supports and resources pre incarceration, during incarceration, and in the “returning home” phase of incarceration for American Indian/ Alaska Native youth and adults.
MIDWEST
Ho'opae Pono Peae Center is building peace in Hawai'i and the world through cultural peace practices, strengthening movements, and creative action.
HAWAII
An indigenous-led organization that raises awareness about the significance of Mauna Kea, offering cultural education to promote native rights, social justice, and protect sacred places.
HAWAII
Working for Native women’s full representation, participation, and leadership in tribal, local, state, and national affairs.
WASHINGTON
This project marks the first repatriation attempt for the Duwamish Tribe, impacting recognition claims and providing space for community programming, education, and traditional practices.
WASHINGTON
A community-based volunteer organization offering culturally relevant activities for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Native Americans, their families and friends.
CALIFORNIA
Indigenous Rights Center exists to promote the liberation and wellbeing of Indigenous Peoples and preserve and defend the rights and civil liberties of all Indigenous Peoples and in particular, Native Americans.
SOUTHWEST
McCloud River Salmon Restoration Project*
An ambitious project to restore ancestral salmon to the waterways blocked by the Shasta dam in Northern California.
CALIFORNIA
An Alaska native peoples' organization enacting habitat restoration, Indigenous food sovereignty and cultural revitalization.
WASHINGTON
labor
The BIPOC Adult Industry Collective is a resource for education and support services to make the adult entertainment industry a safe space for everyone who chooses this labor.
EAST
The New Jersey Red Umbrella Alliance (NJRUA) is a working alliance of activists and allies who are dedicated to promoting, defending, and advocating for the human rights of sex workers in the state of New Jersey. This alliance is committed to the belief that people of all genders have the autonomy and right to decide for themselves whether or not to be in this line of work.
EAST
Women for Genuine Security is a U.S. based organization that promotes a world of genuine security based on justice and respect for others across national boundaries, a world free of militarism, violence and all forms of sexual exploitation. Through educational programs and resources, WGS promotes critical analysis, activist partnerships and greater accountability of the U.S. government for the violence, environmental devastation, and sexual abuse caused by the U.S. military in countries that host U.S. forces and bases.
CALIFORNIA
Amplifying the Voices of Black Sex Workers
A philanthropic arts project seeking to amplify the voices of Black Sex Workers by addressing their needs through peer support, legal assistance, housing and other basic needs assessment
EAST
Our Fire Collective (OFC) is a community dedicated to the healing and resilience of care workers, educators, and human service professionals.
WESTERN MASS
CHAAD is a worker-led community organizing project that builds power among hospitality workers through political education, mutual aid, workplace organizing, and experimentation with cooperative, solidarity economy models.
MIDWEST
SILS students on campuses across the country are leading cross-border campaigns to resist corporate exploitation and arm the next generation of youth students with the skills to launch successful campaigns rooted in collective liberation
CALIFORNIA
LGBTQ+
The Best Practices Policy Project (BPPP) is a sex worker and trans led organization dedicated to assisting groups, advocates and sex workers fighting for rights in the United States and beyond.
EAST
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Building transgender, nonbinary, and queer API power in the Bay Area and California.
CALIFORNIA
Seeing rainbows is a fully trans-led and perated organization seeing to build liberating structures and systems for trans and other marginalized folx in, around, and connected to the Berkshires through production of experiences and mutual aid
WESTERN MASS
Temple of Two Waters activates sites of freedom and sanctuary for queer and trans BIPOC to dream, rest, create, heal, and be together.
SOUTH
Addressing violence against Black trans femmes and gender-diverse communities with intersectional legal help along with housing & social support.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Somos Familia builds leadership in our Latinx families and communities to create a culture where people of diverse genders and sexual orientations can thrive.
CALIFORNIA
Trans Income Project envisions a community where trans folks live with dignity and autonomy. We provide cash assistance, meal delivery, and HRT meds for Louisiana trans folks while we organize and push for public policy to achieve systemic change.
SOUTH
DSWCA is a QTPOC sex worker-led organization advancing our community’s human rights, safety, and wellbeing by building power among marginalized SWs, mutual aid and community care, policy advocacy, and actively transforming SW movement culture.
CALIFORNIA
A collaborative grounded in the self-determination of queer, trans, and two spirit Black & Indigenous people of color, and the vision of collectively owning land and labor.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
We are a grassroots organization dedicated to the human rights, safety of sex workers and survivors.
HAWAII
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Gender Illumination creates liberation for trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, and gender nonconforming people through the tools of education, healing, leadership, mentorship, ritual, and community building.
CALIFORNIA
PROTECTING DEMOCRACY& FIGHTING FASCISM
Bay Resistance is a powerful network of community organizations, unions and neighborhood groups organizing to defend our communities and defeat fascism in the Bay Area.
CALIFORNIA
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Seed the Vote recruits, trains, and supports volunteers to door knock and phone bank with local partners in the most critical swing states for the presidential, senate and house races.
CALIFORNIA
C4C’s mission is to dramatically increase the participation of Oakland residents in local government in order to create the communities they want to see.
CALIFORNIA
The Oakland Freedom Project (a project of In-Advance) serves a multiracial, multilingual base of informed and empowered residents who are ready to fight for the city they deserve.
CALIFORNIA
RURAL ORGANIZING
A volunteer-driven environmental advocacy collective pushing to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities.
SOUTH
Build's power among farmworker and rural low-income communities in Florida
SOUTH
An alliance of organizations promoting a healthy, just Appalachia by supporting our member organizations in communities impacted by destructive resource extraction.
SOUTH
Fight for coalfield communities through advocacy, education, and organizing.
EAST
An organization of concerned citizens working to build just and equitable communities while addressing the costs of extraction in Appalachia.
SOUTH
Increasing rural accessibility and belonging through inclusive youth development in three areas: job and leadership skill development, advocacy and outreach and social engagement.
MIDWEST
women & rePRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
ACT is a reproductive justice organization building power through leadership development, community organizing, advocacy, and policy change in our communities.
CALIFORNIA
MARIJÀN is a community-based, autonomous feminist organization that recognizes women's right to freedom, solidarity, and access to equitable justice.
HAITI
Wisdom Institute is a Detroit-based, Black woman-led organization advancing healing justice, reproductive justice, and civic power through healing, political education, relational organizing, and community-centered advocacy.
MIDWEST
The Western Massachusetts chapter of the national youth-led organization fighting for gender equality through direct actions and long-term projects
WESTERN MASS
GABRIELA USA is a grassroots alliance of progressive Filipino women's organizations seeking to liberate Filipino women and our people from all forms of oppression, especially those most marginalized.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST
Feminist, pacifist and antimilitarist in our values and approach, we promote and amplify the voices of women and allies who are advancing peaceful and sustainable alternatives to crises and conflicts.
NATIONAL
Because Justice Matters builds pathways to brighter futures with women, girls, and families in urban communities. Their work focuses on the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco and programs include prevention and intervention for youth resilience, resourcing and outreach, and training / leadership development.
CALIFORNIA
The Wildflower Collective works toward reproductive justice and increased access to abortion in Kentucky through intersectional, place based, grassroots organizing, community resourcing and peer education.