News Archives: April, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Reclaiming Our Human Rights
Today PDF presents groups challenging the fundamental structure of systems that have deprived their communities of dignity and equity. They are also finding new and innovative ways of establishing their rights, reclaiming their power and pushing back against the policies and practices that keep oppressive structures in place. ...Read more
Published on April 28, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Protecting our Environment
In the face of an administration actively weakening environmental protection efforts, PDF recognizes the increasingly important role of grassroots organizing in the climate justice movement. We must halt the destructive practices that degrade our air, water, and soil if we are to maintain a sustainable environment and sustain life on our planet. From burning fossil ...Read more
Published on April 27, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – How to End Poverty
As the country’s highest earners look towards new tax breaks in 2018, poverty disempowers a vast population in the U.S. Economic security and advancement – from employment opportunities to housing, from education to healthcare – are all impacted when large corporations hold the strongest sway in a community’s economy. PDF knows that no one is ...Read more
Published on April 26, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Youth Are Organizing
After the horrors in Parkland, Florida, students catalyzed youth and adult supporters with the #NeverAgain movement, and they haven’t gone away. Like the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins that spawned the Civil Rights Movement, and the apartheid crackdowns against youth-led protests in Soweto generated a U.S. youth-led movement to divest from companies supporting South Africa, young ...Read more
Published on April 24, 2018
Today in Grassroots Funding Week – Immigrants are Holding the Line
The unimaginable is happening. Mass arrests, mothers torn from their children, fathers incommunicado, people terrified. The mean-spirited, jingoistic campaign promise to build a wall has shape-shifted into ICE round-ups in major cities and rural communities, aided in many instances by local police. PDF prospective grantees are at ground zero, resisting policies and training residents to ...Read more
Published on April 23, 2018