“The Sojourner Truth School for Social Change Leadership prepares social justice leaders and learners to join movement struggles and acquire the skills, analysis, and confidence necessary to organize, educate, and build community to create a better world. The...
“The Shoestring was founded in 2017 and grew out of the need identified by our early writers and editors for accessible, fair, and accurate journalism in Western Massachusetts, unbeholden to advertisers and unafraid of offering a critique of the powerful in our...
“Connecticut River Defenders is a nascent and informal group (“formalized” in 2022) of seasoned social justice activists from Franklin, Hampshire, and Hamden Counties. We came together as individuals over the past two years to bring attention to the urgent...
“The Markham-Nathan Fund for Social grant will support the forthcoming project IndiVISIBLE: Celebrating Indispensable Agricultural Workers, Making Their Stories and Presence Visible “Franklin County, in western Massachusetts, is the most rural area of the...
“Voices from Inside is a non-profit organization based in Western Massachusetts. Founded in 1999, Voices From Inside provides writing groups with and for incarcerated and previously incarcerated women, as well as women in recovery. Voices From Inside workshops...
“The Markham-Nathan Fund knows the needs of the community and understands the local organizations, so to be funded by them is a great honor because it means that local people appreciate our work.”
— Michaelann Bewsee of Arise for Social Justice, MNF grantee
